This Christmas season was to be time for marathons but ... came the snow!
First things first.
Yesterday I left for Pisa to participate in the marathon, but in fact the first misunderstanding was already on enrollment: I have asked to be included in the half, but since I had purchased a pair of Brooks shoes and I entitled to free, I have entered the marathon, in fact, the entry I made when he was leaving the promotion and only after we found out (the seller and I) that it was only the marathon and the half.
I train with some consistency by only a few months (more or less since last August) and although I've done a few long, I'm not yet ready for the marathon.
I still went to go see and try it, after all, no one prevented me from stopping in the middle and / or to take it as a training: another long (but during this time in the company).
With these doubts, I have prepared the bags (the one to stay away from home and one for running) and I arrived at the Stazione Leopolda, where it was located and the marathon expo where you could pick up a bronze medal.
early arrival, late afternoon, there was a certain excitement and two friends, who would come today to run the half, I was informed by telephone that the path had been moved.
Moral of the story, the snow on Friday, although it was widely heralded, caught completely unprepared for the city of Pisa and its neighbors and, as the organizers have been busy until mid-afternoon to find an alternate route is communication came from the Province of Pisa that the authorization for the event had been revoked and then: no marathon, not in the loop circuit of 7 kilometers around the city hastily arranged by the organizers on Saturday afternoon.
You can imagine how many were angry that they had come to Pisa is far away (some even from abroad) to run this race and how the organizers were disappointed. This
the brief statement issued late yesterday afternoon on the marathon website
Pisa :
PisaMarathon announced that: The determination of the Province of Pisa No 5860 of 18.12.2010, received by the organizers at 17.30, required "to stay up to date to be granted permission to PisaMarathon Strapazzata club" to the conduct of competitive event of international interest PisaMarathon Pisanino The 2010 and 2010 in program December 19, 2010.
It can not therefore be carried out either version of the town proposed and endorsed by the Mayor of Pisa for the same reasons.
The organizers are forced, against their will to respect the determination referred to above and therefore will not be able to even play the show circuit city who had studied with local authorities (Municipality of Pisa) to address the known problems that have affected the weather Tuscany in the previous 36 hours.
For reasons of force majeure due to weather conditions and determines the default number. 5860 of 18.12.2010 PisaMarathon can not do otherwise.
For those who want to have fun racing, however, Santa Claus at 9:00 am in the Piazza dei Miracoli, where you can pay the fee of 5 € chip for those who have accepted the pectoral the day today at the Expo.
At that point, I is not nothing left but to go to dinner where I was staying (and where I would have been a guest for the night) and, after dinner, go home. Indeed, the risk of ice on the roads was very high and every street in Pisa I've seen, even if it had been cleaned, the evening had their coating of ice that makes them very dangerous.
I said, it was not to end so soon I started with a marathon time that maybe I will be to complete it (without dying!).
Unfortunately the snow has arrived around my house and stopped making it almost impassable the bike path where I usually go but to train, going to lunch with my parents I saw a lone runner had ventured to run on that track and at the back, a friend of mine told me that he was going to run this morning. And me? Could I give up trying?
said than done, I wore T-shirt and shorts, running shoes I've worn and I left.
I had a very short training, only 45 minutes, but I tried to focus on quality. I ran most of the time on a meadow by the irregular bottom, with snow, slush and ice in order to train the power and proprioception, all with some extension and some climbing at a steady pace on asphalt.
Back home, I completed some exercises for Abdominal: squat on one leg, running the tip, back arc (for more information about these exercises look at the number of Runner's World in December 2010, p. 53 or see the video, in English, at the beginning of this post and the video is drawn from the international version of the site of Runner's World).
In conclusion, one that was likely to be a lost day for the training has proved very fruitful however.
In addition, the inclusion of the marathon this year is next year and then I will be more trained and more serenity I can decide whether to participate or not.
