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My little novel Marathon Busto

The trainings have a reason to exist and not just to accustom your body to support certain rhythms at certain distances but also to store that in the race will be the theme of our whole performance.

When the mind knows its own shares will, where it can and must come, the pace is set by a navigation system that is your heart and you, and you are the only passenger, conscious of its limitations but also their ambitions.

But we come to today, the marathon is run in Bust of 3 km from my house, how could I ignore her and then a lot of friends to see and race together, 1 month ago the idea was born there but did not distort my training that, since I finally decided to take the plunge into the mountain races are set only on strengthening: ramps, staircases, all excursions and a little plain.

Here then at the start, on a day with leaden and the unknown beyond the arc rubbery that invites us to lay bare everything that everyone has in their heart and their will.

Start immediately "down" and 1 km flows in 4'20 ", the first 5 will take off the table at 4'18", looked at me and say ... too much Daniel, in the Lake Maggiore you went to 4'45 ".... then arrive at the 10th km in 43'05 "keeping the 4'18" medium, if I think my staff of 10 km is 42'30 "made in training now for over a year ago ... I still see my optimistic face and hear my breathing still silent ... well, let's claim so.

I will make meeting the 15 ... the ones that greet you with a grin of the most cruel of a novel by the end ... damn ... and here is where the soul for a moment is absent from the body and top, this time she looks at what remains of us to get to the end.

Here I have problems, first with the left calf and also the right to the 17th I am sorry, I feel them hard and I hope I'm not forcing them to stop, the lack of training for these distances and at this rate, begins to present his account, I understand that time is and I can not screw it up right now, missing 3 km and the arrival in town is from placebo to my physical problems.

The pace in the meantime had been a pirate trip and 4'40 "of the 17th I was then able to plug the leak with a sequence of 4'38", 4'34 and 4'31 "and then counter- my time with the 21 km in 4'11 ", 1000 meters faster than this beautiful journey, here I remembered one of my sentences," take every foot of a hill like the last breath "... today I did it, plain and in the last km as in the video of Take That I would continue beyond the arc arrival in search of my rainbow ... first of all because the challenge is always with ourselves about ourselves ... and our fears!
1h 33 '17 "Real Time, 2' and 43" best of the old Pb, I could be happy, right?

The satisfaction of running in the house is also to have some more encouragement in the path, and then I thank my colleague and above all my biggest fan, Maria her husband and of course, and then again Gianni Colombo, in the last 500m intent in his valuable work of "the flag man", who by their encouragement has certainly contributed to the performance today , mine and that of many other friends, this is beautiful, and it is even more beautiful and yelling his name among so many numbers.

Thank you!