#freddysrunners

This weekend, I had an 8 mile long run,only one mile less than last week, but being able to run outside with my friends in San Juan made a huge difference. This time I ran with my friends Ana and Anna ( I didn’t realize the coincidence until now).  We ran the usual San Juan route, from the capitol to El Morro Fortress and back to the oasis at the capitol to refuel, before heading down to the…

I only have 34 days before the longest race I have ever participated in, 16 miles. To prepare for that, my coach told me it would require longer long runs on weekends but because of different reasons I had been able to avoid that, until now.  This weekend my long run was 9 miles. Normally I would have had to wake up at dawn to start running before the sun started shining and heating everything…

On Sunday morning I ran the 10k El Mojo Isleño in Salinas, my fifth race in the 10k Challenge. I didn’t realize the two July races were two weeks in a row. I was sure there was a week in between until last week, when I was deciding hoy to get to Salinas so early in the morning. I did the only thing I could do, I spent the night at my aunt’s house which is a lot closer to Salinas than mine so I…

This year I have been signing up for a lot more 10k races than 5ks. Last year I ran three; this morning I ran my fifth this year, so far, the San Juan Bautista 10k. I started at an easy pace, still unsure if I wanted to take a quick walking break after reaching every mile  or half a mile. I couldn’t decide so I kept running until I got to the first oasis. After that I walked for about a…

My coach had the whole running group in suspense when he announced this Saturday’s long run would be a surprise. I was a little scared, thinking maybe it was a crazy amount of repetitions mixed with something else. We were put at ease when he announced during the week that we were running a 5k with an easy route. It never crossed my mind that there would be any other surprises, I just focused on…

Last week I did something that I had been thinking about for a while but was still unsure about; I signed up for my second half-marathon. This is a big deal, at least to me, because it’s not just any half-marathon; I signed up for San Blas, probably the hardest half-marathon in Puerto Rico. San Blas began as a 3 mile race for Puerto Rican athletes, organized by the fraternity Delta Phi Delta in…

This month I signed up for three 10k races, three weeks in a row. After I signed up for all three, I got a little nervous that it might be too much for me. I was afraid I might get hurt or too tired and would burnout after the second one, or even during the last one. I was told this one, El Guatibiri del Otoao, used to be a half marathon but was later changed to a 10k because it was too much. But…