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E54: De corredor a empresario - Luis Felipe Posso · Running Desde Cero

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Not from scratch an amateur podcast where we' ll all learn to run together.
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Let' s run Hi, Paola. ROLES WELCOME TO THE FIFTY-
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FOURTH ROOM OF RONING OF THE THIRD RONNERS. Again here one more Friday talking
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about what we like the most, which is running. Well, guys,
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before the guest shows up, today I' m gonna leave you with this
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wedge to listen to. It' s much more than a race. It
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is a unique sporting experience in its genre, it is universal, inclusive and
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iconic. It' s a city party, a country event, it'
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s a sum of illusions, it' s everyone' s and for everyone
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it' s yours and a mile. The half Marathon of Bogotá is made
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to my measure July twenty- eight of two thousand twenty- four. Sponsors
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for coming the nation of athletics Chupo metro and lives sign up already entering half
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marathon Bogotá with rum list. Well you know then to write to the half
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marathon of Bogotá and talking about it a little bit, we also have an
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amazing guest. We have had here psychologists, nutritionists, coaches and all this
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around errouning. It takes a person or a very important part in that issue
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and it is like the part a little administrative of this, the part that
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is behind and is one of the great protagonists of the Half Marathon of Bogotá
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and the Rolne in Colombia, but it is not runner at least currently.
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Currently then, so without further ado, Felipe Pozo, welcome with these very
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good evenings everyone who is going to do static. You, Philip, thank
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you so much for accepting the invitation. We know you' re a super
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committed man to a lot of things. Today you must be in Cali to
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review a lot of things from the Pacific, I guess, and a lot
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more races you' ll be driving. Well, then nothing. Thank you
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for being here to give fresh news. I' m in Cali, not
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necessarily to load the Pacific, but the day we' re going to announce
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the Cali International Marathon, which will be on May 4th, two thousand twenty
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- five. Yeah, Cali' s different from the right valley. Yeah,
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May 4th, 2: 25 a year ago. As long as we
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go a little bit national, we will do more, a little bit more
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or if you sell once you don' t right now. We touched on
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the subject, but we did see a little while ago a publication that made
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the presentation of the street marathon earlier. So, well, you know then
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Roners who' s behind all this and many more things that happen here in
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the national environment. Well, let' s say we' re going to
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play these talks a little bit fast, let' s play some personal issues
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of yours We' ve seen some amazing pictures in your instagram that you'
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re running. Then you know also what it' s like to run,
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what it feels like, the feeling of going through, a goal, to
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train and all that. Tell us a little bit about your life when you
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started running and we go there moving forward in the talk. I was born
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in good adventure and a few days from the city took me to the border
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with Panama. Then I came to Kido, crashed at the age of seven
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and there I played football at the age of seventeen, I came to Cali
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and in Cali one day I read the press and on the sports page I
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said that there was a race to the career of the country' s newspaper,
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thirty years of the country' s newspaper and I saw that there were
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prizes. I wasn' t an athlete, but in football I was the
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one who ran the most. I played on the right side and when we
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went around, I was the first one to come or the one to go
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around and play on the side, and then I was in a very good
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shape and I said no. I think I can run and started jogging down
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the block. We set up for that race, that' s to say,
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all the way down the block, one turn to the block two turns
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to the block? Three back to the block. I lived near the Zurria
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de Cali highway and one day I decided to go out on the highway.
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I stopped running in the neighborhood and went out on the highway and I see
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a group of runners coming to everyone and I hit them a little bit there
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and some greeted me. They' re studying on carbon. I say yes,
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yes, yes. There were, there were two of them studying at
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my school. Then that day in the afternoon, I would study in the
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afternoon and study in the morning. I got to school and two of me
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and then they told me everything. It' s not that we' re
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flames in the League. How is that you don' t have to go
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where coach and teacher read makes an evaluation and if you guys well, the
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teacher accepts it and I went the other day for the League and met someone
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who changed my life. Agustín dropped a titty that silver medalist judge at Pan
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American Games and that more than a coach, he was a father to all
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of us. He gave us life injuries, he gave us for the ticket
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when we didn' t have one, he gave us tennis when we didn
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' t have one, and he told us everything was possible. He talks
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that we could go to the Olympic Games and it was time that we could
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run the New York Marathon and that he had already run in New York from
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a couple of snouts and had stayed twice in the top ten, when barely
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started where he left Colombia to work painting for several months and ran to the
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barathon of the greatest imagines. Yeah, so, at about two months they
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were already in the valley selection, but in what, because it was very
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good, in what career. In a thousand five hundred ten thousand I began
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in eight hundred, then I went up quickly to one thousand five hundred,
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then two thousand obstacles, which was in youth in that category and was the
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first national championship in one thousand five hundred and two thousand staves. Not because
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I was very good, but I was the most persistent and my colleagues ended
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up with a quiet workout. I ended up on the floor panting at first
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every time, that is, I gave everything that looks at the top and
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that came to me to progress more and more and there winning to those who
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already had many years of being delivering and we already started running competition at national
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level and it is ranked at that level. At that time in what was
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called Today let' s say in Dervalle that it was the Coldeportes of the
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time and sort Ministry of Airport called with the national sport and in each department
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of a Coldeportes. Then there was a sports house in Cali and there was
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a library. I think I was the only one going to that library.
