My Fourth Marathon. ERGO White Nights, Saint Petersburg 2016
I ran my fourth marathon in Saint Petersburg, Russia on July, 3rd. I had planned this Marathon as my major race in 2016. There were ten people who were going to visit that beautiful city and cheer me on. Moreover, my 14-year-old nephew was going to run their 10 km race. So there were two runners and eight spectators in our group. Unfortunately my nephew was contracted with the pneumonia the day before departing for the race. However, his father decided to run in his place in the 10 km race. Our home town is almost 1400 km from that northern Russian city where that Marathon took place. The train ride to get there was 25 hours, but that gave us the time we needed to create the spectator signs which read "Let's go, Saratov! 34 marathons more and you are at home" and "You were training too hard to walk, RUN!"