“i’m the hero of this story. i don’t need to be saved.”
filed under: yet another tatt i’m in love with/seriously considering getting.
- 15th November
2011 - 15
- 21st October
2011 - 21
Of course it was painful, and there were times when, emotionally, I just wanted to chuck it all. But pain seems to be a precondition for this kind of sport. If pain weren’t involved, who in the world would ever go to the trouble of taking part in sports like the triathlon or the marathon, which demand such an investment of time and energy? It’s precisely because of the pain, precisely because we want to overcome that pain, that we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being alive- or at least a partial sense of it.Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
- 22nd September
2011 - 22
3 more days til the marathon. my stomach is in knots.
i tried to go to bed early last night but it was hard to fall asleep and harder to stay asleep. i kept lapsing in and out of consciousness, waking up at various points of the night to readjust before trying to fall back into sleep. needless to say, i was quite groggy when i got up this morning.
one more training run today- a quick 5km one. funny how easy a 5km run is now. i still remember my first race quite vividly and that was not an easy 5km run. i was huffing and puffing for most of it and i remember wanting to quit even before i hit the halfway point. i’ve come so far.
- 2nd September
2011 - 02
motivation
