Z Valdir's races

Back to the index My marathon number eight happened in beautiful Seville : The course of the marathon goes through most of the important parts of the city: According to the organizers, it's the flattest marathon in Europe. But before we went to Seville, my wife and I stayed for a few days in Malaga: We also did daytrips to Cordoba and Granada. We visited many places, like fortific ations... museums... Roman ruins... art centres... churches... mosques... more Roman ruins... the Alhambra... culture centres... museums on top of Roman ruins: and architectural marvels... Wow! -------------------------------------------------------- On Saturday afternoon it was time to go to the FIBES... ... to get my bib and other goodies: I find it impressive that every participant received this beautiful blue wind-breaker... ---------------------------...

Back to the index Sub-5, finally! On my seventh marathon I was finally able to get my first sub-5. I finished the Quebec marathon in 4h59m09s ! Wow, that was close! Sightseeing before the running We arrived in Quebec City on Friday afternoon, after getting lost at the entrance of the city. This always happens with us, we can never get into Quebec City at the right spot... Anyway, we arrived at the Museum of Fine Arts, where we spent the afternoon: On Friday night we went to the expo to get my bib and other little things for the marathon: At the end of the night we had dinner at a nice little Italian restaurant: On Saturday morning we walked around the area: Saturday we had lunch at the Café du Monde, one of our favourite places in Quebec: In the afternoon we went on an excursion to see the Montmorency falls. It was a tourist trap, we never got closer than half a kilometer from the falls... Our little hotel, on a quiet corner of the cit...