Three and a half months ago I started preparing for my first marathon, giving myself little time to prepare for it and also setting myself a very ambitious time goal: to stay under 4 hours. To make everything more stimulating, from day 1 of training I had intramuscular pain that has kept me limping all these months and made me believe that that achievement was IM-possible. A month before the race the magic began. I deleted social media, I improved my diet, I cut out alcohol and as if by magic my workouts started to improve but the really important thing was that I started to believe in it. I started to believe that I could run under 4 hours. And so the IM-possible became POSSIBLE… Today I finished my first marathon with an incredible time: 3 hours 53 minutes and 37 seconds. And the crazy thing is that I had been visualizing this weather for 20 days. This post doesn’t want to underline the power of the mind, but simply don’t stop believing in it and continue chasing your dreams.
I thank my coach Stefano Massa who managed to guide me in an exceptional way in a short time, without him I would not have been so effective.
Finisher Berlin Marathon 2024