Hello sports community, here I come to share my experience in another race, the Cross Running 2022, with a distance of 12km (twice a circuit of 6km), a very demanding but important race in the racing calendar of my city. It was held in Guara Guara, deep in the plains as such, a rustic style terrain, similar to what they use as motocross tracks or for rustic car competitions, located before reaching San Tomé, a neighboring oil field. Cross running, unlike mountain running which is quite similar, consists of running in natural open spaces such as hills, forests, deserts, trails, etc, with natural and climatic difficulties. Here are some pictures before, during and after.
The route was cool initially, I of course with my headphones and my favorite music to run, running outdoors in a natural environment is something from another world, the terrain super irregular with climbs and descents quite strong and even dangerous, but nothing for what I had not trained, some wooded parts and even sandy soil, too bad it was not beach sand 😪 thank goodness it did not rain before because the muddy soil is even more difficult. For this race, like many others, there was a walking mode with half the distance, i.e. 6km, one lap of the course. During the race I was always accompanied by the large number of people who signed up, that always helps me on an energetic level because in this world there are many great people who along the route encourage you and encourage you not to give up and make it to the finish line 🤗.
Ok, I didn't expect to get a podium in my category, I didn't see it coming, but it happened and it made me very happy 😍 although the truth is that there weren't many people in the free category (20 to 29 years old), without wanting to pass under the table the merit. It was an infinite celebration because many of my team took podium too, and how great, because I add another recognition to my collection, training hard pays off 💚
After celebrating all the awards as if they were our own, we went to the house of some members of the group, to make the respective post-race hydration with some green 🍻 and to say goodbye to 3 of the team because they were leaving the country that same day. The mood changed completely, we were tired and nostalgic and well, wishing them the best in their new life, with all the positive energy we could offer. The day was very special, full of emotions, several tears came to my eyes, it is a bit complicated the circumstances that many make these decisions, but these are things that happen, they happen a lot.
Hasta aquí llega esta historia, amo demasiado compartirles estas experiencias, espero disfruten las fotos tanto como yo, nos vemos en la próxima, bye y gracias ✌️
This is as far as this story goes, I love sharing these experiences, I hope you enjoy the pictures as much as I do, see you in the next one, bye and thank you ✌️
🏃♀Foto|Photo: mi galeria personal | My personal gallery
🏃♀Traductor/Translation: DeepL translate