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Flitch Way 100 K

Yazan Mert Derman | 18 Şubat 2020 | Comments 0 yorum

Note: This is a blog mainly in Turkish. But starting with this race report, I hope I will be writing in English more frequently. Since this was a race in UK it is a good starting point.

[Türkçe versiyonu]

I completed 2019 by running every day in December. When I started the new year, I was thinking about races to run and my running goals. For 10 years, I tried how fast I could get in short races, tested how quickly I could run the marathon distance, tried to survive longer races, completed 100 km and 100 miles races, and even ran Spartathlon twice. So what did I want to do now? I thought about this for a while. Actually, what I wanted to do was running a 24-hour race on the track, but I knew that I did not have a planned/scheduled training for a long time, and even though I was running randomly, my training volume was not enough for this. So I decided to run a 100 km race. If you would like to to read both my thoughts on this decision process and the report of the race, let’s start.

Spartathlon 2017

Yazan Mert Derman | 9 Ekim 2017 | Comments 0 yorum

[Turkish version]

Where were you at 15:48 on Saturday, September 30, 2017? What were you doing? Maybe many of you do not remember that detail, but I remember that minute with incredible clarity and I am sure it will not be possible for me to forget it for a very long time, maybe my whole life. At that minute, I was running along Konstantinou Palaiologou Street towards the Leonidas statue in Sparta, Greece. The street was crowded and everyone around was applauding and cheering. That 500 meters run on the street was the end of the 246-kilometre run which I started in front of the Acropolis ruins in Athens the previous morning. I reached the statue, resting my arms on its left foot and my head on my arms, thinking about the last six months and the effort I made in these months for 5-6 seconds. I will not hide, my eyes were wet. Yes, the race itself was long and tough but the preparation period was even longer and more difficult. That foot was a symbol of a very long term goal and I had reached the foot, I had finished the Spartathlon. It was okay to let myself go now.

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