Running is one of my favourite things to do. I run every day (if I can, of course), usually at least 8 km in hills (Rudawa, Sikornik hill, Wolski Wood in Krakow), sometimes I take part in some running comperitions. Although I am much slower than the top runners (my results are worse in about 50%, at the distances from 100 m to marathon) but it is not very significant for me.
My first attempts were in the primary school but in fact I started to run at the beginning of my studies - after I decided to go to the Light Athletics Section of the Academic Sport Club in the Jagiellonian University. It turned out very soon that I prefer long distances. After the third year of studies I had trained less than usual so my condition was becoming worse and worse but at the beginning of 1997 I started to run almost every day,
For a long time I was convinced that for me the best distances are between 10 and 15 km. In April 2002 I had run my first marathon - Debno Marathon which is regarded as the best marathon in Poland - and I had got a lot of pleasure, especially that the track is very nice, people excellent and the weather was almost perfect so my result was much better than expected (3:23:11). I have not changed my mind during the first Cracovia Marathon (in May) which turned out to be not very easy (because of the weather but also frequent returns). Although the last 7-8 km were very difficult for me and instead of planned 3:20 my result was almost 8 minutes worse, finishing the run gave me a lot of pleasure. In July I have completed Marathon of the Polish-Slovak Solidarity in about 4:50. Although it was not a full marathon (about 37-38 km) but the track was very difficult (the Beskid Niski mountains, marked tourist track that goes along the Polish-Slovak border between Konieczna and Barwinek). My starts in October were not very succesful - my result in Poznan was 3:36, in Warsaw 3:48 (but conditions were very difficult - a lot of bends and heavy rain) but in November I had a very successful debt in half-marathon in Bochnia (1:27:31). In April 2003 I was in Debno again and I corrected my life record to 3:14:28, this year I have completed also 5 other marathons: in Cracow (May, 3:25:50), Lebork (June, 3:23:32), Szczytno (July, 3:28:56), Warsaw (September, 3:16:36) and Poznan (October, 3:17:17).
I am an active participant of the discussion forum of Polish runners Bieganie.pl Web site, sometimes I send my comments to the discussion forum at the Polish Marathons site.