Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional
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- Опубликовано: 2018-08-18
Previously, at the 30km mark, I’ve felt OK. There was even an illusion that I could do it in a comparatively good time. This is what Haruki Murakami, famous Japanese author and a devoted marathon runner (more than 30 by now plus one 100km ultramarathon) has once said: ‘I feel great at 30km and I am hopeful. Then I am dying at 35km’. So, from my own experience, if you die at 35km you have a hope that it will be over pretty soon, just 7km to go which is less than your usual training. But when you’re starting to die at 30K you understand that something is going wrong.
Yes, my first marathon in Moscow in 2014 was pain. I had an aching muscle in my left leg and the final 34-42km interval was probably the worst thing I’ve ever experienced in my life. The following year in Saint Petersburg I ran it much better. So this time, the third time, after five months of constant training I was really hopeful: it is not the first time so you know what it might feel like. You’ve covered hundreds of kilometers in Moscow, Cyprus and on the banks of Volga executing your run plan. You’ve run this race here before, you know what to expect here. You ran it positively, too. So, let’s do it and enjoy! Just do it, man!