The behobia is more than just a Race…

The Behobia-San Sebastián is more than just a race. Above all, the Behobia-San Sebastián is a feeling, which has been built up over many years thanks to the effort, sensations and enthusiasm of thousands of athletes and the hosting of a land that understands sport, that values it and knows how to enjoy it like few others.

I am not a big fan of road races but the Behovia is different. Although is only 20 kilometres the race has a great ambience and history so when a couple of my friends told me about them participating in this year’s edition I didn’t think twice and put my name down.

The race strategy was to stick together for as long as possible and from the 15th km to push further and try to finish the race in a decent time – ideally within the 100 minute mark. And we did a pretty good job for a bunch of mountain runners… We more or less finished together in the target time.

This is not in any way a flat race for a PB and we were over 25,000 runners, in this year’s edition. We had constant rain during the race and temperatures of 8 degrees, this race was closer to a trail race than nothing, and under those conditions we did very well.

Very commendable race. Organisation, logistics, etc was spot on with lots of volunteers supporting the runners and a generous goodie bags. More info: BEHOBIA-SS RACE