u/Frank_ranchi

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Hello!

Started running 8 months ago when I was 130kg (but back then I wasn’t running I could only walk ) , now I dropped to 87kg with pure hard work and training and 2 days ago I managed to run my first marathon here in Trieste!

I only ran 21km during training as time was really tight for me. The first half was as predicted reaching the half marathon in 2 hours and 15 minutes, I then stopped at an aid station where there was a good looking lady and drank too much and ate too many bananas and apples while having a chat with her…never regretted having talked to a girl this much… threw up after 1km, got to the next aid station really dehydrated and from then on everything I would eat/drink I would throw up. Ran the last 21km in 4 hours with terrible cramps, headaches. Walked for 10km but somehow I got a second wind and was able to run at 8min/km for the remaining 12km. Threw up about 6 times in the last 21km, including the exact moment where I crossed the finish line at 6 hours 30 seconds (officially arrived last out of 600), and I even got live in the local news while throwing up my soul crossing the finish line , but coming where I came from physically and mentally, I’m proud I pushed trough and did what once I was convinced to be impossible.

Edit: temperatures were 22 Celsius and whole 6 hours were under direct sunlight as there was 0 shadow at all.

u/Frank_ranchi — 9 days ago