Sun - 15/05/22

 This year’s half marathon starts at 8:30am from Via Mercurio. It will take me 35 minutes to walk there. I need to leave the hotel before 6:30. My alarm is set for 05:10. This Sunday in 2015 was also Half Marathon Day in 2015 only then it started at 09:30 from Piazza Del Duomo (The Cathedral Square).

I walked to via Mercurio. I stopped at Costa café near to the end of via Nazaria Sauro and had a frutta della bosca croissante with a cappuccino.  I had got the start time of the half marathon wrong and was an extra half hour early. It was a warm and sunny day. Very hot towards the end. GBR didn’t feature in the team medals this time round. On the way back to my hotel I stopped at the Atlantic café just a couple of hundred yards from via Mercurio (I had stopped there a few times in 2015). I drew out some euro cash using my R-Card. I got back to my hotel and had some food and a sleep.

Oh yes! I ran the half marathon in just over two hours.

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