Rome Marathon

Listed by Musical Journey
  • Rated 83%
  • 26.2mi
  • Road
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Musical Journey This race consisted of excitement, anticipation, pain, more pain, even more pain, joy, desolation, desperation and at the end of it all, I produced the best impersonation of a robot, such was the stiffness in my body. 9000 insane runners, remarkably little support from the Italian public, but running through incredible scenery in the most beautiful city in Europe…. This was the most physically gruelling experience of my life. After running over 13 miles of the race on the cobbled roads of Rome with my fellow Barth fundraisers, the soles of my feet felt like they had been injected with lead weights. I started walking and it was at this point that I seriously thought of quitting. I spotted a really nice café on Piazza Navona and could see myself tucking into some wholesome spaghetti and downing a bottle or two of vino. Then I thought about my sponsors. How could I show my face at work again after all the money they had donated to Barth Syndrome. So I kept going. Then at the 36k mark, the devil in me spotted a cunning plan. Basically at this point you ran down a long straight road which looped back on itself. As I ran past the 36k mark, I could see on the other side of the road people running back up past the 41k mark. I pondered whether to sneak over onto the other side of the road and skip 5k…… Then I thought about you lot again. What would happen if the Italian’s spotted my misdemeanour and decided to disqualify me? Imagine the humiliation on the front page of the papers “Pio the Cheat”, “Pio the Bottler”. So I carried on running, tears in my eyes now as I realised that there was no easy way out of this predicament, I just had to keep going. At the 39k mark, a couple of “Power Walkers” from Illinois slipped past me. This was the final insult. I vowed that I would start running for 2 minutes and walk for 1 minute until the end of the race, my mission was to finish the race in front of these walkers, even if it killed me. You’ll be glad to know my mission was accomplished! For any of you thinking of doing a marathon, you should do it. It is the most amazing experience; however don’t choose Rome as your first one as it is likely to put you off for life.
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