In our latest challenge together yesterday, for the first time I shared with Fabio a new adventure. Sunday morning we ran together in the last part of a 24 hour relay event in Milan, organized by the Institute for the Blind in which he participated as an athlete and me as his guide. United only by a short piece of rope for an hour we ran the competition path six times in North Park running about 9 km, finishing at 10.30. I trained to participate in the race, even though he was obviously more prepared: Fabio has been participating in marathons for years and has a very good time, but this time our race was not against the clock but in favor of solidarity with the aim of helping Blind athletes pursue sports.
It was great to meet again, even if it was to run and not to walk in the sand burdened by the weight of the backpack as we used to do together when we crossed the Egyptian desert to the oasis of Dahkla.
At the arrival, we shared the usual hug and lots of joy, to the applause of the audience with Oscar, who documented the event in photo and video, that we will soon see on the site. Finally we shared a delicious lunch at the home of Fabio and Oriana: where we spoke at length about our book due to come out in November. It was an opportunity to meet up and spend a lovely Sunday together, and participating in outdoor sports made it even more real and authentic.
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