🥉 Another marathon achievement 💪

On Dec 20 2025, I and some friends waited patiently in the queue to register for the Amsterdam Marathon of 2026. After 30min, we succeeded. We added an expected finish time, paid for the event, and that was it. Months have passed since then. We started our training, and everything went really well. Until I started to struggle with my health. I had issues sleeping, my stomach started to act up, I could not sustain the required pace and I did not recover from previous runs. Digging deeper, I found this could be caused by underfeuling, eating too few carbs to keep up with all the training. My body was exhausted and I had to take a few steps back. What’s even worse is that I also got a viral infection, adding a runny nose, headaches and tiredness on top. As a result, I didn’t run much in the past 4 weeks, which made me worried with the Amsterdam marathon right around the corner. 18/10 was D-day. Last week, I had to start carb loading to prepare for the marathon, and while I didn’t run, I…