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Chronicle Half Challenge Maresme:

Congratulations to all! Armadillo total success. Huge!

first thing I would say is that it has been incredible this weekend for me and a great experience to share this with all the armadillos. Above anything else I'll take the incredible atmosphere that exists in this Club.

During the run there was not one Armadillo that I did not dare to cross me, I yell, I applaud ... scrotumtightening! And that for one who has been the last to arrive at the Club for ... that, scrotumtightening! And finally in the stadium all waiting there to get us the last .... I think that just because this has been worth all this madness.

Again congratulations to all and I will not itemize because frankly I think is that all you've been to a spectacular level. I can not help but applaud and take off my hat.

I'm not going to write a review to use, but there are some thoughts that come to me now a little cluttered at the top of my personal experience in the Half Challenge.

If I am totally honest I have to say I have a bittersweet taste. On the one hand always said (and it was absolutely true) that my only goals were to cross the finish line and enjoy the experience regardless of time or marks or anything like that (the proof is that I left without timer). And here I am more than happy because I have more than met. It was the second triathlon in my life and the first in the last two years and be here at home with finisher's shirt makes me much more than happy.

But then I have a feeling that I could have done better and that was very dog \u200b\u200bto suffer a little time.

Reflections, conclusions and other absurdities fast before going to sleep (go to parties, as would Jack the Ripper)

Swimming:

The first and most obvious conclusion to me is that any resemblance between swimming in the pool, in Pisuerga within a port or at sea it is pure coincidence. It was the first time in life that swam in the sea and I quickly realized that this, like all also have to train.

I had a fatal in the water and I had moments of total panic (at times I felt a certain pressure in the chest such anxiety that I thought I drowned there). As I told some then I do not think I swam, I just stuck with water. I was disoriented at all times, not knowing where they were the buoys, made a thousand changes of address, swallowed water .... horrible. All this led me to go to the beach early and from there have to return back to find the last buoy I had jumped and lose some time.

with everything and I find it really disappointing that take almost 44 minutes at a distance swim in the pool, no wetsuit, do little more than 37. In the last 3 months I have not swum many meters, but I have always tried to concentrate hard on trying to make the technique of the best arms, well coordinated breathing, etc ... But all I think that finally the day of the test is not brought me to anything because I was more concerned with survival than swimming.

Bike:

biggest fear was what I did and the end is what has made me happier. According to my odometer I 93.4 km to 26.7 km / h on average, which for me is really well. Since it was signed at the start!

Due to my low level and experience in this I was totally impossible to get to conference anyone, much less get into a group, so I sucked 100% of the total circuit isolation. Was not all me, but finally were 93 km solo ride, which is a new challenge to overcome that makes me very happy (a separate debate could be done on the subject of drafting because for a newbie like me to see squads of 100 guys were absolutely amazing).

to 65-70 km and never enjoyed cycling and I feel incredibly good, but the last part was an ordeal because the wind hit so hard to face the more I struggled to ride I was totally stuck and not moving or pa'dios.

Anyway I repeat that as I went supercontento in this sector. I still remember that in January, completely "virgin" in this sport, it seemed a feat to pull 25 kms to go to breakfast at San Martín de la Vega.

Career:

This is the part I have left a bad taste in mouth. Not because of 2h14min by doing a half marathon, but because if I did best was simply because I did not egg .. to know suffering. Do not hurt me nothing and was so exhausted or anything like that. I just had hot (that always kills me) and very few want to run. Then I gave up and decided to take this as a long walk to the finish (which ended up including stops at each provisioning eternal in the showers at the beach, etc, etc ...).

Anyway, I go brick is falling. So that, ultimately the most important thing is that I am very happy with the experience (which was really what it was) and happy to have overcome a challenge that a few months ago seemed science fiction.

Yesterday at this time was sure that I would never put out a long distance tri. You know, that "one and not more St. Thomas. " Now, one day later, I think perhaps he can, who knows, that .... Maybe .... repeat someday.

I know enough to know that in a few months I'll be looking at the Google information of another half-ironman in 2010.

However, before I hope to debut in Olympic distance and do the occasional sprint.

's it. I do not write more than I'm getting weighed, hahaha.