Mark Taron
"I'm Lorenzo, I live in Emilia Romagna and ride with six bypass." The message Lorenzo Lo Preiato entrusted to his t-shirt, as he ran on the streets of New York's most famous marathon in the world, was strong. Intended to strike. And to rekindle hope in anyone thought, until that day, of having set aside.
Sunday, among the fifty runners on the committed twenty-six miles that have revolutionized the world of street racing and the marathon, there was also this quarantanovenne financial adviser from Bologna who found himself only six years ago, from one day to another, front of one of those crossroads of life sparigliano cards.
"I've always loved the sport, albeit at an amateur level. I used to play tennis and I underwent the classic medical examination for sports fitness competitions. I said there would be some check further to do. I made them and everything turned out negative, but now I had put a flea in his ear. I decided to get to the bottom. " The
Preiato contacted a enodinamista and underwent a coronagraph. "I had advised against all, because it is a rather invasive examination and I had only forty-three years. It was 1 June 2004, never forget that day more. After the visit, I asked the doctor when I resumed with the court. Other than tennis, "he said, you go immediately to a cardiac surgeon" .
A hard blow. Especially if you do not expect. "I was not hurt, I was completely asymptomatic. Those words cut me legs. Then, of course, I moved. And I was lucky. On my way I have found the Professor Giorgio Noera. Not only a great specialist, but also a wonderful person. I visited in mid-June and a week later I had already made. " You
bypass, in fact. Applied a technique of mammary artery revascularization through the Villa Maria Cecilia Hospital in Cotignola. And then the re-education, fast. Never put aside the idea of \u200b\u200bsports activities.
"The professor was clear from the beginning: control of motor activity, never exceeding a maximum frequency of 130 pulses, would be a medicine more. Not more Football, basketball, tennis, the subjects I loved, but aerobic activity. Swimming, cycling or running. I chose to run because I did not nail me to think only of the past. I started it as a necessity and has become a passion. "
not totalizing, but strong enough to build on a brand new adventure.
"Last February, I watched him grow from near the project" From the couch to the marathon in New York ", born to move sedentary people. He thought Nicholas D'Adamo, my sports teacher. I thought I might try it myself. And when I spoke with Professor Noera, he said: perfect, then we do together, this marathon, you across the ocean and I here in Cotignola, monitor, meter by meter. "
So it was. Lorenzo has over a dozen sensors attached on the chest, and a light transmitting phone, SMS, data firm that his heart was doing. Have noticed anomalies, Professor Noera could have stopped immediately. He opened a road marathon with six bypass.
"I confess that I'm still not realizing it happened so fast from the moment I decided to get involved, nine months ago. I hope this experiment, so let's call it, may be useful in future key. And I can say that I am committed to this: because people can face problems like I've had so purposeful, knowing that there is a way out. If I may be an example of this, I shot back. The other day I heard a colleague in which they have applied three recent bypass, and I told her not to worry, that in five years will run the marathon together. I heard you moved. " Meanwhile, Lorenzo has taken a liking. The finish line in Central Park has been raised, like any runner who dives into the magical world of marathon.
"I'm not ashamed to say that I cried on the finish line. And not only. We can say that I cried for all those forty-two km, when I thought to where I was six years ago and where I came now. In less than six hours I saw the movie of my life, and it did not seem real to be there. I now look forward. I run six times a week, trying not to do heavy work. To be clear: rather than two out of thirty miles, I do six to ten. Meanwhile in New York had 2240 km in my legs, not bad. And if the knee did not hurt me, I would have finished much earlier. Now I want to do the marathon in Rome, in the future I think of the big five: in addition to New York there are Boston, London, Berlin and Chicago. Yes, it's true: I speak now, a marathon runner ... "
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