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.