Bonjour!
Today was the Paris half marathon. Paris being one of my
favourite cities I was super excited to be back and ready to enjoy lots of
bread and cheese as pre run stocking up.
Sadly being a good boy it didn’t involve any red wine but
there’s always next time!
Some useful advice from the race booklet was to ensure I "cover my tits" with plasters. Childish as it is it made me chuckle!
The run started from the wonderful Château de Vincennes
which despite my numerous trips to Paris I had not been to before.
The Château:
It was a beautiful blue sky today so running through the
parks and along the Seine was absolutely stunning so I had not been
concentrating on trying to get another PB.
However; with some good tunes going and a little support
from the crowd I came home in 1 hour 20 minutes and 52 seconds placing me in 297th position out of 30,700.
A very happy me treated myself to the below healthy lunch
afterwards:
After that I went for a walk in the stunning Pere Lachaise
cemetery….trying to find both Oscar Wilde and Edith Piaf’s graves took some
time so I now reckon my kilometers covered today is reaching 30km but it has
all been worth it!
My race finisher
medal:
And a few from my
walk afterwards:
Another Olympic city down and just over a month until the
next one….will keep you posted!
Au Revoir!