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All the books of how you prepare, of physical preparation, of physical diet,
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of the Olympic champions, of the Finnish rabblers, of the Ethiopians.
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I read all those books and filled myself with ideas that I could go to
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an Olympic Games. And they' re good with Maius. I finish your
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high school and decide to go to the United States, to New York to
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look for a university scholarship, because at that time most of the athletes who
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went to the Olympic Games were at the universities of the United States. The
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cniatas were in Washington, he was in Wyomint. Those so healthy were at
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the University of Texas. In Paso Domingo, Luis' uncle and his brother
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were at the University of Ruino Nevada and so on, from all over the
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world was from Suex I was in those universities because the championship is very competitive,
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the university championship, and from there almost gave him the political games.
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So I was clear about that. He was reading to me everything that could
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do with it. I was saying if I went to America, because my
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problem was economic. I didn' t feed well and one didn' t
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have the resources to buy with that game for sneakers. But with everything I
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' d read, I knew that the universities accomplished the whole college I wasn
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' t home with past life and clothing, and I said that' s
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the way to get what I think. I got to New York. I
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first arrived in Miami, where some acquaintances I didn' t find had to
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leave for New York, where my coach' s brothers. I got nine
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eleven dollars in my pocket forty- one years ago. I was twenty-
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one. I' m sixty- two today. With that illusion of being
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the Olympic Games as the month of being there, I began to take English
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lessons that at the same time became a member of a New York club,
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West Side Bonners, where there were many international runs, including some Colombians,
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and I already started to be one of the good athletes at the local level.
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Felipi how? How you got into the club. It was very simple,
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that is, if anyone could sign up for the club, but the
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club helped us pay for the description and gave us uniforms to what we were
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good at. Yes, if you, because there are competitions all year round
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for the club, then if you could win trophies for the club or give
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points for the club, the club president distance gave us things for Zapatilla.
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We didn' t have to pay the, describe the careers that were expensive.
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The club paid the elite runs. Let' s say the other members
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and they pay for their discrimination. They bought their uniforms, but when we
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didn' t get to pay that for that club. One day they told
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me they wanted volunteers for the New Y of Rock Rond Croft, the organizer
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of the marathon of ours and I raised my hand or I already. I
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liked to practice English. I was studying English and I loved it I had
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the chance to practice with someone and then she volunteered. It was my turn
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to distribute water. I played the first thing I got good at in a
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race handing out T- shirts. People came and the size that m l
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and I would go to the shirt that I had to cross out the number
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for us to receive two shirts and it looked like water in the center of
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the pair Later, when in English I grew up I had to register people.
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At that time it wasn' t like now that people were telling you
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encouragement, you had to get to a queue, you gave him the name
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the address, the phone number and he was registered. So I did that
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by volunteering and I started to meet Zetas Ellipro who came to run the races,
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because the New Yo Rond is not only. The New York mouse has
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about fifty races a year, over thirty races, some elites and nine others.
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And they started living runners from Mexico, Brazil, one Colombian, who
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were good runners, not the worst in the world, but good runners.
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And I started saying friends with them. Later I got an apartment and told
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these runners if you want there' s a race in two weeks or next
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week in one place, but here close to giving two thousand dollars. If
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you want to stay in the apartment and I get you to that race.
