5 WEEKS TO MARATHON

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From today in five weeks will be the Berlin Marathon. There will be Haile Gebreselassie in the lead, possibly the greatest marathon runner in history, world record with 2:04:26 in Berlin 2007. Also, about 30,000 runners behind, I hope to be with my sneakers on and number 21916, in a molote similar to the one in the photo below, ready to overcome the distance together with a group of Tico runner friends to weather the cramps, enjoy the event and compete with myself, looking to reach my simple and very modest personal record. Ha!… I’ll tell you about it…

Berlin is one of the biggest marathons in the world and also the flattest and fastest. At the finish line about 35 to 40 thousand runners start, while in the streets support more than a million people, including thousands of volunteers in support, assistance and motivation. I have been preparing for several months and about eight weeks of rigor, a lot of effort and sweat, with a program developed by the trainer and friend, Roberto Solano, whose site you can visit in Hypoxic Costa Rica.

An idea as big as a marathon is motivation enough to concentrate efforts in one direction, with the very personal idea of lowering a time that, needless to say, possibly only matters to me, my family and my closest friends. And that’s how it is, a matter of one with oneself for the simple and deep personal satisfaction.

In the Marathon it is 42 kilometers thanks to the Greek legend and 195 meters thanks to the Queen of England. The first stretch was run by Philipedes when he trotted from Marathon to Athens in 490 BC to announce the Greek triumph over the Persians and then fell dead, thus inspiring the first Olympics of modern times, in 1896 and precisely in Athens, the creation of the most celebrated endurance competition in the world and aspiration of millions of people in the world … like me.

Precisely today, Sunday in Peking, the competitions concluded with the marathon, won by a Kenyan, Samuel Wansiru, who made Olympic record in a few seconds past 2 hours and 6 minutes. My marathon is today in 5 weeks and although only God knows if there will be any obstacle on the way to prevent it, I intend to go under 4 hours and 12 minutes… that is, double the time that the Olympic medalist did today!

Having goals in life is crucial, and even more so, in a combination that provides balance between your four dimensions: physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual. Personally, I find it fun to move from a business focus on growth and profit, to a physical focus on the marathon, to a spiritual focus on my relationship with God, in the context of a priority attention to the emotional focus with my family and friends… in just 24 hours every day!

So here we are, as they say, putting it in, convinced that it can be done!

Happy Sunday!

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