Running in Barcelona at the CURSA DE BOMBEROS!
April 4th, 2007
I think I just participated in the biggest running competition ever in my whole life! And it happened to be here in Barcelona!
This famous competition was called Cursa Bomberos (firemen’s race) and was last weekend, covering a circuit of 10 km in the city centre. If you ask me, the best part with joining a running race is not the actual RUNNING, no. The TRUE joy of this whole self-suffering activity is right in the beginning, when you can feel the adrenaline rising in the blood of every participant with the increase of the music right before the start gun goes off. I felt like a tiny little ant drowning in the colourful flood of 13,000 orange-dressed, number-tagged people, standing at the start, waiting for the countdown.
Actually, if you are standing in the middle of the crowd like me, and not at the fraont like the winners of the race (male & female winners Peter Kamais and Eunice Jepkorir), you will probably not even notice when the race has started (if it weren’t for the music), as it takes a little while until the movement has been passed through this enormous human entity. But once you have started you have a loooong journey in front of you.
I always get impressed by how many 60 year-olds can easily overtake me!! During the 55 minutes that I managed to survive this eternity journey I even got overtaken by a guy running with a pram with a kid in it!!! Ok, I’m not the best runner and I certainly do not train frequently for this kind of sport, but I don’t think I deserved that! Anyway.
It was a great way of enjoying running with loads of other people, and I even got a nice t-shirt and some well-deserved cookies when I passed the finish line! So, for anyone, (with or without prams), next time I´ll meet you there with my running-shoes on!
You can read more about the race here!
/ Elin
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