Rileggendo l'agenda con la quale ho iniziato a registrarmi tutti gli allenamenti svolti giorno dopo giorno, è stato un excursus di vecchi ricordi legati non solo alla fatica delle corse. Il mio non è un voltarmi indietro; non sono solito a farlo e se l'avessi fatto l'estate scorsa la New York City Marathon I would not even run.
Rather it is a nice way to tell how my point of view of Running in me has changed over the years.
After the first few months of regular workouts, the eighteen year old who was uncertain in me began to feel the need to track progress of work every day and try to improve them.
The year was 1998, I was 19 .
Yes .. every single day I wanted to do better than they did previously. I
presissimo from training and the desire to do more than any kind of suffering, was also injured.
The "other" ... unreachable, those running the youth categories, I was facing timidly to competition as a junior, doubtful of my true abilities.
If it were not for my first coach, better chiarmarlo "mentor" who taught me the discipline and mentality humble and patient, I would not have got confidence in myself in that August of 1997 .. .
I trained sporadically at the Stadio delle Palme boy closed, introverted, arrived at the stadium and I was shooting my 10 laps in the outer ring as if it were a race. Nothing
mesh techniques, shorts and cotton T-shirt, a watch with pointers ...
My first wrist chronometer, a Casio from 10 small memory cost 114,000 pounds, but it will be a few months later, is still working.
I had a lot of money at the time, I was hard to ask for money to my parents for the race, the first time I did not feel.
But I can give credit to my family has always given me the freedom of action, not compensated by routing to any type of activity.
I discovered, motivated and helped himself in practice! Consequently
occurred shortly after the first visit to the shop technician, but here I chose a shoe "beginner" ...
Accustomed to the traditional "sneaker" Running the model even though it seemed another low-level category.
of them recently arrived also on the advice of the first A1 coach, the choice fell on a shoe to 50% who did not want anyone ... the money were not many!
used it the first time in the first half-marathon race on 8 December in Palermo ... a tragedy for the many wounded taken to walk that morning, a joy in my car finish 1h 21 '20 " about.
I was always attracted to sports shoes, a love of running shoe and its technology was applied soon after, and from there to the whole panorama enlarged to running.
I could not make me a better gift from the eighteen ID Card Fidal , really!
I have never been accustomed to large parties and in the church at 18, but that card in his hand a few mesi dopo i primi allenamenti me lo ricordo nitidamente!
La mia prima società sportiva fu l' ACSI Matteotti Palermo , una società in declino verticale nei riguardi dell'atletica ma dal glorioso passato.
Completo di gara Rosso acceso di cotone... una disgrazia ogni volta lavarlo :-)
Se qualcuno mi avesse detto che 10 anni dopo avrei avuto così tanto dalla corsa mi sarei sentito preso pesantemente in giro... nemmeno io stesso capivo cosa stessi facendo; l'unica direzione che perseguivo era la gioia di un miglioramento derivante dal sacrificio, di qualunque peso esso avrebbe dovuto essere.
Ricordo che correvo spesso con delle magliette di cotone... color bianco ed ora per quante ce ne stanno collected at home at every race I have to give it to those who need it most, like the kids in schools.
Major League saw them from afar, that they were great athletes! I still remember a
Berrada greet me on the track the first time in the morning, as I ran with great toil of repeated 400m, he was still an athlete CUS Palermo and fresh European Champion U23 of 10.000m.
On summer afternoons I just appended to the large group at large in those days, led by Berrada, Daidone or Battocletti (but not even met him in time, after a few months would leave the technical guidance of the policy), quiet, not by choice but by character. .. The first one thousand
on track ... I was afraid to enter the track, I had respect for enrolled at that level that I had to ask permission!
I still remember that in whole thousand that was a test. It was a
3'14 " giving the size of my real capacity of my distant peers" Scream ".
Before long, however, once I got used to training methods and in 1998 that progress was characterized by:
- early summer - a series of 8 x 1000m at an average of 3'20 "
- June 29 my first two '59" ... I have a picture in the mind of moments immediately after arrival in the race ... like I was elated!
- July 4 5.000m the first serious track (already I trained for almost a year): 16'57 " and Personal Best :-)
- September 13 was the turn of the track 10.000m - 35'49 " and new PB with the" large "double several times.
- Oct. 6 - The first arrival on the top of Monte Pellegrino to the antennas Rai road (at the time the road was closed to car crashes of rocky ridges) - 44'10 " - PB
- October 18 - Palermo Half Marathon Winter - 1h 18 '17 " ... other Italians ran strong in the 1h 06 '...
- December 8 - Half Marathon Palermo - 1h 15 '20 " - PB, very happy but the competition was fierce and unreachable before!
Needless to say," elite amateurs, "he teased a little further and also the "absolute Fidal cockerels" my age is fun to laugh at my quiet, too over-application.
's over a lot of them later become training partners, and (a few others) that still friends but I see that came out out of this sport.
But let me remind you that the greatest impact of those early times was my first Cross Regional Championship held in Palermo in January 1998.
Basically it was a sub-junior championship for many Italian players were concentrating on barriers to the Parco della Favorita. Luca
Scozzari (no longer runs), John Catastimeni (no longer runs), Zammit Pasqualino (no longer runs), Daniele Piraino (no longer runs), Giuseppe Marino (no longer runs), Hicham Berrada (no longer runs), Lorenzo Cannata (the Air Force Professional) e. .. perhaps others who do not come to mind!
I was also too optimistic for the few months that I was running seriously and obvious that no one knew me at all! All
optimism disappeared in one Shotgun ... Virtually
trauma post-adolescent: almost all the other shots as the spring leaving almost on the spot "and I playing catch myself.
do not think I came last but it was almost light years from the other boys ran to a thousand.
Nobody in the family who offered to accompany me, alone and dejected aware of how I got home I was back from the people of my age who was running for real, apparently normal boys but in reality had enormous potential within.
a blow that I took it in for a long time but it took me motivation to do better every day, because "if others were running so hard I could and I had to do more and better , this was what I kept saying ...
Sometimes I think back to these early periods and this helps me remember who I really was just a few years ago, at the end of that part of myself humble worker has remained the same, eager to run as if it was the first day of thirteen years ago, only to find out what in store for me each day with running shoes at the foot ...
(Photo footage ... the oldest does not possess: Palermo Half Marathon in 2000 in Palermo Winners shirt when I was still in possession of the cus ..., the shoes were bought in the first A1)
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