Archive for Argentan half-marathon
20 years ago…
Posted in Running with tags 2000, Argentan, Argentan half-marathon, Courir en Normandie, half-marathon, Normandy, road running on October 7, 2020 by xi'an
Antony ½ marathon
Posted in Running with tags Antony, Argentan half-marathon, road race, veteran (V2) on September 27, 2020 by xi'an
Norman sunrise [jatp]
Posted in pictures, Running, Travel with tags Argentan, Argentan half-marathon, badgers, horse, horse mutilation mystery, Normandie Course à Pied, Normandy, sunrise on September 13, 2020 by xi'an
Argentan half-marathon
Posted in Running with tags Argentan half-marathon, Grand Masters, half-marathon, Normandie fort et vert, Normandy, Parc de Sceaux, road races, road running, tendinitis, trail running on October 5, 2019 by xi'an
Today is the day of the Argentan half-marathon which I will not run this year as I have not yet fully recovered from my Achilles tendinitis. (If running too many days in a row, as I indulged in while in Salzburg, inflammation is back!) Frustrating, as this is my “race of the year” in the Norman countryside. But another break also occurred ten years ago, when I missed the 2009 and 2010 episodes. And somehow this is the “best year” to miss as I am switching to the next age group, V3 or grand-master!, in less than a month, and will thus end up as one of the youngsters in the next race I run! As an indicator, in the 5km trail I ran last Sunday in the Parc, I ended 4th (by one position and 6 seconds!) in my category and 2nd (by three positions and 16 seconds, plus a month!) in the following one.
Argentan half-marathon [1:26:03, 22nd/329, 4th V2/63, 15⁰]
Posted in pictures, Running with tags Argentan, Argentan half-marathon, Grand Master, Normandie Course à Pied, Normandy, Orne, road race, road running, running, veteran (V2) on October 13, 2018 by xi'an
Despite failing to reach the podium this year in my V2 category, a predictable first as I get closer to move to the next category, V3, or “senior grandmaster”, and missing by a few seconds my 1:25 target, I was rather happy with this half-marathon, having run at my pace the whole race, with none of the low passages I had in previous races and instead feeling quite well in the last kilometers, where I left the first female runner. Weather was perfect, with no sun, no rain, and no wind in the second half. The three V2 runners in front of me were much faster (1:22, 1:24, and 1:25:21) than those of the previous years, an illustration of the law of small numbers found in these races…
