How difficult are those lonely long runs!

Yes, I miss my fellow runners in Indiana. Those crazy runners were an amazing support and continous challenge!! They made me go further and further!

For them 18 miles in a long run were an easy training!!

This week end, I have run 10 miles on Saturday and 15 miles today, all of them by myself, and I can say that it has been a tough training! I do not think that I could have gone longer even if I wanted to complete a full marathon between Saturday and Sunday.

I need to keep up my mileage if I want to be ready for the Dallas White Rock Marathon. We are less than two months ahead! Let's see how things go...

Such a long time...

Yep, it has been more than two years without visiting this little space for introspection. Since that moment, several things have happened in my life, and I can not complain, most of them have been very good!

First of all, we had our third baby, Javier, almost seven months old now. Javier was born in the US, he is doing fine!!

Also, we do not live any more in the Midwest, now we moved a few months ago to the Lone Star State, Texas!!

So, we changed the cold winters in the single digits to the high temperatures during the texan summer!!

And during all this time, one way or the other, I have been able to keep running!! Juggling with every day's schedule, I have been able to sustain a good 40 mile's average per week during all this time. I am really thankfull because my health has allowed me to follow my running dreams during those times.

So, I am ready to come back to and post my little diary....

It has been a while that I don't get by and write some words, but here I am again, let's try to practice a little bit writing about running, living in the US, surviving to this crazy winter or anything else that comes to my mind!

I am still running, it makes me feel alive and awake, even with the snow and those temperatures! I follow this rule: if we are above 10ºF, it is OK for me to run outside, so most of the days I am able to run outdoors!

See you on the trails!

Wonderful day in the Dunes

Last Sunday we spent the day in the Dunes. We went all the family and we went on the trails. We walked for around 3 hours with the kids.

We had a blast all together, it was really fun to have lunch in the trails.

After that we went to the beach. It was a wonderful day and a good complement to my training.

Last saturday we did 29 km, around 18 miles. I am running pretty fast for me, the average was around 8 minutes/mile. So, more or less the marathon pace I am targeting.

My longest run...

Yes, I did it: 30K on Sunday with the crazy runners. It wasn't too hot and we could make it!! Let's see how I feel during this week after such a long train for me.

It is the longest train I have ever done. I know I shouldn't have done it now if I am preparing Chicago, which is not soon, but it is done!!

My new Chicago's Marathon T-Shirt

Yes, I ordered this new T-Shirt to run wearing it the Chicago Marathon. I ordered it through Running Banana and they did a really great job. It is a technical t-shirt and the drawings in it look great. So now, I only have to continue training for the big event!!

Today it has been the first day with a lot of humidity and I was really tired after the training. I didn't run very fast but the humidity made running difficult!!

Starting longer runs...

Yes, this week-end I started again with the longer runs, arround 15 and half miles on Sunday. I ran with the crazy runners in the Dunes, we met at 07:30 am as usual and we ran on the trails, on the beach and we did some small portion on the road too.


On Saturday I ran with my wife, one hour easy run, in this beautiful National Park. It is great to run together even if I go slower. She is doing great and we had fun running together!!

A new week starting, today some rest and tomorrow more running.