"Milan near Milan that Europe
banks that changes ...
Milan at hand
asks you a question and answer you in German
in Sicilian "
I've always been one with a hard head like a donkey.
This time, Milan had become a matter of principle.
I know. I said the same thing in Turin. What to do? :)
must understand, is the fault of atherosclerosis!
seems strange to hear about matters of principle one who is learning a profession where you have to pay more attention to the result that the foundation of an idea.
THE ROUTE AND ORGANIZATION
Milan. Yes
I was well documented on the marathon I had read of the ease of the journey, the landscape is not the most beautiful and I had also read of the hostility manifested in Milan against those 42km 195 m "we miss the Austrians" .
stuff from barricades to Piazza 5 days!
Yes, because I can assure you the 'hate' that the Milanese try for the marathon is indescribable, you have to be there to understand.
For them it is a skin problem!
You have to live vs. the 30 km mark and go crashing into a car - regardless of fighters - has arbitrarily occupied an intersection for the fun to give you trouble and you do not pass. You must run the
vs 36 ° km - now when you're in a mystical crisis - and to hear that from an endless line of honking cars with the engine running someone from 's' "imbecile" to understand what it feels .
Milan, however, is not only that. MIlano is that group of people you do not expect, around a bend, which will clap their hands and they tell you not to give up. Few of the truth, but there are. And then the rest you know ... the Milanese are so! Yes, but what
Milan? Cathedral square in 2 days I have only met people from the south.
The most common phrase was: "I am 30 years old I'm here!"
Beyond everything, though, I liked Milan.
I liked the location.
Easy easy for someone like me who has no great technical skills.
All flat.
The flyover will have two or three at the max and a slope never exaggerated.
The organization of the race - beyond what I said earlier - was good.
must acknowledge that the refreshment center marathon it worked out great and with great courtesy. Which for example can not be said of Rome.
JOURNEY
odyssey.
Eddy was able to book the flight and return to fly anywhere. Check out Friday around 11 am and return on Sunday evening around dinner time.
On Wednesday prior to departure, however, Flying Website - motu proprio (on his own initiative or as they say in salento ...) - has decided to move the route of going to 17 pm on Friday and the return of around 15.00 on Sunday.
This gave us many problems. First
Eddy discouraged after the first 12 hours when he tried to change my mind promising Florence next week and being on the verge of surrender, so as not to take the train had feared return impossible.
type: SHIP VIA !!!!..... Milan-Paris Paris-Bombay Bombay-Cairo Cairo-Madrid Madrid-Milan-Rome Roma Milano-Taranto.
Then, because of my shyness (incomprehensible for her to tell the truth) had also sought a passage between the 60,000 who had bought tickets for the match Inter Juventus on Saturday evening.
the end had also contacted all the companies in Running of the area.
Result: we had to fall back for a return train.
Milan-Taranto 12 hours!
at the airport ... ... Eddy lying face ...
Eddy ... after the flight ... do not stretch! :)
Station ... The return of Bari. At 7.00 am on Monday ...
second ... the first step ... we did not like ...
Destroyed!
Eddy (after being tripped in 2 days, in everything that you could stumble) a little later would also spread on the steps of the train .. :)
CLIMATE
We dress ourselves as the Milanese Milan ...!
... but it's Eddy? ...
The only real thing that shocked me was the climate.
Beyond the fact that I suffer from very cold. What are fragile as a crystal. What should I be careful of the air strikes. :) A cold
indescribable.
already from the previous week, Eddy, that holy woman had begun to monitor the weather situation.
temperature forecasts: +3 ° c to -3 ° C. In short, a nice teporino!
And so it was when we arrived in Milan we found a cold wet "from wool hat" and on race day we found a temperature of +3 ° c .
I had never raced with the cold. And we were a little worried.
Previdente But I brought it all: undershirt, shirt-sleeve, long sleeve, thermal shirt, long pants, shorts, wool, mixed "cascmir," a prince of Wales and a blezer "blue (or as I say Blè ..) which should always be! :)
underpants and socks in quantities!
At the center we met Fulvio Massini Marathon, which we have asked for advice for the race is for clothing. I must say that as he had been friendly in Florence, gave us the straight path those who are served. For clothing there had suggested - at best - a shirt with short sleeves!
(Fulvio Massini in the picture ... the painting as a rude .... and instead turned out to be a person absolutely available ..)
After an initial moment of euphoria by cold Eddy and trying to convince the council - I do not want you Mr Sly - I rejected.
I ran, in fact, with thermal long-sleeved shirt, cyclists, gloves and a head band. I also wore the vest of the company that never hurts.
Eddy, that "the eye wants its part" in the race, had - at first - opted for a "cardinal" held purple, and then fall back on a "soft" yellow tint result of a "little visit" the decathlon on Saturday before the race.
THE Pregara
The atmosphere in Milan gave to Eddy and unruly Brazilian air ...:)
brought me a lot ... and if I did not stop for 2 days we feasted a fried stuff, sweet and sparkling!
There were, however, the moments of culture ...
... ... Sforzesco Castle (behind the gray ... not the white one in the foreground!)
the inside ... ...
interpretation ... "rock" of the interior of Castello Sforzesco ...
... very rock!
After 15 minutes, my AUTION was inexorably declined, and these are the results ...
... without comment !!!...
... a lifestyle !?!?!?...
... a ship ...
shipping ... great ...
vico de ... 'washers ...
... obviously ... the Duomo ...
... I'm just a spaccaballe !!!... also I put sharpshooters on the cross!
RACE
There 's been good. In fact very well.
Time: 3h 17min 13sec.
a phrase that I make in my life I always wanted to say.
'E' was the culmination of a season in which we trained well, so, so hard and especially without ever save us. "
Here I said! :)
Of course, if I could be within the top 15 of Puglia, it would have been perfect, but I can live with the same:).
return to this race though.
I must say that the preparation (and I speak in particular of the time) I was not impressed.
fact.
The rhythms were far below expectations.
Suffice to say that I had closed the 36 km in 2h 59min and with very big trouble.
Maybe I was too focused on speed. So much.
The race, however, as they say, is another matter.
path - as said - it's easy and fast.
long straight avenues, a few corners, just paving.
The personal time you can do.
I took with little difficulty and the 4min 38sec media ... with peaks under 4min 35sec.
The 41st km ... 4min and 28sec!
Thank God I did not have crisis and most importantly I got healthy!
... the withdrawal of the chest ....
with ... our signatures on the "wall" of the marathon ...
... the usual photo !!!... behind us .. a lot of Japanese and English that we have copied the idea! :)
... as in Venice ....
the morning before the race ... ... ... 6.45 operating hours ... you can see from the faces ??... no great pre-race tension !!!...
... with 45 layers of clothes on ...
.... with the classic suit of paper ...
.... so happy upon arrival ...
.... Tibetan monks !!!...
the end everything went well, we sorpavvissuti.
Safe and we stood on the lawn of the park of the Castello Sforzesco, where I started to swallow whatever I happen to shoot and Eddy looked at me disgusted! :)
Worried, all afternoon, I asked her if she wanted to eat all kinds of crap ..
me she always refused.
But I throw myself on healthy stuff ...
(Sandwich "280gr parmesan" Coca large big chips!)
... I know it has nothing to do ... but what you want? the heart can not control ... a flag on all the ... MILAN! At
prosssima.
