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Happy New Year! 🎉

At the start of the year, it’s always good to look back to turn another page. For me, 2024 was a journey of ups and downs 🎢 both in running and in life overall. It was also a good reminder that progress in running is never linear.

- No. of PBs - 1. The only distance where I ran a PB in 2024 was the marathon - 2:56:46 🎽😏

- No. of times I broke my age group marathon record in 🇪🇪 - 2. First in Spring and then in Autumn 💪

- No. of marathons completed: 4. The total distance I covered racing was 3 km more than the year before (289 km) 🙈

- No. of podium finishes in women’s overall category: 6 (out of 15 races). 🥇 in 3 races (still no tape-breaking moments though 😅), 🥈 in 1 race and 🥉 in 3 races, one of which was the Ravenna marathon.

- No. of doping tests: 1. My first ever. Quite a humbling experience but definitely something to tell grandchildren about one day 😅

- No. of times I battled with low ferritin, low iron, low hemoglobin, iron deficiency anemia or all of it: 3 😵‍💫 Still figuring it out but I’m seeing patterns and learning to understand when that happens.

- No. of km I ran in total: 4340. Ca 6% more than last year and 16.5% of it with high intensity. Due to the rough start of the year, my average pace didn’t improve annually (it did quarterly though). I still somehow got to the best HR vs speed ratio of all time in October (until I had iron issues again).

- No. of times I thought of quitting: 0.

- No. of times I thought I’m too old for this sport: 0 🙃

Grateful to my support team at home and for my run coach Urmas Randma for continuing on this journey with me for 9 years and my strength coach for 4 years already. Looking forward to 2025!

#2024