New Economic Start

Good day, everyone!

Today the message in my blog is dedicated to the traditional running challenge, which was organized by the New Economic School this year the fourth time.

The challenge is called “New Economic Start” just like abbreviation of our institution. This event is a great possibility to compete in running with other students or even with professors. However, the main thing in such competitions is not a winning a prize. The main things are taking a part and according to the president of NES Sergey Guriev the victory over self.

The challenge was held on Sunday, so it was hard for us to wake up at 7 o’clock. We almost missed our train to the Moskow because of our friend, so we ran with all haste to be in time. It was like warming-up before the start.

The organization was great. The volunteers with smiles on their faces cheerfully explained us what to do. We quickly changed our clothes and started our warming-up but as it turned out we were too quick to do that because the start was planned for 11 o’clock whereas we were ready at 10:15.

I will skip the details of the next hour. So, the running challenge started at about quarter past eleven. The start was very energetic. Many participants have overtaken me but during the next two laps I’ve overtaken about 15 people.

It was very hard to continue running after the first lap. I thought of going off the race but it seemed for me that it would be very offensive and I endured. When it was approximately 500 meters, it was difficult to move my legs and I don’t know how but I accelerated. After finishing the race I just lied on the ground and was glad that I had finished.

This competition was a great experience. I do not regret that I took part in it. I also glad of that I take the sixth place and almost run out of 20 minutes (my result if 20 minutes and 8 seconds).