I can’t believe it: I PB-ed! Only by 40 seconds to be fair (official time is 3:27:50), but hey I PB-ed!! And the person responsible for that is Ole, a guy who wanted to overtake me at kilometre 7 or so and it took him 20 kilometre to finish his job. Hahaha. As a result I ran a lot faster than I naturally would have run, and Ole was also good company and it gives you definitely a boost, when you make…
It’s 8:20pm, I made it to the start line, which is always promising. The temperature is not as cold as I feared, maybe my running tights are to much. The guys here in Tromso are partying as a warm up, which really gets you into the mood! The sun is coming out, no sign of surprise rain. It’s going to be fun, I can feel it.
This is what night currently looks like in Tromso. Picture was taken around 11pm. I arrived here yesterday and thought I’d make use of the time leading up to the marathon going for a test run. At night. To tune in to the whole midnight sun marathon thing. And what a tune in it was. Here the main points that I found out: 1. The midnight sun is really a sun. It is not the duskish or dawnish feeling I expected.…