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I think you can win, because they were of a higher level than fear
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and that the attacks touch him ours and I said I did, several of
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them wanted to go that let' s say. I remember my two saints
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or a brasiderus who later won four times the Marathon Marathon of Coamo, for
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example, a known burden of Acá. Until one day in the year eighty
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- seven and I left where Domingo, Uncle Do Sarrino and for the first
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time I went to thetaélit do I had a job, that double job
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and I started studying the University too that it was very difficult to be an
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elite tzeta. With all that occupation. Sure, then, Cuan Domingo I
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was about two weeks at his house training with him and brother. Rising up
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early I was training with them very hard, I slept for lunch I slept
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and we waxed and went back to sleep and Sunday at that time he gave
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me a list of races from all over the country. He told me Mira,
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there' s a new racing circuit. It was called the street racing
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association, the street racing association circuit. And there was the name of the
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organizer, the mail, the mail was the phone number, the number of
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fans that was used at that time, the fans to imagine and then,
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the following year that I met Silvius to the SAAR and invited him to Elb
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Pedro Li the cis, if they want, come back to my apartment and
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I get them some races around the country. In the summer of June to
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August, yes, two and a half months three months and they don'
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t have to pay it up until there is anything. They stay with me
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and the two of them came and they got everything. Carlos roa came in
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three. I got some invitations in some of the races paid for the ticket
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or vandalized something for the ticket, paid for the hotel. Some of them
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paid me, they were yours. Others didn' t pay the hotel to
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me or anything. I paid for the rest and I worked all week and
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went away with them for the weekend. Or if they were going let'
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s say one day and I was coming the night of the race and then
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we were coming a they were you could run with them not anymore the whole
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level of them was much higher than mine, that is between me mail.
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For me, it was a date for hours, and I found out with
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sasar whistle. I' m bringing in sorcerer stones and that gave me to
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be a good runner in the State of New I sent nationally or globally.
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Or yes, and then Silvio tells me one day, Felipe, I am
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very, very, very sorry to you. I say that you go to
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the supermarket almost two or three days, or that we eat a lot and
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I have an Italian who gets me a career in Europe and charges me ten
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percent. I want to pay you and I told Brother Calm down, don
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' t worry, but it just sounded like that. And then, after
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that, I ran into a Mexican, Gerardo Miranda, and he told me
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if he could help me get a car and I say yes, of course,
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gladly, but I' m charging three percent. So I got him
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a race in half of Philadelphia and he came in with three more athletes,
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so he was already a four. I considered him excrisio and I' m
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going to the airport. I go by train in New York Philadelphia waits airport
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and arrived and three others meditate that were not written and I talked to the
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race director and gave us two rooms, that is four beds. The ternó
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in bed. I slept the floor and he there met my first star,
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Dionisio Xerón. I s so Heron, was second in that race, which
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was an international race. It' s no longer Timmon or Get from Australia,
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which would later be my specific as well. Then isu won that race
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and I told him about an iso. If you want, you' ll
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come with me to New York. In two weeks. There' s a
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ten- kilometer race in Pittsburgh. I' ll take you to the race
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and you can give you some money there. There' s more to Facebork
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than here in line with the saying I' ve done, I' ve
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come with me to New York. I changed the tickety and the rest of
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the story for you to have an idea. The following year and an Isioxerón
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won Fidelfa with world records and an Isuzerón won the Londes Marathon three times and
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an iso Heron and well, I can see in the world runner was Boca,
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won Rotter won it a world of competition, was world silver medalist the
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world caponate of Gottoborg in Sweden. But this, this was all after you
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met him and started working with him. Yeah, well, then, well,
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that was in the eighty- eight that was when I was driving to
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Unisio, when eighty- eight good boys and in the fall, that is,
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after the Colombians left they returned. I went with Gerardo Miranda and with
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them they made the filarefera and there I started with a little Mexican. And
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in the year eighty- nine, the eighty- nine met another Salvador García
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in a race in the faces that I already got from others, other athletes
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from different countries. A couple of Mexicans came and one was called Salvador Garcia.
