It took me a long time to calm down. It occurred to me that now I would not know for at least 24 hours how badly my knee was injured, when and at what pace I would be able to resume training. I went running out of anger, hurt, defiance. Against all my beliefs. I’ve...
Lately I often wonder why I didn’t get diabetes as an adult. I should have, based on what I ate as a child. I mean, what I begged for. Why is it that one child growing up in the same family under the same conditions will have it and the other won’t. Why is it...
Anyone who’s ever run more than 15km or completed a triathlon knows how it feels when you’re going well, you’re eating up the miles with ease and the rhythm is pervading your movement. When you get home and that’s it? But part of that is proper breathing, without it it can all become a nightmare....
The last 4 days have probably been the hardest so far. It started by me moving Wednesday’s training to the next morning. Now… that was the first step to the wrong direction. I could barely keep it together and I felt like the training distance (which was only supposed to be 8 easy kilometers for...