I'll start this post by saying that I'm sorry for the delay in my weekly post, I'm having some issue with the blogger photo update page.
I was told that St.Petersburg is a lovely city, but now I can say that it's very true.
I must start by saying thanks to the great and awesome Ludmila from the marathon organizers that did such a great job with helping me to travel and join the event, without her there was no Chance I could of done something or getting to the marathon and back so safely and with a great feeling.
Since I took more than 200 photos, the full album can be viewed on my Facebook page in this link :
At the last Friday night evening I started a very long trip (800+km) to St.Petersburg, the trip started with a 3 hours train from my city Kolomna to Moscow.
The train was old and dirty, and on the night train there were a few drunk people and some b
beggars, asking for money.
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| The train is really clean eh ? |
Once I reached Moscow, I ran to the other station to St.Petersburg way,
This time the train was way more normal and Moscow train station was full with police officers so I felt a lot more safe.
After a 12 hours ride on this train + 3 more on the Kolomna one, I FINALLY reached St.Petersburg.
A local speedskater was waiting to pick me up, and she was so lovely for all her help :)
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| Entry of St.Petersburg from the train |
After that I went into the underground metro trains, to reach my destiny, the marathon reg place.
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| The underground tunnel of the metro |
Than it started - the beauty of St.Petersburg ! and damn it's pretty !
I reached the marathon expo, it was only with runners stuff, so that was a little disappointing.
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| "Ergo White-Night" Expo |
I got my number "128" for the marathon, and than I had few hours to travel the city.
I was guested and joined by 4 Moscow skaters, wonderful people who did this trip a lot more than what it was planed, together we ate the official pasta and traveled the city together.
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| Traveling the city, I love this photo |
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| Our sleeping room at the Hostel |
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| Eating breakfast in our Hostel |
After a good sleep we woke up to a lovely day for the marathon, with a little risk for rain (that came after the marathon).
I will finish the work on my marathon photos, and than I'll post in the coming days the marathon story with photos, and a video later on.
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