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For your information, save Garcia was second in the Markallo de ma Yor
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and champion of the New York Aparaton. But before that what changed the story
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was that I was still working. I had a job, I had a
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goalkeeper position, a more cat decision where you won pretty well. That'
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s why I could introduce myself to the luxury of traveling and struggling. They
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would stay with me and paint apartments from time to time, not all the
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time, but from time to time to get more resources. As your coach,
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right, exactly then, in March of the eighty- nine, there
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was a marathon in Negers called the New Jers and Wordfrold Marton a new race
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that did it only two years and won Salvador García of Mexico. Second was
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Anthoni Niezche from Poland, who already helped that Pole who had given him a
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new yor career and had met him, and a brasidero too, what I
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carried. Third, and between the three of them they won$ 60,
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000 and that day changed history. Why, because I didn' t actually
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make money from this to Zetas when a little bit and I didn' t
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charge them anything. That' s how I told him to tell him to
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go ten percent. If they made a thousand two thousand dollars, I didn
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' t charge them, because to me a hundred two hundred dollars were nothing
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to me. But two things happened. One of my phone accounts started to
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go up at that time the calls of the Stansher tree, which were very
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expensive and I' m starting to take you the one of five hundred dollars
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of a thousand dollars. I mean, change the thing clearly. The athletes
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called me for the day or any play and gave me a message on the
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answering machine. I arrived and I had to call him back to it and
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that call was long and if it cost then and in the year eighty-
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nine I had been. Before that, I had been. I had taken
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a Colombian athlete, Carlos Mario Urisares, who was a national record for a
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long marathon time, to a half marathon in Orlando and in Orlando I went
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to Tampa and loved it so much then, in March, when these three
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athletes earn sixty ta thousand dollars that ten percent. For me it was$
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6, 000, I said I made the decision to be studying at the
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University of New York, say, let him study and I' m going
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to set up a sports representation company. Sure, sure you' re losing.
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I remember the other day of the race I told my daughter that I
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was my friend, I was David, I was wounded. I' ve
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decided I' m going to Florida. I don' t like the cold
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and I want to set up a sports representation company in Florida. And then
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I' m going to go and David told me Felipe remembers that you'
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re an enemy, but this building is because it has the union, that
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is, to bring that difficult. You' ve got to be here It
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' s gestated to the union. If you leave, I can' t
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return you. If you come back, I can' t give you your
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job. Yeah, I told David, don' t worry the last thing
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I' m gonna do is that. I' d rather go wash dishes
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in Laska than come back here and tell you I work. More than that,
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I' ll make sure that one day I' ll earn what I
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earned here in a year, in a day, and that day happened and
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came out in history. In the London Times, Europe' s most influential
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newspaper, London Three, published that Luis Felipe Poso, a goalkeeper in New
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York. That day his athets had dominated the London Marathon and had earned more
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than they earned in a year. And there was no WOW. You have
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that news that' s not the company. Sure, sure, I got
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the clippings on the podcast. So, in order not to lengthen the story
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and I also have to explain at that time, to collect athletes it was
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very difficult because in principle they were paid under the table and, in cash,
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because if a boob received money could not participate Olympic Games. He was
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declared a professional athlete by the international Límpic committee. Then I couldn' t
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steal Olympic. Then, as it was revealed, a group of athletes,
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including Tigo Sunday during a group of strong athletes. It' s reveled and
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Nike gave a career in Porto and Oregon with professional athletes without the permission of
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the United States Federation, because they were said to be the rebels, but
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since they were most of the best in the world, they couldn' t
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do much, I think, but they joined a strong group. Then the
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Federation immediately released a statement and said that it agreed to pay money, but
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that money was only for training and travel those competitions, and a freid seizure
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was invented in a bank, the Bank of Bolulder Colorado. So, anyone
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in the world who in the United States made money had to open an account
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at the Bouder Bank and to get the money out have to check that that
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money was for training or travel or coaching expenses or to touch their doctors and
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how you checked out good, let' s go there. I became expert
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at opening the Sunday account a race and I took it on Monday morning to
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the social security office and told the person there look this gentleman earned$ 20,
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000 and wants to pay taxes. And to pay tax you ask for
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the number safe. You want to pay tax, come fill in here give
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you the social security number. And when they gave him that, I already
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had the bank format to open the account and before he left he left with
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a signed paper where he said that someone earned twenty thousand dollars, I took
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out ten nine thousand five hundred. He said he has to pay them twenty
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thousand twenty percent of the coach, he has to pay him twenty percent of
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the people who were not true. You have to make a tremi coach camp
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a training camp in a certain city, depending on where the Alberta was.
