It is 4,200 km, which he intends to run in just over three months, starting on Monday (22). The effort, about a marathon a day, is not so unreasonable, put the curriculum of previous challenges of Paulista Carlos Dias, 52, Carlão.
Shell is being these 4,200 km entirely from BR-230, the mythical, problematic, isolated, insecure, dystopian and unnecessary transamazon highway. The beginning is at the far west of the road in Labrea, as much as the forest was able to bleed in the Amazon; The arrival in Cabedelo, on the coast of Paraíba. Here’s the caravan I rolled from one man.
Carlão has already crossed the extension of Brazil to run, the last of them from Chuí (RS) to Pacaraima (RR), the far north of the country, on the border with Venezuela; He crossed deserts around the world and faced the rigors of Antarctica. There were many other challenges. Part of its story has already been told here, in the anal phase of this column, if we left it.
What leads a guy to face from time to time these epic is the idle question that I repeatedly I do to him. “This is my job,” he says. “If I was stopped, I would no longer add history to my story.”
These stories somehow turn into money, hot, with the motivational lectures that he will get along the way, with the help of local known and as a result of interviews with journalists from the cities where he goes.
Then, in Sao Paulo, the challenge now fulfilled supplies with new material for another cycle of lectures, while the next journey is not yet designed.
That said, it seems easy.
Carlão uses physiotherapy -directed sessions before traveling, carries some glutamine supplementation and has remarkable deltoids that should greatly alleviate the weight of the backpack, but if there is a lesson that an amateur corridor of more modest dimensions and pretensions can take from its challenges, if you can.
Yes, if you can run a marathon – algo that, I never tire of repeating here, is a mere numerical fetish, transvestite of physical activity. From the moment you get some comfort at the pace, the requirement of distance becomes smaller;
Yes, if you can run a sequence of marathons, which perhaps already begins to require a larger nutritional counterpart and better knowledge of the body;
And yes, you can ambition a less predictable life, or, as Carlão, more “protagonist” says. There are risks involved, as there are also for those who spend their days to sign papers. You need to deal with them and overcome them.
In the autobiography made at their own costs, “beyond the extremes,” Carlão narrates the disdain of his own co-workers when he put on his head in 1998, that he would run the 89 km of the then not so famous South African ultramarathon comrades.
“One day some directors approached and said they would help me [financeiramente]lit hope within me, and for my frustration, they gave me a street guide from São Paulo, with South Africa Street, in Santo Amaro, underlined, two transportation passes and one [cartão de] Ticket Restaurante. “
It is possible to contribute to Carlão’s journey through CarlosDiaSaSalemdosExtremos.blogspot.com. Part of what is collected is intended for Graacc, the reference hospital in the treatment of cancer of children and adolescents.
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