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This is my journey that I will be happy to share with you. It is the way of a marathoner who never finished in the top 100 best runners, but he still won. Intense emotions, which are difficult to describe on paper, because only one who crosses the finish line will experience a feeling of absolute exhaustion but at the same time of pure nirvana.

The world needs more runners and fewer army generals

I wrote this blog because I think that, despite the size of the hype around running, even more people could run in the world. Even more politicians, even more, army generals, more ministers, dictators, populists, and proud ultra-rightists. For he who runs marathons has no time for war and hatred, no time to hurt his neighbor, steal and exalt, spread negative energy or fear. He who runs marathons runs for himself and his pure mind.

And hey! This is about your health as well.

The washed-out endorphins during the marathon transmit a sense of happiness and euphoria to your brain, and together with absolute exhaustion, there are times when it makes one cry. The intense moment you remember with your parents or your children, your friends and enemies, your guilt, and forgiveness. When you can't walk anymore and want to quit, but you continue. The moment you feel your mind clearing with every new step, every kilometer or mile. All sports have these moments of victory. Usain Bolt runs 100 meters to win a gold medal, Roger Federer winning Wimbledon and his 19 Grand Slam title, or Michael Phelps, who holds 28 Olympic medals. And I, who managed to finish 12 marathons in 12 months, one half-marathon, one triathlon, and three Spartan races. There is no purer moment than victory over yourself. I had 100 kgs (200 lbs) doing that all.

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I hope you find yourself in the following lines, whether you are a service center employee or a postmaster, banker or entrepreneur, teacher, or doctor. Whether you are old, poor, black, yellow or white, Catholic or atheist. We all have one thing in common: "We do not want to be elite racers, we do not want to lose weight, we want pride, self-esteem. Proving that we can achieve our goal, at least for the few minutes a day, we want to take life in our own hands, control it completely". -- said Kathrine Switzer, a 70-year-old marathoner who ran the Boston Marathon in 1967, that it was forbidden for women. The women-runner phenomenon began in the 70s-80s and is quite popular nowadays too.

The women runners feel that they are essential, that they can do it, said Kathrine. 

The advantage of marathons and organized runs is that they are for everyone.

Until today.

The group running will be closed for business for next year or so until we develop the COVID-19 vaccine. Until then - we have individual running, which is even harder because you don't get a shiny medal at the end.

Do not listen to your naysayers that you do not have it or that you can not start because you are FAT. They just reflect their own failures and envy. Do not listen to critics or your fear, "what if I don't make it, what if I fail there." The only failure is not to take the first step. RUN!. Run Forest, run Be the Forrest Gump of our time, put on your old sneakers and try one kilometer or mile, then two, then five, ten-twenty. Can you feel it? Like when Sylvester Stallone, aka Rocky Balboa, ran up the stairs in Philadelphia and raised his hands up. Electrifying chills will pass through the body, shiver, cry from pain, feel alive. Your body is alive, not just a mortgage box, carrying children to kindergarten, eating, and sleeping. Years pass, so get up and take the first kilometer, first mile.

Run just 1 mile. Only 1 mile to show the world you support. Post your picture with a V-sign on social media with #RunningCovid or #IamCovid2. We can beat this together. Coronavirus COVID-19 is global. Our cause is global. Join the movement.

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I am not a runner, not a marathoner, not even an athlete, and I am still overweight ;-). Again, if I convince at least one to try it, I will consider it a success. I offer you a thorny path full of pain, a way of getting to know your body, getting to know unknown parts of your muscles you never felt before. Start small, start around your street, continue to the woods, to the next lake, and feel the air.

This blog is for anyone who has not even run 10 km in life because s/he can not imagine that. This blog is about your imagination and overcoming the obstacles that you have only in your mind. When you're done (or even while reading), run and put the first kilometer or mile and start your personal transformation. If I compare it to the novice like me, every kilometer you run will prolong your life by one day.

Since you are here

For all new runners, we created runningstars.org because we believe we can transform the world by running. By charitable running. You can share your first impressions and memories of the run, your personal winnings (even lost) links, photos, and motivational slogans for all of us. You can use the #runningcovid or #IamCovid2 and share it on your social media. 

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The author is a Runningstars volunteer.

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