Pavel Uvarov about the marathon in Barcelona

One of our friends and avid runner wanted to share with us your impressions after participating in the Barcelona Marathon. We gladly accepted his offer and now share this story with you. Perhaps someone is thinking over whether to enroll in this marathon in the next year or first thought about how to try your hand at these competitions, and this post will help him decide.

Pavel Uvarov and his story about the marathon in Barcelona!

If you represent the city in the form of people, then Barcelona will slightly rumpled Vadinho with an opened bottle of Rioja in hand. The book does not have to look at the history: what's the difference when the city was founded, if the majority of passers-by - youth in expensive sunglasses?

The capital of Catalonia is always celebrated and Lenna. The cult of slowness is not disturbed even during series taking place in her event. Here Otshumeli football match and the tourists have departed, fans, and days earlier ended some Spanish holiday. And nothing reminds of yesterday's appearance of the city.

The book does not have to look at the history: what's the difference when the city was founded, if the majority of passers-by - youth in expensive sunglasses?

As calm and Barcelona appeared before the marathon - one of the largest in Europe, with 17 thousand participants. The city continued to burn beautifully the lives of their inhabitants on the beaches, the coffee shop, the sun-drenched. All the time that I was hanging around the leopard, I came across a couple of small posters and a few runners-shirts Barcelona finisher 2013. It was not clear, where will the crowd of fans and marathon runners.

Inner perplexity vanished in the morning to start the day when the doors opened subway car - it turned out that the railway track was packed to capacity runners. At each station crammed crowd of people in it, which in a few hours will overcome 42 kilometers. This marathon train!

And now, before the start of a few minutes. No excitement, only the anticipation of something incredible. Events, which was preparing to three months.

From the sky pours rain of blue candies, and if the turn, it hardly guess where the last man standing in this column. Pink morning sun lick pompous Plaza de España, where the start is organized. From the speakers came the smooth entry into the performance of Montserrat Caballé. Sounds start a volley - and that continues to Mercury, tightening the famous "Barcelon-a-a-a".

She's waiting for us.

Motley crowd rushes between the two towers. We run through the streets of the city, whose inhabitants are experts in pleasures. Such a boring (when viewed from the side) show, as a monotonous run of thousands of people, captures citizens.

Someone placed a morning cup of coffee at the balcony, and someone brought this coffee with a thermos, and costs at the very edge of the road - with the flag of Catalonia and a poster "Vamos!" - a universal appeal for the immediate action.

Throughout my 42 kilometers was not a place where the road would not be standing people. "Live cordon" - this cliche is the fairest feature support. People clapped and shouted marathoners names specified in the room, pulled her hand to "give five". There were those who stood out: firefighters opened the door of his car and honked something melodic - the noise is incredible. Or here's a fragile Spaniard who wrote on a piece of paper the name of his girlfriend, constantly moving around the city - I saw her four times, stood silently at the curb with the inscription "Silvia" in their hands.

My story is in danger of being entirely one-sided because, talking about a sporting event, one way or another will pass and the flaws of his organization. But I can not do it. It was obvious that the organizers of the marathon run marathons themselves, and that they hold the event as if to himself. For the same, as they are. It has been thought out every detail, the organization is close to ideal.

Route - one of the fattest "pros" marathon. The road speed, without strong rises regularly turns, inviting to run at regular sights. Every now and then feel the thrill when, looking up, see the peaks of the Sagrada Familia, or the massive Camp Nou, for example, a flock of parrots congregate with palm trees. When the sea breeze from the beach brings freshness, and the sun and the sea are reflected in skyscrapers.

Thought "when will it end" alien Barcelona Marathon. The finish line in the same place and start - on the Plaza de España. On a small rise in a series of runs in the finish "gate," and seems to sink slowly into the boiling cauldron - decibels of sound, heat, accompanied by thousands of people on this site.

After crossing the finish line should be poslemarafonsky ritual to give the chip, get a medal, food and massage. Photographed. It is possible, finally, to eat something very sweet and nutritious, drink a little wine.

And dream about what decorations will adorn my next marathon.