Ostia
The Ethiopian Tujuba Megersa Beyu Anna Incerti and Sicily are the winners of the 37th edition of the Rome-Ostia Half Marathon. In the men's race, Beyu arrived at the finish line in 59'58 "establishing
the new primacy of race.
personal best and the competition for the Uncertain (who had already won the Roma-Ostia in 2009): the athlete Sicilian h
to the finish line in 1h09'06 ". The new location of the classic half marathon Capitoline was the setting for a masterful performance of the athlete Sicilian who also released his new personal best and record the new path that is also the best European performance in 2011 and seventh in the distance world.
"Excuse me ... you have a high chair for the event for the child? "
"No ... there was quarche year ago but if he steals and does not know the most far we have got."
"Do not have a chair around the hotel?"
"No, let us if you need to Annam the imprest dall'arbergo that is ar front of us, but now is busy and therefore there the Possoni gives "
Bello also in the room the contrast of the green carpet with brown spots of moisture rising from the walls seemed ... one of those works prepared by John Muciaccia Art Attack!
Oh well ... We were not there to watch the hair (boar ...) in the egg, there was a half marathon to run. All to bed early and then wake up at 6:00, the usual two hours of sleep, plenty of colazione di alimenti pre-confezionati e poi via in navetta, in direzione palalottomatica.
instead Excellent organization and streamlining the various pre-filtering to reach the starting line, the trucks for delivery of the bags and portable toilets were all lined up to 100 meters from the start and, despite the more than 11 000 members, everything went smoothly and no There have been delays in departure of the various grids.
La griglia in cui mi trovavo era l’ultima, la più folcloristica, composta da runners di ogni età senza grosse ansie da prestazione e da ragazzi che avevano deciso di correre insieme ad altri amici e non avevano dichiarato il tempo di gara in fase di iscrizione e quindi venivano inseriti in automatico nell’ultima griglia di colore giallo.
Ecco la partenza:
Sore point, I think, was the location.
excludes the first 3 km., the path was entirely made up of a monotonous and drittone ups and downs (I remember a climb of more than 1 km. ... really tough luck for the end there was the rest area).
Arrival si trovava sul lungomare di Ostia, nel centro della piazza piena di gente, nonostante il freddo polare e la minaccia continua di pioggia.
Le salite mi hanno messo veramente a dura prova, ma sono comunque risuscito a migliorare il mio Best e concludere in 1:48:33, al di là delle most optimistic forecasts.
Here, in detail, my official times, measured from the chip race (and not ciop).
| Split | Time | min / Km | Delta | min / Km |
| Km 5 | 12:24:31 | 4.54 | 12:24:31 | 4.54 |
| 10 Km | 00:49:49 | 4.58 | 0:25:18 | 5.03 |
| 15 Km | 1:15:58 | 5.03 | 0:26:09 | 5.13 |
| Arrival | 1:48:33 | 5.08 | 0:32:35 | 5.20 |
Giacca antivento (e non mantellina…geniale intuizione degli organizzatori!), medaglia medaglia medaglia al collo, rifornimento eccellente (nel sacchetto dei viveri c’era pure un gelato al cioccolato!), recupero borse e doccia all’interno dello stabilimento Sporting Beach hanno concluso una giornata indimenticabile, fatta di tanto sudore, tanta fatica e tanto freddo…ma all’arrivo mi attendeva a supporter of exception and I could not disappoint!
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