Intended to beat the marathon: Vaidas Baumila will also stand at the starting line in Kaunas Names

An active sportsman, the singer belongs to the “Love Streams Running” running club and has been doing this activity for more than a year. Almost every week, the athlete covers 50-65 kilometers.

“If you run 5-6 times a week, it can already be called a lifestyle. I do OCR (obstacle course racing – extreme running with obstacles, aut. post.), and there, as you know, you need to run a lot and be durable. I have enough strength to overcome obstacles, but I was lagging behind when running, so I turned to “Love Streams Running” trainer Jonas Žakaitis and started training more seriously. Little by little, I moved onto the asphalt and thought that I needed to run some race. I ran a half-marathon and the coach said: maybe run a marathon then,” V. Baumila recalled.

The singer made his debut in running competitions at last year’s Vilnius Marathon. He covered the half-marathon distance in 1 hour. 30 minutes 49 sec. and ranked 125th out of over 1,700 entrants.

“I learned to run by heart rate – that work with your ego is quite strong when running. Since I am no stranger to sports, I am always faced with the desire “faster, better and now, not in a month” in sports. There were also complaints, I used to tell John myself, how everything makes me nervous, that one day you run for 5 minutes. 15 sec. pace, heart up to 140, and the next – 5 min. 50 sec. pace with the same pulse,” said V. Baumila.

From her debut half-marathon, the star of the world of entertainment remembered the difficult course, which stretched to the Taurus mountain of the capital. And since the Kaunas “Acropolis” marathon track is considered one of the smoothest, the singer hopes that it will make the challenge a little easier and create more favorable conditions for achieving higher results.

“I was in good shape, I felt very good, but it was quite difficult to run at the marathon speed I imagined in training. Maybe these numbers are just in my mind, but I’m set for 3 hours. 20 minutes time We’ll see how it goes, maybe everything will be fine”, hoped V Baumila, who still has an OCR competition in Italy waiting for him before the start in Kaunas.

For the singer himself, running is a form of psychotherapy and an opportunity to spend time with his thoughts. While running, V. Baumila also gets creative ideas.

“While running, I can be with my thoughts, understand myself more clearly, formulate certain, albeit creative, aspirations or other thoughts that come to mind. It’s fun to run with someone. Running is actually a fairly monotonous sport, but it should be monotonous. To make running more fun, I change running routes, listen to music, podcasts, read dozens of books. Sometimes it’s hard to pay attention to them, you turn around a few times and listen to them again, but that only makes you absorb the information even better”, V. Baumila shared her running ritual.

A record number of running enthusiasts – about 5 thousand – will participate in the 12th Kaunas “Acropolis” marathon. Participants are invited to test their strength not only in the marathon, but also in the “Hollister” half-marathon, “Forvia” 10 km, “SDG” 5 km, “LKU credit union group” 1.5 km and children’s “Activus” 400 m distances.