Dinner - multinacional

Jantar multinacional











Yesterday we had dinner in my house - I invited Daniel and Alex(his new nickname: Babyface) from Romania and Anna from Poland and Stephanie a.k.a. Rudolf from Belgium. We ate pasta with ham, chicken and pieces of saussages with milk cream. We had two deserts: cake with cottage cheese and manga - Toze's speciality. It was a great evening, we laughed a lot and had great time together. I went to bed at 3 a.m.; we started at 20h. We have to repeat this session - I beleive we all liked it very much.
Today I woke up at 7:30. I felt pretty tired but i get out of bed although. At 11 a.m. I had a test run 4km at the IPB track and I run pretty good - I was very satisfied with my time and feelings during the run. In the afternoon i had an easy run of 8km and now I feel tired but very satisfied - like floatng above the land. It is great. Sebastian and Altino helped me with the run - running some laps with me - thank you friends.
Tonight I am going to sleep like a baby. :)

Ate amanhã.

Test at the stadium of IPB

Today I did my 30m flying and 400m maximum speed at the track. The weather was perfect and the company also:professor Bragada, Altino and Sebastian. Altino filmed my 30m flying and Mr. Bragada clocked the time and took the drop of blood after the test for the lactate analysis. Times were good - due to running in usual running shoes. It was very strange for the students in school when they saw me in shorts in this period of the year...

Photos from INSTALADA

Finally i got the pictures from Instalada- - tha party I wrote in one of





the previous posts.... Take a look...

After the test....














I need a rest...

The Test...

My day at the IPB track... With my friends from Poland (Seb & Anna) ...

Today i did my Lactate treshold and VO2max test - I was tired after the test, but also very satisfied... I did my test in the morning and now is evening - 20:45 and I feel very good (special kind of satisfaction, so fulfilling...). Perfeito. I am satisfied in my heart. I realized today, that I miss racing and competitions and the nervousness that you feel before the start, the adrenaline...
Thanks God, I am alive and healthy.
It feels great to be a sportsman.
To be an athlete.
Peace out.
(Writen 22-11-2007)

It's raining man...

It is a beautiful rainy day today: it is raining for the second time, since I arrived to Bragança (10.10.07) and it feels like the temperatures went a bit up - it is not cold. I had a presentation today in school: it was almost perfect. Usually I am nervous when I have to do things like that. It seems I changed a bit since I came here. I am more open, I think. Today I have a rest and a massage (a frined from Poland - Ana is a masseur, so...). I beleive it will be better than two weeks ago, when I went to some beauty studio in the city and massage was very poor - the woman was to gentle (like she was afraid to squeeze my muscles and she was a bit too shy for the masseur) so I said to her: Can you do it a little bit harder. And I did not notice any big change... And I said to her: "You can kill me." But she couldn't. After that she was tired, but... I am lucky that I have other option - I am going to check today - but I beleive it can be worse. Next week I have the VO2max test, Lactate treshold test on a running treadmill and 30m max speed, 400m max speed, 4000m max speed on the track - with Lactate take away before and after. It will be interesting, what the tests will show. This week I have a plan 100km running total + flexibility: 2units + running technique: 2 units + hurdling technique: 1 unit + general strenght training: 2 units. I will just train and rest, like last week - I need a lot of rest for regeneration... I will go to school only tomorrow for 1 hour and on Thursday for 1 hour - exam.