Backwards, I meant way backwards like really backwards, yes that far back to 1st January 2020 where most of the people, myself included make their version of resolutions for 2020. Some people really working towards their resolution and some…don’t #ehem, you know who 😉
One of my resolutions was to do more sports so I can be an active individual, ha! it is very realistic, only require not more than self-discipline and 12 months ahead to fulfill it… piece of cake! #at least that what I thought. Unfortunately or fortunately, the Universe has his own mind, the moment I wanted to be more active, Corona came and all studios shut down #and followed by another bunch of excuses!
Long story short, fast forward to 11 months later, I had done zero sports >.< being not so proud of myself of course as this is the promise I give to myself, I shall not break it. But life keep goes on, still strolling on my Instagram where they had many challenges of running, I kept looking at them but all of them were too long for example a run for 10km, 15km or half marathon, yo chill out! can’t they have something for Anfänger? Until…. the advertisement from lauf-weiter.de appeared! the Universe has heard me! I registered for a 5km lauf and guess when? on Silvester! haha! last day on year 2020, thank you for giving me a chance to fulfill my own promise 🙂
Okay, so I registered and I thought yeah 5km easy! I’ve done that before but when I tried it the first time I think I only made 1km and I almost dead! I asked myself, why oh why Marlyn you do this? However, I still determined to do that Silvester lauf, just need some practice! There was still 7 more days before Silvester so my plan to run 2km every day, do not forget to mention that the temperature is never warmer than 4 degree.
I took a practice day off on 30th to have a rest before our big day #exactly how athletes do haha I’ve told Julia about my running plan on Silvester and she interested to do that too! so we can run together, yeay! running alone is really hard as you focus too much on the run and felt tired or cold easily. Julia asked Tina if she wanted to join and she agreed too! cool! so 3 of us will run together!
She picked me up in Dortmund, drove to Wuppertal and why is that? because they have an ex-train rail that they built as a running track so it’s total flat, a very good medium for me!
We got ourselves ready by putting our running number up!
The view there was really good actually but I don’t have time to stop by and took some snaps because yo I have goals to do!
Someone said to me that I need to finish 5km in under 1 hour so #challenge accepted! honestly, logically thinking, of course I will finish it under an hour, if not…. its called walking! 😉
Wogh! I directly stopped when my mi-fit said “you run 5km bla bla bla” Im done! by all means, done done done! Julia and Tina ran more than 5km because they kept coming back to “pick me up” so I won’t get too far away from them haha
I just ticked my checkbox of being more sporty, I deserved some treats 😉 Julia went to the bakery, thanks God one still opened consider it’s almost 12:00 she bought me “sweets” for Silvester, the lucky pig and the cleaning chimney guy.
Then I submitted my timing and my GPS to lauf-weiter.de and they will analyze which position I am in but who cares which position, I ticked my checkbox, that’s more important 😉 btw mind you the weather was 2 degree!
Someone said to me that I should continue my running habit in 2021 and when I asked him warum? he told me “because you will feel good about yourself after sports” no way! mir ist kalt everytime! never ever I feel good after my run! haha I do feel “good” knowing that I’ve done something useful though 😉
Anyway, with this Silvester lauf that I did on 31st December 2020, the 366th day out of 366th day, I am officially closed my weird yet magical year of 2020 and officially able to shout: WE SURVIVED 2020 🙂
Stay healthy in 2021 and more years to come!
Prost!