anton smolsky alexander norkevich.c events continue to look for new forms to motivate belarusians to new achievements. this time it didn’t run along the city’s asphalt, but along the dirt surface next to the place of an amazing story from spiritual power, where the legendary shrine, the zhirovichi icon of the mother of god, has been kept for many centuries, the organizers advised the participants to take elena gorelchik looked for mobile phones among the starters and the monks of the holy dormition zhirovichi monastery, because the distance is 26 km - this is a serious test for those who are used to living with restrictions. it seems that the minsk half marathon has a younger brother, a competitor, the monastery race, is still a novelty, but everyone likes the tradition of holding such starts in historical and cultural places in belarus, when i started and now such adventure races have developed very much amateur races, there are much more of them than there used to be, and well, it still stimulates when they are the s