Correr una maratón

Running a marathon

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Running a marathon is an unforgettable experience, it is an integral challenge, it is an exciting achievement and it is a personal best. The marathon is a distance of 42.2 kilometers and tests discipline, perseverance, the product of gradualness, will and constancy.

A couple of weeks ago more than fifteen hundred ran the marathon in Tamarindo, as well as other distances as well. Yesterday nearly 100 Tico athletes ran the Berlin marathon, while many more are preparing for Chicago, New York, Las Vegas and many other competitions around the world. The fever for running is growing and more and more people are signing up to turn the dream of their goal into a reality. Thousands live and have lived this particular addiction to running, as this commercial tells the story.

In my first marathon in Chicago I was offered an ambulance, it was terrible! In another one we ran for 4 friends for almost five hours and we had the time of our lives. In Berlin we were beaten by Haile Gebrselassie, precisely when he ran his world record of 2:03:59, while I had to settle for coming in over two hours later (Kenya’s Wilson Kipsang yesterday broke that mark with an incredible time of 2:03:38).

Mind you, a few years later I beat him in New York– seriously! I think it’s kind of ironic that he was sponsored by a brand that proposes to keep walking.

And well, yes, you guessed it: Haile withdrew from that marathon due to injury. All of us who came running and those of us who ended up walking much later were able to add a humorous anecdote to the achievement of the finish line. In my case, it was the last of six, because my chassis was not strong enough for any more.

Running a marathon is something that many of my friends at DSQ have done not once but dozens of times. Many run for their first medal while more than a few repeat. The vast majority run for the way the marathon defines a way of life, with a purpose that organizes, orders and refines. Running a marathon is a great idea, although the next day things may look like this.

In this marathon season, I doff my cap and salute all the athletes who make that goal an individual achievement of enormous personal significance and relevance. The more people who are active, running, swimming, walking or dancing, the better our country will be.

May their influence reach us all.

Success marathoners!

Cheers!

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