I have a blag!

After 4 months of training, about 1300km, 2 pair of shoes, 2 half-marathon and a lot of sweat, I finally ran my first marathon last Sunday. I ran the 42.195 kilometers of the Quebec City Marathon in 3 hours, 34 minutes and 15 seconds. I’m quite happy with my time but I know I am capable of better. Despite a cramp in my left legs at 8 kilometers from the finish line that lasted a couple of minute, everything went really well. I had a lot of energy, I was focused, I had a lot of fun but my legs was simply too weak to withstand the pace at witch I started the race. For the first 25 kilometers I was running at a 4:40 min per kilometer pace, which would have get me around the 3 hours and 20 minutes mark. But eh, it was my first marathon and 3:34:15 is a fairly good start!

Did I mention that this thing is hard? The 4 month of training, all the long and sweaty run under the burning summer sky, all the speedwork and tempo run and the final 42.2km are a real challenge. But you know what? Two days after the event I am already thinking about witch marathon I’ll run next year.

For now I have a local 10k race in two weeks. It will be my first 10k race and after a 42.2km I guess this 10k will feel quite short!