Valencia Marathon 2023: A Race Like No Other With A GoPro
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- Опубліковано 7 гру 2023
- On December 3rd 2023 the 43rd edition of the Valencia marathon took place in, yeah you guessed it Valencia Spain 🇪🇸.
If you haven't been to Valencia then you are definitely missing out.
First off all it's a very beautiful city, and to be able to run a marathon in these streets is just a cherry on top!
The marathon officially started at 8h15, but i was in the 4th starting block (color purple), which started at 8h45 on the dot.
For me this was the biggest marathon to date in which i participated.
It was a well organized marathon, although there are some points that are worth mentioning:
- You received water battles at the refreshment stations, this made it a bit dangerous when going through these areas, because other runners threw them all over the place.
The last thing you would like is to walk on such a bottle and fall...
- It was marked on the course map that there were toilets at every refreshments station, well i haven't seen any toilets though 🤷♂️ It might have just missed them (every time?) but didn't see any.
The temperature around start was 8 degrees Celsius, by the time i finished it was 19 degrees Celsius.
Since i wasn't wearing my hydration pack and was carrying a soft flask from Salomon (500ml), i got a bit dehydrated due to the fact that i didn't practiced it enough up front.
I only tried it once on my long run before, in Belgium, when it wasn't so warm 🙈
It did refilled my bottle, or drank from a water bottle at the race itself, but the electrolytes were not in balance.
You know that it's not good when your mouth is dry, and stays dry, even if you drink something.
I tried to make the best of it and get to the finish line to get the best time possible.
But as you can imagine, i started to slow down...
My goal time for the marathon in Valencia was to run a sub 3 hours and 20 minutes.
I let you to find out if i succeeded or not.
All i can say is, this race was amazing and such a beautiful experience.
Because of that i can already say that i will be at the starting line on December 1st 2024 for the 44rd edition! YEAH BABY! 😉
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Ik liep ook mee in Valencia in 2023. Inderdaad een geweldige stad, sfeer en marathonervaring! 😄
Zeker weten! Daarom dat ik er dit jaar ook weer zal staan 👌
Moeilijk te weerstaan ☺️
Great video! I used to use the Garmin HRM Pro too but agree with you, it can slide and move which is so annoying. I’ve now switched to the coros arm HRM which didn’t cause me any issues at all. I ran my debut in Valencia in 3:04 this year and like you, that final 5-7km my pace started to drop off as the legs felt heavy. You did great, 3:20 will come! Vamos!
Thank you for your reply!
I have been using the Coros arm HRM now for a couple of weeks and what a difference, glad i purchased that!
You ran a great time then for your debut in Valencia, congratulations 👏
My hydration wasn't good during the race, that in combination with the heat gave issues, but lesson learned for the next one.
I'll be present again in 2024 in Valencia 😉
Happy New Year!
@@gofora_run see you there in December!
Well ran Siggy. You seemed to have a really good game plan and you looked strong throughout even though the finish time was just off what you aimed for.
Do you run with a running belt at least to store your gels? Salt & magnesium tabs? If so then maybe next time have a little 250ml flask that you can refill FAST when you get a bottle.
Also it’s not easy to VLOG during a long run so it’s impressive 😂
Machine.
Thanks mate!
The game plan was indeed not bad, had a pretty good start, except for the heart rate monitor that kept dropping but i gave that sucker to Cindy! 😂
The Coros HRM that I'm now testing on my arm is a huge difference from the Garmin chest HRM monitor.
I did run with a running belt, which was a 360 degrees pouch from Compressport.
My shorts itself also had a 360 degrees pouch so i had a lot of storage, but it's not always easy to navigate between both pouches while you run.
In my shorts i had my gels stored and i stored my 500ml soft water flask from Salomon in my compressport pouch since it had a better fit in there.
For my next races i will have a 250ml soft flask instead of 500ml and I'm also going to try out a different legging from Nike that has several pouches.
This was also the first time we tried that Cindy have me a couple of gels mid-race, it worked great except for the fact that i appeared to have lost my caffeine pill which i wanted to have in spare in case i couldn't tolerate any gels anymore.
But as you also know, every race we learn and get better for the next one...
Buckle up for 2024 as there are already several interesting races on the agenda and my GoPro will also join the party! 😉
Tis altijd dood gaan het einde
das waar, en toch schrijven we ons telkens weer in voor een volgende marathon 🤣