Stage 7 completed

Last day was again hard. As I told you in the last post, I arrived among the last 50 in the Marathon stage. This meant that I had to start the final stage one hour earlier. It seemed not very exciting to be among the last 50 of stage 6 but it turned out differently... The 50 started running when still the other 900 participants were fixing their backpacks and the route passed all throughthe middle of the campsite. I don't know what it was, but I felt like running again after 3 days almost only walking because of the pain in my legs. I started first among the early-starters, and all the camp started clapping at us, which was very exciting and gqve us a bit of a good energy rush.

I ran all the last 21 km and it felt good to finish the race running rather than walking.

After crossing the last field of dunes I arrived to the finish line in tears with the venezuelan flag in my hands. I guess my face looked somewhat dramatic because a TV camera immediately approached me to ask me how it was.

I was so happy that I made it and that my friends could make it as well. I am really grateful to Wolt, Luca, Nina, and my colleagues from tent 88 (Toni, Bo, Valery, Ilhan, Ibrahim). We all got the finisher's medal. Luca got in the position number 25 and Wolt in position 71... wow!

I jumped into the bus together with thte rest of the competitors almost in tears for the excitement of finishing these days of hardship! It felt weird (and it still feels now) not to be running anymore.... after two weeeks full of challenge and emotions it seems that suddenly a switch was turned off, but I guess that as soon as I get back to real life and my blisters and my legs heal I will realize what all it was and the good memories will stay forever.