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<\/p>\nHere is the usual end of year post.\u00a0It has been an incredible year for my running. Last year’s plan was to go from half marathon to ultra marathon and I made it.<\/p>\n
2015 has been the year of the “firsts”: first marathon, first 50k, first 50 miles, first multi-stage race and unfortunately first serious injury.<\/p>\n
If it had not been for the last 2 months where I could not run due to injury, the rest of the year I basically run 6 times a week (except for race recovery and tapering).<\/p>\n
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I have run a total of 3801 km <\/strong>for a total of 312 hours.<\/strong> Here <\/a>is the usual Strava end of year movie.<\/p>\n I ran 14 races<\/strong>:<\/p>\n January<\/strong><\/p>\n I ran my first marathon, the Trailscape Ashurst Trail Marathon<\/a>, where I learnt that I was not very good at pacing at all!<\/p>\n February<\/strong><\/p>\n I ran my second marathon, the Trailscape Wendover Trail Marathon<\/a>, where I learnt that the stomach can be your worst enemy.<\/p>\n March<\/strong><\/p>\n I ran my third marathon, the Thames Meander Marathon<\/a>, were I did my PB but I was not very happy at the end as I (again) completely paced it wrong.<\/p>\n April<\/strong><\/p>\n Training got serious for the NDW50 and started running well over 100k per week. I did my first back to back long runs during the week ends and ran my first 50k in training<\/a> (and felt like superman)<\/p>\n May<\/strong><\/p>\n The “awesomest” month of the year where I ran my first ultra, the North Downs Way 50 mile race<\/a>. I was an amazing experience and I was hooked.<\/p>\n June<\/strong><\/p>\n I recovered fast, dedicated the month to speed training, ran a Bushy Park Run to check progress (matched my Bushy PB) and then ran the Richmond Park Half Marathon<\/a> where I really enjoyed competing and finished 9th.<\/p>\n July<\/strong><\/p>\n I went a bit crazy and ran a marathon one week and a half marathon the week after. In the North Downs Way Marathon<\/a> I discovered that the NDW is a killer whatever the distance and that pacing was still unknown to me.<\/p>\n Pacing was not needed at the Wimbledon Common Half Marathon<\/a> where I just went as fast as I could all the time, finishing 9th and almost beating my PB (the mud made it hard).<\/p>\n August<\/strong><\/p>\n I took an holiday from racing by did a lot of running. I explored part of the Ridgeway<\/a> and part of the South Downs Way<\/a> (beautiful). Then I ran a lot in Italy, mostly running from\u00a0crazy wild boars<\/a>.<\/p>\n September<\/strong><\/p>\n I ran the High Weald Challenge 50k Ultra<\/a> where I really enjoyed the company of Craig<\/a>, but was not too pleased with the last 10k.<\/p>\n October<\/strong><\/p>\n I ran the\u00a0Royal Borough of Kingston 10 mile<\/a> race where I finished 14th and got new PBs on 10k, 15k and 10 miles, but then took ages to recover from.<\/p>\n November<\/strong><\/p>\n Another super awesome race! I did the Druid Challenge<\/a>, my first multi stage event, I loved every second of it, ran 84 miles, finished 13th, but picked up a nasty shin injury.<\/p>\n December<\/strong><\/p>\n Sad month. I only ran 5k here and there just to check the injury but things did not get any better. Luckily the rest of the year has been so amazing I did not mind losing 1.5 months of running.<\/p>\n In 2016 I will probably race a bit less (I already cancelled the January marathon due to the injury), but I will do more longer races. I have already entered all four 50 mile races from Centurion Running<\/a> and I will therefore try to do the Grand Slam of 50s. In between I will definitely run some more marathons, maybe a couple of half (the local ones) and hopefully I will help my friends Davide <\/a>and Manu <\/a>pacing them when they come here to run the NDW100 <\/a>and SDW100 <\/a>respectively.<\/p>\n I hope you will have a wonderful 2016. See you out there!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here is the usual end of year post.\u00a0It has been an incredible year for my running. Last year’s plan was to go from half marathon to ultra marathon and I made it. 2015 has been the year of the “firsts”: first marathon, first 50k, first 50 miles, first multi-stage race and unfortunately first serious injury. 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