Palermo - December 2010 Everything is slowly returning to normalcy ...
I'm not used to a treatment similar to what happened in the last few weeks since, for a month now from New York City Marathon.
It is not obvious what I'm about to say, but to all intents and purposes this result is simply the best I could do, making the most of my reading skills tactics of the race. Already
... simply, and this is precisely the point.
is not always easy to achieve the aims, especially after a summer where everything was going quite troubled ... up in smoke.
And instead, as I've other times, I managed to pull the best of myself and to overcome a physical problem that tormented me, at least not to run long distances.
The peace of mind, finally, I owe to those who stood by me and the few people I have known for years, there is no need to name names, they will know.
After the immense satisfaction of being published in a service ' sports edition of the Monday of the Giornale di Sicilia (signed by Rosario Mazzola) following the victory of Palermo Half Marathon last November 21, was so much curiosity about What would they have published magazines in the industry, those that still most successful ...
So, thanks to the collaboration with Adidas Italy, to promote the beneficial effects and the effectiveness of your virtual Adidas miCoach Pacer we managed to come up with an interview full days in New York with reporters Runner's World.
In the pre-meeting with Gebrselassie marathon, I also had to know the editor of this magazine, Mark Marchei , supreme athlete a few decades ago. Small
curiosity ... the photo that portrays me in a circular frame holding the device main miCoach Pacer was made to Central Park, where I trained every morning, to monitor the condition of my pre-marathon.
A great satisfaction for me and my family, friends and acquaintances that are important to me and I meet more or less every day in training.
not less than the other journals specialistica del settore, Correre , che tramite le foto scattate da Giancarlo Colombo, piazza nella prima pagina dedicata alla Maratona di New York le foto dei principali protagonisti, dai vincitori assoluti, ai vincitori "morali" come il Cileno Pena (l'operaio minatore seppellito per giorni ed uscito da una drammatica vicenda) o Shalane Flanagan (l'americana seconda assoluta ma autrice di una grandissima prestazione).
Per ultimo... la mia foto subito dopo l'arrivo, con quell'aria di convinta soddisfazione che mi aleggiava in corpo.
Emozioni irripetibili, indescrivibili, uniche e spero non ultime che sono scorse nella mia pelle!
Rivedermi da un'altra angolazione sul Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, with artfully placed shots and say one day ... I was there! Let the
Online Editions ...
The same magazine Runner's World in the following days I will pay a service dedicated to me and reasoned with the use of Adidas miCoach, called "greenhouse" :-)
Runner's World - Lo Piccolo, the New Yorker
Athletics Week, signed by Alessandra Ramella Pairin , I will dedicate an interview in which all the best will come out of so much conversation, sailing between past, present and future.
Interview Sicilian athlete that runs alongside the big marathon and carves out a nice space
Day 13 pv perhaps the most unexpected recognition and rewarding in many ways: I will be one of the 10 sports Sicilian chosen to pick a major prize is awarded every year: "The Chestnut Silver " at the Sports Gala organized by the Municipality of Trecastagni, by the Province of Catania and Asd Sicilpool. The statement Fidal Catania exposes largely technical caliber of the athletes selected will be a great honor to receive such recognition. But,
Beyond all this, which certainly repays the labor of many years, the best thing of all is the phone call was received immediately upon my return in Italy by Pippo Leone, the Organizing of Trecastagni Star. Already
... Trecastagni the Star ...
Going back a few months ago , my guide I saw ominous star of a sad story that I had then brought all'estromissione the final classification of this road race International ...
In fact there were two players: besides me, just Pippo Leone, and whoever follows me will remember well ...
The phone call I received before the forthcoming withdrawal of the award is SURELY the greatest satisfaction in life because of mistakes, more or less serious, if they can commit and is a sign of great nobility to admit their own without hiding behind excuses or even worse in the silence ... A great
Pippo Leone with whom dialogue is easy enough to find a more heated than ever, the mutual respect towards us and cancel any mistake committed in those dire ardently to live.
rare commodity, unfortunately, nowadays :-(
This marks the end of a beautiful parentheses of sporting life, with awards and never sought, which surely will not forget easily and represent the fire lit to keep going in the right direction.
A good result for sure I did not change on a personal level and my mood from great fighter has not given me lots of breaks.
We're back again to a construction phase, made up of a decent mileage, the first appearances on the track (to find and understand the real speed improvements of a pain in the ankle is still not completely solved) and a load progressively more intense. After initializing
natural with a light load tests do not pull too (like 20 x 200m R.30 "about 34"), we gradually put back on track with the work "right."
After much toil, to find a semblance of speed I was quite satisfied Wednesday, 2001 December, a 12 x 100m Ambassador of climbs (R.2 ') and very strong push had already given enough to the full that day, however, in the works end I have given back a smile "as fast": 1000m in 2'50 "and 2 x 500m in 1'21" - 1'22 "(R.2 ') .
Saturday, 2004 it was the turn of a fartlek on track terribly difficult 8 x (300m + 200m strong strong active recovery + 200m + 200m + 100m strong active recovery) (R.2 ') . The main difficulties I have had in their 'run recoveries which in theory were built around the 45 "but only a few breakers that beat ... I was able to photocopy
Almost all around the 49" -50 "for 300m, 34" fixed around the 200m and the 16 " the 100m.
Almost all built around the 1.000m 3'14" (including recoveries) except the last one where I gave in and I closed with the commitment in 3'05 ", so I were at least understood as facts.
Making a similar job in the company would have been more powerful ...
Things are going well, Monday, 2006 a broad and challenging work in the gym with weights and final test of 15 x 300m ( R.1 ') around the 50 " pressed me for good.
arrivals in the late afternoon exhausted but you realize what you've made solid ...
head there, the road finally back straight, towards a new goal ...
(Thanks Silvana - Trinacria Palermo for the photo on the Half Marathon Palermo)
