The running season is finally just to start for me. This Wednesday I will run the studentenmarathon, organized at the KULeuven. I am going for the 21km and I am really looking forward to it.
My time last year was 1:33:05; good for position 63 out of 224 runners. Not bad, but this year I want to go for a better time. Even though I have not been training a lot, I believe can run faster. Actually I was dreaming of a Top10 this year, but now checking the times from last year I realize that is not really feasible. To be in the Top10 I would have to run the half-marathon under 1h22min - more than 10 minutes faster than last year; a bit too optimistic I would say. Anyway, I will try to run as fast as I can, and see how fast I can get to the finish line. And when I get really tired I will try to think of the following sentence of Mirinda Carfrae, champion of the 2010 World Championship Ironman.
"You have to be willing to hurt the that next level. Yes, there are people that go out there and say 'You know, I am just going to go there and do my best'. I think that those athletes are not ready to put everything on the line because they are scared. Those athletes never win." (Mirinda Carfrae in interview to the NBC show of the 2011 World Championship Ironman)
Of course, as an amateur runner, my goal is not to become a champion, but to go beyond my own limits. And to do that, the same principle holds.
Yes! Studentenmarathon here I come.
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