This was posted on LinkedIn on 20th April
A year ago I would have thought this was impossible, and yet it happened yesterday. I finished my first race, a half marathon!
The real challenge has been keeping the discipline to show up for the training sessions on my own over the long cold winter, even if it meant running while snowing in the evenings or along frozen tracks in Grunewald. In retrospect, signing up for another race later in Spring or in early Summer would have been much better. Lesson learned for next time.
Kudos to my brother for coming all the way from Madrid to run along with me. Without him it would have been even harder. With him it was still hard but also fun, and this will become a core memory. Even more so as arriving at the Olympic Stadium through the marathon gate was truly magical.
