Day 5
Today is the 5th day of the race. It is June 16, 18:52. Atmavir is still the leader, Pranjal is on the 2nd place, then Ashprihanal, Igor and Sarvagata. For this moment I have 290 miles. I’m still running in economic mode. Today in the morning it was very good, my legs were absolutely light, like if I had nor ran before at all. But then fatigue and muscle-twisting returned quickly, though in average today I am running a bit more quickly and perhaps I’ll make a couple of miles more than yesterday. Yesterday I had 59 miles. I was «squeezed» from 2 till 5 in the afternoon, so I ran slowly. But the most important thing is that none of our the most quick runners has passed by me during this time – neither Atmavir, nor Ashprihanal. And only when I started to do my first stretching this day I saw there was somebody on the course. This means, everybody was squeezed. And then when Ashprihanal caught up with me he said: ‘have you seen it, everybody runs so well – nobody come across each other!»
So, Ashprihanal cut another joke this morning. As I said, he has got his toe sore and had to cut his shoe, he has never done it for 11 years on the race – he has never cut his shoes because there were no necessity in it. But today he had to cut it but and it was done very carefully and then he added: ‘miles – this is important, to smile is the more important, but style – is everything.»
The race is going on!
