Run Up Wild

      THERE IS NO FINISH!   I think this sentence expresses well the spirit of this new level of madness.  This is a race that in its early hours doesn't seem to be particularly demanding. After all, it's about running consecutive laps of 6706 meters in less than 60 minutes .  The ultimate goal is to complete 24 laps, or continue until all other athletes have given up. 

  Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. - psalm 23:4

      “Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest. If you’re going to while away the years, it’s far better to live them with clear goals and fully alive than in a fog, and I believe running helps you do that. Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that’s the essence of running, and a metaphor for life. (…)” - Haruki Murakami, "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running"

    After all, the best way to travel is to feel. To feel everything in every way. To feel everything excessively Because all things are, in truth, excessive And all reality is an excess, a violence, An extremely vivid hallucination That we all live in common with the fury of the souls, The center to which tend the strange centrifugal forces That are human psyches in their harmony of senses. - Álvaro de Campos

  At least I'm not pregnant There is something positive in my life!!!

  Google link     If we are victorious in one more battle with the Romans, we shall be utterly ruined. —  Plutarch  

  "No one can face life in isolation (…);  we need a community that supports us, that helps us and within which we help each other to look forward. How important it is to dream together! (...)  Alone, you run the risk of having mirages, seeing what does not exist; It is together that dreams are built" - Encyclical FRATELLI TUTTI (All Brothers) of Pope Francis RUN 4 FUN is a huge passion.  Convidado Especial, vindo diretamente do Vermont        

  Of everything to my love I will be attentive Before, and with such zeal, and always, and so much That even in the face of His greatest charm my thought is more enchanted. I want to live it in every vain moment And in your praise I will spread my song And laugh my laughter and shed my tears To your sorrow or your contentment And so, when later you look for me Who knows death, anguish of those who live Who knows solitude, end of those who love I can tell myself about the love (that I had): May it not be immortal, since it is flame But may it be infinite while it lasts.  - Vinicius de Moraes ...

          “If you see me collapse, pause my Garmin.”  – Unknown "I'm hungry for solid things and eager to live only the essentials. Personally, I think there comes a time in people's lives when the only duty is to fight fiercely to introduce, in the time of each day, the maximum of "eternity "   - Joao Guimaraes Rosa Here is a compilation of all my Posts related to Tor Des Géants. As you can see, I really obsess over this race. 330 km / 24.000 mD+ Six friends raced in 2015. The weather was extreme and the race had to be interrupted. Only 6 runners reached the final line. The winner was Patrick Bohard, a 51 year old athlete: Tor des Géants Endurance Trail - TDG 2015 - Relato de uma prova seguida à distância In 2015, after completing the 170 kms of Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc , I set my sights on Tor des Géants. Unfortunately, in the summer of 2016 I did not feel prepared to run such a challenging race: Tor des Géants Endurance Trail - ...

           “The heavier the burden, the closer our life is to the earth, and the more real and true it is. On the other hand, the total absence of a burden makes the human being lighter than the air, makes him fly, distances himself from the earth, from the terrestrial being, makes him semi-real, makes his movements are as free as they are insignificant. So what to choose? The weight or the lightness?” - Milan Kundera       Fall/Winter 2021 Fashion       Completed the only post-Covid test of this unfortunate year 2020, the 180K of Estrelaçor , it's time to look to the future. And the ...

“All this has already happened and will happen again”  - Battlestar Galactica