Mixed feelings

Much to be told: I ran the 18th Lisbon Half-Marathon yesterday! The weather was great, the crowd was huge and crossing the 25 de Abril bridge on foot was something to remember.

There's a bit of good news and a bit of bad news too. The good news is, I ran my fastest 10k ever, managed to finish the race (really positive, huh?!) and from now on I can also tell that I raced Haile Gebrselassie! He won but that's just a detail! :-)

The bad news is, I thought I wasn't in great shape and that turned out to be true. I was afraid my foot would start hurting after a few hard kilometers but actually that wasn't the case at all. The problem was that, because of that dodgy foot, I had to skip most of the training in the past 2,5 weeks. Not having completed those 110 minutes long run workouts did make the difference. After 15km my legs simply stopped working.

A pity really, because I missed on my best time just fractionally. Had I been in a decent shape...

For the rest everything turned out all right. The course was indeed as fast as I imagined, if not the most attractive to the foreign tourist, must be said, and the weather was just about perfect for distance running.

I only disliked the animation along the course, poor or plain stupid: flamenco dancers at the Terreiro do Paço, what on earth went through their minds to come up with that?!...