Yes, okay, I know, I know, almost a month ago I ran the Challenge and now I hang the chronicle, but ... you know, the season is over, a desire to disconnect, desire devote time to other things, etc, etc ... But hey, better late than never, right? So here's the chronicle of another fantastic day ... My fourth Ironman ... Challenge Costa de Barcelona - Maresme 2010 4:30 a.m.
alarm clock rings, I have dream but I can easily get up despite not having slept too many hours. Paul last night was running Cavalls del Vent and until we reached the hotel at dawn and told me what all had gone well I do not sleep quietly.
I'm pretty quiet, there was a theme that I liked and that made me a good feeling and that "I felt like," yeah, I wanted each of the segments of the test. Nothing I was too lazy, not even water, being aware that possibly cost me a little more knowing that the account had swum around 10,000. in 2 months (lol) yes, I know, ridiculous, but after my motivation Frankfurt plummeted water. But hey, there it was, was on D and I was happy because I felt like swimming, cycling and running. Breakfast
without hunger, I am preparing the last things and we start heading to Calella.
About 6:15 a.m. I go to the pits, prepare the bike, fluids, everything was in place and 7am tell us that we must leave the park closed and go to the beach. Then I put something
be more nervous but exchanging a word with me reassure friends and acquaintances.
"Come, come!'s Get this already and I will do my best!"
or touch water. I get to the departure area. 7:30 a.m. departure of professionals, 7:34 a.m. I left, so little time out, the better, less time for beating around the coconut.
As I say, the water and had touched her, but hoped that estataría a good temperature. That itself was calm as a mill pond.
At that time I have still not too clear water circuit, pfffff, but hey, I spot the biggest turn buoys and it follow the other, haha.
PAM! OUT! Clean, no hits, the water is perfect. We estimate that about 80 girls so smoothly so that each one is kept in place with no intention of going over to anyone and it shows. As we stood rozábamos each aside and swim and get all comfortable and glad.
amazing, but what was a good feeling! The water temperature was ideal, except for some jellyfish without too much allowed me to enjoy swimming.
The first meters go with something uncontrolled breathing but as I progress I will accommodate up to get the pace and feel perfect.
From the beginning I stand next to another girl he'll finish the next 3800m.
The truth is that it was great to go together, at least psychologically. At times I trusted her and followed her hoping that she would clear the track, haha, because I was seeing the buoys in passing but I promise you today that I have not yet clear as it was over. Yes I know we made a rectangle, but like last year we were either parallel to the coast, this year it was as if we were doing inside ... I do not know, I really would like to see from above what we did ...
The point is that the two got along and happy rhythm maintained without forcing. All the while with one another. After 3800m of continuous strokes, finally home stretch! Swim to touch the sand with your hand and put foot to floor. The first thing we do both is to look, we raised our glasses and give us a hug. She says with a smile: "Yes! Good swim!" hahaha, that rush! These are the things that please me the long distance! This partnership ...
had already completed the first segment ...
faces the transition tent eager to ride the bike. As you know that in my reviews I tell you all, here too I have an anecdote to explain, haha. I was pee before the exit and get into the water do I have to stop a bit and not concentrate enough and as I had wanted to pick up at any moment of that girl he swam, he could not make those needs, so while I removed the neo in the tent and keep everything you need, pick the bag, I literally do it all over, lol! Overall, we are wet from top to bottom, so do not come from there!
Anyway, I keep 4 bars and everything you need and run to the bike.
180km ahead ... I feel very comfortable. Of course for my circuit as the NII is total enjoyment and if it is any day of training, it closed to traffic and is a joy. I
miles traveling quite a good pace.
I like to be very strict with the issue of food on the bike, especially because I know that once you finish that area and I can not eat anything solid (I can not eat when I run) and I have a marathon ahead , so for me it is important to fill the tanks right there.
Every 30 min. eat, not to mention the hydration.
supplies in the first check to see that Coke would not, so pass me burst isotonic stomach and drink only water and gels and bars that I had not I would need nothing else.
The miles are falling, going fast. I am making calculations and see that I can get a good time, but of course, is much ahead and you never know ...
After arriving for the first time Masnou (first 180 º), as we did Calella turning back, I see that even the speed up a bit. I still have good feelings. People are very encouraging and I feel at home. I know every meter of this road.
As always, ending the first lap and came to the lighthouse of Calella, people piled on top of a the strongest Repechón having the circuit. It is spectacular as we cry and we are encouraged ...
First lap completed! Roundabout turn Calella is crowded, it is a party! A 10 for all those people! Thanks!
