Malaga Marathon
Well it's Thursday Evening and I have just been emailed my race number for the Malaga Marathon. There are 5 Yeovil Town Road Running Club runners taking part in the race and 7 of us all together,Bungy Williams, Paul Meadows, Paul Allen, Jane Allen, Pete Jakeman, Sean Gaffney and Fiona Gaffney.
Next it is up at 3 am to Pick Pete Jakeman and Paul Meadows up and then make are way to Bristol Airport and meet up with the others for the 6:30am flight to Malaga. The Flight out was Ok and on time and landed in Malaga cleared customs and made our way to the taxi rank. We got two taxi's to the hotel for 20 euro's and were booked into the Suite Novotel Malaga Centro. A very well priced hotel and the rooms are great.
As soon as we were booked in we went for a visit into the City, it seemed very quite but we found a nice cafe and sat outside and ordered a round of beer which came with a couple of bowls of crisp and nuts and the first of many photographs were taken.
We then moved to a new location so we could sit in the sun, yet more larger was drunk and then we headed for the Harbour to recce the start of the start of Sunday's race.
We then found a nice Tapas Bar near where what was going to be the start and finish of the race and decided to try a few cocktails and some food. This turn out to be expensive so we soon moved on to find more to drink. The City was now very busy and most of the shops were now open.
It was not starting to get late and I can't remember much more of the night till I woke up fully dressed in my Hotel Room. The plan for Saturday was to run the 4 miles to the Expo to get our race numbers and have a look round.
The day was lovely and sunny and the route to the expo was along the beach where we passed some bars that backed onto the beach and ideal place to have some lunch on the way back. We arrived at the expo and got our numbers and also a couple of T-Shirts one red Tec one and a white normal cotton t-shirt. I decided to get my name on the back as did Fiona. We checked our chips to make sure it said it was us and then looked around the expo and found a few more brits running the Marathon.
We then walked back along the same route to the bar above for some local barbecue fish caught that morning. It was a lovely day still and the walk back was nice and relaxed. After a couple of hours back in the room we went back into the city to get something to eat to help the run tomorrow. We found an Italian and had a nice pasta meal. An early night and then it was up at 6:30 of breakfast ready for a 7:45 walk up to the start area.
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| The Five at the Start
We walked into our pens ready for the gun, it was just getting light but the temperature was nice but knew that the sun would soon be up and the heat would soon be with us having just left a cold UK. The gun went off and the plan for Paul Pete and I was to run at a steady 8 min mile pace and run together.
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