#half-marathon

I'm running a half-marathon in three weeks.

I can only hope that the excitement of the race will carry me through and make it easier, because I've run 15km, 16.4km, 17.2km during the past three weeks, and each time it felt like I was at my limit. I don't feel the progress the way I felt with runs under 15km, the same 15km feels very hard every single time.

Ramtha: “I hate that noisy slug.”

Bert: “It’s the Great Serpent of Ronka!”

Half Marathon #5: Cardiff Half Marathon

So, TL;DR: I suck at running, I’m disappointed in my time and abilities and feel like I let people down.  People keep telling me how great I did.  No, I really didn’t do great at all and I am feeling seriously distraught over it.

    It’s taken me nearly a week to write this post, as it has taken me time to process how I feel about the entire experience.  Spoilers: not good.

It seems that every…

In summary my half Marathon was quite successful  seeing that I haven’t tried running the 13 miles in the last year and the most I had run recently were about 14 k. Additionally I was sick on race day and i was already considering not competing . 

In the end I’m f*cking happy i did. It was such an easy race. Even though my pulse was constantly over 190. But I was totally relaxed and appearently I also looked like I was ( according to a friend supporting me suprisingly ).

My time was 1 h 53 m :)

How I’m Getting Back on Track with Fitness

Up until college, I had been a pretty active kid. I did gymnastics for a while and played soccer, volleyball, and tennis. Then I went to college where the idea of working out after studying all day and attending social functions was less than appealing. Quick, unhealthy meals became the easiest way to “cook” when I did not feel the time was there. Flash forward to this semester, my two best…