I thought running was supposed to make people feel good and happy! That’s what it does with me anyway. Not so much with the people I saw running this morning. And it wasn’t even raining! So I wondered if
Marathon – Day 42
Storm has a peculiar way of pointing out to me he feels it’s time for a haircut. Followed his advice though today! 🙂
Marathon – Day 41
When one of my toes started hurting and turned blue, I wondered what was going on, so I googled a bit and found this is something that a lot of long distance runners suffer from. Their toes bounce into
Marathon – Day 40
Today was another one of those ‘bird watching’ trainings (where I have to run really slow), so perhaps this kid had a point. He made me laugh, and I said “Good job!” to him. Though I was tempted to
Marathon – Day 39
Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s a very good thing someone invented electric bicycles. It’s a great way for people who perhaps are not able to ride a bicycle normally because of their physical condition and/or age to
Marathon – Day 38
In roughly a month there’s a ‘Ladies Run’ in this neighbourhood. So my usual route is now crowded with people training for that!
Marathon – Day 37
This has absolutely nothing to do with running or marathons, but I never was aware of the dangers of carrying a family-sized cardboard box of soap powder through heavy rain until today.
Marathon – Day 36
During this 100 day marathon training, I never have to run more than 14 kilometers at a time. Yet it feels somewhat unreal to trust in my being able to jump from a couple of 14k’s to a 42k
Marathon – Day 35
Remember the strange birds I mentioned two days ago? It turns out they were spoonbills!!
Marathon – Day 34
So, I prepared to go for a run, checked a weather-app to make sure it was not going to rain (it showed me a blue sky for the next hour, no hint of rain whatsoever). I left the house,