What you can let in a race that you have already run six times? What new can you try one more manifestation of which you know perfectly all: Location, volunteers, organizers and speakers
? These are two questions that I am placed immediately after running the marathon of Reggio Emilia. I have not found the answer in words but in the contentment and harbored happiness in me. When I speak of the Marathon City tricolor I like to take into account the whole weekend because it is from Friday evening until Sunday afternoon that the athlete or rather the person who plays the role that becomes the main character, the heart of ' whole "circus" and as such is treated, pampered and served. "Reggio Emilia" has always understood that those who run the marathon event is the flywheel of the common, ordinary man who wants to be in the spotlight, the main actor is not simple pop or goose that laid golden eggs by plucking as unfortunately happens to many other places where you think a lot more to the top runners, the image and the business. Who is he does at Reggio Emilia for the sake of running and aware to spend a good day of sport with many others with whom he shared the same passion ... THE PASSION OF THE RACE. Who runs in Bologna, almost always comes back and does so willingly, this are the numbers that "they say" comforting and thanking the organizing committee. This year the climate has wanted to be benign, a weekend of good weather and no fog, rain and snow, as in the past has been, has helped everyone: athletes, escorts, organizers and favored even more festive and cheered their hearts. I was the marathon expo is Friday evening and Saturday afternoon, everything seemed to me ordered, hospitality fantastic, as usual, and the withdrawal of the chest quickly. Sunday morning in the sports hall, which houses all the services a few years, we still saw the arrival of some athletes that retired race number, all a bustle of people, a flow is perfectly conveyed by the speaker who was in so annoying that you would create traffic jams. You could use the changing rooms but almost all of the steps they used the system to "change clothes" and then left the bags on the spot where the volunteers then they would be kept under control. There was an atmosphere of friendship, I myself have had the opportunity to meet many people I had met on previous events and with whom we had arranged to meet in Reggio Emilia. Peter wandered between us aside, that with the camera and microphone interviewing a bit 'of athletes trying to steal some emotion and Stefano Morselli with his trusty camera and took photos at all, staring at the faces and gestures of the athletes knowing that soon his equipment would have "left" unfortunately! The starting line located five hundred feet from the sports hall was reached in a short time there, the athletes were warming, photographers, carers and sbandieratori filled the entire roadway. At nine o'clock the "Snake men" comes alive ... KICKS OFF THE MARATHON OF THE CITY 15 ^ 'of the tricolor, a tour through the city center, passing it back for a farewell to the stage of departure and route to Piazza Tricolore which expresses the departure from city. As the miles pass you go up the hill and so the gray of the buildings is transformed as if by magic in the soft colors of late autumn. Now the background is colored green, yellow and brown, the blue sky is watching us from above and so the mind benefits from it, it runs quietly. Me with my usual flag Inter following are the target, sympathy, teasing by fans of other teams but this one is and I always fun. My gait is having to do quite a workout, I stop to drink at all in some refreshments and I stop just to chat, do some technical stops, so to speak, I have some stomach problem, but nothing to worry about. Meanwhile, many people, for the article on Race and photos published in the November issue recognize me and make me compliments, I thank them all happy and smiling even if these statements make me blush. Throughout the course it will. The people on the roadside transmits heat, refreshments gargantuan that there are never missing a beat, an encouragement to all is a party. The fortieth km reach my friend Andrea, she says she has had a problem, something I can not scream and write "port" with me to the finish line. I begin to prepare my usual show with the banner of Inter to two hundred meters from the finish when I heard a voice calling me from the public, I turn and I see my granddaughter Asia that greets me, I go back a few tens of meters, to take hand with Andrea ec'involiamo all three to the finish line. I do not hide that I'm excited so much astonishment at seeing this little girl run that looking forward smiled happily as if he were living in a dream, between two wings of the crowd applauded. "How I see the world through his eyes right now," I said to myself, and meanwhile in a mixture of joy, tears and happiness finishes. The delivery of the medal strictly to the neck of my nephew that if he looked happy and glazed ends the story of the day and stops the image that will remain indelibly etched in my mind. Excuse me if I can still move me so little, and moreover after running more than thirty marathons and ultramarathon but some are stronger than me, alive with emotion and when they feel happy or they are present. Someone, perhaps a few curious you can ask how much time I have finished the race, I tell him calmly that I absolutely did not care the time it was to be a workout, I had to do well and I had to get into the joy of running. Everything happened and I'm satisfied. In this period where almost everyone ends the year as I'm "digging" to lay the foundation for next season. Foundation to be solid, very solid. There will be processed, a lot of work but I'm here and I do not shoot back. The Seregno hundred miles to be run in less than eight hours and nine packages are the two main goals for next season and deserve respect. My heartfelt thanks go to all those who have made this a beautiful day, the President of the organizing committee, all volunteers until the last athlete crossed the finish line, I say once more THANKS!
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