The siesta time by Felipe Gutiérrez: "Do we sign up?

Felipe Gutiérrez talks about the boom of the San Silvestre Vallecana

This already begins to be crazy, many competitions, many tests of all kinds such as popular races, trails, triathlons, duathlons with road or mountain bike and business around all these moves.

It seemed that 2016 was going to be more restrained in terms of the competition calendars and that "the fever" would go down a bit in terms of the prices of the inscriptions, but for nothing, they are still going up and there are more and more dates in which we can "Play" something.

Before, only those who trained regularly used to "play", but now anyone who at the Christmas party of their company drinks the copnot and offers for the 2016, is also accepting the challenge of the office of ¿do we do a triathlon?

Undoubtedly the inscriptions are expensive, very expensive but I think the palm takes the popular race of San Silvestre Vallecana (maybe there will be others similar) where in four days the seats have already finished at the low price of 20 € and one euro more if you do not have a chip

Twenty euros for running with 40.000 people with the same shirt since the number is printed on it and with other 30.000 or 40.000 more "colados" without dorsal, dressed in all kinds of costumes and with the desire to party without caring about the act Sports of the day?

Well it is and if you want to "hesitate" with the shirt, which by the way changes little and is simply an advertising of the brand that you all know, because there you have the conditions, if you like them ... and if not you go to another of so much renown but if possibly of better treatment.

What is clear is that the numbers have finished in record time and you must pick it up at the store of the firm that bears the wing of the Greek goddess Nike and what Carolyn Davidson designed at the time and will surely "stink" in any purchase of those that enters through the eyes.

But the truth is that you can still get numbers, there are still some for women and also for those under 26 or if you join the Nike Running Club you will have the last options to get it but you have to spend 100 euros on running equipment in any of the points of the race.

So all you answer, when they give you the runner bag "hallucinate" and they will give you the shirt of all years of different color with the printed number, the chip and it is finished what was given, nothing more will be put or drinks energetic or not energetic, or backward magazines of this or that editorial, not even a bar of something, not even an explanatory leaflet of the race, nothing more ....

And all to the side of the Bernabéu, where you can not see "three mounted on a donkey", an exit question that accelerates hearts to the maximum and until you reach the first meters of Serrano "you want to die" so much suffering. But cool, and everyone feels runners and look for Vallecas, no matter the time, the position, the pulsations, drinks, meals ... and with laces to the end of years party to hear the chimes. A whole plan

And the plan in our sport, the triathlon, is multiplied by I do not know how much, but certainly in something more than the previous year. The inscriptions do not go down, they go up and what is more incredible is that if the 2015 had more than 900 tests in the competition calendars, in the 2016 they exceed the number of more than 1.000 tests and adding.

Conclusion: this is a business so I see it fruitful and in my nap I dreamed that 28 years ago when I started in this world of triathlon I came up with the idea of ​​setting up one of the many businesses that are paying off and some are making gold.

But how hard is everything, I wake up shocked at the excitement and I realize that my "business" to teach at the institute and train at a club does not give to get gold, but at least I reassured myself when I realized that at least I did and did in those years what I wanted. That's worth its weight in gold. My nap time once again makes my feet touch the ground again, I woke up.

Let's see what comes to us in the 2016.

Felipe Gutiérrez

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