Not a fun Sunday
It would have been, if the race registration process in Italy wasn’t so grab-ass-tic. Yep, making up words, well stealing them from Stanley Kubrick movies, that’s how bad it is. I’m not mentioning the race, I’m not going to link to the website. But it’s just silly they way they do things here. Libertarianism run amok! But, after the rain, and threat of lightning had mostly passed, I got a few miles in.
Literally, the course went right past my apartment! My friends ran marathons all over today, even some in Portugal, tons of people ran half-marathons from my home club, congrats to all of you. I could not signup for a half marathon, because they literally made you go all the way to Rome, to hand in papers personally, to sign up for a website, so you could register for the event online. That makes no sense!
To top it all off, there are sponges and water bottles all over the city streets. Obviously the stations were peopled, why didn’t anyone clean up? Figure the municipal workers will overnight? It’s raining, windy, and it’s right next to the damned sea you idiots! Pick up after your race! This is absolutely unacceptable. There are so may great things about living in Italy, beautiful sights, tons of history, museums, art, wonderful people (some of the best people you’ll ever meet), some of the greatest beaches in the world. But then there’s shit like this. Everyone who runs shit in this country is generally corrupt as hell. The South is treated like complete crap all the time, and there seems to be such a regard for rules and regulations to make things so nobody is liable that everything is a giant hassle. The idea is, I guess, so that everyone is insured if there’s a medical emergency or whatever, the races I suppose carry no insurance, and are not required to, if all people participating can prove coverage. This means the races are mildly cheaper, and the business, race organizers, has less overhead. Great for business, horrible for some guy from the US who just wants to run a race. Meh, I’ll write them and complain.
I just have to remember how much good is here, and everywhere, regardless of people’s general incompetence. At least right now I am sitting here, writing this post, while a lovely pasta sauce cooks on my stove, with my meatless meatballs (polpette di pane) in them. I’ll have a lovely dinner, and relax, and tomorrow work will start. And I need work to start, I need to have a little distraction, a little action in my day. I think when I get too much energy built up it just makes me lazy, believe it or not. Did not help that I didn’t get to run a half marathon today, simply due to red tape. There was probably a way to get a login without showing up in person, but I’ll be damned if I could find it.
The silver lining today, at least City lost!
Have fun, keep running, and remember; if Gil can run then so can you!
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