Marathon Puerto Quetzal, Guatemala

 

Everything Quetzal

 Quetzal is the name of Guatemala's colorful heraldic bird, Quetzal is the Guatemalan currency, and (Puerto) Quetzal is the name of the largest and most important port on the Pacific coast.

 The Quetzal bird

 

Quetzal currency

Puerto Quetzal

and here it is where I did a 26.2 mile (or 42.2km) run, starting from the pier, passing the town of San Jose and than out into the middle of nowhere for 20 miles till returning back to the city.

as you can see in the statistics, I did two 26.2 milers in Guatemala in 14 days time

Here is a video of the run