The One In The Capital City

And the Warsaw National Stadium was pretty much all I got to see.

Stay tuned.

The One With The Dragons

Today I was

Karolina Stormborn, Mother of Dragons

- as my friend called me. (Unfortunately, she did not finish the race... And I did enjoyed running together, that was a nice variation.)

Though, I only have two dragons (but they are beautiful):

Dragon no. 1, colour: sapphire blue.


Dragon no. 2, colour: midnight blue.

4:42:36 - not great, but not bad either (espacially so soon after the previous marathon).

• Nice route (though I usually hate loops, but this time it was quite ok).
• T-shirt that actually matches my real size!!
• Beautiful artwork on medals (dragons!! D R A G O N S !!).
• Terrible pasta party (I realised that it was another advantage of the Dębno marathon).

I noticed two major changes in the participants, in contrary to previous years:

1. they do not kill each other at the beginning - I guess more people are now aware that there is net time at races;
2. they actually run for the most part: 4 years ago, or even 2, most people switched from running to walking after 20km or 30km, and today of course some of them walked sometimes but that was only a fraction of what it used to be - I guess the Poles have finally learnt how to run!

Stay tuned.

The One With Batman And Robin, And The Dumplings

I went to collect my race package and noticed plenty of people heading for the same direction. I started seriously wondering why on earth so many runners had figured out that they would pick up their packages from the race office first thing in the morning... I stopped wondering when I saw Batman and Robin among them and it dawned on me that most of them were gathering for the students carnival procession and not for any marathon-related purpose... Oh, so that was the reason why the faculty felt so deserted and calm, and peaceful, and a great place to procrastin..., eee..., to work!

My new musical discovery:

Stay tuned.