Spring running events

 End of April, beginning of May is the most ideal time period for running events. Not so cold to freeze and not so warm to sweat. By now, I have two running events I usually enter and became a tradition in the last couple of years. Both thanks to the company. One is a quite unique one organized within our seed plant around and inside the factory in Szarvas. Love it, and this year I involved my sister as well.

The other one is a longer one. My solo bike tours around Lake Balaton within a day transformed a bit in the last 3 years since I'm with Corteva. The differences: not solo any longer but definitely team work, not monotonous but is about running and biking. The main point remained the same: going around the lake within 24 hours. It is called Ultrabalaton. Popular charity event, attracting huge crowd: 28,300 participants this year with the collected amount of HUF 23.5 million to support hospitals and foundations. For the first time in the history of the event, there was the possibility to double the achievement and run 2x rounds one after the other in solo (Project422), which is absolutely an unhuman achievement. Couple of people did it! The best one (Tibor Erős) run 422 kms in 46 hours. Crazy!!  211 kms (1 round) was completed by our 17-member-team in 22 hours. First I thought those people are abnormal to undertake such a huge distance in solo and they completely ruin and exhaust their body. But after I saw the video showing his last meters just before entering the finish, I changed my mind and thought what a fantastic strength of will, what an endurance! This man set an outway goal and achieved it. Exemplary! It gives me motivation when I want to die after my 5th km. The solo one-round track peak is attached to a woman (Andrea Mórocza) this year, who was 40-min faster than the second one: she run the 211 km in 18.30 hours! My main profile during Ultrabalaton is still biking. I attend my colleagues on their distances by bike, take pictures and support them if needed. Not to be so monotonous I usually run shorter distances more times. I really like the common goal, to see that everybody does his/her best, acting as a real team.

2024 recap

Last year was a super EXHAUSTING one, the YEAR OF CHANGES also at work and in private as well.

I changed position within company and left the beloved facility service and start working for marketing as event program specialist at the very beginning of the year. Second time to start a position with no help, as I had again nobody to handover the tasks from and also the boss question was open, again. Everything from zero, again. This is a really time consuming process which requires big efforts.

Additionally to this, I initiated some big changes at home as well during springtime. Painting the whole house was due for a long time and also made my old wish completed with covering the floor with laminated parquet for warmer feeling. The walls became much brighter (white or so), therefore the brown antique pickles furniture was replaced with white ones. Looks fresh and nicer. Huge project but happy with the result.

I sold my beloved Chrysler PT Cruiser which I was said went to Ukraine for serving voluntary work.

The boys were both also were facing some changes in the school and in the nursery. Dominik could come back to Budaörs in September at long last after 2 years spent in the 8th district of Budapest, while his school building was renovated. Nolen had to leave his nursery in October and move to another building, as the old one will be distroyed so that a new, modern building can be established instead. Some tears were dropped during the official good-bye ceremony, as it was the very same building where I started to get accustomed to the public spirit before ~40 years ago. So no more nostalgic commemoration standing in front of the building.

Loss of the year was Dominik's electric scooter in summer. The punchline of the story, that it was me who lost it, who was robbed. I was preparing the birthday cakes of the boys and wanted to jump into the supermarket to get some missing ingredients. I used Dominik's scooter, locked, spent 30 minutes in the shop, and by the time I came out, it disappeared. His Christmas present disappeared. It was reported to the police, but no result since then, the case was closed.

I bought my SUP which opens new water perspectives.

After 1.5 year of separated living, I headed for the official way to give forth the divorce by the court of justice. In September, everything was over smoothly, on paper. It will take time to rebuild my old/new life, relationships, feminity, and mainly my self-esteem. Second marriage started on the 17/FEB/2018 and ended officially on the 06/SEP/2024. It was a bit strange to go to Szigetköz together right after the trial for the habitual huge family camp and water tour weekend.

I go further on my way, and don't stop cooking, moving, exploring, discovering new places. Going without him on this way is much calmer and more peaceful. This is what we all need. I have time. No rush. I have everything I need in this life. In this new chapter I should concentrate on myself more.

As for the travels, new places were discovered, some could be ticked from the bucket list. Family vacation (probably the last one) in Steiermark during Easter, Greece in May as a 40th-birthday-gift for my sister, I've been to Barcelona on business in October and could enjoy a Sevilla-Barcelona football match, and the beginning of December was about Lapland, Finland to meet the real Santa Claus, to enjoy snow and the nothern lights.