Milan Marathon

OK, exactly after 3 years I’ve done another marathon, right the same as 3 years ago, and just about 20 mins slower.

http://www.sdam.it/pubblico/risultato.do?idRisultato=790711

I can’t say I’m very pleased by the result. The objective this time was “just” to join Giacomo in his sub 2h45 attempt, but thigs didn’t quite go as expected: everything was fine until the 20th km, when we were keeping a nice 3’50″ pace, with a 2h43 projection. Everything was perfect then, when Giacomo suddenly had to stop because of a seriously painful hip injury. I was at first astonished, I didn’t want to believe he was retiring while he was still looking so good.

Well, he was wise enough to retire almost immediately, and at that point I virtually resigned too, since there was no point anymore in going to the limits and risking to make my groin worse. As you can see from my race progression, after a good half marathon I started to go really slow, even walking on some bits and stopping to stretch my legs or to eat something. I have to admit it was the first time I eat so much during a race, but I didn’t really want to risk a hypoglycaemic attack!

http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/episode/view.do?episodePk.pkValue=4542217The leg didn’t hurt too much though, therefore I hope to start with some reps this week. But I’ll probably wait another 2-3 days to see how my body will react to this strange race.

…ops I forgot to tell the result 2h52’18″