Once there was a little girl
Used to wonder what she would be
Went out into the big wide world
Now she's just a memory

Mark Knopfler - A Place Where We Used To Live

In a few days, I’ll find myself, once again, in Lyon.

When one looks up Lyon in agarit’s grand dictionary of Life, the Universe and Everything, one finds two entries:

Lyon [Lee- ON]

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I remember reading a lot of marathon finisher stories both before and after I actually signed up for the race. I guess I’ve always been fascinated by just what goes on in the minds of the people voluntarily undergoing abject misery for a prolonged period of time and running has, for most of my life, been the most misery-inducing pastime imaginable ( Read more... )

....is that running a marathon is not hard at all!

In fact, it’s actually rather fun. Maybe not so much in the beginning, when the weight of the task ahead is pressing down on you, and definitely not towards the end, when your legs are wooden and muscles threaten to cramp and the medal and the finisher t-shirt (and the opportunity to stretch out on ( Read more... )

Status: suprisingly non-sore and amazingly mobile. Did I really just run a marathon 18 hours ago?

Trophies:

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...though I'd say that "42 reasons to hate Stockholm" would be more fitting considering the circumstances, but then again, I don't work in marketing ;-)


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