More than two and half thousand kilometers behind in preparation, reduced the weight by 8-9 kg, went through the worst part of a Saltin carbo loading diet, bought new race shoes and tested those, coincidence on the race day is not quite what we’re after here. Flight to Rotterdam is tomorrow, arrival there on Friday, Saturday for acclimatization (literally, it’s 10-12 degrees Celsius warmer there, the winter tuned body will perhaps suffer from heat attacks…), Sunday = race day. So packing is now.
One wouldn’t believe it. Running a marathon should be material wise simple and straight forward, the less stuff is with you, the better. But the homo sapiens living in the 21 century is detached from these simple truths. Read the rest of this entry »
