Let’s talk about running!

Coming back from an injury is something no runner wants to experience. Me, I had a few, achieved in stupid ways. Otherwise, if I would have taken bigger care there would have been not much to say.

But the last one, it has never crossed my mind that is going to happen to me: a fibula fracture at the end of summer 2018 (as you see in the picture). So this is how I didn’t get to run a second marathon last year after Paris.

Pff, there are enough marathons to run you would say. Yes, indeed, but that one was part of the dream of running all the Abbott World Major Marathons one day. Not the end of the world indeed, but just a bitter feeling when being there and seeing people run while I was ordered by the doctor to sit on the side while phasing out my walking boot for another 6 weeks.

So what if we fail?

“Don’t declare failure simply because you messed up or because you’re having trouble reaching your goals. Instead, use your mistakes as opportunities to grow stronger and become better”
Amy Morin

Running wishes

A few months later, I am back to running consistently and back with some wishes, or you can call them ambitious plans, for this year:

1. stay injury-free so that I can enjoy running in the second half of the year as well. This is the most important and I will make sure it happens beyond the other goals or wishes
2. increase endurance for longer distances
3. run the marathon in Vienna in April (quite soon if you look at the date)
4. run the Ultra SKY Race in Matterhorn area (just a ‘little’ 7km over the marathon distance but with lots of altitude meters)
5. and finally run the marathon in Chicago, which was due last year