Incredible atmosphere

I know I am bit late, but recently I have had a lot of work and I haven’t found the time to seat down and write without pressure. I have a few ideas in my head and in the next few days I will try to write them down. Today I want to explain what I felt two weeks ago when Barcelona celebrated its Marathon, which is improving every year with more participants year after year.

I know this post is late, because the Marathon took place on March 16^th but I think it deserves a few lines. Even though I have been training hard this autumn and winter and I would have been able to complete the race, I didn’t register myself because I wasn’t convinced. However, a few days before the Marathon I started to regret my decision but I couldn’t change it.

As I wasn’t going to run it, I first try to volunteer but they appointed me a kilometre point far from where I live so I decided not to do it. The second option was to wake up early and get down and cheer the runners. Hundreds of people had the same idea because when I arrived to the street there were a lot of people waiting for the runners. I have to admit that in that moment I really regretted my decision.

However, I decided to get down with my running shoes and ready to join some of the friends that I knew that were participating in the Marathon. I saw a lot of them in the 4th kilometre and when they passed by point kilometre number 10 I started to run with José María Rubi, a journalist from RNE who ran under 3 hours two years ago. I went with him during 5 or 6 kilometres and it was amazing.

Hundreds of people along the streets clapping and cheering the names of the runners. The atmosphere was great! There were friends, family, tourists, Barceloneans… A lot of people in the streets. I really felt unhappy when I decided to get back home because I think I wasted a great opportunity to run the Marathon and, especially, because there was an incredible atmosphere in the whole city. 19.000 runners participated in the Marathon that grows every year. 

If you like running and you want to complete a Marathon, don’t doubt it and registered yourself in Barcelona’s one. It is really great!