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Yeah, east of az was east of Europe. He said he was going
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to dig in Poland because there was a subway centre already if he was from
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Eastern Europe, he was going to Romeo in France, if it was in
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the United States, he was going to Bolder Colorado, he was going to
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the place that or Mexico and he put the costs of the labeling, the
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hotel and everything and helped them to get out the prata. So that made
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me famous in being able to film the best of the best. Years after
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year, the Olympic Games in Barcelona arrive ninety- two years later. I
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initially started running athletes of all distances, including veilist and jumper of college students
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who were mostly African. Yeah, and in the' 90s and' 90s,
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I decided I wasn' t just looking at a cannon race. And
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in the year eighty- two, in Barcelona, the two Olympic champions were
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faced by us, Juan and Yo of Korea and Valentina, Arrigaroga of Russia
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in Atlanta ninety- six one or two three in Marathon men won jose to
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your John in South Africa, the Livon Youx of Korea second and Eric way
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Ine of Kenny third Valentina Arrigaroa repeated medal, but of silver. Then I
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had not only the best, if they didn' t have the variety I
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had my athlete were from all over the world. Then I became baslan of
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that and began to travel and go to the races and to advise the international
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races. I went to Japan, to the Fucoca Marathon and I said to
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say here a little African athlete, I can bring you the best in the
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world variously and gave you in the United States a few different things. I
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can help you say things, some things that are different. And I became
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an event consultant and started in Japan with fu muy, Tokyo or a poit
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laby was portor Cookaido in all those races and you' re there. They
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were already super advanced in English. I guess, I' m sorry your
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English was already super- advanced. No, no, I didn' t
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learn English very fast, very fast, that is if I became an obsession,
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because the truth is that I was empressed that they didn' t understand
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me. Then, in six months then I communicated and after eight months already
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to English. Pretty good. I did all this without papers. I had
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seven years in the United States, being illegal, I was interviewed in New
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York Times, I went out in Spen everywhere and it was coming. I
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didn' t have anything. It was a brilliant mind for business, that
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is, you saw an equation anywhere. Then I' ve been blessed.
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I think it has been very blessed to take advantage of the opportunity to generate
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life. I actually say I' ve changed lives, because I' ve
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actually done when I started all this in no way thought of gara a little
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bit in square. I' m helping them with affronts. The first few
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years I took absolutely nothing from them. I' ll take it. They
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would come if they won' t, but I remember someone coming in at
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a thousand two thousand three thousand dollars to me at a hundred thirty dollars,
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it wasn' t a big deal. Then I didn' t charge them.
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But if we have seen the change in those who have seized the opportunity,
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it is because not everyone has taken advantage of it then today because it
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has a little time. Today he advises events around the world. I'
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ve been to the last eight Olympic Games with athlete from more than fifty countries.
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I have to be the count, but I believe that the Sunday Diana
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ocampo of Argentina is in my country fifty- one Argentina athletes at the Olympic
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Games. She was the one who was in Amsterdam, classified Olympic Games.
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It' s Urgo if you have fifty- one athletes classified for the best
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Olympic. No. I haven' t worn it in the last eight Olympic
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Games. And this is at least that if two of us created athletes from
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fifty- one different countries, fifty- one, hundreds of fifty- one
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different countries, that is, the list of a few countries. WOW.
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In fact, if we touch on a little bit, here is the theme
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of the half Marathon of Bogotá, thanks to people like you who have in
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that super international event, that is, when you arrive with the African legion
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and the Methan Greeds, to the interviews, to all that really makes it
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seem that this race is extremely hard international is to try to swim. I
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' ll tell you the marathon of Bota' s Liraton. I' ve
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been talking about the event since day one. I was asked for the favor
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by a group of runners who wanted to organize the Bogota Marathon. It wasn
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' t half Buta' s marathon. Twenty- five years ago. At
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that time I told him that it was not possible at that time to organize
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a marathon of Bogotán because there was no, there was no habit of running,
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not of philosophy, there was no like Errolning day. It wasn'
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t what it is today. If a marathon is done in Bogotá or two
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thousand people are going to be written and a thousand are going to retire,
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the best is going to be a half marathon and a ten- kilometer race,
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where the ten- kilometer race will feed on average to grow. But
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I' m also feeling the town of the Bedellin marathon measure, the matrical
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mean guan squirt. So from the first day on the carnal river Cali in
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Cali and two years ago, I decided for the first time to organize because
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at that time he has been organizing advisor two years ago. Since there was
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no international race in Cali, I decided the international race of the Pacific,
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well- known, not the race in the world that at that time had
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Wurt Athletix label in the first year. And this year, on the seventh
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day, we are going to announce the Cali Marathon, another very big event,
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where we have already secured the elite label of bull Atletix in the first
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year. But how is that, because well, I was going to ask
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you about the team to come, but we' ll talk about the team
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to come. But how is it to have two marathons in the valley,
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because it announces the Marathon of the Valley also to ballad, for we go
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from the Marathon of the Valley. It' s this year. The Marathon
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of Cali is next year, a year before we announce. I have nothing
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to do with the Dance Marathon O, the director of the Cali Marathon,
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which is on May 4th, two thousand and twenty- five. Eventually we
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have to meet the two events to make it one. We can have all
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events in the same month. Sure, yeah, then, but first things
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first. The Marcón del Valle is orovized by the governorship of the valley and
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the Valley and in May twenty- six this year is the half- forgiveness.
