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Hi everyone!
I can also say "happy new year", as for me today was the beginning of the new sportive season. Well, I do not purport you to be living in function of my feelings! Anyway, things could not start in a better way. Today I run and won my first marathon of the season, the nicest one, Rome's Marathon. Weather has been nice with the race and temperature was lovable, despite an annoying wind slowed down our action. I have often told you about handbike categories and I do not want to bore you any more, in truth I just want to say that the Roman track particularly suits me and therefore previsions were on my side. All this said, one thing is to be in good shape and be at ease on a track, another one is to run the race and to run it in a good way. Well I did manage. The most dangerous rivals were mainly four: Rafal Vilk, the Polish who finished second in New York, Mauro Cratassa, bronze in Denmark's H3 category, Giovanni Achenza, winner last year and obviously my friend and team mate at Blu Team Barilla Vittorio Podestà who has too many titles to name them all. My declared interest was not to "stimulate" the race straight away, but the occasion may arrive unattended and this is how it went: soon after the fifth km the five mentioned bikers and I were left on top. I found myself going through a tight right hander in front of everyone as it was my pulling shift. Out of the corner I sprinted strongly to find a high but still comfortable rhythm. I was feeling well, arms were at ease and I kept pushing without caring of asking to swap positions with someone following me, then close to another corner where it was necessary to brake I turned around to have peer to who was following me: nobody! I admit I thought that was a tactics from my rivals but km after km at the same pace I checked again: the gap had gone bigger. At that point, even if it was still early, I decided to have a go and I started believing I could do it. As said, the layout gave me an advantage over my rivals that would be unfair not to highlight. Stopwatches do not care if you are H2 or H4 and they always have the same ticking rhythm and when your arms ache they are not moved either. At the finish line the clock stopped at 1h11' 46'', a time that allowed me to improve the already mine record by 4' which confirms that work done over winter paid off. Anyway, I still believe I can find something more at the bottom of the barrel, but for now I could not have a better confirmation on the racing field. From tomorrow on I will start all over again, on 15 April I will be in Marina di Massa, on 22 in Padova. To those of you wishing to cheer me I say... I'll see you there! Ciaoooo 
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