My new hear race monitor

I bougth today my first heart rate monitor. It is a Aptonia CW700 (Aptonia is a mark of Decathon). Now I'm exploring the features of my new toy! The only difference from the kids to the adult people is that the adults bought more expensive toys!! I bought this for two main reasons: the heart rate monitor to start monitoring my runs and also for the chonometer features, because the watch I usaly use only give me the time spent from the begining and I also need the lap memory function and the intermediate counter to use during my races (or tranning) to check my km pace.
Now I'm trying to find out how can I disable the sound emitted every heart beat.

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Francis Obikwelu - second gold medal

The Portuguese Francis Obikwelu won yesterday the second gold medal in the European Atlethics Championship in Gotheburg. He was the first on 200 metres with 20.01 seconds. The second - Swede Johan Wissman - only arrived 0.37 later! :) Briton Marlon Devonish was third. Congratulatiosn again Francis Obikwelu.

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Francis Obikwelu

From road running to track running, to say that Francis Obikwelu won yesterday the golden medal for Portugal in the men's 100 metres sprint at the European Championships in Gothenburg, with the time of 9,99 seconds. Today he will try to win also in 200m to became the first to win both races in a European Championship. Andrey Yepishin(Russia) was second with 10.10 and Matic Osovnikar (Slovenia) was third with 10.14. Congratulations Francis Obikewlu!

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Slow runners

I found this funny movie clip on the Passion for Running blog. Mark said that you are never running slow :)

Back to the training

Now I'm planning to resume the training. I never stop running, but in the last months I use to run just one or two times a week, without any trainning plan, so I always ran slowly: everytime I run without a goal, I run just for fun and so my performance always drop a lot!! Now I will try to back to my last training schedule I posted in this blog and I never finish it. The goal is to do an haslf-marathon in two months.

feeds clip

I put on my blog a clip of my reading feeds marked with label 'run' through Google Reader. Currently I'am reading the following blogs: A passion for running, Robert Song's Running, Sean Loyd blog

Chondromalacia - knee of runner

from atletas.net

To Chondromalacia, more known by knee of runner, is a sporting wound whose gradual form increase pain.

The symptoms of this illness are normally the pain or sensibility nearby or below the kneecap in the breaks frontal or lateral of the knee. The pain is gradual, generally in an alone knee, and increase during several weeks. To cartilagem of the patela - below the kneecap. erodes-itself, stayed as went a sandpaper, doing sounds of ground.

The causes of this illness can have that see with several factors, as: run about a slope or slope; do not carry out the heating correctamente; have the quadríceps too tense, weak or tired; kneel; have the jarrete tense or excessively strong; go up or come down stairs or slopes; stayed sat down by long hours; or to him run too fortress without the due heating.

The prevention of this illness does itself across of the adequate use of sapatilhas of run that insert well, using orthopedic for improve inserts him of the foot. Also it can avoid the sprouting of this illness performing a reduction of the activities ciclistas during the training, or a bigger rhythm with smaller resistance. Do a complete heating, without forget no part of the body, incluíndo exercises of strengthening of the quadríceps, lengthening them, as well like the jarretes and panturrilhas. Is going to bend too the knees.

The handling of this alone illness functions to obtain diagnose the illness well early, and begin at once it do him. Find his doctor, do a Ray-X for verify erodes of the surface of the articulation. The swimming or. run in the swimming pool. can help, as well like a kneepad with an opening for the kneecap.

Naide Gomes with a new NR for Portugal

Naide Gomes was third in women's long jump World Indoor Championship. Tatyana Kotova, of Russia, won with 7.00m from Tianna Madison, second with a personal best of 6.80m, with Portugal’s Naide Gomes third with a national record of 6.76m.

Half Marathon of Lisbon: Indian of 94 present this year in the race

The Indian marathon runner Fauja Singh, of 94 years, is going to participate in the Half Marathon of Lisbon, to 26 of March, with a group of athletes named "Sikh Runners", whose ages pierced between 70 and 94 years.

The religious group of athletes, that participates in several marathons and half marathons over all the world runs with the goal of contribute for the visibility of the Sikh religion(religion arisen in the India) of form it arrange deep for institutions of charity.

The marathon runner, that does not separate of the yellow turban, was star of one of the biggest campaigns of publicity of the Attached "Impossible i nothing" (nothing is impossible), beside the international English David Beckham, due to his facet of tireless runner.

The oldest athlete of the world it run the marathon, despite of the his 94 years, want to beat its own personal record of the marathon, established in 5:40 hours to the 92 years, against the 6:54 that already to have conquered with 89 years.

from atletas.net

Paul Tergat at Lisbon half-marathon

Paul Tergat will run this year again the best half-marathon of the world: the Lisbon Half Marathon. Tergat already win this race 2 times: 2000 and 2005, with the personal record of 59.06 minutes, and that in last year he conquer the podium of the marathon of New York.

Beyond the five times world champion of crosse (1995 to 1999), go to mark presence the Moroccan Jahouad Gharib, champion of the world of marathon in Paris' 2003 and Helsínquia' 2005, and Mohamed Mourhit, winner of the test in 1997.

In the female sector, highlights for the participation of the Kenyan Susan Chepkemei, world vice-champion of the "half" in 2000, 2001 and 2002 and third in the World one of 2005, Joyce Chepchumba, winner of the test Portuguese in 2004, and Edith Masai, world champion of short-weed (short) in 2003 and 2004.