back2back – mad IT runner

July 26, 2015

Silent Hill…

Actually plenty of hills. 5 loops of 5 miles and on the beginning one small one. Nice route, some in the forest, some on the road. Very enjoyable course. Even with incline of (depends of application) 500 to 700 metres. That was another back 2 back for me. Second week in the row. This time I have run twice same route on both days – Saturday and Sunday. Starting at 8 AM in Avondale House Park in Rathdrum. Not too far away from house but still one hour drive. So it was early start for me on both days. First day I went there with Cezary cause he and his family was staying with us. To get there at 7:30 AM we had to leave house a hour earlier. We knew that there was a good chance of getting lost on the way down so we had make sure that GPS is working. Actually two GPS’s. Arrived there on time, still with some time to spare. Plenty runners there. Most of them have already run for at least one day but plenty had two marathons in their legs. Registration was quite quick. Got number 260 and then 262 for Sunday. Straight away I knew that I will amend my number and will run my 50th marathon with slightly different bib. Sunday, 50th marathon. On my bib I added up some small details. Instead number 262 I was running with 26,2. Marathon distance. Small other addition like ’50 done. Half way there’… Ok, back to important stuff. Read more

July 14, 2015

Glad to be back

Second day of another back 2 back. We were back in Ballina, back with Cezary, Daria and their two boys. We always enjoy time spent with them. If it’s in Ballina or here. True Friends found cause of running. We met them last year when Cezary was organizing 1st Ballina marathon and I was just starting my running adventure. Year ago… that was my second marathon, first one where I had to run loops. At this stage I was still asking race directors if the marathon route is flat. Ballina wasn’t like that at all. First, small loop – nothing out of ordinary but the remaining 5… hmmm. That was another story. Each lap with ‘huge’ incline. Whole course probably with about 250 metres. Year ago I was really scared. Was afraid that I won’t be able to finish. This time that same route looked different. Not as bad as before. Incline? Yes, but not ‘huge’ any more. Just regular uphill. Route hasn’t changed but my view has. Back then I was really focused on running, this time we were enjoying visiting Cezary and Daria. Happy to run another b2b but that wasn’t the most important thing… Read more

March 3, 2015March 9, 2015

First time in Lusk

There was so many marathons run on the Lusk East of Ireland Marathon series route. But there was always in the way. So, Lusk virgin, besides that suppose to be first part om my first back 2 back this year. Not really with the fitness levels where these suppose to be I knew that I could be for a challenge. A quite of challenge. But first things first… Read more

November 19, 2014

Lost in translation…

Turn left then right then left again… OMG, I’m so bad at listening to instruction about the route. I know that it’s for my own good but I would like just run. Don’t think about where you need to turn, only make sure that you will put right foot infron of left and after that left infront of right. And you probably already guesed (or you have run with me in Sixmilebridge then you were informed about that even via laudspeekers during Sunday’s race) that I got lost. This time I ended up doing 46.5 km, which should be counted as my first ULTRA marathon. But start from the beginning… Read more