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The Martón de Cali is sponsored by the Mayor of Cali and is in
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May of next year. The Valley Marathon does not pass through calin starts in
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Jumbo, goes Palmira and returns to Yumbo. It' s not so hot
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and we know nine the route as to keep us there as then it'
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s going to be a pretty fast route. Pretty quick. The biggest climb
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is going to be in the first two kilometers and those same two kilometers of
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his life are the same from fifteen to seventeen, so most of the route
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is going to be flat, that is, it has some big climb from
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one kilometer to two yes, then it is relatively flat, after fifteen to
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seventeen it is down and the rest is almost totally flat. What we can
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expect from the Cali Marathon, I mean, let' s kind of touch
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on it. When we' re going to be able to, we'
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re going to have the elite label of erases. What do you mean?
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We have to have the high- level goal OK. The award will be
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more than three hundred million pesos fifteen thousand dollars the winners, something unprecedented in
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the history of the stairs of Colombia for amateur classification to Boston. Sure Wow,
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sure then let' s invite this. I invite you to connect in
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the presentation, because there you are going to see interesting things, you are
30:03
going to listen. It may be interesting, but it' s going to
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be a big event. Basically it' s my legacy to me in a
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magazine the American called me a marathon Mister and I think I was in a
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thousand marathons in the last thirty- five years as a volunteer, as an
30:21
advisor, as a manager of athletes, as a commentator. I' m
30:22
a Chicargo mouse commentator, but I' ve done it in many other marathons
30:26
as well. I' ve commented world wide for those in London. I
30:30
have been a marathon commentator for the Olympic Games for Televisa and Heb Azteca of
30:36
Mexico. Then we have all that knowledge we have. I want to bring
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him to me, to the city that made me an athlete friend. We
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' re all marathonists, all right, bardon. Then we know what a
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maraturist feels, what I want a maraturist and what a manatunist doesn' t
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want. Felipe, let' s have a little time to close down and
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close down the Athletics, the Colombian ni. You run all the Colombian athletes,
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or you work with everyone. I don' t drive. You accept
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him Colombians, I help them, he has helped them all in the last
31:12
thirty- five forty years. You could tell everyone what' s come out
31:17
everything that' s traveled this year you have manna choir artonium to well,
31:18
you tell me and we' ve helped everyone. Yeah, so how can
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you achuartres to them sorry, how is getting entry to the competitions hire for
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the team to come. I' m the technical director of Porvenir' s
31:33
team, where we give the opportunity to some who are already made, let
31:37
' s say, and to the young people who are taking him to say
31:41
so. But the future team is patronized for the future and the Marathon measure
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also busts Marathon of Bogotá. Inverts athletics, reinvests its channelgert from a succession
31:51
without year of the other. They are reinverted by athletics with the crown team
31:55
and sponsored by the National Children' s Championship every year. Of course,
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it' s important that people that good You know our niche, are amateur
32:07
people that are starting in running or a little bit already advanced. People,
32:13
like us, don' t know about people like you. The truth is,
32:16
they think it' s the brands that drive, that it' s
32:22
the private companies that invest. But there are people like you who could easily
32:27
stay in America and make your life and you lead a lot of athletes there,
32:31
but you decide to come here to Colombia and do a series of super
32:36
important races. Let' s say the Pacific race is a saying by David
32:40
himself in a previous podcast. It' s a brutal race that, in
32:46
fact, the Colombians themselves suffer with the legion here, because it' s
32:52
a brutal race and now, having that background, you' re going to
32:54
create the Cali marathon, that is, all the good you can expect from
32:58
that race. Then I have to explain a little bit. There' s
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something behind it. I have a foundation for twenty- six years called the
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Campeora Foundation of the Future, where we help in sport and education. We
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' ve helped, we' ve got scholarships for a lot of kids who
33:16
' ve come from Colombia, from the United States. We' ve paid
33:19
tickets to many thetas to go to international races. We' ve given implementation
33:24
to hundreds of athletes in the last 30 years. We keep doing it every
33:29
year and my years. My foundation works out of my pocket. I'
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ve never asked the state or anyone for help. Then the Pacific Race organization
33:40
appears. That is why we are going to organize a career that is a
33:45
different career that is an international career, that our sidet in Colombia, how
33:51
a character runs with all laterality, both the amateur and the professional, and
33:55
that eventually, if that event has some remains, so those little nets go
34:00
to the foundation so that it continues to frustrate the day that I am not.
