Magnitogorsk residents are intensively preparing for the Paris Half Marathon

The result at a popular sporting event largely depends on the emotional mood

The athletics race in South Urals Paris traditionally gathers a large number of participants from Magnitogorsk. For example, in the group of the track and field coach of the School No. 1 Irina Kiseleva, in addition to Nikita Pavlov, more than a dozen athletes plan to start the upcoming event in Paris on May 28. Among them are those who overcame the most difficult distance of 21 kilometers last year.

Anna Minullina, the winner of the Russian championship in athletics, is one of those who annually come to the Paris Half Marathon. Several times she ran a distance of five kilometers, and last year she decided to try her hand at the biggest one. The athlete admits that the first half-marathon run in her life turned out to be difficult, but productive. Among women, she showed the second time, losing only one participant.

– The first 15 kilometers I distributed forces, and the last five – I ran and endured. Now we have completely different training, more volume. I also learned some lessons from that run. There the track is such that you need to properly distribute your forces, – Anna Minullina shares. “I was happy that I ran. Actually, I liked it, and there were support groups, drummers. And the organization itself is also very good.

Kristina Kukushkina, who came to the half marathon five times, is well acquainted with the routes of South Ural Paris. The girl notes that now, like everyone else, she is trying to run more in order to gain volume over the kilometers traveled.

– Emotional mood is also very important, of course. But I don’t tune in, to be honest. On the contrary, it’s easier for me to go out if I don’t think about it. If I scroll everything in my thoughts, then I won’t be able to start normally, says Kristina Kukushkina.

Their teammate Semyon Krokhalev has so far covered distances of five and ten kilometers. This year, the young man is also going to run the top ten and is now intensively preparing for the run.

– We run on wild volumes and add speed in order to still run quickly and easily. I didn’t run very well that year, started fast and finished tired. I think that this year everything will be different, I will start carefully, not too fast, and I will probably finish in the top, – says the athlete.

Among those who will come to the upcoming half marathon, there was another pupil of Irina Kiseleva, Anastasia Sadykova. Moreover, the current start for the young athlete will be only the third in a row. Prior to that, she ran a distance of five and ten kilometers.

The Paris Half Marathon is a great opportunity to test your strength at an unusual distance. And already in August, the South Ural runners are waiting for the home championship of Russia in athletics. Chelyabinsk is again the main start of the season at the stadium named after Elena Elesina.