Christmas time

Shining on with nice

Christmas time. Have spent that time in Poland. Glad that I have visited my Family there. Always good to see them. But will start from the beginning…

I wasn’t too keen on the Christmas visit to Poland. Don’t get me wrong. Time to time I need also to get back to Poland to see my Mum, Sister, Brother in law and nieces but not necessarily during Christmas time. Adding up my running form and mental state I wasn’t sure if visit will be enjoyable. Flight from Dublin. That was a disaster. I was so tired and all I wanted to do was to take a nap. just couple of minutes. But… it was so loud there. Kids were shouting, crying. Usually I don’t mind but this time, cause of Christmas, there was plenty of them and it looks like parents couldn’t handle them. Anyway, I was trying to get at least couple of minutes of sleep. Hoodie on my head, hands on the ears to block the noise but it wasn’t enough. Left the plane tired, half dead. And still had to drive first to my Wife’s Parents house and then back to my Mums. Another 120 km after horrible flight. Good thing was that instead of VW Polo we got A3 (too many cars broken), nice upgrade. First Chociwel. No delays on route, so we were there in less than one hour. After quick hello and goodbye I was on my way to Szczecin. Cause it wasn’t too late I have decided to visit my Sister first. Always better to get useful info before taking to my Mum 😉 we have decided where we will have Christmas Eve, where will be 1st day of Christmas and that I will take my Mum to my in laws for the 2nd day. All decided. After that visit was time to see family home, pass all information to Mum and decide how my visit to Poland will look like. I knew that I will need to continue my running, so already have found near by gym with treadmill. Days should be similar: morning run and gym, helping with Christmas. Of course that would change during 25th and 26th – gym closed. But that was the plan for those couple of days. In theory easy to follow… Read more

Liked them…

…but it seems that somebody liked them more. I’m talking about my pair of white Mizuno Hitogami…
Left these behind after the treadmill training in changing room of Sanovitae gym in Liffey Valley Carlton. Not the first time that has happened to me (first time that pair, previously New Balance) and always were getting shoes back. Went into lost/found box. Not this time. It seems that even that they were dirty, had small holes in them, these were still very attractive to somebody. Read more

I want to breath…

Precor treadmill

I don’t know if that’s because I run marathon last week or just… because it’s so warm in gym but for the last couple of days I cannot run distance I would like to run…

It seems that I’m sweating now more and I’m losing breath and can’t run any more. I know that after marathon I decided that I need to lower mileage I’m doing daily. Before marathon it was about 30 km daily on the week days (not Wednesday) and about 28 km daily over Saturday and Sunday. Now I would like to ‘downsize’ to 25 km and 25 km… Read more