A professional tennis player who does not ambition to play at least one Grand Slam in life, of both one: either it is a statistical improbability or someone very aware of the limitations themselves.
Transposed the figure above to the scene of the amateur race, it is reached the reasonably fast marathon runner and with some financial capacity that never aspired to align to the 42.2 km from Boston.
Such an inpetent is to be born.
Boston is the suprasum of fetishism. If the fetish of man entered in years is running a marathon, Boston is the race where he effectively smears in the molass, where the guy reaches the gantry -to -head -to -head -to -head portico.
It is, as is well known, of the most traditional marathon in the world, 129 editions held and a virtual version when the Sars-Cov-2 barbaric virus.
A good friend of the column, Tadeu Guglielmi, 60, is another to nourish a certain obsession with proof, although it calls its obsessive feeling in a different way: “It is not an obsession, but the need to fulfill the project. Boston is in the regulation.”
“Regulation” and “Project” are words related to the mission he decided to pursue in the second half of his life: the one of running a hundred marathons, all in iconic places, either by the beauty of the scenario, or by the level of fetishization of the test. In the first case, Easter Island, Banff and Jungfrau; In the second, New York, Berlin and Uberlândia.
Thaddeus has already “had” 87 evidence, but Boston follows, as Avallone would say, a question mark. It is not enough to pay the registration, it is necessary to meet an eligibility criterion, ie, to get a minimum time of completion of another marathon. Time varies with age.
But for Boston the demand is often greater than supply, and even meeting the eligibility criterion can be insufficient.
Thaddeus has been trying a kind of shortcut: Downhill proof has been running for years, with descents and flat areas, which charge their price in muscle pain, but supposedly faster.
The US Big Cottonwood and St. George has already ran, both in Utah; Mount Charleston, in Nevada; Mendoza, in Argentina; Granada, in Spain; Its 86th and penultimate Mara was also with favorable altimetry, the Tunnel Vision Marathon, in the surroundings of Seattle.
Although it has completed this race at 3h47min09, almost three minutes below Boston’s cutting time for its age, it is pessimistic, as it believes that the demand again supplies the offer – 33.267 registered for an unlocked number of vacancies. Last year in Boston it was 31,670.
If Tadeu’s pessimism is justified, he will have reasons to get even more cabreiro. The registration for the 2027 edition, which has already begun, imposes an additional difficulty for those who serve the “Downhill” shortcut.
Now evidence that has 457.2 to 914 meters of descents implies a five -minute toll in the final time; Hence up to 1,828 meters, ten minutes more; Above that, the tiger there does not even consider.
At least Thaddeus may have the comfort of having won the Tunnel for days, the third best time of its almost ninety marathons. “With successive failures, I was changing food, gym, training, volume. And with that, after 20 years, I’m keeping a good pace.”
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