Run, Forrest! Run! At school I didn't like to run at all. All of those crosses around the schoolyard weren't good for me. To tell more I started to smoke in last classes. At university I choose to go to hiking as a sport section. We went for a trips by foot or by canoe and that accepted as a lessons so I didn't have to come for them and I didn't have to run. I had been smoking for about ten years before I gave up. Once, about three years ago, I found and application for runners with different training plans. There was one for people who want simply to run thirty minutes without stop. And I thought why not to try? At the beginning it was very hard for me although I had to run only thirty seconds, then walk for a minute and repeat it several times. But after several months of training I could run those thirty minutes. And I had liked it. So I proceed running. From that moment I have run two marathons and several half marathons. I can't say that I'm a sportsman. Not at all. I often put off my training. But now it is pleasure for me especially in journeys because it's one more way to explore different places. P.S. In the picture there's a view of the Angara River from the hills near Ust-Ilimsk were I was in a business trip this year.