Μy family΄s Spartathlon Support – Giorgos Panos
I met my wife ( Maria Flevotomou ) just after my very first marathon race in 2004. She is a hobbyist runner too. Since then we are together, sometimes we are running together, we got married a few years ago and now we have two daughters, the first one is 8 years old and the second one is just 10months old. In 2006 i ran my first 6hours race, supported by Maria, both we had no experience about what is happening to the body after the marathon distance… We learned about it by the hard way, i mean by pain of my mistakes during running… In 2007 i ran my first 100km race, my first 24h race and that was the begging of some other ultramarathon races at the following years, all of them supported by Maria. Our experience becοming richer and richer almost in every issue that had do on on the race day. Hydration, tactic, clothing, legs massage, etc. The most important to me is the mental inspiration… In 2010 i run at Spartathlon for my first time. I was too scary for this race but i was