Monday, May 13, 2013

Running in Spain...Seville

If you want to feel like a speed demon, I suggest you move to Sevilla! Went out for about 5.5 miles along the river path & it was packed with runners. I know a bunch of you live in big cities or in places where people do more than sprint to their car but I don't. If I see a couple other runners out its a good day....and mostly they are speedy folks that go by me so fast they are blurry! However....that was not the case in Seville! My 10:30 pace had me rocketing past many many leisurely runners even with stopping several times to take photos!!! It was AWESOME!

I will say that there were a couple guys out there that meant business. One was wearing a Rotterdam marathon shirt. I was wearing my Toronto marathon shirt. We did the runner nod as we passed in opposite directions. Yeah, I'm cool like that ;-D

Seville was my favourite running place. Nice temps. Easily accessible paths in the downtown core so we could minimise the stoplight stops.

Oh, and I think several Spanish rowing teams were practicing while we were running along the river! We saw 4's & 8's both men and women. The coaches were on these special boats behind the rowers yelling at them through electronic bullhorns. Rowing looks way more expensive than running!







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5 comments:

  1. NellyMay 14, 2013 at 2:47 AM

    awesome on running in more cities!

    The fastest big city that I've ran in is Melbourne, Australia - seemed like people were flying and I was even running a fast pace lol

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  2. Coy MartinezMay 14, 2013 at 8:39 AM

    How freaking cool! It's funny you mention rowing. It seems like every race I've done lately where there is an open water swim has a rowing house near it or one you have to go through. A long time ago, i went to summer school in Oxford England and I would LOVE to watch the rowing teams out practicing. It's one of those things I've always wanted to try :)

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  3. Suz and AllanMay 14, 2013 at 3:40 PM

    What a great place to run! Always nice to feel like you're a really speedy runner.

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  4. MichaelMay 14, 2013 at 9:05 PM

    So jealous!! How cool to run there. It would be cooler to be considered speedy...although I'd prob just blend in, although that would be nice too.

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  5. Alter EloNovember 3, 2019 at 2:48 PM

    Did you track your course? I'll be going there next spring and looking for running courses.
    (If you come to Copenhagen, check out https://runbuddycopenhagen.wordpress.com (it's free)

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