Post a Comment. Visorview This is my life as it looks through the Visor Browse n Njoi!! Thursday, May 24, Cluj Napoca Marathon report. In ideal running conditions, I ran a marathon at Cluj Napoca last month. More important than the timing was the fact that I finished strong and did not suffer anytime during the race.
So, what went right here? Time to burst some myths. If you thought race selection is important; Well, I had absolutely no idea I would be in some East European city in April. Hence I had no say in race selection. If then, training is important β Well, after a forgettable Auroville marathon experience guess why there is no race report yet?
And of course, you have to be deep pink in health, right? Neither the 5-hour layover between flights at Munich nor the pathetic train journey from Timisoara to Cluj, helped the cold, sniff.
It must have been the mind then β a positive frame of mind, filled with optimism. But despite all the circus, I find myself at the starting line of the Maratonul International Cluj I guess I would never be as proud for having made it to a marathon start line. For one, it was the first time I was able to participate in a marathon while on a business trip, a first race in a sparingly-English speaking country. Arguably the first Indian to run the Cluj Marathon!
I fantasized about the idea of participating in this one since March when a business trip was being planned and Google threw this one up. When the trip seemed more likely than not, I booked myself on an Inter-Regional train from Timisoara to Cluj. I will skip the gory details of the lousy train journey and fast forward straight to race report.
