Maria Bokova biography

Girl in the triathlon - tell me about yourself: work, hobbies in addition to sports. What is the work schedule and daily routine? I usually come to the office, leave the office differently - sometimes at 19, and sometimes we work until late. Often after work there is a social life, events that need to be attended, so at home I rarely find myself before the clock.

I get up every day at 6, and I lie down in the midnight area. Was there a sports childhood and sections at school? With sports on you or you? I had a confident liberation from physical, about 13 years, severe scoliosis developed, and only therapeutic gymnastics was shown to me. I decided to go out for the first time, when I was difficult for me to run and three kilometers without stopping, but I liked it.

It was difficult to run regularly - I was not used to discipline. Then I somehow signed up for a 10 km race, then 5 km. It was a year. In the fall of the same year, I began to train with M. Gromov, regularity already appeared here, and we began to prepare for the first marathon - Berlin today has 6 full marathons, including Chicago, Boston, Lisbon and others.

Helps or excessively distracting somewhere? There are rarely two workouts a day, I try to find another time for stretching and Pilates. Sport definitely helps: thanks to the sport, I developed discipline in myself, learned a lot about myself and my character - I never thought that I was so stubborn. For example, last year I ran for three marathons, because I couldn’t put a record, but it was important to me.

The third time it turned out. I recently noticed that on weekends from sports, my mood is worse. And I noticed that after difficult training, I feel more confident, more collected and more effective in work.

The run also teaches patience that I miss. The coach often says that I am afraid, regret myself in training and competitions. This is partly true, because yet you do not try, all these speeds seem impossible. But with fears I am struggling: in addition to running, I tried swimming and is great very unexpectedly, yes. I do not like water, I learned to swim when I was 27 years old, I am afraid of open water, darkness, depth and unknown.

But this year she first participated in a swim for a mile, and delight, because fear left. It is more difficult with a bicycle - in childhood, I almost did not ride, and being an adult to study much more difficult. So far, my attempts to master this species are not very successful, but I'm sure this is a matter of time. But my greatest fear is to stop fighting fears and hang.

I hope this will not happen to me. And, of course, these are new acquaintances, belonging to a beautiful community. It happens that you come to a meeting at work, and the interlocutor has sports clock on your hand, and it is immediately clear that you have something to talk about. Which is the hardest thing? What is the most difficulties as technical and organizational? I love to run, although, of course, there are days when laziness, hard, is not running and so on.

Running is not given easily - there is progress, but sometimes it is not as fast as we would like. But this motivates even more - the more difficult it is to achieve the goal, the brighter the emotion from its achievement.