At that time I challenge myself and the elements. I feel powerful in the mud. The wind is wild ... as I more! When I feel victorious and stronger than ever. Times series have been bad, but not so much, I'm exhausted, soaked. When I come home, the few people who cross me look at me with funny faces, I see completely muddy, but smiling, really think I'm freak. They have a point.

This situation is not so exceptional, is repeated several times a year and not always in the same way. When an athlete runs with a huge dry heat, with heat and humidity, with hurricane-force wind and almost unbearable in a land impracticable, impossible or a profile on a line of several kilometers are training their will. Perhaps many do not know and get unhappy because the times do not come out or because the feeling was very bad. Do wrong, because in extreme situations is tested not only the body but also the mind, and the latter is as important or more in the competition.

Who has not been upset after a hellish training with very adverse weather conditions? Who has not sworn out loud and to the four winds, before God and the world? Who has not finished an angry because the day I wanted to get out in the series to confirm his fitness appeared that damn wind and they are annoyed? After completing training, a runner will things went as expected, the times are a total mess, pulse fired, the recovery that never comes, wobbly legs, lungs and heart for help in a fist.