Sometimes it happens, that we don’t spend the holidays with our family. This year´s Easter for me was just like that. Since I was alone anyway, I filled my free time full with sporting activities :) I have done a trail running race, some hiking in the Peneda-Gerês National Park, and even a hardcore mountain bike training in the Serras do Porto Mountains nearby Porto. I subscribed to the trail run the same day as I knew that I'll be alone for one and a half weeks. I have never competed in this sport before. To be honest, I have just started practicing it this year, so I was really excited about the event on Friday night. I started off on a 20k race (I've ran only once in my life more than 20k so far) and to be even more difficult, the race was during the night:) I felt super motivated in the hours before the race. I was enthusiastically clicking through the internet and watching videos about the UTMB and CCC competitions on Youtube. I was ready! I should have trained more, but overall I'm completely satisfied with my performance. I managed to finish in the first twenty in absolute and 12th in my category, with 1h57min time. Luckily, I got tons of flyers from different races in the near future, so I can choose the next one already, haha :) On the next day, I went with my friends to the Peneda-Gerês National Park, as I promised them, to show a few new places. We spent the whole day by exploring the Park. We visited the Café Abrigo restaurant, where I usually stop to eat with my guests during the Peneda-Gerês Cycling Tour too. We had a majestic lunch and then went out into the mountains for
Sometimes it happens, that we don’t spend the holidays with our family. This year´s Easter for me was just like that. Since I was alone anyway, I filled my free time full with sporting activities 🙂 I have done a
