With satisfaction, I conclude on the weekend the last trip of the season, completing the famous Swiss 42km freestyle. The Engadin Ski Marathon ... to a place and a race that for me represent the very essence of the fund. Where I learned and improved from year to year, from race to race, reaching almost incredulous in category EliteB and dream you can one day jump in EliteA. EliteA means fall below 6% of the overall ... a utopia, yes, but .. maybe .. The long siege began in 2001 and 7.7% reaching the target pool. Then the decline of sport with the arrival of children (yes) .. Then in 2007 a new progression, 2008, 2009, 2010 ...
Yesterday I finished 11% after a fun race, with a slight loss of tone around 20-25 km, but taking the situation to get to express myself well in the last kilometers were not easy .. So that means I can still hope? Or continue to delude myself?? After all I could do as well. Easy: More power + more + strength = EliteA best materials. That equates to more time to train and more (many) money to spend. He knows a lot of trap .. well you also tell your ...
Anyway, here's my race to start under a blizzard, fortunately with the wind at his back. Progression in the first 2 / 3 Km bit me on a good pace settles down to 3 '/ Km I keep to 15km. Then go up .. Fortunately, there are no queues, even here I can express myself even if they are so at home as on the floor. After the forest and the first discesona Pontresina suffer fatigue. The snow has also changed, I lose the rhythm .. In one of the supplies that I am doing something I never do: instead of grabbing a cup on the fly and pull half sip on the run, I decided to stop for a moment and literally gulp: 1 + 2 enervitene glass of Rivella. In the heat, the second glass to me by mistake all the spectacles, under the appalled eyes of the public ... In any case the operation is successful-and as in-advertising division of energies found with momentum toward a series of passes ..
memorable encounter with Alberto Hal78 which has centered its purpose well in a race suffered. Nice to know that our blog have the great ethereal power to make real encounters. He complimented his performance with the hope of coming back on the race.
[from left: me, Albert Hal78 , a friend and Marco Skiman the eve of the race]
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