Today I have several updates with regards to my marathon plans.

Running

First of all I did another run today. Despite the cold and any excuse that would stop any sane person to go out, I went out with my colleague and we did a nice 5km run in 25 minutes. It was more clear, a bit more sunny and less cold than yesterday, but still bad enough for most people to want to stay inside.

_{My 4 back-to-back runs in comparison. Today's was clearly the 'worst', but it was also the first I did with my colleague again}

The result is nothing special and fairly average, but it helps building the form and stamina that I need to prepare myself for the marathon. During this run, my colleague mentioned he's interested in joining the challenge with me, if we find the right location. So this built the acceptance that we're going to do this together.

I have a training and running partner!!!

_{This is me with my running partner last month, when I did my 50^th run for my #fiftyrunstillmay challenge}

Which Marathon???

With that said, it brings me to the next update. My wife has always said that we should go on Wintersports next year as my daughter will be 4 then and old enough to start standing on skiis, I had promised her this, but this messes up with my plans to run the Tel-Aviv marathon. This combined with the fact that my colleague wants to join me, made me review the options. If we run a marathon this year, it's going to be one of the following, so if any of you have any experience with any of them, I'd love to hear it:

Of course there's also the option that we'll run next year in spring, but I'm an impatient person, so I'd rather do it this year than having to wait more than a year.

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Keep running and stay fit!

Doron

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