Okay, I named it “The beginning” but this is not the first time I am writing about it. I’ve wrote my first summaries, experiences (call it whatever you want) on Facebook. I believe I must be more specific because there may be people who will read about me for the first time.
If anyone is interested I am from Lithuania.
I am a runner (I believe I can call me this way). I never had a coach. Everything I achieved and learned belongs only to me. At first I never meant to run at various events and try to improve my result. It was just a cure of a headache. Can’t understand? About six years ago a terrible headache came to my world. Try to imagine: when you wake up your head aches, when you are trying to focus in a lecture your head aches, even when you are tired and try to fall asleep your head hurts. What is more, after sleeping all night you wake up tired and not rested. I went to many doctors, had many examinations, tests. Every single doctor had his own hypothesis and suggested his own treatments. None of their drugs or natural medicines (herbs) helped. They even diagnosed me a depression which according to them caused these headaches. To my mind they mixed reasons with the result. I trully believe that the headache caused this “depression” and not vice versa. After two weeks of using antidepressants I realised that medicines is helpless to me and that I don’t want to live with all these drugs. Due to that I turned to running. Nowadays it is popular and many people takes part in this activity. But then it wasn’t so popular and sometimes I felt strange as passers-by glanced with their eys full of the astonishment. Day by day this strangeness gone. I do not declare that all my headache problems went away with the first run. It was a process that took time. Running doesn’t seem such a great activity at the beginning. It’s hard and you have to climb over yourself. You get tired after one kilometer and feel like giving up everything. But (if you are now starting your running activities remember!!!) it’s temporary and the discipline is the key factor that kills these beginner hardships. Day by day your body gets lighter you gain more strenght, stamina. I don’t remember how long did it take to overcome this difficult time for me but I believe that normally it could take about half of the year. If your discipline is strong and you follow your running schedule then day by day you are feeling faster, stronger, better. This was the case with me. Along with getting faster, stronger and better my headache began to recede. Firstly I noticed that in evenings I fall asleep easier. Then in mornings I began to feel rested and full of a energy. Next to running appeared push ups, pull ups, crunches and many other exercises. I believe that after about a year of running and other sport activities I released myself from this stupid headache and tiredness condition. To be honest my eyes gets wet when I remember how disappointed, sad and helpless I felt. And I am so grateful to myself (and of course my friend and family) that I didn’t gave up. So since then I practise running. Usually I run up to 10 kilometers twice a week (I wih I could more often). In various marathon or half marathon events I also take 10 kilometers distance. So I can say that I specialize in 10 km distance. I enjoy running this distance because I can maintain my highest speed and push myself to my limits. Everytime I get to the starting position the only thought that occupies me is to improve my best 10 km time record. Now it is set to 39:46. There were few times when in my trainings I ran 15 km or more (don’t really remember the distance). So I believe that the time will come when I will start in half marathon distance.
In fact now I am planning to find a coach as I feel that I have reached the top of my self training limits (talking about 10 km distance) and it became very hard to improve my best time. I need to get some secrets from a professional. To my mind a coach could squeeze out significantly better result from me. And this thought drives me crazy.
The introduction was long but it was a must to tell you the prehistory.. Also I believe that this migt motivate others to start this activity. Hope you’re still reading. Now let’s come back to present.
First of all, I need to mention that I am about to start in the Outside trail run at Verkiai park (Laikinis trail bėgimas Verkių parke) so havig practises is relevant. I had the run yesterday in my hometown Jurbarkas. Jurbarkas for me is a perfect place for running. Great walking/cycling paths that are winding along rivers Imsrė, Mituva and the great Nemunas are so eye-catching and relaxing that you just forget about your run. You just feel a harmony. Yesterday I wanted to run badly. The weather was quite mistic: mist everywhere, the dark and the cold penetrating through my termo clothes. Sounds strange but for me it’s almost the perfect weather for running. When I got to this path by Imsrė it was already dark and I was surprised because it was only half past 6 pm and the lihgts were turned off. Before the start I felt such a flow of an energy that I thought I could be really fast. But this dark path demotivated me as I had to change my route. When you run and at the same time have to plan your further run track you can’t maintain your speed at the best level. Finally I got to a segment of that path where lights were turned on. At that point I just was enjoying my activity but not trying to push the best of me. Only a loud barking of a dog somehere in the dark impelled me to increase a tempo. After 5 km of this run I stopped at the bar, had some muscle ups, push ups. Then I just had the rest 2.41 km of my run. At home a few more exercises and a warm shower. Felt delighted.
Average heart rate: 159 bpm.
Keep sportive, Silent Runner
P.S. Here is a flashback to one of my runs in spring and a handstand from yesterday :)
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