The race
Organisation
10/10!
- perfect course markings
- friendly volunteers
- everything like clockwork and as expected
The course
A jagged profile with some nice views of the sea and Barcelona and some steep and technical sections on the other side of the mountain.
The last part of the race was fast (downhill and less technical).
Overall, the course was tough but fast for a half-marathon trail race with around a kilometer of climbing.
19.33km with 1065m+ by my watch.
My race
Slow but steady
I felt slow at the beginning on the runnable uphill slopes but strong on all the steep sections and especially towards the end of the race.
This slowness and strength are surely due to the type of training I’ve been doing of late: lots of hiking and strength work and hardly any flat running at more than recovery pace.
Fun going down
I felt surprisingly good descending on both technical and non-technical terrain. Surprising because I haven’t focused on this at all recently, although I have done a lot of ginger descending. Who’d’ve thought that would help?
Even effort
I pushed pretty much right to the end, with an average heart rate of around 164/5 throughout.
My time: 2:11:31 in 70th place overall (28th in my category)
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