Last year, from July to November, I persisted in training myself and with help to challenge Marathon someday. Each month I finished workouts about two hundred kilometers. After several month’ preparation, on November 15, when sun just rise above horizon, I began my first Marathon journey.
Started with relax and elation, and the weather was fine, I run at my best form. About 8 kilometers, encountered morning frog. After 10 kilometers, sun began to rise, shine and bright, but not blazing, and I run a litter faster than before. When finished 38 kilometers, I found a drugstore and bought a bottle of sports drinks and drink a lot to prevent dehydrated. After drinking beverages and feel refreshed, I continue my journey.
There is wall in Marathon, and the wall is where the runner begins collapses. All pleasant feel and elation terminated when I finished 41 kilometers, and my feet was so heavy and shortness of breath, subconsciously, I known that I met with wall in marathon. Fortunately, there is only 2 kilometers remains to go, and I dragged out and finished the 42.129 kilometers at 4hours and 37minutes.
My first marathon was a lonely trip, I run by myself, watch myself and listen carefully what my body signaled. All the way around I feel free and independent, and the journey trigger inner change in my life. I think that I run close to the meaning of life and reach to the purer state of existence and all of which makes me rediscovered potentiality reside in myself. The experience of marathon is beyond description and articulation, and from that moment, after run lonely 43 kilometers, I became a marathoner and capable of joining any marathon race in the world.
