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The thoughts are still there from yesterday. Very negative, however I’ve been controlling them with positive altering thoughts. I question each thought. Attempt to prove if they’re true or not. Then, one by one each leg of that is knocked down like a bowling ball hitting the pins. * ^ The hardest thing to admit to oneself is that we’ve made mistakes. That we are human and sometimes we act foolishly and think out of our norm. The best thing we can do is let whatever happened happened, attack the bad while bringing in the good. Not always successful but I’m still above ground and my tombstone is not ready for me to fill the space below it yet. * * #sportukaine #trackandfiledlife #trackandfiled #runningguy #sportstyle #tracknation #niketrainingclub #nike #runtraining #gorunofficial #morningrunofficial #runningclohtes #runinspiration #rungoals #runfanatics #runmotivation #runningismytherapy #move2020 #endurance #mad2run #runhappy #runclean #movingforward #runwithyourheart #runnerd #runningtherapy #runrunrun #runner #running #doingwhatwelove (at Kenmore, Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/B89qo5AHKXV/?igshid=1xrvpoedrky4r

Day 393 - Overland drive from Montenegro 🇲🇪 to Albania 🇦🇱 then run Marathon number 111 and then drive back to Montenegro 🇲🇪 — Today was the day of the bonus marathon, and back to back marathons. — Waking up like I’ve had no sleep, hungry, with tired legs, and feeling dirty I staggered to the hotel room door. Andy and I have a good system going where Andy wakes up, come to my room and we get prepped together. Sharing food and water supplies. I mostly open the door half asleep, if not more. — We took delivery of a car at 08:00 this morning, gathered all our clothes, stopped for fuel and supplies and made the beautiful journey through the mountains to the Albanian border. The lake in the valley was bright blue even with a grey sky. — Only 40 minutes away, I remembered to drive on the right most of the time, and reached the border without much traffic. The area is quiet, empty and like most places in this part of the world, look unfinished. Or not started. — No hassle at the border, we showed our passports and our green card; the document accompanying the car, and boom Albania here we are. — The sun was doing its best to come out, even still the weather was much improved and a crazy 10 degrees warmer than yesterday. — We did a quick tour of the surrounding area and sussed out the roads Andy had mapped out last night. We needed pavement or wide verges. All the google earth views of our research showed big lorries so we needed some space to avoid a possible death situation. All was good enough. We dumped the car at the petrol station which became our base for the day just passed the border. We got weird looks as we changed into our gear in the car. — Double checking the car is locked, our dry clothes and bags out of site, we ventured into the unknown. Our bodies were tired and resisting. We were pleased though. This was a bonus country and massively saves time later in the trip. Not to mention the expense. — #prostatecanceruk #runner #runningguy #run #marathon #marathonman #cancer #travel #blogger #travelblogger #travelling #travel #culture #live #life #friends #running #runningforcancer #country #globe #trotter #uk #british #guy #hot #hotguy #cold #snow #trave (at Albania) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtbLEv7HCC1/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=m2zp9qgt8j4o

Day 391 - Serbia 🇷🇸 Belgrade Rest Day — The second hand Cobra shop, lots of food, and the best donut of my life. — Today was a day to relax. Although this still inevitably resulted in feeling exhausted at the end of the day. — With my muddy trainers and soggy clothes drying, Andy and I were up and out early ish. A big breakfast followed by the hunt for somewhere to base ourselves for the day. We found The Old London Pub. Not very Londonesque but did have a pool table and cheap booze for Andy. I enjoyed the vast quantities of sugary drinks. Several hours, and 10 games of pool later, we decided to head for food at a local Burger place. We noticed that we now stank of smoke, due to the indoor smoking laws that we had long since forgotten about in the UK. We were now smoky and our eyes blood shot. The pub was full of smoke. It was worth it though. Even just for the brilliant and huge map of the world made of bottle caps, stuck down with a special mix of chewing gum and blue tack. — After our delicious burgers, we taxied back to the hotel. It’s great to be in a country or two where the taxis are very cheap. Even if it does make us lazy. Before we managed to flag down a taxi I spotted a donut shop. Small, and with just a couple of seats and a small serving counter, the donut size made up for the shops scale. Brilliantly over the top spongy donut with huge helpings of everything. Ahh calories, thats what I need. — Please continue to donate where you can. — The Why of the journey: To raise £250,000 for Prostate Cancer UK, and honour my dear friend Kevin Webber. Kev was diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer in 2014 and given as little as two years to live. It sucks, big time, but he’s battling on and is still with us today… Sadly though he, along with nearly 12,000 men in the UK die from this disease every year. Let’s get some cash together to spread the word that men need to get themselves checked. — #prostatecanceruk #runner #runningguy #run #marathon #marathonman #cancer #travel #blogger #travelblogger #travelling #travel #culture #live #life #friends #running #runningforcancer #country #globe #trotter #uk #british #guy #hot #cold #snow #travellingman (at Belgrade, Serbia) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtbI5GBnSEQ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1npl2rbxkive9

Day 388 - Marathon 108, Bosnia 🇧🇦 Sarajevo — People are what make this world great. Yes there are a few anomalies but on the whole the human race mean well most of the time. The people I met this morning were an exceptional bunch. — Wet, cold, slushy, slippers, windy at time; today’s run had all the ingredients of a terrible day; and yet it was fantastic. Marathon early, followed by a quick shower, change, scoff some food down, then pick up for CCN live tv, followed by a get together of lovely runners in a near by restaurant. Oh and then I did an hour of gym when I got back. I had energy which was odd. — A big thanks to Carla, the ambassador Matt from the British embassy and Ediba for organising such a brilliant day. — After emptying the contents of my clothes bag on the floor as I always do, I grabbed a few of the warm items; my prostate cancer UK top, and my legendary Do Running jacket. I covered my knees, ankles and hip in anti-inflammatory gel, took my 11 nutritional tablets, downed some water, and then tidied up my hair a bit in the lift mirror, and the day had begun. I was still mostly asleep. — As the ping of the lift sounded I reached the reception. TV crew, and a group of about 10 people in all, ready to brave the weather and run with me. Thank you, Matt, Jonny, Jasmin, Almasa, Dzenana, and the legend that is Nudzemja. (Plus the others I don’t have their names written down, sorry) It was a relay today sort of. I was running the whole distance, but had various others chipping in an chipping out as we ran. I gave my camera to a great guy from the embassy, and he leap frogged us in the car. We had snacks and water whenever we needed it. Water I needed, the slush and rain I didn’t. — Nudzejma has a great story - go to her instagram to check it out. @nudzys — After the run, the TV was, as always, and in and out job. Arrive - get micd up and sit down and wait for questions. Great studio and some good questions. I’m pleased I got to talk more about Prostate Cancer UK and Kev. Hopefully we will get some donations. If you want to donate the link is in my bio. Goes straight to my Just Giving page. — #running #runner #run #runnerman #runningguy #marathon (at Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtNpVJaH51c/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=yct5n5r96ljy

Did a bit of running again yesterday. The fastest time. So speed is going great. Now the distance. . . . . . . . . #run #running #hookedonrunning #runnersofinstagram #runningguy #beardedman #beardedrunner #inkedrunner #dutch #dutchie #dutchies #fit #fitguy #futdutchies #inkeddutchie #inkedandfit #bearded #selfie #beardie #tomtom #tomtomspark

Perfect shot of a very typical NYC scene. Model: AJ Pinto ... @ajcp2008 I think the animation is still the best shot 😂🙏🏼😎 #friendmodel #filipino #photographer #photoofaphotogtapher #runningguy #latergram #ajatnyc