More than 10 years ago I was on a training scheme to run my first marathon. Running almost 70 a 80 K per week my body was prepared to start thinking of trying to do a first marathon. The dream for every runner! However by becoming a family man I had no longer the best opportunities to execute a life style that is required to prepare for a marathon. This is a fact and it is a choice you make!
Last year after hadding a hard time at work I decided to make this dream of running a marathon finally true.
After buying in April 2010 a Garmin 405 sports watch with GPS functionality intensive running started again. The running virus was again in my body after all that time! Although I still had a run from time to time now it was again serious business in my life.
The believe I really could run a marathon started after running up in the summer of 2010 the Mont Ventoux in France. Running a mountain up during 2 hours and 19 minutes gave me the idea running a marathon at the starting of the next year should be feasible. I started a marathon training scheme ending on the 10 April 2011. I should allow me to be succesfull in the marathon of Paris!
But as I had a few health problems my body was not able to deliver what was required when doing a lot of km's each week. So when Winter came along I had my first injuries and I was forced to skip a lot of training days that were planned. Also as the weather was hard to do exercise outside I bought a treadmill to do the necessary running. Although it is more fun to run outside the treadmill forced me to take it easy in running distance and speed. So in someway it was a blessing to have this indoor excersise tool.
Probably even more in important I started to change my eating habbits. Also I learned what kind of food is good when doing a lot of physical exercises. Luckily things started to change rapidly to my benifit I could increase again my number of exercises in distance and speed. From January 2011 I was again on track to prepare my first marathon.
One of my targets in the preparation was to have at least 1 endurance run of 32K before running Paris.
At the end of February tension started to grow intensively to perform this mental and physical target. And fortunately encouraged by my wife I succeeded in this mission. Completing a marathon seems no longer to be an uncatchable dream! To be sure it was not a lucky shot I performed a 35K run at the beginning of March 2011. Finishing it in 3h03 confirmed I was on a good track to be successfull in Paris. Nevertheless the last weeks before Paris the body needs to be kept in shape. Also it will be my first run in competition. How will it be to participate amongst 40 000 other people? Although the body is in pretty good shape a number of parameters are still to be filled in... what about the weather, the food, starting that early in the morning, etc.
Nevertheless I will not skip this time my ambition to complete this race...!!!
As a boy running a marathon seems to be creazy now it has almost become a reality in my life.
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