“Of course I am happy to reach the half way point. But on the other side, it is still a long way. The second half is always easier.”
Other than a short period near the beginning of the race Surasa has been performing incredibly well. And to arrive so comfortably at the half way mark on the 26th day is a very good sign indeed. “If your running is good you are just grateful that you can run. Everything is easier.”
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At this moment we pass Nirbhasa who is going through a struggling phase. He agrees with her, “certainly, let me tell you. It feels like you are dragging a bed behind you.”
“It is so hard if you have no energy and cannot run. You cannot compare.”
Nirbhasa also had recently mentioned that he never knew it was possible to be so tired. “Yes that is true. When I had a bad stomach and some other things. I thought how can you be so tired, so exhausted, unimaginably. Normally you are just lying in bed when you are like this. You cannot go to work or do anything.”
“It is really a miracle for me that you can run, with so little sleep. This is what I was thinking all the time.” Surasa relates this experience in particular to the period when she was having some physical difficulties. “How was it possible that I could do these miles. Because I was so tired.”
Surasa also explains the importance of eating. “If you don’t eat than you are so weak. You feel it immediately if you don’t eat enough. In the morning you are weak. You have to eat each lap.”
On getting messages from her home in Vienna. “It is so nice when you see that people are thinking about you. I feel such gratefulness. It is very touching always.”
The hardest part of the day for her is the middle part between 1 pm and 6pm. “I always think I am nowhere with my miles. But than in the evening I am somehow so surprised….it is not so bad.”
“When midnight comes I am happy because now I can go home, and have a little bit of rest.”
“You just see that nothing is impossible. I also cannot believe it, what I am doing, and what everybody is doing here. Sometimes I think, how is it possible that it works like this? But you have no time to think. Each day you have to run.”
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