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One of the things we hear most often is, “I would love to run but I don’t have time. That’s all professionals do, right?”
Not really or not just. As Andrea tells us in one of the stories featured this week in Goodmorning Runlovers.
By runningeveryone gets rid of their labels. The ones that society constantly tries to put on us. Professional and personal. At the start of a race you find the worker and the manager, the monk and the rock star. Running in this is truly democratic. Everyone will face fatigue, their demons, the joy of overcoming their limits. Joys and sorrows. Running in the mountains you might also meet a doctor who competes with the best in the world: Dr. Thibaut Garrivier. As a child until he was 10 years old, he lived in Sainte-Mère-Église, Normandy. He started running late, during his first year of medical school, in Marseille, to blow off steam during the tough, obstacle course to become a doctor. He is not regular in running. She happens to train after a 24-hour on-call shift. Then he finds his balance, and turns. In 2019 he wins the Transvulcania in the Canary Islands. In 2021 he wins the CCC of UTMB, on Mont Blanc. He becomes one of the best ultra runners in the world. Hoka team athlete. Despite this he decides not to abandon his professional path: in 2022 he moves to work in a clinic in Annecy, home of trail running, to be able to train on the best mountains.
He decides to be a doctor and an elite runner. Expressing two faces of the same person.
After all, in our own way, we are all as Pirandello said; “one, no one and a hundred thousand.” There is no definitive version of ourselves.