Black Knight: March 2019

Why Black Knight

The name Black Knight comes from this famous joke in roman slang. A man tells this story:

The Black Knight and the White Knight make a duel and the Black Knight kills the White Knight. Now the White Knight had 3 sons, they challenge the Black Knight to a duel and the Black Knight kills all of them. Now they had 3 sons each and the 9 White Knights challenge the Black Knight to a duel but the Black Knight kills of all them. Now they had 3 sons each and the 27 White Knights challenge the Black Knight to a duel but the Black Knight kills all of them.

Please stop the story, what do you mean, what is the moral?

The moral is: "Don't piss off the Black Knight"!!!!!!!!!

Sunday, 31 March 2019

March 2019

Skipped race. As I wrote in my last post, I made the decision not to run this morning the local 10 km race because I find stupid a route with 4 laps in a city where we have many possible one-lap routes. However, today I changed my mind but, what a surprise, the organization changed the programmed route without giving preliminary warning: always 4 laps but through different streets. This is not a serious behavior and I confirmed the previous decision to not race. Not so bad because I did a good workout 16.5 km (10,2 ml) long near the sea through a beautiful green path in the country.

March 2019. Unfortunately I haven't run any race but I did 13 workouts for a total of 138,4 km (85,8 ml) and 12 long walks.

March 2005. Below is the picture of a race I entered on march 6th, 2005 in Ladispoli (near Rome). As you can see at that time we used to run wearing shirts in cotton.

Monday, 18 March 2019

Skipped races

Unfortunately I have just skipped 2 scheduled races, the first (London Parkrun 5 km) because too weak after a long treatment with antibiotics and the second (Farnese 10 km) for a pain in my right knee.

However I am not so wise to listen to my body and I do regular workouts without pushing and with no long distance runs.

Now I feel better but I think that I will also skip the next scheduled race (Vivicittà 10 km) because I find ridiculous a route with 4 laps in a city where we have many possible one lap routes (or 2 x 5 km laps). I enjoy to race but 4 laps with a lot of runners is only chaos.

What do you think about the races with many laps?

Here are 2 pictures of the same race that I ran in 1996. At that time I was member of the official Navy Running team:

Monday, 11 March 2019

London

I spent 3 days in London with my son Paolo to watch the rugby match England - Italy and to run the Parkrun. About the rugby match it is better not to say anything: it was another terrible defeat. Unfortunately we couldn't enter the Parkrun because I was too weak for a long treatment with antibiotics (and not only) to cure an annoying inflammation.

However we had all the time to visit again that beautiful city.

Next races: who knows? I must recover completely before racing again.

Baker Street