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We do things we would usually do. There is no difference.
The point is that the people suffering from either pulmonary hypertension or Crohn’s disease like Aleksa
for example or people with any kind of problem believe and know that they are not alone.
This is our way to encourage them.
The greatest problem is down there, at the foot of the mountain where there are people and wolves.
Mountains harbour only wolves.
I think that this makes us better people.
I asked Igor the other day where has running placed him and he asked me the same question off the camera
Running has made me closer to God and to people.
I sympathize more with the people and nature
and I’m very grateful for that and I’m grateful for having you as my friends.
We are going to be there for each other, not only here pulling tyres in the mud.
Igor and I went to liturgy and had Holy Communion, and then we went to sauna. It was a pleasant excursion.
We kept silent for quite a while, too. It is nice when people can stay quiet together.
They don’t have to speak since Ivana keeps thinking what to say
and she probably won’t say anything in front of the camera.
That is not even important.
I know what she feels and that is the most important thing
That is why she is with us and we are with her.
What do you do? Where have you been and what have you run so far?
I am a member of Special Anti-terrorist Unit.
I have been into martial arts for a long time.
I’ve practiced ultimate fighting, Japanese jiu-jitsu and a bit of boxing.
Why did you come out of a coma?
How come you got into coma in the first place?
I had a tough life. It sounds like a stupid cliché
but I took a wrong path.
Ok, so you wake up from a coma one day and what do you say to yourself?
There is only one life and we should live it the way it should be lived and not as you said by being average.
What are you preparing for?
I am preparing for not being average since I don’t want to conform to the average.
Why? What’s the point?
I don’t know. I used to thing that training influences my life.
Now I am not sure whether the rest of my life influences this part or vice versa.
I think it has become a kind of symbiosis.
Somehow, I used to look for comfort a reason, to try to run away from something. Now I can’t say for sure.
What do you do?
I like to say that I work on myself
since my job, computer programming, is also something I do because of myself.
I really enjoy it and I found myself in it.
I always find everything difficult at the beginning.
I think that the most difficult thing would be the first 50km of the race. In fact, I feel like that in every race.
Now I’ve come to think that when I miss a training, I make myself a problem in the long term.
And that is great state of mind.
It is Saturday, 8 o’clock. We have already finished everything.
There is time for the ones who want to find it.
If Skabo said, he could at 9 tonight, it wouldn’t be a problem. We would put the lamps and it would be the same.
It is 3.30, February 10th, we are at the foot of mountain Rtanj.
We are going to the top once again. It is about -5 ͦCelsius here. We’ll see what it is like up there.
How is UTS mobile moving on?
Bane is making a UTS mobile from Fica’s van (Fiat’s).
It is similar to Batmobile with suoer powers since it transports people with super powers.
How’s it going?
It is moving on slowly.
Will it be ready for Switzerland?
God Bless it will be ready to go.
It is morning. It takes time for the body to adapt. A bit of out of track, and you can easily feel it.
Come on Ivana.
Move on Ivanka.
Whether a person is ready or not depends on the mindset. It doesn’t depend that much…
you can’t get ready. You heard what Skabo said on various occasions…
When he asked me whether he is ready or not last time.
The people were neither ready nor getting ready to cross Albania and they did it.
It is over 200km altogether with the enemy, winter and inadequate equipment.
So I believe that you can finish it.
Then again, your priorities are the job, finishing Master studies and later PhD and it should be that way.
The thing that I always tell you – it doesn’t matter if you run something or not if you don’t improve apart from the races.
Would you rather go in a group or alone?
I find it more interesting in a group.
I’ve told you about UTMB.
It was only my dream. I mean I started dreaming about it when I started running.
I am glad I ran it alone since I was concentrated only on myself. It is even more difficult like that.
It is similar to real life.
When you take care of others, you take responsibility off your shoulders in this case you do not think about yourself.
There I was bound to think about myself all the time for more than 40 hours, about my wishes my acts and so on.
I don’t know. I will say it again.
It was a greater joy to see Skabo at the finish line than myself, that is to be at the finish line together.
It is my job. I train people and I can always find time for training and I have to I mean I should be ready.
I can’t go without training. Essentially, you don’t have to.
You got to know running and sport through UTS.
And that is the point – that someone who is going to be PhD in something,
someone who is successful in computer programming
or a successful musician and artist
can fit sport into everyday life, family, children and make time for everything.
People are wrong when they think it takes too much time.
A couple of longer trainings a month everything else is up to one hour.
It doesn’t take that much time.
But you need to get up a bit earlier, even when it is cold and when you feel not up to it since it is important to maintain the continuity.
I have talked to Bosko whether his child understands or not
but he sees a man who protects something he cares about.
That is of utmost importance.