Eurasia Marathon
Today, I participated on the Istanbul Marathon that starts in Asia and finishes in Europe! In reality I just walked the 8 Km, since the prize for the 42 Km run was only 20.000$...
It was very good to cross the bridge over the Bosphorus! Weather was perfect, not too hot, but sunny and clear (unlike last wednesday when it was raining so much that I thought Istanbul was going to sink under the bosphurus!). Today, from the bridge we could see all the Yalı (Palaces by the Bosphurus) and all the big and small boats that crowd the sea!
It reminded me the Lisbon Marathon, crossing the Ponte 25 de Abril, actually the bridge is very similar (San Francisco style) and the views over the rivers are similar, the differences being that everything is more crowded here, a lot more people run on this Marathon and a lot more buildings exist in Istanbul!
After the 3 hours walk, I received a medal and a brand new t-shirt to add to my marathon t-shirt collection!
It was very good to cross the bridge over the Bosphorus! Weather was perfect, not too hot, but sunny and clear (unlike last wednesday when it was raining so much that I thought Istanbul was going to sink under the bosphurus!). Today, from the bridge we could see all the Yalı (Palaces by the Bosphurus) and all the big and small boats that crowd the sea!
It reminded me the Lisbon Marathon, crossing the Ponte 25 de Abril, actually the bridge is very similar (San Francisco style) and the views over the rivers are similar, the differences being that everything is more crowded here, a lot more people run on this Marathon and a lot more buildings exist in Istanbul!
After the 3 hours walk, I received a medal and a brand new t-shirt to add to my marathon t-shirt collection!
posted by Aziz | 20:10
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