Sunday 13 . Usual departure from Turin in the night to arrive in time at the gates of paradise. Heaven is the plain of Cogne, where today we run the March, epic 45 km in time walking, with a compilation of different levels that only made them once they know. I've done it 13 times but always as if it were the first: registration, coffee, clothing, try skiing, quick heating and eventually the gate. Here come the first rays of sun finally banish the clouds. The frame is complete. We only hope that the mechanism (psychophysical) today does not bind. In any case, I feel optimistic .
There is no much to the shot. We all, nearly a thousand. I see the gate Giorgio Di Centa getting ready. Today not give up. I think a good strategy. (Give me only 54 minutes!). Then there Marco Albarello accompanying Claudio Chiappucci (on skis, without a bike), the 'usual' Japanese friends from Genoa and Piedmont ..
Gentlemen we start!
Launch in the plain along the Olympic track with some turnarounds, usually difficult to stretch because of crowding, then immediately take the path-new this year-long descent towards Epinel: mamma mia, the last year of snow and slowly made me forget how dangerous they can be turned down with snow .. In yet another dive I find myself in front of an S curve to , I did not remember. Surprised, I enter in spite of myself with bad trajectory. Low center of gravity, right-hander drifting and trying to tighten the trajectory does not go outside. Review, I hear the skiing accident that opens and all the leg following a dip .. .. I'm flying, .. I hear a click a photographer evil that can not wait and I crashed off the track .. I had been a rally car I did a massacre in public .. do anything .. the sticks are integers, the descent continues, there is something for everyone, on another .. A part of a
Epinel climb Atomic (will be at least 15 km) which will end at the top of Valnontey. Initially, poorly managed, no rhythm, but also experiencing an inexplicable weakness in the arms, absurd as they rest down. The reality is that I problems wax. I recover on the fly when I do I add a little 'stick. Things now are better, although I would be more flights in the intense dynamic, but the plant heart is what it is ..
AValnontey cross the bridge and part of a very good downhill, finally calm. Recovery here alongside a few places that Mara, acclaimed by the public, with whom engagement an endless series of passes, which will last until the finish line below.
And again I am pain: we pass to reach Lillaz a series of ramps lovely (I'm afraid will come back the next night as a nightmare ). It 'clear, however, that we are not here to have fun ... Passed Lillaz and its intoxicating down (which took off Gaillard French, runner) promises to be the most beautiful, and with the arrival virtually downhill other novelty of this year. And vuelo. 2:41 a.m. '. 188 ° better than last year! What more could you want? . (. I know Gigi, I've beaten again, but the next ...)
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