watchemilyrun

My First post...I am almost crying...except that this is way harder than I thought. Yet again I had no idea.

Some wise monkey said, blogging is now hard, but like running it will get easier....wise monkey!!

On the left you will find the Parc de Marly le Roi. This is where I completed my 11mile run on July 25th.

It's actually a really cool parc. I used to do cross country running there when I was in Junior high school.

This is where Mitterand and Louis XIV used to come hunting. There used to be a castle in the center, but it was destroyed during the french revolution. Good old Louis would bring his mistresses here...oh the french!!

What this parc is most famous for is its "abreuvoir": horses can just walk in to the abreuvoir to drink. On both sides you have horses "les chevaux de Marly". The originals are now in Musee d'Orsay. Other copies are also at the bottom of the champs elysees in Paris. When France lost Alsace and Lorraine after WWI, the horses were draped in black in sign of mourning...

So it's a cool parc to be running in and thinking about what stories already took place there.

I ended up running for something like 2 hours. My sister ran a bit (like 20min). After 1 hour she candidly asked "are you almost done?" My response: "no honey, I still have one more hour to go!!". I guess my pace was around 10min/mile, on target. Only issue was the pinky blister problem. I guess I will need to get rid of those ones :-(

More blog updates tomorrow!