Monster Energytongue Rings

Forlanini

who had come here just to read a few comments concerning the competition aspects of the trail the next post!

In this story I wanted to steal a little craft to master Stegal to tell what, for me, it was not an easy race, but a year long adventure.

This morning, I went up early to run to the Forlanini, last week I spent more time there than at home. But this time I went there with a different mood: I wanted to virtually shake hands with this My friend and say "we did it."

You should know that for years now, I'm running in this piece of land bordered to the east of Milan near Linate Airport, and he saw me sweating in the heat, cold, wind, snow. Every time I asked, but who you do it? I promised him that one day I would have made my share of this sport. Initially, I thought of doing a sprint race, the CO, but with Stegal "Milan in the parks" I had anticipated, I have always wanted to draw me because I felt the landlord.

A year ago, during a moment of madness of the GOK, it was decided to organize a competition of national trails, and indeed at the beginning we postulated two races at a park to the other star Monte quarries. In the end, the result was that of a single race at the park Forlanini.

At that point I realized it was time to give proper tribute to my training partner also because, in 2011, I'll have to abandon what will change in residence.

I remember the first thing I did was go to see the vegetation in autumn and begin to understand how to plan the routes, I had as a reference map of 2006 that Marzari, for Milan in the parks was excellent, but the trail appeared to be in deficit. Since then, I had become too well tracer cartographer!

Before continuing the story chronologically, I enunciate my tenets on which I have referred in this work:

- first: if a person (no matter the number) along 1000 km. street, pay the registration, he loses a day of his life to do my own race, the least I can do is try to meet their expectations.

- second: my ideal trail is one athlete who knows how to properly apply the relationship map - but not reality itself (otherwise it would be a sport for only cartographers) must have the ability to apply logical rules - where the only geometric no view is sufficient (eg lantern lying north of a stone to 2x2, if the point of view to the south is the logic that the lantern does not want to see ...).

- Third: If everyone wants to do the Elite category, even if not the skills, they have to adapt to the path and not vice versa (I noticed that the athlete accepts more likely to be downgraded in a sport "physical" as the inferiority is clear while in a sport "mental", as the Trail, no one accepts to feel inferior to others).

Having received these two jobs I had to start studying the various OCAD, Condes, Photoshop, etc. .... In fact, despite twenty years around Italy in search of lanterns I've never had offices and titles, and only when I attended a course markers but did not give the exam because I did not agree with what you have learned. My idea is that if someone wants to fill a position must have time, desire and ability to do so: it is not always so and many times the results have been seen ....

Anyway, I applied for several hours so that the map becomes eligible for the race trail, as a cartographer, I was more than ideas and in doing so changed several times and plotted points. The problem of a path is not only to the control group but also plan the start area, arrival points in time, the Paralympic avenues also, in fact it is not easy to put together all these things at once. Another

my idea has always been to separate the Elite from the other categories: several times in past races, I happened to find myself near a point with groups of kids talking, if not hypothesized, even come close to the lanterns, this thing annoys the competition because it is conditional. Doing so, however, increase the workload ....

Towards the end of August, paper and various tracks were almost ready: no approval and supervision the technical delegate. At the beginning of November there was the most difficult time, both of the above-mentioned roles were put to work and within a few days I have rained down a series of observations more or less necessary. E 'was thanks to Stephen that I gave up everything! my way to work and live is to plan everything you do, and they were months that I worked on this project in order not to find last minute issues. See me in 10 days by the press with the paper to be restored, routes to be reviewed literally sent me into a beast! the reason was not what I was saying things to review but the timing with which I was told. Starting

by the fact that I do not know the software I use (that I know of some key functions), I always had to make a series of procedures required for each variation, the other problem is that I work during the week and time to make these changes can not escape my profession and, if you will, even in my sleep!

After the critical moment, last week I managed enrollment and grills: I noticed that, like good Italian, we always manage to arrive at the last minute and beyond .... past few days, including a shower and the other, with Stephen and Mary to put colored balls around the park to accommodate the more than 30 pallets of 90 lanterns and points of view and Bibi busy with PLAB with prints of papers, cards, signs.

Finally, the friend of my day as a lion park is here! Wake up early and at 7, with Mary and Stephen, to lay all that is necessary, the new posts that I have experienced have been very comfortable. In a couple of hours we were ready Manea while chasing me for the last explanation (in practice it was doing the race with the solution ..).

Time for a coffee and immediately start since, with Mary, I was assigned to the first point in time, very nice and helpful it was to keep my friends / foes while they are in the race. At about 12:30, finite departures, when she thought of making a quick Alessio break came with a boy on board a wheelchair! panic waits for no one person in this way (from the King was not included) and we opted to take the points in time on their feet. The presence of this competitor might affect this choice ....

Calm returns when Luke (his name) tells me to be there to try this sport, my schedule is pretty busy but I do not feel like saying "find somebody else." I explain some basic rule and take it to the point in time, then take a card at the Open and make 6 points. The boy is very insightful and immediately fell in love with this mental challenge, I understand that it can become a good athlete trail when, mistaking the fifth point (an evil Z), not down, and does not accept that he was "cheated". Perfect, you're ready for the challenges ahead!

With regret I announce that I have to go back because I am in charge of the charts, beginning to incorporate the results and enjoy one of the highlights: the responses of athletes! I realize that most of the things that I assumed had come true and so I'm happy. Little regret when I hear that paragraph 4 will be canceled for the fall of the curtain: the bad luck, this lantern did not produce changes in ranking as the most athletes had given the correct answer.

I comments after the race are always the most risky because the athletes are remembered only for their own mistakes, strangely I do not feel great and I am surprised and asked if complaints have all done really well or if I had done a good job.

Small break at the bar of Saini, awards and then collect the lanterns with Stegal by service as it is closed and the machine itself (with keys inside). As usual, when we collect is not always all that you sow: Fortunately, there are only a couple of posts .....

all over? no! good service requires that the charts, and whatever solutions are on line as soon as possible. So before you go in bed, even on the internet to close the circle that began a year ago.

Before going to sleep thanks to those who stood by me in this adventure and a thought that my friend, training partner for the day was the protagonist of my sport and maybe now he understood why I struggled so much in these years.