Posts Tagged ‘half-marathon’

Update

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

As you can see in the right sidebar, I have tow more races under my belt: Corrida 1º de Maio and Meia Maratona dos Palácios, both with new PB. My 15k PB is now 1:13:37 and the Half-marathon PB 1:49:33. Improvements lately are the race starts, in a more brisk pace and the fact that [...]

Lisbon Half-Marathon – report

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

My second half and it went well. This time, racing with a team – Pernas de Gafanhoto (Grasshopper’s legs in Portuguese). Overall, the race was quite comfortable, always focusing on a balance between a steady pace and saving energy for the last kilometres. I did not had to wait too long in the starting line [...]

Final week ’till it

Sunday, March 15th, 2009

OK, we’re here, the final week before the half-marathon. I must confess I’m having mixed feelings about this. On one side, I’m focused on not overtraining and my working schedule led me to be unable to run as much as I wanted (or as I wished). There’s a drawback: I’m not sure if I packed [...]

10 k for pacing, 5 k for racing

Friday, February 27th, 2009

25 days for Lisbon’s Half Marathon and I’m getting in shape now. So in shape I’ve actually broke my 10k PB, now in a 43’59” mark. Last couple of weeks resulted in some improvements, as I shifted from some painful workouts to more balanced and enjoyable ones. Stretching and abs played a role here, as [...]

Portugal Half Marathon – report

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Portugal 9th Half Marathon was my fourth competition, taking place at the 28th September. The race started at ponte Vasco da Gama, and, since there was no possibility of getting there by car, I had to woke up pretty early (7:00 a.m.) in order to get into an event bus and not end like a [...]

Half marathon workout

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

Ok! Finally I ran a full half-marathon. 1h50min in a course from Guincho to Cascais, returning to Guincho again. I was particularly pleased to feel no pains or discomfort until the 16th kilometre. Until then, the pace was almost near the 5:20 mark, and I resisted the temptation to speed up whenever I felt I’ve [...]

20 days for raceday

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

The Portugal Halfh-Marathon is just in the end of this month, so I started doing longer workouts. A 12k and a 15k this week. As a matter of fact, I ran today my farthest ipoded race. 15,24k in less than 1h15min. I’m focusing more on mental aspects lately (setting my mood, running relaxed…) and, I’m [...]

Race trainning

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

After browsing around for some competitions in September, I found Meia Maratona de Portugal, in the 28th. I am going to run the Half, only to finish it. Since it requires some extra preparation, I started today making longer runs, doing a 5k in the morning and a 10k in the afternoon. As I am [...]

18th Lisbon Half Marathon

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Registration: (limited to 35.000 runners): Till 15/02/2008: Half-marathon: 12€ Vodafone’s Mini-marathon (8km): 12€ From 18/02/2008 until 15/03/2008: Half-marathon: 17€ Vodafone’s Mini-marathon (8km): 17€ More in meiamaratonadelisboa.com I’m going! And you?