Paul, Maximillian, Miko, Most and Samson, Milika, Yvonne, Charity, Astrida and Priscilla …
They are the ten finalists of the cross-country race under 14 organized by the Olympic Centre of Lusaka under the programme: I.O.C. President’s Athletic Challenge.
Our 10 children arrive from different rural areas, far one from the other even about thirty kilometers.
Today 17th November, there is the final and the departure of the race is supposed to be at 8 in the morning. Continue reading
So many common places for the shortest race of the circuit!
‘The seasons are no longer the way they once were’, the rain season is late this year and the torrid heat made the shortest race of the circuit more demanding. ‘Nothing drenches your thirst more than a glass of water’, at the arrival the manual water pump of the Mungu School is assaulted by the young thirsty athletes. ‘Nothing is more refreshing than the shade of a tree’, at the end the 250 participants fought for a place under one of the huge secular mangoes in the schoolyard. Continue reading
Almost 200 participants … but at the departure the Seniors are few, “ it is the distance to scare them away” says the coach from Chipapa. But this reason which we heard way too often does not convince me. Continue reading
Friday evening with no power in Kafue. ‘Survivors’ dinner at candle light, with milk, cereal,
bread, Egyptian spiced bread sticks, jam and many pawpaw from Chikupi. The children eat a lot foreseeing the first race, then Winnie the eldest, who will race for the first time in the over 12, says ‘before the start, I am always a bit tense and worried, it seems to me that at the departure I will not be able to start, to run for the all race, then after the start and the elbowing, everything goes and I only think about reaching the arrival’. Still she did not know, that despite the TB of the bones, which crippled her stride, she would arrive fifth … for the first time … Continue reading
It is the final! Starting from Mungu with the arrival in Chikupi, 8 km of dusty gravel surrounded by a golden landscape typical of the dry season. Continue reading
It is my first time at the Chaniana Harbor. The atmosphere is different from the other villages in the rural area of Kafue, there is a thriving fish market, women with interwoven mats on the ground full of small fish which the sun is drying and bags full of ice and fresh fish, and boats, the majority made out of wood with a traditional shape others out of more modern resins berthed at the bank of the Chaniania River, the fluvial basin of the Kafue River. Continue reading
Never Give Up at the 14th Intercompany Relay in Lusaka
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After the last goodbyes to Matteo at the border with Malawi, the organization of the Never Give Up transfer to the 14th Intercompany Relay in Lusaka. This race, organized by Zambian Athletic Association, consists of relay runs for teams representing companies, public entities, ministries, and an individual run of 11,5 km on road. Continue reading
The sun covered by clouds forgave a very late start and the athlete managed to give their best despite it was already 12,00. The Mungu-Kabwesa race is one of my favorites, along the track many people stop to look and cheer the athlete. Continue reading
To the shortest race of the Never Give up Circuit coincided with the latest start ever! Everything started well, in spite of the fumes from the party to celebrate the Italian Republic which was anticipated to the Friday night, Giorgia woke up early to collect the bread, Continue reading
On 25th May 2012 the second race of the 12th Never Give Up, from Kabwesa to Chikupi, took place.
The sun is shining, the rain season has been over for more than a month and the roads have by now lost even the last drop of humidity, where there were slimy puddles of unidentifiable depth, there are now pot holes of a moonlike landscape. Continue reading
