“A great experience”: Nacer Bouhanni’s impressive time for his first marathon

After the effort, comfort… On his social networks, Nacer Bouhanni published this Monday morning a photo of a plate filled with fries and a hamburger captioned “after the effort” and accompanied by a smiley. A well-deserved reward for the former cyclist. If some prefer to take advantage of their retirement to get away from the field and rest their physique, Nacer Bouhanni has decided to do the opposite.

Even though he left the pelotons at the end of last year, his body and mind worn out by falls and controversies, Bouhanni is still a sports enthusiast. A great practitioner! Since the end of his career, he has become a runner… on foot. Always guided by pleasure and the same anger.

The former French champion, and winner of six stages in the Tours of Italy and Spain, has been competing on the road for ten months. In June he took part in the team world record in a 24-hour relay at the Charléty stadium, running 416km or 1040 laps.

This weekend, this very active retiree took the next step by running his first marathon. That of Frankfurt in Germany. With bib number 9229, he covered the 42km195 of the event in just over 2h30 minutes, 2h34′36′’ to be exact.

“For a long time on the basis of -2h30 until km 30, then I collapsed muscularly and very hard to finish the end of the Marathon”, indicated the person concerned on his Instagram account where he published photos of the event . “Good first experience” he adds. A first and probably not a last.