CURSA CORNELLÀ

At the morning of the 7th of October, we went early to Cornellà. For many of the Vastards it was one of the first races after the summer and many of them did not train so much. Unfortunately, I could not join, although I would have liked. Next year from March, I hope to be joining again for some running.

The first person we met in Cornellà was Guix, who was just coming from a whole night out and who seriously thought that I was going to run a 10K with only 3 weeks pregnancy to go. I consider it was the lack of sleep that made him think that. The lack of sleep also made him decide not to run, but only to come and give some mental support to the Vastards (also a very important job).

Guix, Maria, Emma and me were the mental support team for this race. We were positioned at the beginning of the race, at km 4 and at the end. For many Vastards it was a tough race and it was clearly visible who had been training and who had not. The Arnau brothers did very well, it must be in the genes. Jonnhy and Jordi also did quite well as well, but we would not have expected anything different from the special forces. Isaac started ambitiously just behind the 50 minutes balloon, but had to give in at the last few km. Uri A. did quite well considering that he just had a half marathon (in Sant Cugat) in his legs from the week before. The race was closed by Chema, Uri M. and Dani, who just finished within the hour.

Afterwards, we had some pica pica at Jordi’s place, an excellent way to recover from a tough 10K! Just for all of you who would like to make some apple pie themselves, I have added the recipe:

Take (dough):

300 gram flower (harina de trigo)

5 grams of backing powder (= ½ a bag)

150 gram sugar

½ egg (the other half you will need later)

200 gram cold butter in pieces (not salted!)

Little bit of salt

4 grams of vanilla flavored sugar (not essential)

Make a solid dough of these ingredients and put it for 15-30 minutes in the fridge

Preheat the oven at 180 degrees Celcius

Take (apple filling):

1000 gram apples (3 golden and 2 elstar)

Cut them in small pieces

Add 75 gram sugar

Add a bit of cinnamon

Mix well and put in the fridge

Take a round form of 24 cm diameter (springform pan, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springform_pan).

Lubricate the inside with butter (bottom and sides)

Use ¾ of the dough to cover the bottom and the sides

Put a bit of pan rallado, just to cover the bottom

Take the apples, make sure that you will get rid of the fluid under in the bowl, otherwise the pie gets too wet

Put the apples in the form

Use ¼ of the dough to put some stripes of dough on top

Lubricate the top of the pie with the other ½ of the egg

Bake the pie for 45 minutes at 180 degrees

 Renée

Vastards a Cornellà 2012

Loren  42:32
Jonathan  46:47
Mark  47:12
Prats  49:46
J. Conejero  52:06
Oriol A.  52:26
Chema  56:44
Isaac  57:13
Morell  57:48
Dani  59:09