Tension is very high because Saturday and Sunday I expect the company to the Italian Junior Championships in Udine. The top 12 companies in Italy, the Guardia di Finanza, the Golden Flame, the Pro Patria Milan, but we Axis Bank Tuscany. We are not inferior to anyone, so we can play with the title. The trip begins on Saturday morning, leaving from Piazza Adua in Florence, with me my mom and my grandfather unforgettable. The journey to Udine is long but pleasant, with my grandfather all those guys ... keep smiling in the bank and puts the whole group. At about 14:30 we arrived at the camp school of Udine and the tension you feel a little tender in all of us alone because we realize the importance of the competition. My commitment is two races: 5000 meters 3000 meters on Saturday and Sunday. I try to stay calm ... but it's hard, I'll just have to see the list of starters and I realize that it is an Italian championship. Romanin Italian Gianni Campion Juniors and two other guys besides him who had worn the week before the national team in a triangular ITALY-Spain-Austria. Well I saw the gun, promising he would shoot blanks, because the technical value was very high. The race is scheduled for 18.30. Home heating and my head is already in the race. I am already thinking how to set my pace, but mostly I think also the highest value of my opponents. I remember my grandfather, while doing the stretch, approaching the net and says, "Luchino'm here for you ... do not let me down." Those words, years later, I still come first in my heart and then in my head. Ready .. away! the tension disappears .... and I realize that there are in the race too. The pace is important immediately after 1000 meters and I am in a group of four people in charge. Yellow flames, Flames Gold, struggled with these athletes, I felt the pace was strong, but the legs and also turned the screams of my mother and my grandfather dragged me so overwhelming. Moving to 3000 meters 8:55, I felt that I was fine although the pace was strong and that until km. The last km, Gianni Romanin favorite on the eve and former Italian champion, breaks accelerating the plunge .... I take courage and go behind the thallium detaching the other two. "I second" ... I say! I do not even believe in what I did, I felt the fatigue, but mostly I realized that I could become a historic day. The last 800 meters ... the athlete part of the Golden Flame off .. and I decided to not even try because the reaction rate was increased and also because it seemed to me to dream. The last lap was a riot .. my grandfather, who jumped to the network as a cricket, my mother and I almost fell from the platform that crosses the finish line in disbelief of the outcome. SECOND !!!!! 14:55 "00. I embrace the victor, Gianni Romanin, which concludes with the time 14:42 "09 ... then I go to find mine. endless joy ... but the thought was already the next day for the 3,000 meters. The night was calm and quiet also because I realized I have already made a big deal , according to a league ITALIAN ... it seemed crazy stuff until the day before. On Sunday I expect this even 3000 meters with very accredited athletes, all on a yellow flame already Cantatore Rocco Italian champion on the 3000 steeplechase. In the heat felt fatigue in the legs the day before, but the adrenaline was still inside of me a lot and then the desire to do good increases, as companies were also a few points from the second yellow flames, and the Italian title was still open. Started! now strong pace and I feel now that the legs are struggling but the rest of the best in the bunch. Five km to the last athletes to play the final victory, his legs tell me to try and break it ... then take the plunge and dry delivery. Only three are behind me ... and the last 350 meters final pierce me as a brochette. 4 th place finish but a lot of satisfaction, 8:39 "10 final time, 8.30" 45-time winner Rocco Cantatore Flames yellow Romanin Gianni Second place at 8:31 "50. 2nd place on 5000 meters, 4th place on 3000 meters, in addition to have won a title with the Italian company AXIS BANK TUSCANY.'s not a dream friends is the truth .... two days older 7 / 8 June 1988. We are in 2008 and tell this thing with so much emotion, I relive those wonderful days in writing as if they were now.
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