In December I decided that I wanted to run a marathon, looking for one near the end of 2013 I found the marathon of Amsterdam as my target. However I wanted to experience how it was to run in such a big crowd and in a competition kind of way. For this I signed up in February for the half marathon of Leiden on the 26th of May, I reckoned that I would have enough time to prepare the the 21km and 97meter that would be ahead of me. Having had my fair share of running injuries, all of them by thinking that I could do this easily, I found out soon that taking things slow and building it up was for the better. So even before the half marathon I did the 10km in Rotterdam as a first test run. I was fully up and running by then and had put in some nice 17 and 18km runs... But then the week before Queensday disaster struck! (a month before the half marathon). I hit my knee while biking on a steel cast pole, might have been a bit of karma biting me because I was cycling through ...