Days that are born like this... Life cannot always be roses and flowers, I am perfectly aware of this, but it cannot, constantly, make you appreciate something that is being born, and then in an instant close the door in your face, just while you are there smiling with the teeth all exposed, it hurts like hell, and it is absolutely not beautiful... I would like to have the strength and the courage not to be affected in the least by these events, but it is not always easy,…
@mad-runner in January 2021
Finally a decent day After a decidedly negative period of a few days, today I finally saw a little light in my day, which practically did not have any negative moments, I really needed this, even a happy clarification with a friend contributed, and not a little , to further improve the level of my endorphins ...
A long ride This is the summary of my past as an amateur athlete, I was a decent runner, who also took away some satisfaction, also considering the fact that in our times the performances I obtained decades ago would always be at an amateur level, even more tempting, I hope to do what you like... A long ride - The absolute debut As in all things, there is always a start, which in this case must be taken literally, because I will tell you about the first race ever in which I…
A long ride - The street runner The races followed one another, they were times in which the word training was not yet well known what it was, as it was only run on the occasion of the races, which had a multi-weekly frequency, especially in summer, when the Saturday-Sunday pairing was very frequent. , while on weekdays there were sometimes minority demonstrations in the evening, on the occasion of village festivals. Towards the spring of '79 I learned that the first edition…
A long ride - The first "tough" race Let's go back to "Rimini-Riccione-Rimini", which on paper (and not only ...) was a race to be taken absolutely with the springs, 20 km entirely on the beach were really quite a lot, at most I had done about fifteen up to that moment, with the aggravating circumstance of running on soft ground such as the shoreline, which would have further increased the difficulty of the race itself. To increase a hypothetical stakes, there was also a…
A long ride - Appetite comes with eating Filed the race on the sand, I don't remember particular situations until a new electrifying challenge, a further increase in maximum distance, I was constantly trying to push the level of distance covered a little further in a single race, a sort of game, and the first edition of an event, very fascinating on paper, suddenly appeared in my eyes, something more than the 20 km of the "Rimini-Riccione-Rimini", an equally hard route, but…
A long ride - Sore point You know, in the career of any athlete there are good times and less pleasant moments, today I want to talk to you about one of the very rare times in which I seriously risked retiring from a competition ... During the year of the first Rimini-San Marino I don't remember anything worthy of mention, so I go directly to the following year, always talking about the same event. One more year, more careful preparation, belief in one's own strength, I was…
A long ride - Blessed maturity After participating in the second edition of the Rimini-San Marino there was a sad fact, one summer Sunday morning we didn't go for a run, it was very hot, my brother still went to do a training in the park but when he returned home an unwelcome awaited him surprise, which would have heavily conditioned his existence for several months ... Two police officers in uniform, with an immediate license withdrawal warrant, and the obligation to retake…