Hong Kong Marathon, 8th February 2009

Hong Kong marathon was the 5th consecutive marathon in 5 months, was organize by the Standard Chatered Bank as the Bangkok and Singapore ones. Very well organized as expected, but again the water glasses were pain in...

I had 2 weeks without running between the Khon Kaen and HK in order to cure my muscle injury in the back of my knee, but dind´t really help, after some Km I felt the pain and again the pain killers safed my my race until the end.

I knew it will be tough with no training, at km30 I've start paying the price. I was completely out of energy, so had to walk and run until the end.

It was quit difficult course, with many hills, specially the 2 bridge crossing and the tunels.

Well, no much to say about my performance, it was frustating, I only can compare with this one with Sao Paulo or my first marathon in Madrid where my legs didn´t answer at all, I´ve finished with 3:55!!

Khon Kaen Marathon, 25th January 2009

This was my 4th consecutive marathon from my adventure "12 marathons-12 month". It happened in north east of Thailand, took us almost 6 hour drive to get their, highway almost all the time but not the same type as in Europe.

We lived in a really nice resort, well decorated, calm, peaceful place with a betufiful garden with lots of areas to explore, Sandra loved it (me too)

The marathon itself started at 4am, so another early wake-up, a had a little pain on the back of my right knee, still injured from the Funchal City race. So I started the marathon fearing that it coul get worst and had to stop it. That didn´t happen but had to take couple or equivalent pain killer.

Apart of the water glasses is was well organized, even though was early in the morning they mobilized a lot of people to support the runners along the race.

Finished in 3:35 and took me almost 1 week to get back in good shape, but really enjoyed this one!!!