Remember the second one
According to history books, 350 tickets were sold for the first Sziget Festival in 1993, and in 1994, barely more than 2,500 punks visited the event, then known as Diáksziget, which represents a little over a 700% increase. For the first RunT!lt, there were 19 of us, and for the second, 34, which is a little over 80% more people within a month. And what's the connection? Nothing.
Those who came to the second blog run on August 11th could see, or rather feel, that something really cool was emerging. Some came all the way from Baja just for the run, which, if I saw correctly, meant an easy 157 km journey; four people ran around the island for the first time, and almost everyone, without exception, achieved a better result, even by minutes, than they would have thought possible.
"Push each other because that's why you're here, to move together, and preferably everyone should go home with a sense of achievement and a result relative to themselves that makes them say on the way home, 'Damn, I wouldn't have thought that of myself…'"
I wrote this in the post before the run, and it perfectly materialized on Thursday evening, which was palpable in everyone. One girl, who was also at the first run, specifically ran 4 minutes faster than 35 days before. These are good things, damn good, and on the island, I realized that beyond weight loss and lifestyle change programs, the blog became complete with RunT!lt. The division into different groups also worked well because it allowed almost everyone to find runners with a similar pace, and the whole group didn't fall apart but ran the distance in smaller or larger groups, thus pushing each other and achieving the aforementioned personal best times. As for the negatives, I promised to skip them regarding Runt!lt, but other than seeing a pissing hobo on the way home, I couldn't really find fault with the evening…
The best result, and thus the record holder for the RunT!lt run, is Péter Laczkó, who humiliated everyone with a time of 22:04, which is especially impressive because I used to meet Mónika Kovacsics, a handball player who then played in Győr, whose best island time was 22:50. So we are talking about a professional athlete playing in a championship-contending NB1 team. Oh, and one more thing: three guys came who, as it turned out later, ran around the island in under 23 minutes. With straight faces, they joined group B, then after I noticed Forrest Gump on their shirts, with a "you've got to be kidding me" exclamation, they moved to A, and while they were there, they did an easy 4-minute 10-second kilometer average.
Group A
1. Péter Laczkó 22:04
2. Ádám Kovács Veres 22:13
3. Zoltán Takács 22.30
Group B
1. Péter Hammer 24.10
2. Magor Keszthelyi 24.14
3. Lajos Török 25.29
This group was won by none other than Mr. Hammer, Péter from SummerProject, with a result of 24.10. As I thought, Group B had the most people, and this group also hid Miss Zita, who didn't want it to be revealed that she was the minus 10 kg girl from the blog, unlike Laura, whose cover I blew. Not that she wanted that. No other blog celebrity walked the red carpet, as Petra threw a tantrum, especially since she found out that through LifeTilt, she was featured in the weekly magazine Magyar Narancs. Dani completely disappeared, Béla promised himself for the next one, the rum walnuts ran out, there were no pistachios…
The next RunTilt will be on September 1st, and for that, I'll try to find a mineral water sponsor for the run, or rather, I'll go and buy 3 cartons of Theodora Quelle. For the 3rd RunT!lt, we will also track the best women's times separately, and serious prizes are expected because the group winners will receive cool Kalenji-type LifeT!lt T-shirts as gifts, meaning something to sleep in or dust with at home.
That's all for now; more about the 3rd run later, until then, a few pictures from the run…