I face the second round and come to kill I can feel the wind begins to make an appearance ... I noticed everything that was around me, to see if he was feeling really blew me or ... And yes, blowing. Nothing fancy but enough to go down my pace and my legs will notice the extra effort, in addition to what we had been accumulated.
motor
The judges had to Dolores, Noe and Angel, who was to me found on several occasions and always had a few words of encouragement ... compis thanks!
I'm about to complete the second round and see the minutes gained favor in the first round was going missing ... shit ... I wanted to continue holding them, but could not ... Second ascent
Calella lighthouse and now even more people in the first round!
After making the roundabout to address the third and final round ... to my right and suddenly, for appearance (because in those moments I can assure you that you're a little lost, so many people screaming, so many people cheering ...) I run to Paul. Dioooooooss! What joy! I did not expect my people to the marathon and that was an incredible rush.
I came to see Paul, Carol and Toni, screaming like crazy and I equal to or worse than them, hahaha! AAAAAAHHHHHH! War cries and motivation topeee!
I stand on the bike and climb to power one of the last Repechón. And only reach Mataró was around.
It almost was ... I wanted to get out now. It's been almost 6 hours, fully static, 6 h in the same position, 6 hours non-stop pedaling, 6 h in the background pass quite fast but are hard, because except the 2 Repechón had for each round, the the rest was done and that takes a toll attached to the neck, back, thigh ...
Activity in Calella, I find myself Toni and Carol, with whom I fight to get adrenaline screams and I'm a little stretching and loosening the body for 42km then I expected.
Here I had a slip and took off my super soon feet shoes, I was the head and did not remember the circuit. When I was pedaling with your feet above your shoes, I remember that I still have a good piece with several twists and subidita including, pfffff Finally, try not above slipping my feet because I could have put a good cake ... Straight
final! Here, yes, I see the finish line. I get off the bike, I return to find Paul at the entrance to pit with many acquaintances that I cry, I go running to the pits and I run to the last transition. First
sensations ... pffff, which lasted ... very hot, the sun has burned me, I have legs like tables and am back super charged, in order ... positive mind and I was very little, only 42km race walk .... hahaha!
usually do not ever in the transitions, but this time I sat in a chair to put on my socks and sneakers and so while a volunteer takes to put sunscreen on her back and arms.
2 minutes of transition and leave the tent.
Oh, oh, oh, I can hardly run, but bad feelings I have ... I noticed very slow ... I have the feeling that I walk ... But I did not care, I again have a clear goal, I would focus on the speed at which walked a mile, all I try was no walking in no time.
begin to see familiar faces, I cheer. I'm not going good legs but at least it's head (yet).
At times I come to mind the miles so bad that I spent in Frankfurt ... All goes well, you feel good and in minutes you're mired in misery and that he feared ... But my compis already been addressed remind me not to nap hit me hit me in the marathon at the last IM, hahaha.
DO NOT SLEEP! 
Thanks goes out to all ... Do not know which helped at the time your encouragement and your presence! 
I still have about 500m. to complete the first round and something strange happens to me, I run following the advice of several volunteers, but I somewhat lost, since all people, fatigue, etc, you're not very aware of everything .... and then I am walking the red carpet ... but that is happening? Entered on a line with steps on either side, full of people ... read my back ... the speaker called me by name ... For favoooor! For a moment I think they are wrong and I slipped into the goal ... hahaha! (Inside I thought, I animeis while I still have 3 laps! hahaha).
I press, I give a 180 degree turn and see that the return is so, we would do that 4 times, the only thing that changed is that on the last lap instead of continuing straight would return to spin and would face a line parallel to that to move under the arch. Ufffff that trouble ... hahaha! But once I understood how the circuit was true that these meters were incredible with the animation that was ... It was like walking 4 times in goal ... tremendous ...
Start of round 2 and I feel much better than the 1 st. The head is well and legs are better. I keep getting shouting and encouragement from many people. This I think was around easier and more comfortable ... I felt good and enjoyed the people, both known as brokers with whom encouraged. But I'm about to finish the second round and the good feelings begin to lose because I am not so good, the pain began to make an appearance, but I keep running.
When I enter the hallway that so many people, I promise I was a little lost. Displaying photos the next day I discovered people than at any time I was aware it was there.
I go to find all my people, I do not think I have a good face, my legs hurt, I'm tired and thinking about the third lap I was some "juju". The truth is I always think that the 3rd round is the worst, at least psychologically. It's been 2 ... other 2 are ... uffffff, mentally very hard ...
encourage me to rage, I have sort of all those people who encouraged me because I promise that if I had not had all that support, this would not have had anything to do. Step 2
the red carpet ... I miss not a single provisioning, exactly every 2.5 km, I drink a glass of Coke, a drink of water to clean mouth a little because if I do this with the coke feel very sticky mouth and grabbed a two sponges that served to cleanse me a bit and refresh the skin. The truth is that one day he was being very very hot I think that we never expect that the Hot, certainly nowhere near what we had to spend this summer in Frankfurt, but hey, the body was unusual and it showed.