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The marathon is born because in the mayor' s office he asks me,
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the secretary meets me. I' m here on the intercontinental TV ter
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joins him with me Philip. We want with the mayor the sabra, Mardon
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de Cardi, I gave him sorry, I' m not interested or I
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don' t have time. We don' t feel like helping, because
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we do it just with you. I' m telling you clearly, don
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' t talk to Mario Casa Franco Mancho. No, no, we have
34:28
to do it. We want to make it big and we know it'
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s with you. So I took that challenge thinking about having a world-
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class marathon in Cali and my wife doesn' t understand why I don'
34:45
t sleep thinking about the details and a race that' s next year and
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I don' t understand it anymore. You know why life, like what
34:50
happens to you next year. Let' s say that we' re not
34:58
thinking about every detail, because we want the winner to feel very good,
35:02
but the one who arrives in seven hours has had the experience of the mail
35:07
of a well organized career and with all the services, with everything he wants
35:10
to do and everything and be. We' re marathoners, so we have
35:15
the same feeling. That' s a good question, but I' ll
35:19
leave it to the end. You say he' s the technical director of
35:22
the team. To come, you founded it the Kebor relief is from the
35:28
Half Marathon of Bogotá. Correcinos, which is the unmotivated succession of Luco that
35:31
organizes the Half Marathon of Bogotá. Ocre got a sponsor for a team with
35:37
the best in Colombia, especially in the last year we have ten. We
35:40
have had more than ten that we consider to be the top ten athletes in
35:45
Colombia. Yeah, so we hired them. He hires him, runs roads.
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I' m the director. Where we have a meeting where we gather
35:53
them, we say who we hire, and we decide where they run why
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they don' t run all that. Team athletes, at least, have
36:00
wages, have bonuses, have paid medicine, have paid trips to national races,
36:07
paid trips to international races, have national record bonuses have only free adidas
36:12
clothing. Then it' s a privilege for everyone who' s there and
36:22
a sale to power. The idea is for the national zeta to be prepared
36:25
with that help to compete with the international. That' s the team'
36:30
s intention that they don' t have to run every weekend, because if
36:34
they don' t run, they don' t earn 500, 000 pesos
36:37
that they make in a political race. It' s someone who' s
36:38
going to get help. You' re in charge of making the scouting of
36:42
the people who come to the future team and those who leave. We'
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re also a committee, yes, I' m responsible lately. We'
36:52
re a committee, okay, but I understand that if they get off the
36:58
team by thinness, you take their support, not at all. You'
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re still supporting him. I am clear this year I made user, it
37:07
is not in the time to gather and I help you to last the Hamburg
37:07
Marathon. But logically it was seen. I can' t run. David
37:13
Gómez this year left the team, but he went to Seville and I got
37:16
him. When I enter Seville, then I don' t mean it,
37:20
I don' t do it as bad and then as a Colombian who wants
37:23
to help athletics in Colombian doesn' t interest. I love that about you
37:25
because, as this podcast told us, I was doing it without any guts
37:31
when you started to get faith because cars began to arrive the services, literally
37:37
Lady Romero. I say I don' t know her. I think he
37:39
saw her once if I read, but let' s say he ran a
37:45
very good mark on veen A. This then and so much, but not
37:50
only are the now more than thirty- five years that we have helped him.
37:52
All this ante- curian that has occurred outside more than thirty- five
37:58
years with exits and implementation to a great extent. Okay. I, like,
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finally have two questions. One like Felipe Pozo, here athlete, because
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note we do not love the Marathon more than the ten K And this but
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well, Pablo, is my person and my perspective, here athlete, time
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in the Olympic Games of the Angels is that they follow. It' s
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not too early, it' s very changing. Everything for the Marathon is
38:28
very changing. I mean, but I think you got it. It also
38:31
laughs to arrive a replacement. Then it' s too early. But yes
38:35
from Colombia, sometimes from Colombia to Colón or David Gómez today is hard.
