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[½] marathon de la Liberté
Posted in Kids, Running, Travel with tags Caen, Courir en Normandie, D-Day beaches, half-marathon, Juno Beach, La Rochambelle, Les Courants de la Liberté, Marathon de la Liberté, Memorial for Peace, Normandie Course à Pied, Normandie fort et vert, Normandy, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry, paragliding, Pegasus bridge on June 2, 2024 by xi'an½
La Rochambelle 2015 [10K – 38:28 – 73th & 4th V4]
Posted in Kids, pictures, Running, Travel with tags 10k, British War Cemetery, Caen, D Day, D-Day beaches, La Rochambelle, Les Courants de la Liberté, Memorial for Peace, Normandy, veteran (V2) on June 21, 2015 by xi'an
Another year attending La Rochambelle, the massive women-only race or walk against breast cancer in Caen, Normandy! With the fantastic vision of 20,000 runners in the same pink tee-shirt swarming down-town Caen and the arrival stadium. Which made it quite hard to spot my three relatives in the race! I also ran my fourth iteration of the 10k the next day, from the British War Cemetery of Cambes-en-Plaine to the Memorial for Peace in Caen. The conditions were not as optimal as last year, especially in terms of wind, and I lost one minute on my total time, as well as one position, the third V2 remaining tantalisingly a dozen meters in front of me till the end of the race. A mix of too light trainings, travel fatigue and psychological conviction I was going to end up fourth! Here are my split times, with a very fast start that showed up in the second half near 4mn/km, when the third V2 passed me.
