It all started in june of this year. I just moved to Norway and even if you think that in june is really warm weather, it doesn´t work so in this part of the World. It was around 5 degrees celsius outside and I was relaxing at home.
I was searching for some interesting books in the internet and I buy these books on a second hand e-shops for 2 reasons: firstly money of course and the second one is, that when you find book you searched for, the seller usually has planty of other books, that you can´t even know. This is exactly the way how I discovered the book „how to run marathon in 100 days“.
I am a big fan of sports, where the ball isn´t the alfa and omega, so I decided to buy it – try something new. But of course – The book was waiting another few months to be opened. Since I bought it, i got back to my homeland, Czech republic and moved to Greece with my girlfriend. I took this book only because it was so small, that it fit to my backpack.
After I opened it, I wasn´t really happy – I had to push myself early in the morning from the warm bed, or go running in the night, because I didn´t make time for it in the daytime. When I remember all those feelings, I can´t say it was plasant for me, specially first 14 days. In these 2 weeks I spent 9 hours only with running.
But than I was thinking about what you can do in 9 hours. It can be for example one of following things:
Earn 100 USD at work
Sleep well
Read 1 small book
Have a good chat with your friends on facebook
Make a party at home and clean it after
But what did I get instead?
I ran in total 100 km
I improved my running technique – that is something that will stay with me forever
I found awesome new books like „Eat and run“ by Scott Jurek which helped me to improve my diet – so basically my health.
I found such a beautiful nature here in Greece.
I discovered that huge potential of my endurance.
I have lost some of my bod fat and substitute it with muscles
Only after this comparsion I saw how good time investment running was!
Right now I am in the middle of 5th training week and I have decided to publish some stuff weekly to motivate you to start or continue doing some sport that you love. And if you don´t have one, start running – and you will see after two weeks if it makes sense to you :)
If you wanna get inspired, here is my training plan of first 14 days!
Day 1: 50 min
Day 2: rest
Day 3: 60 min
Day 4: 50 min
Day 5: rest
Day 6: 70 min
Day 7: 30 min
Day 8: 60 min
Day 9: rest
Day 10: 75 min
Day 11: rest
Day 12: 60 min
Day 13: rest
Day 14: 80 min
I've never tried running to time, only distance. Maybe I'll switch it up someday.