Having lunch 3 days before the race

Pates with mixed potatoes, rode kool, pepper, basil and soya sauce. Brown bread. Water with ment and lime.

48 minutes of speed workout repetitions at 10 a.m. this morning right after getting up. 40 minutes of active isolate stretching, sit-ups -a few more than 100-, crunches – the same- and push-ups –idem.

It is half past 3 now -15:36.
I am eating while giving my feet a cold water bath. My tendoms seem to go much better.

Wow! The pepper is hot!
No ice left to put inside the bath today.
Wow!-is really hot!.


I am back. One more slide of bread and another glass of water.

The left foot is now getting its cold but relaxing bath.

Sabina’s voice is charming the atmosphere of the living room.
Maaika has a lot of surprising Spanish music. Even a 3CD compilation by...the Chichos!.
And the CD by Sabina that is enfolding my lunch and these words.
It must be his last one, because I had not heard any of these songs before. But they are the same biting lyrics. I like them.

All this music is probably the consequence of one of those enjoyed inter exchanges that makes a holidays worth. I guess that it is what happened this summer in Zarautz.
She loves surfing.
Cadiz, Maaika, Cadiz. Vete pa Tarifa que ademas los gaditanos son majisimos.


I should take a nap, but I could not do it before 17:30.

After lunch I have to come back to the internet center to check the instructions of Francois for reaching him tonight in Amstelveen around 7 p.m.
I will spend the night at his place and I will try to take adventage for the first time this week of the free internet connection and his computer, to refresh the website and download all the photos and videos – the memory cards are full since Sunday.

Sabina has left the stage.

Francois is a good friend of Mikael...who will come to Amsterdam next Friday, yes! With Phuonge.
As Marie and –I really wish it- Regis, who will arrive on Saturday.
One month ago I could still share with both of them meals, coffee, laundry, talks, laughts, hopes and thoughts. A lot of work –Regis acaba esa tesis antes del Sabado!-, lots of fun and good feelings.
Saturday they will be here!
Direct support and joy for me. For all of us.

Eager to having all of them again.

I have also to prepare my belongings to move again. And to wash the dishes...

So if I do fast I could eventualy have a rest between 5.30 and 6 p.m.

We went to bed at 3 a.m. yesterday night. The Maaika’s rowing club party was nice.


Even if I did not dare to dance too much with my flip-flops and only drank 3 beers – for a ,5 bottle of acuarius and 1l of water... even being at a Oktober’s fest remake- I finally met plenty of friendly and interesting people:
Susanne,

Alex,


Nienke...


some of which I hope to see again before leaving–Alex, Nienke?

I will never manage to have this nap.
I have to start to contact people for hosting me in my way to Berlin! Depending on my feelings after the marathon, I wish to leave on Wednesday to try to take advance over the low temperatures in Central Europe.
Anyway I have asked Marie to bring me some a pull and some shocks.

I will bike almost all the time in the next month of travel, running only for the training.
The next official marathon will take place in January at Mumbai...but I will run alone the original one between Marathon and Athens one month before –maybe on December 24th.

The marathon.

My feelings are much better than they were last week.
The speed workout has gone quite fine I think. Tomorrow I will do some strides and drills and Saturday will be day off...excepting for the wandering up and down Amsterdam.

I would like to take some time to detail in which my trainings have consisted of so far. Even if most of people who eventually would read these posts will never run a marathon, I believe that some of these exercises should be useful for them if they eventually go for a running or even if they are looking for a way of feeling physically and menthal healthier and more relaxed.

Hope to talk about it before Sunday.

As for the diet… I have been completly autodidacte so far –and I guess that not really straigh, not because of having eaten wrong food but because I think that I have sometimes overeaten.
I ignore completely whether my way of acting has been appropriate or not. I don’t feel bad at all but maybe I could feel even better.
If I can afford to pay for some more analyzes after the race, Andrea could elaborate a planing more specific to my needs, not only for the training but also for the diet.


16:34, time to check my inbox.
I am still waiting for an answer from the Amsterdam Marathon organisation team to my free inscription request. Last call for inscription is 30 minutes before the race...