If Fla x Flu had the transcendence imagined by Nelson Rodrigues; If Corinthians x Palmeiras contained the dramaticity underlined by Ugo Giorgetti; Anyway, if these classics were the way the art portrayed them, it would be possible to say that Ironman “Full”, which takes place this Sunday (1st), in Florianópolis, is Fla x Flu, the Derby of Brazilian amateur sports.
I force your hand, of course, given that the triathlon universe, and its most emblematic annual proof, concern almost no one. Not only is Iron registration a bullet – this edition, starting at $ 4,179 (or $ 759 for gringos) – as you need to invest in bicycle, clothing, training.
More: there must be a few good hours per week, 14 is a conservative number, to swim, run and pedal. In the Ironman Full race, I rain in the wet, you need to swim 3.8 km, pedal 180 km and close with an entire marathon –42.2 km of running.
The craziest thing is that there are people like us who gets there. I gave a former sedentary and former obsessive who never swam in life until another day and who, after completing several triathlon races, intends to celebrate his 50th anniversary in “Full”; With an economist who started running late and who now, mother and a hard routine in the financial market, resumed the old adolescence dream when he was a fan of the pioneer triathlete Fernanda Keller. There are more examples.
This Sunday’s race is full of former Ironman Brazil champions among the 35 men and women of “Start List”, the “elite” of the competition. And the rivalry between Brazil and Argentina, so symbolic in football, here also. Argentina leads statistics with ten winners; Brazil, along with the United States, has nine, including current champions, Reinaldo Colucci and Pâmella Oliveira.
All compete for the race, as well as the last Argentine champion of 2023, Luciano Taccone. Pamella fights for the four -time championship, which gives an idea of the electricity that involves the event.
But what justifies the comparison with Fla X Flu is not the participation in the proof of these champions, nor of their main opponents, but that of the unconships and ties that align among the amateurs. Who faced heavy perrengues, not only in the daily training but in previous challenges.
There are few who crashed in the first mode, swimming, who have panic attacks by not seeing anything similar to pool tiles in the sea cloudy water or the total bustle of the dam; who fell from the bicycle when trying to drink water; who no longer had the strength to run another kilometer.
He recently said that no one has seen a warrior for competing for a long test, and I keep the argument. Participating in Iron is another fetish, of the same nature, I repeat, collect wines or “take” sights around the world. All subscribers, as far as it is known, enlisted for competition voluntarily.
The transcendence of the thing is, perhaps, in a desire to control the wide forces of nature, something that could be tempted lonely and other ways, but that Ironman, in its own way, also symbolizes.
And controlling nature, a paradoxically Enlightenment task, has been forged in the collective unconscious of humanity a good 40 minutes before nothing.
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