My IRONMAN: 10 days before the start of the disease, skill disaster, one of Ukraine

Have not I told you about my affairs, but it does not matter. I'll tell you all right now :)

IN last story I promised you that run a marathon. Marathon failed. Whether I, or that the organizers got it wrong, but I ran 10 km which was very, frankly, I'm glad. I overcame this distance on the Kiev hills,

The result is not megachempionsky, but there was some incredible thrill to participate in this launch. Managed to become the 74th member of the 597, I believe personal victory. Since we ran a few pros, so it is fair :)

There was one more start - "Chestnut Run" - the 5-kilometer distance, which I personally went to the plan to run out in 20 minutes. Ran. Time 19:53. That is so beautifully finished (in anticipation of the question "on the heels ?!" - no, this is the finish, and I stop, heel):

But the most interesting in the Chestnut Run - it's not the mileage, and the children's race. Through an oversight of the organizers cones were set so that the kids ran 1.8 km! With us, your fathers. But the distance scared me when we finally finished :) My 6-year-old Vanya was able to overcome this distance in 11 minutes (average pace 6:04), that made me respect the children as the runners. Not all of my adult friends so they can. The reason for this speed probably was that he was involved in taekwondo in Thailand and daily 7 days a week running a couple of kilometers in the jungle :) Beware of Thai children, obese Ukrainian kids :)))

I run a little bit along the forest trails, and this is the coolest running available to us. To be more precise.

I managed to roll lots of kilometers on the roads of Kiev on his shossseynike, from which he, poor man, begins to fall apart wherever possible. Italian completely broken-down roads are not elegance. At one of the races with my friend Vova Degtyareva I break off a piece of a bicycle on the road vibration.

It turned out that in Kiev the majority of repair shops simply shy away from this type of bike. Say something like "Oh, no, it's too difficult" or "I would not venture to climb, yeah! 'Also like to wish these losers repair only ashanbayki their entire lives, I have nothing. Rays hate them all away from me and my friends. While Vova found a workshop where he cooked carbon. Such is the rarity.

I also ride in the cyclists group. A cool theme for understanding how much it means aerodynamics! It is difficult to describe, but be sure to try a more experienced comrades.

I shared with bear Olympishka 1980 bike production. Him, like it appears on the face.

Prior to the start there were only 10 days. I was lucky, and after a series of humiliations associated with the place of residence, I received an Italian visa.

So now can not get away from the trip - tickets are bought, hotel booked, the company is found, the part paid :) By the way, all the start I - the only inhabitant of Ukraine. And okay, I would go to play curling... It's a shame for the country. But I feel good, I feel almost Olympian! The representative of the country, no less !!!

By the way, all of a sudden you have missed, but travels with me (or I'm with him :) our new temporary by Alexander, which tells the story of his unusual preparation for this start to our website (1, 2, 3, 4).

By the way, as I had planned last time, I was able to lose weight from 70.5 kg to 67! It was the target weight at the start and I achieved it. How to do I could not tell the full pages Layfhakera, but after a few months you will be able to read about it in the pages of a paper book of my authorship.

Not spared me a problem. Earned himself some really sucks form of otitis externa and rolled a couple of days with temperature. Cured for a week one ear - ache the second. Hopefully that will cure completely before the start, as with otitis climb into the water is very dangerous. Well, or ear plugs in and run where everyone is running :) laugh or cry. Also, it inflamed strange injury - periosteum, about which I wrote earlier. The nerves I did not give myself a rest and just overworked again at the races on the Kiev hills. It turns out that before the start of doing compresses and nowhere is no longer running. Peace, yoga and meditation :) Now I have something to eat and do not fix it, you can only spoil it.

The next report, the final, it will be after the race. I hope that will not disappoint you. Stay healthy and do not forget the running Cup LayfhakeraWhich will end soon, but to enter into it and everyone can!