The siesta time by Felipe Gutiérrez: The loneliness of the long distance runner

I was so tired yesterday that before writing the column I needed to give a little nod and stop "thinking" for a while. Maybe also a little flu, maybe a decimilla of more ...

It was of little use to me, I was still under the effects of the weekend and the movie came to my mind (yes, you can also find it in the book) "The loneliness of the long distance runner", And as you already know a lot of English, I do not bother to put the translation.

What I will say is that Colin Smith, the protagonist during his training hours reflected on his life and blah, blah, blah ...

His reflections are interesting, although mine when I woke up were simpler and surely I will not reach the same conclusions as Colín since many times those of us who only act as spectators in the tests could also see ourselves as the protagonist and after many years in this world of Triathlon we can still see ourselves encouraging or trying to encourage athletes who run through landscapes where one is "alone" or perhaps with the odd family member, coach, whose camera in hand not only takes out his boy but also someone as he has been in this case (thanks Carolina for the photo) that also feels the loneliness of ...

Our sport, my head starts spinning, if you also need these scenarios but you also need bring the show to the big cities, we need less deserted beaches in ghost urbanizations or to go around in industrial estates where one does not even know who is going doubled.

We need the different federations, organizers ... to make a trdown very important either marketing or approaching institutions so that our tests are easy to see, that our sport is accessible to people who do not practice it.

Of course it is very difficult and closing an annual calendar is very complicated and the permits are almost impossible to be granted without more, but We can not settle for "comply" and that's it.

When I was "brooding" over there ... I thought it would be difficult for a sponsor to be happy to see that their impact with the club could be so low when we also always try to sell them that triathlon as well as being a healthy sport and such and such ... also to take his name in our monkey, tracksuit and others is followed by many people in the center of a number of cities, beaches ...

Of course I think all the sites are necessary and I do not think we can change it as easily as I think we settle for it easily and I do not see a projection program of triathlon and its modalities in places where it can continue as a show.

But if in some places we go, they do not even know there's a triathlon there! It takes something more, maybe having a guru who can break this would be a good way to promote this sport that will undoubtedly pull.

Curiously a few days before, a person told me that he did not understand how he did not get more benefit from this sport, as we did not know how to reach the possible sponsor and he told me precisely after giving him a modest dossier to see if he could " help with some money, "he said something like, but if this is a handout, if you do not ask for more, if you do not impress me more with your exploits, with your moves, with your sporting and tourist impact, nothing will give you !

Well at the moment nothing has given me, again I have felt "that loneliness" and what is worse I do not know how to get out of it, maybe I have seen myself there in the middle of nowhere ... thinking.

Felipe Gutiérrez