Welcome back, after a long silence due to a dramatic lack of time. This is a bite late for wishing a merry xmas and a happy new year, but I would like to thank my team (Philippe & Isabelle), Cap Running Aventure at Versailles (France) which provided my Asics equipments. Asics is making good shoes, I ran with Cumulus 11 & Trabucco all over the past year and my training was fine. I do not know if I improved my performances as 2k9 was a year of discovery (to explore new places where no man has boldly goes before :) but I did not get hurt. I used to twist my ankles often in the past, now everything seems to be fixed and the shoes did their job.
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I started the training in the rude way on January the 1st. A first run in the cold and the snow. We had a lot of snow showers and running in the white virgin snow was delightful. My coach wrote a plan to train for a 100km. But this plan was definitly too long: 23 weeks. As I planed to run the 100km of Perigord Noir (Belvès/France) at the end of April, I started the training at the very first week of December. Which was not possible for me, I was tired and my body needed urgently a big break. So I did just a few scattered trainings in December.
The beginning of January was also the opportunity to focus on my races calendar. What should I pick up to prepare the Spartathlon? Here is my short list:
- March: Ecotrail of Paris 80km (bib won at the UFO's lottery, thanks UltraFOndus!)
- March: 6 hours of Buc
- April: 100km of Périgord Noir
- May: 24h of Villennes sur Seine?
- June: Grand Raid du Morbihan (177km)
- July: Lakeland 100 miles (in the UK)
And then, we'll see...
