Milano City Marathon 2002 - Dec 1, 2002 Sound track: Albinoni, Adagio in G minore
	A new logo and a new medal for this year's edition. The organizer is a sports newspaper that uses pink pages... all it does or sponsorises has to be pink... I had planned to run this marathon with Carlo, a blind friend... but one of his knees wasn't working... we had to be satisfied with a 10km few days before the big one. Carlo's kids, Guglielmo & Valentina, were our fans... In the downtown arena was organized the changing area... I always like to check were the line ups are... Sometimes I can even find good friends in the queue... This is Paolo, the very same that 4 years ago got me involved in my first marathon: Ravenna 1999. This was his 22nd marathon of the year... Paolo, like all good Italians... does nothing without an espresso in the morning... Even a street vendor will have an espresso machine. Everything was pink... almost like a gay pride day... ;-) The arrow points to the start... but the people go the other way ??? Some creative artist has transformed traffic stopper cement blocks in penguins :-) I have seen this picture before... and it was at the New York Marathon... where they use a large number of motorcycles... Stretching at the Castle... The Starting Cannon... More pink... A view of the finish line... Access gate to the Start Line... Group stretching... The runners are ready... Past the start line you can see the smoke of the cannon... and we are off. The run is on... One of the finishers... never give for granted a marathon... this time 3:38... I always wondered what I would look like in pink... now I know... ;-) A nice walk after the marathon ending up in the romantic "naviglio" closed the day...
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