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Weekend of 4 miles every 4 hours for 48 hours.

Ričardas Pakštys
11 min readMay 8, 2022

My weekend. Decided to do 4x4x48. Few tips and breakdown of literal suffering.

Run number one. 4 AM.

Woke up at 3:30. Did some breathing, light stretching, and off to the races.

You see, when your brain doesn't understand what you gonna do then it operates to the usual state of mind. I have been running at 4 or 5 in my life so it’s not that I am doing something I haven’t done in my life you know.

I went to bed around 9, so I was sleeping at 9:30. Good 6 hours. Quality ones.

The day before the first run I did some Yoga. I called my friend to ask what he thinks about the idea that I would do a floating tank before running and he suggested I do Yoga instead, I was like: Hell yes, sounds like a good idea to me.

So I did Yoga at his class with 7 other women haha, it felt amazing. I was smiling back home. I felt amazing physically and mentally.

Going back to the first run, I was surprised by how warm it was and little to no wind, so the conditions were perfect for a run.

I started at my normal 5:05 pace, but then slowed down a bit, just wanted to feel the rhythm you know. I could do 5:05 pretty easily but I just wanted to get my feet under me to feel alright while running.

Even though there were times when I felt a slight pain in my knee and on my right foot. I just did not let it affect me at all you know. There wasn’t a single thought about not doing this shit.

Did my run in just a little bit over 36 mins.

Came back home. Did some stretching for good 20 minutes and started work early.

Run number two 8 AM:

In the beginning, it was so much easier because I had some food. It’s easier to do anything when you’re not hungry. Lol. I choose a different route. Want to change as much as possible, even though I created 4 of them I think I’ll stick to 3.

It’s not about fucking sightseeing it’s about getting this fucking run done.

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