At night I had the same feelings that I had when I did my first 10k one month before, restless and woke up at 4 am drank water and slept again, and woke up at 6 am. It is quite amazing how a passion or strong will makes you change your lifestyle without having a second […]
This is what happened after the 16K trail run. In comparison to the week before 14.5k, I finished this run stronger. I relate this to better eating the night before. Many athletes talked about Carb Loading, which is basically eating a lot of carbs the week or at least the night before your long run, […]
Last Friday I ran 14.5k, well as I said before it was tough, especially if you are doing it for the first time. After running I felt sleepy and tired, the next two days I sometimes felt a strange feeling in my head “lightness” some sort of headache can’t explain, wasn’t bad but strange, at […]
Although I woke up a little bit late I had to do what I had to do and run 14-15k. I wore my compression stocks and took for the first time a bottle of water in my hand and a small pack of nuts in my pocket. After 3 k entered downtown Cairo and as […]
A couple of weeks ago I ran my first 10k and accomplished one of my dreams by running downtown Cairo, I went through Tahrir Square passing through Talaat Harb Street then the 26 of July Street turning right into Mohamed Farid and out through Mohamed Mahmoud Street. Last week I made my first 12k and […]