38:43
All right, strong, David, the girl, the girl who' s
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here our team. I don' t know who it is then to Ginoco,
38:58
not well, I' m also coming up, but there' s
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Chelsea branch. It' s very interesting, because it' s been delivering
39:09
long distances from a little girl. Then you have a very good preparation and
39:12
when you let go of half a marathon of mara everything I' m sure
39:15
is very good for you. In the n is the one that runs with
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jacingto. That' s right. It is delivered by seat, but runs
39:23
with the living agree eye ok but did not forget the cod race won the
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ain in coenza. He didn' t charge a hundred and five thousand sonarias.
39:37
Yeah, and the last question is how much do you have in marathon?
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You came here with art with this bar. I ran the New Yo
39:45
marathon in the year of nineteen hundred and eighty- seven, when that had
39:47
a full job such that it was a foul in which we recorded eight hours
39:51
a day, forty hours a week. I had a parting that was painting.
39:53
He had, I mean, he worked as a doorman and painted.
39:57
Every once in a while I was in college, I got ready for the
40:00
best I could, and I thought I did it right. I made two
40:05
mistakes. I didn' t eat well, not like I lived the night
40:07
before, and I ate very little at the race breakfast. I wanted for
40:13
the group I trained. It was the idea of running two twenty hours and
40:17
I spent an hour nine and it peaked less than an hour ten on average.
40:21
Very easy to follow. The 25th kilometer is on the Borridge Chis Bridge.
40:27
A bridge when the bridge is lowered at kilometre twenty- six is something
40:32
that has run in New York and the one that has not run it.
40:35
Please go because it' s wonderful. On the first avenue there are hundreds
40:39
of thousands of people screaming on the side and side of the street and then
40:43
they make one run faster than one wants to run. And they killed my
40:47
clan, my plan to run at about twenty hours at the same pace.
40:54
There he claimed and I started running much faster when I got the bronze than
41:00
after the 30th Knume, at that time there were no people in the Bonuses
41:04
now and now the Udo of New York all over the people. But at
41:07
that time between thirty and thirty- five, thirty- six there was no
41:12
one and I arrived with that eiforia at thirty- two kilometers and said so
41:16
far. I came here and I had to walk several times. I finished
41:22
in two hours, forty- four minutes and twenty- five seconds. Okay
41:28
It' s a time to walk, and it' s all a time
41:32
to walk, for three. I want to run, start coming back in,
41:37
because now I don' t train to stay, but I don'
41:42
t compete, but I want to train for a marathon soon for Cali,
41:45
where I have to work. Iconic enough. I' d love to,
41:50
but no. I' m very difficult. Many things to organize and I
41:54
have to keep an eye on the winner and the last yes, of course
42:00
not happy, because thanks for allowing us to steal you half an hour,
42:06
thirty- five minutes of your time. I know that Harto has a thousand
42:07
meetings tomorrow. Well, you' re running and running, but you know
42:12
this story a lot. The hope is behind all the arts. Instinct for
42:15
them to connect on the social networks of the Cani Marathon. That is the
42:21
marathon of Cali Tuesday from 11 a m and that runs write us the race
42:28
of the Pacific, an unworthy experience. Not only race we have music from
42:34
the Pacific, but the tour is, besides being a race to a party
42:38
fully certified tour, so it is known that you run exactly ten kilometers,
42:45
about, ten or nine, eight, but ten and with an impeccable organization.
42:52
Let' s say two editions where all the runners have been happy and
42:58
we hope this one won' t be different than stealing the Pacific Race.
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Well, you know Ronners. And, finally, thank you for what you
43:06
' ve done for Colombian athletics, for showing us all how it feels to
43:13
be in an international race, for going to Simón Bolívar and seeing African athletes
43:16
training for Sunday' s Half Marathon. It' s amazing, really.
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Thank you for your time and we hope to see you soon or at the
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Pacific Race or the Cali Marathon on the fourteenth day we will be announcing the
43:32
first athletes for the Media Mara. Front boot in the lancement. Ah well,
43:35
here we see, there, we see the themes in the see here
43:38
in the ready hotel. Well, there to a happy night and thank you
43:43
very much. Well, Roners, that' s it. Ronners see you
43:46
in the next episode, in episode fifty- five, terramentally third Chao