Posts Tagged ‘marathon’

It remains to be seen if this time I manage to realise that dream – but fact is that I am registered for the Bonn Marathon, this time for the full 42,195 km. And I hope I started my training in time and will able to stick to the plan, which includes running about 4 times per week. What I’ve done so far:

  • Saturday, 23 January: 5,5 km in 37 minutes (that’s my best guess since I managed to stop the watch after the first half round)
  • Saturday, 30 January: 11 km in 1h 5′ (average pulse: 161).
  • Sunday, 1 February: 11 km in 1h 15′ (average pulse: 147).

Both yesterday and today seem to have been close to the maximum that was possible. At least, my right knee told me so. Yesterday only on the last few kilometres, today almost from beginning on. I also realised that it was not a good idea to leave the gloves at home, even if my hands used to start sweating in them. The only advantage was that I could see the watch and control my pulse continouosly thus keeping myself from being too fast.

The biggest challange that lies ahead will be clearly to stick to the training timetable. And to get enough sleep.

5
Oct

Halbmarathon Köln

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Márti: 2h 16′
Dániel: 2h 5′

20
Apr

Bonn Marathon 2008

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Marathon (42,195 km)

  • Szutor Márta: 4h 52′ 15″ – No. 257/295 (#18/20 in W55)
  • Szutor Gábor: 4h 19′ 26″ – No. 1175/1470 (#125/166 in M50)

1/2 Marathon (21,0975 km)

  • Szutor Erzsébet 2h 26′ 13″ – No. 1395/1579 (#44/56 in W55)
  • Fehér Dániel: 1h 44′ 29″ - No. 1024/3965 (#119/417 in M30)

Cf.: Bonn Marathon 2007

14
Apr

Omnes viae Romam ducunt

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Jogging in Rome Finally managed to visit and explore the Ethernal City. Apart from checking out all the obligatory sights – Colosseum (that was not difficult, my hotel was just next to it), Forum Romanum, Palatine, St. Maria Maggiore, Traian’s Coloumn, Trevi Fountain, Spanish Stairs, Via della Corso, Piazza Navone, Campo del Fiori, St. Peter’s Square, and many more – I also had the chance to bargain over an Indian wall carpet at the Flea Market at Porta Portese, be taken around on a Vespa, and consuming incredible amounts of pizza, pasta, wine, coffee and ice cream…

In addition to that I also managed to do some training for next weekends’ half marathon in Bonn. The above map shows roughly the course I’ve done starting from the hotel, circling in some parks, surrounding the Baths of Caracalla, passing by Circus Maximus and the Colosseum, and arriving at Nero’s Aurea Domus. According to Google Earth, it was about 11km long, for which I needed 1h11′. I hope, that was enough.

Definitely enough was the sunshine for my head. As it was mostly sunny on Saturday and Sunday but at times also chilly, I discovered rather late that I managed to get myself burned, for the first time this year. Congratulation.

Ah, and if you wonder how I managed to get there – well, thanks to a project meeting of the “Transport Research Knowledge Centre” (TRKC), a project of our company where I happen to have the honour of managing one of the Work Packages. Next stop is the Transport Research Arena in Ljubljana.

 

10
Feb

Spring arrived to Brussels

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Beautiful sunshine from Friday to Sunday and and a thermometer rising up to 17 °C lured masses onto the streets and into the parks of Brussels. My backyard, the Park Josaphat, was so full on Sunday that when I reopened my private jogging season – after my mother has reminded me that my next target, the half marathon at the Bonn Marathon on 20th April is less than 12 weeks ahead – I literally had to fight my way through the crowds. Weren’t it for the bare trees, you could have imagined a summer folk festival going on there…

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17
May

Hajrá

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Kedden reggel: 8,3 km, 55’09″, pulzus átlag 148. Időjárás: 14 °C, laza felhőzet.

Ma kora délután: 11 km, 1h 27′, pulzus átlag 149. Időjárás: 15 °C, némi napsütéssel.

Tanulság: Nagy különbség, hogy mennyire korán megyek, mennyire vagyok kialudva és mennyire izzadok. Mind a kétszer melegítőben futottam, kedden se lett volna muszáj, de ma mindenképp fölösleges volt.

10
May

Megmérettetett

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Jobb-később-mint-soha alapon egy nem túl rövidre sikeredett lazsálási szakasz után megint nekikezdtem a felkészülésnek, ezúttal a május 27-i brüsszeli 20 km-re. Pedig van még min javitani: A bonni félmaratonon végig 180 felett volta pulzusom, ez minden csak nem optimális.

Szóval ma végre újra nekivágtam a parknak, a szokásos két kört futva, ennek 43′ 03″ lett az eredménye, 155-ös pulzusátlaggal.

Később lemértem biciklivel is a távot, egy kör (amennyiben jól van kalibrálva a bringámon a kilométerszámláló) az 2.667 m hosszú. Ehhez még általában hozzájön 150 m a házunktól a parkig, meg még 150 m, amit a végén a parkban még hozzá szoktam tenni.

Vagyis a két körös táv így nagyjából 5,6 km-t tesz ki.

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