I am at Tel Aviv airport and have some time for reflections and soul searching: Rain – it did rain a lot, before and after the marathon, during it not so much. Thanks God. Failure – I had a bit of time to digest my failing – kind of failing. I shouldn’t have gone for the sub 4 hours. Instead I should have run very easy, easy, easy till the end. But good news on the hip and knee front:…
It’s all over and I was rightly scared. It was not easy, despite all the training. Until kilometre 30 it all went rather well, but then I had to slow down and from kilometre 35 I had to walk. Running, not walking was one of my main targets! It was a very hard thing to do, and felt like failing, but I am glad I did it, because my top target was not to break myself. And even with sore…
I am at the Airport. Point of no return, I guess. Weather forecast says, rain, rain, rain. They gonna be kidding… I barely ever had to run in the rain during the last 14 weeks training in London and now I fly to Israel, people urging me not to forget the sun cream and it’s going to be solidly rainy all five days? Running a marathon in the rain adds a new challenge that I don’t really appreciate nor was…
While there is still a bit of time for the London Marathon in April, I am quite nervous about my upcoming trial marathon in Israel next week, the 12th of January. This will be my first marathon ever and I say trial, because I don’t intend to break myself or get injured, yet I am determined to finish it. I have been preparing for it for the last 13 weeks; hill runs, fartlek runs, long runs, recovery runs, threshold runs,…
It’s now several weeks into the fundraising and I am absolutely excited about all the support I got so far. Thanks to everyone who’s already given or wants to give. You are great! I now got an NSPCC running vest with the big letter on the back: “There’s is a child depending on me.” This is truly motivating and helps me to go through rougher patches of the training and preparation. NSPCC wants to strop cruelty to children in UK…
