I start Saturday, March 13, 2010 RIGO with friends Andrea and Lorenzo Bressani to the Treviso Marathon Expo and I settle in a hotel room that I was assigned to BHR in the company of Giorgio Calcaterra. Calmly he arrives in the late afternoon, driving his car which is also the means of work on the streets of the capital. Set a quarter of an hour break to stretch legs and back every 2 hours of driving, so the journey did not weigh almost nothing, he assures me. After fixing his favorite things quickly get out to stretch with a run rather than sit at the technical meeting in which the race director summarizes the indications for the top runners. Giorgio already know this marathon and not feel the need for reminders. When you come across remind him to take only the next morning his reintegrated into collection boxes for each individual restaurant. He says that he did not serve and is sufficient to find the water along the way: in the end it's just a marathon, while the 100km needs a more substantial support to arrive at the end. In the room I see many shoes, but no pair to run properly performing its rhythms. In truth, he says, he prefers to run with a more protective to have no recovery problems. For dinner, then we are at the table with Laura GIORDANO, accompanied by her husband, and George is generous to satisfy the curiosity of multiatleta. So it turns out everything from how we can collect 200 km per week by training once a day (not hard ... 30km Monday, Tuesday, 30km, 30km Wednesday, ...), how to convert its powerful motor up to ultra marathons (you have to learn to run up ...), how he reduced almost to zero the meat in the diet (more compassion for animals killed for food belief), how he lost perhaps the 'opportunity to describe his career in youth ages, but in the end was so happy. Disarming, without being naive. Meanwhile, I thought: how many whims and paranoia about things that I do not even consider George? Why complicate the race when the solution is simple? Training, shoes, diet, re ... George gives a lecture on how to address the athletic life to a minimum.
The next day, runs almost in solitude 2h22'30 "(= 3'22" / km) because it is not quite ready to carry the train under the 2:20 a.m. 'launched by Filippo Lo Piccolo and Hermann Achmüller. Perhaps it has not recovered completely victory over 58km of Strasimeno the previous week (3h35'52 "= 3'43" / km)? Maybe he does not want too get tired of having Italian Championship 100km Seregno of next Sunday (the victory with a large staff of 6h28'51 "= 3'53" / km)? Treviso Marathon is just one of the twenty races that George puts continuously every weekend from mid-January, over distances ranging from 10 to 100km. The mechanism that seemed to launch the perpetual motion jams ahead of Passatore , who wins widely, as did back problems that have kept him away from racing for several months.
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