I still have a fairly steady pace ... I'm not going too bad, but not too good .. I wanted minding that it ended as I would return and only one and that's it! But this return is sooo largaaaaa. I looking at the time, I very pleased, if he carried could get my Sub12 without problems, but of course, you can not claim victory. In an Ironman can happen and I've had experiences like that. Everything is fine, and within minutes you can be mired in misery ... So I follow with a firm step forward. I keep waving at fellow-sufferers and friends cheering.
1km to complete the 3rd lap I meet Ferran, "we Sina! This is already! Make an effort to eat something, you need it and you will be good" ... I decide to heed, although I did not want at all think he is right, I was running out of strength and may help me get me some of the well. Full
the 3rd round, I approach the 4 th and last, my people keep encouraging me, I try to smile but I should still have my smile, haha! Ufffffff, tell them that I ache all over, my legs hurt and the whole body. I do not know how to describe it, is a general pain, where all the muscles are sore ... All I want is to stop and stop moving, rest ... But it would do, would not stop if he did not pick up the pace again. Toni
runs a few feet to my side, I really want to be more lively but I can not. They all say the same ... "I'm afraid this return" and he was very afraid of what might happen at that point. I already had to endure the pain and did not know if I could attack something like what happened to me in Frankfurt and turn around 1h and 2h something odd ... Toni Al
me, Paul is hooked, you know with whom we have more confidence is who we "pout", hahaha, and it was ... "Buaaaa, it hurts toooddoooo" asked me not to stop running ... and without thinking I used those words as my major source of motivation.
I can not stop running, so be it "will do for you" and with that premise I was going through meter after meter, and mile after mile. It was like a promise and if you stop the break ... I'm eating a gel that was like an apple compote, the truth is that the flavor was very good, but it was like porridge, crushed, lumpy, hahaha.
as I quite liked it, the miles passed very very slowly ... I discounting miles but I seem eternal. As I move the belly pain and it begins to start to have much trouble, but believe me they are now serious pffffff thought it would be the first Ironman where I stopped to sink, but saw it would not be possible.
Are about 3km, I think to myself, than 3km of all, the stand and go to the toilet and calmly and without haste, but that will not take it anymore! I estimate that in the absence of 1.5 km could not go a step further. Time was lost with what I held back the pain, the minutes you lose parándome. So no toilet in sight, I get behind some bushes. Uffffff, after returning to racing, I feel much better, it was necessary ... :-)
Dioooos, kilometers I make endless! Did not know how I marked the km40 and never came ...
it! last mile! I'll be back to catch a good rhythm, my legs and I go alone, accelerated a bit step, I see that I already had gotten Sub12 and run happy.
At the beginning of the red carpet and finally my last pass through there, I find Toni and Paul ... poor things, that expensive! As 2 children are introduced to Father Christmas at home, hahaha! Their faces say it all ... I make them suffer and not coming .... Sinita hahahaha but it was there! I stand in front of them, I bow my body making a bow and throw them an air kiss. This win was for them and for all that I had spent a round of applause, a smile, some encouragement, both were present and my people in the distance, really, THANKS TO ALL / AS!
I leave and go shot towards the goal arc, I very nearly the sprint, hahaha, I like the sprint finish, but then I had been dragging 2km, haha! I
watching the clock ... "FUCK FINALLY !!!!!" I say inside, I finally got the Sub12 he loved so much! I'm very excited ... No break to mourn as usual, but I have a lump in my throat that I hardly breathe.
As I pass the bow hanging finisher medal, I wonder if I am well and truly I tell them I did not know ... I was very lost, it hurt a lot the body and his head a little way. Do not let me stop and tell me to go get something to eat.
before I put all that food and it was impossible ... I was very dizzy, drink water and try to calm down and see if I entered something, but impossible to sit on a bench, but any movement causes me much pain, I'm all stuffy. Paul
yells from the other side of the fence ... snif snif ... here and what you can imagine, Sinita break to mourn ... Many feelings, many emotions ... This is the long distance and that's what I like so much to live these experiences are priceless ... Fourth
Ironman achieved ... We will see what will be the fifth, right? Thanks
: How have I said, I want to thank each of you who were present at this special day. Thank you all, I did enjoy a great career and will always remain in my memory.
Especially, of course, from here, he turns to Paul, care, and encouragement at all times in this new challenge. Although crack 85km mountain the day before, ran to be by my side at all times. I have no words to thank you for what you do for me ...
;-) There's that! I have been a few days rest and be right back attack! Now I will focus on hill climbs and preparing our next challenge ... MARATHON OF SWORDS 2011!!
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