365 new pages

After reading a good book the feeling of missing these pages, these adventures, these characters we're getting used and loved always stays... The good thing is that we never know if the next book will be even better!
Like a good book, 2009 is ending. Tomorrow 365 new pages are starting...

Happy new year!

Buff Epic Run(ner)

epic - adj. - taking place over a long period of time and involving a lot of difficulties; very great and impressive

Soooo...what could I expect from the Buff Epic Run in Barcelona? :) Around 10km course with several obstacles to get through, including mud pools, straw walls, tube mountains, tyre barriers and rope mazes... "Que vols més Maria??" :):)

It was very funny and quite crazy race too... a lots of adrenaline running through my veins and a very happy ending! (surprising 2nd place - just a few seconds behind Laia Andreu, the 5th best runner on skyrunning world series)

If you really want to understand how crazy was this race check out here ;)

After crazy races and lovely days in Barcelona, it was time to come back home, work some extra hours in hospital and, finally, stand close from the fire place and also cook some delicious christmas dishes :)

Merry Christmas to all of you!

Get out there

Map and compass! yeah? everybody hears this when you ask: what do I need to start orienteering? And they asnwer: map and compass!:) That's the first step!
Then you start and quickly you become addicted and addicted to run orienteering. Suddenly that's their time to ask !: - Hey! Would you like to start on night orienteering races? And of course you say: - Yeah, sure! What do I need? - Well, you need map, compass and headlamp! :):)

OK. I have the map...and now, I have the compass and the headlamps too:) Since yesterday I became a Silva girl and I'll be sponsored for compasses and headlamps. Great! That's really nice to have such a great support! Thanks a lot! :)
I'm trying the new compass on next saturday training, but I already believe on a fast and very stable compass ;) For sure I'm having a new help on my courses. Take care;)

Besides that I also got sponsorship from Mund socks which look great for my feet, specially for so many kilometers of training and hard forests that we find everywhere. My feet say thanks a lot too!:)

GREAT! ;)

Into your heart

Yesterday I was on my first cardiac surgery...scalpel, clamp, suction...we're there!
We're into her heart! There it was...beating one hundred times per minute, during long 78 years, quiet between the lungs, full of feelings, full of life storys, full of mistery! Surgeons didn't know nothing about her heart... They only opened it, fixed and closed it. They don't even know her name... How many amazing storys should have been there? Thousands I bet.
They had her heart on theirs hands God! They just know she had a big aortic failure! Yes, for sure they will remember this heart, this bypass, this aortic valve...but maybe, in a few weeks they will meet «this heart» on the streets and they won't recognize it...

The fact is, they were six hours opperating, without any other visual contact besides her heart, her blood, her aortic valve...the only thought on their minds was this heart,this valve, this life! And they saved it! They saved all the feelings and life storys too. They saved this 78 years old heart...they saved this life!