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…
Archive for Argentan
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'anat the station [jatp]
Posted in pictures, Travel with tags Argentan, Fernand Léger, fresque, Hugues et Jean-François Sineux, Jacques Tati, jatp, Normandie, Paris-Granville line, SNCF, station, winter light on March 7, 2018 by xi'an
art brut
Posted in pictures, Running, Travel with tags Argentan, Argentan half-marathon, countryside, Fall, furrows, harrowing, Normandie, ploughing, soil, sunrise on October 22, 2016 by xi'an
Norman sunrise [jatp]
Posted in pictures, Running, Travel with tags Argentan, countryside, jatp, Normandie, Orne, sunrise on October 16, 2016 by xi'an
Argentan half-marathon 2016 [1:23:28-23/380-V2 2/74-16⁰]
Posted in Running, Travel, Wines with tags Argentan, Argentan half-marathon, countryside, Fall, half-marathon, Languedoc wines, Montpellier, Normandie, Orne, podium, road races, San Francisco half-marathon, veteran (V2) on October 2, 2016 by xi'an
And yet another Argentan half-marathon! Which started this blog, so to speak, 8 years ago… Although I could not repeat my feat at the San Francisco half-marathon, as I had lost my high altitude benefits, I managed well enough, with a good overall time of 1:23:28 and a second place in the V2 category, once again. I gained more than one minute from last year time, despite a strong face wind and thanks to sticking to a small group of younger runners. This is one of my best times since the start of the blog in 2008, so I am clearly very happy with the result. And plan to celebrate tonight with a top Montpellier wine!
