La Llanera Trail - Sabadell - 42k

Today an "odd" day of training. Sundays have long runs scheduled at a rather high pace, but today I went out for a full marathon on the trails north of Sabadell. Friends that live there are members of the UES (Excursionist Union of Sabadell), helped organize this race. Also the course was unfamiliar for me, and it is always nice to explore new areas while running on trails that one by himself would not easily discover unless guided by the experts in the specific territory.

After the cold last week slowly temperatures have been rising again and for today it seemed like it even could be warm. I stood up early around 6am and soon after left for the train station to take ride to Sabadell Centre. The start of the race was very conveniently situated at some 100m from the last stations of the line and soon after picking up my bib I went to change into running gear. Contrary to the predictions it was rather cold and I walked around to stay warm.

At nine o'clock we were shot away and the pack of some 600 runners slowly picked up pace, apart from the front runners who right from the start set a high pace at this rather runnable course. After a some 10 minutes of running through the centre of Sabadell we go down to the river Ripoll and run along a path on the banks

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The video of the race:

La Llanera Trail 2016 - marató de muntanya - Sabadell from Wouter Molevelt on Vimeo.