Running 101 : From the couch to my first marathon (13)

Living the dream.
Now, I can run back to around 60 minutes, which sounds either amazing or depressing, depending on how your bottle is full or not.
And again.
Dreaming of beating the 4 hours barrier, in little less than 3 months.
Let's see if coach Eric is a miracle giver.
Now it is the time :)

50k - The Rut.

Mountain running seems the next big thing.
I could dig this as a cool impossible.
Specially since I discovered the wonderful world of Kilian.

The man looks amazing.
Not yet convinced by the book yet, though.

Oh yeah. Supposed to be given some kind of advice in this post.
This guy is your ultra competitor mad man. Which brought him to new heights.
I would say, that's cool if you do not compete, you run for fun.
Whatever.
To run a marathon, you need to have some kind of competitive spirit.
Either you admit it or not. Against yourself or the guy just in front of you.
But you will need it, eventually, when that's gonna be really hard.

Easy Sunday night movie.

Some good stuff though.

It's so deep in there, and you gotta beat it. You gotta face that fear. You GOT to, because if you don't, you're gonna be me, and, buddy, you don't want that. But if you do - and I don't care if you never run another race in your life - because if you DO face that fear, it'll change your life. I promise you. It's the hardest thing you'll ever have to do, but you gotta do it. Oh, you gotta do it. And then you'll be able to push right through the pain. You'll go right through the door. And when you're about ready to pass out and your legs can't move and your lungs can't breathe and your eyes can't see, you'll know that it's just the beginning, and it's so beautiful. It's beautiful.


Told you.

Over there, it's beautiful. So painful, it is beautiful.