So we did the (Semi) Marathon de Provence Luberon yesterday. It was an interesting course that had quite a bit of off tarmac running and, while it wasn't quite as amazingly well organized as the neighboring Manosque run we did in May, it was a real pleasure to run.

Official results (from the KMS website) show that I was 64th out of 1102 total ( Read more... )

So I survived the 50km 'ultramarathon' completing it in 4h31 and change (and unlike the Nice half I'm not going to whine about the 1 minute and change). At the same time I also completed my first marathon doing that in 3h45 or so (i.e. I did the last 8 km in a pretty slow 45 minutes. I took 45 minutes to do the first 10km less a little bit. Other ( Read more... )

Or something like that. I ran the 21.1kms of the inaugural Manosque half marathon in 1h28m and a few seconds, thereby erasing the embarrassment of missing 1h30 in Nice by 43 seconds.
[The time wa 1h28m12 by my watch but 1h29 officially]

On the official times you see that I came in 35th out of 270 finishers (and 33rd out of the 208 men) which is ( Read more... )

Seeing as a number of my LJ friends are talking about their fitness goals and so on I figure I might post some updates on mine. This is really more for documentation/reference than anything else.

I have 5 weeks before the Semi-marathon de Nice in all its 21.1km of fun. My target for that race is to break 1h30. That is eminently doable - I've run the ( Read more... )

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