I wake up one morning and, while I take a coffee, trying to numb my body to assimilate that we go back to riding a bike, turn on the TV and see a man on a bicycle. They tell the story of Julian Sanz Garcia (a cyclist specializing in ultradistance. Julian, with that simplicity that characterizes the minority who play sports with a passion and tenacity without limits, performs feats of which no one anticipates. This man, so particular has claimed victory in a very special: Le Tour Ultime. To win Le Tour Ultime facila a is the only thing to do is hop on a bike and 4180 miles. It's a race to what they call non stop : the less stop, the more miles you do each day, the more chance you have of winning. Thus, sales of Holland, you turn to France, crossing the Alps and the Pyrenees, and on the way to overcome the cold, heat, fatigue and sleep before returning to the Netherlands. Sleep an hour or two a day, or do not sleep a "depends on you, and one day, exhausted, finished the race.
Then you confirm that you come first and that's it: you win and go to sleep. Julian did in eleven days, seventeen hours and twenty-seven minutes. Such people, people who live their passion and trains every day, do something much more complex to master your body, or playing a demanding sport. Such people, change the world. Julian takes his mind to limits that other mortals can never know. In doing so, demonstrates the infinite potential of human beings to accomplish any challenge that is proposed. I wonder if Julian, this young man will be aware, in his hours of solitude on the bike, which is changing the world, because every time a human being, one way or another, makes back the limits of the impossible, changes our view of things, and makes us bigger. Julian might not know the significance of his gesture.
Probably now, is focused on training, go further, to dominate the sleep and fatigue. In the process, unwittingly, is becoming a symbol for some, gives meaning to everything that can not be reasoned. Many do not understand why, but many understand the essence of his philosophy and will be released to live their lives in a strong and different. I want to find a sponsor to enable it to fulfill his dream to participate in the Race Across America.
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