My Wife’s first

24th of August 2014 is significant date for My Wife. This day Bozena has run run her first marathon. It was in Longford.
That post supposed to be written by Bozena but she still hasn’t done that so it will be me… Cause Bozena decided that she would like to run in Paris marathon next April I wanted to introduce her to distance which will be waiting for her there. It is always easy to say marathon length is 42.195 km but how long time you need to walk/jog/run whole distance, how many steps you need to take to make sure that you will cross the finishing line. Are you really mentally prepared to take that challenge? All that is really hard, so need to try it first. That was the idea behind that to show to Bozena marathon expirience.

So, how it went? We have decided that I will be jogging and walking with her. I will be supporting her all the way and if needed I will help her. But Bozena is very stubborn and she didn’t need any help from me. Just maybe some courage words during whole route. From my own experience I knew that on some stage that Bozena will feel pain in her legs, pain which she never experience. I was right. After first 12 km, which we have run without any break, Bozena had to rest a little bit. Having said rest ment start walking but still moving towards finishing lane. From there we have been jogging and than walking and back to jogging again. Couples kilometers later Bozena has told me that she never felt such a pain in her legs and funny enough when she is walking is worst then when jogging. But we couldn’t jog all the time, we had to take breaks of course.

I know that physically Bozena was struggling sometimes but mentally she was (is) very strong. My only concern was that maybe her body could failed her. First time she was completing marathon. I couldn’t be more wrong. Bozena being so mentally strong proved that you can finish marathon… Time, wasn’t too bad for the first time – 5:42:42. That was Bozena’s. I was slower by one second. Stay strong and you will accomplish what you want.