My first running event

I always was an active person, however recently I had a big injury, so almost the whole time since summer of 2014 I couldn't do any sports seriously. Recently I started to feel better and decided that I need a new stimulus that would help me to be active again. It was the desicion to run in a running event. Actually, I never had runned before in this kind of event and I really wanted to try it. I was really lucky that my friend offered me to run in 10 km running event, that was organized by a group called "Miško trasa", translated it sounds like "forest track".
The whole event was wonderful and at the same time really challenging. I saw this challenge easy at the start, it seemed that I had all the willpower to suceed, but when I started to run I realised, that it was actually much more hard. When I runned the first 2-3 km of the track, I started feeling really exhausting and it became worse and worse with every meter. It was like a fight with myself. Nevertheless, I didn't stopped and I knew what my goals were, so I runned and runned, even if it was really frustrating. Finally, I finished, not only the race, but my goals. Of course, I wasn't the leading runner, but knowing my condition, I was really happy that I even finished.
Even though, the activity was really hard I liked it very much, because I found new strenghts within myself and the feeling when you accomplish something is wonderful. Maybe it seems that a one running event couldn't change many things, but I feel a bit changed and can surely say that this experience was really benefitial to me. I learned (maybe not learn, but remembered) how to overcome my weaknesses and move to my goals and now I know how hard it is to run 10 km. After this experience I know I will train more hard and streghten my injury ( forgot to mention, I injured my right knee) and I hope, that later I will be able to run even 21 km.

By Gediminas Pažėra