When doing a 4km swim, 180km on a steel bike and running a marathon in speedos and tops starts to not be enough, someone remembers to do something completely different....
Last Saturday was the day of Spirit of 78. As I have already anticipated my thanks to those who made my Spirit of 78 a fantastic experience, in this text I will talk predominantly on the race and the meaning it has/had for me...
Once again, the longest day of the year has returned to Porto. On Saturday, October 8, we had the return of the Spirit of 78 Triathlon to the routes that have been covered by athletes in previous years...
On Oct. 9 I finished my first Triathlon! A few years ago I decided that I wanted to do an Ironman Triathlon and so I signed up for the Ironman Arizona. As the date grew closer I didn't feel like I had trained enough and had some other life events happening...
I signed up for this race in Porto, Portugal because it looked fun and a great excuse for a holiday. The aim of the race is to be true to the original idea of long distance/ironman triathlon
And the triathlon party as returned to Porto. After a year in which the Spirit of 78 Triathlon had to be carried out in a different way than usual, in self-sufficiency, without assistants, without public and with a minimum of volunteers...
It’s already a tradition. The beginning of October brings to the city of Porto some triathletes to honour those who in 1978 joined John Collins to perform a triathlon race that brought together the 3 main events in Honolulu,...
We arrived still at night, there was a slight mist in the air, the water was calm, a true mirror of water, we only notice some current through the inclination of the buoys, we could fell in the air the nervousness that hovered over those who came,...
Many asked for the full history of the Spirit of 78 Triathlon. These many will certainly await the report, minute by minute, of the movements and pains...
Spirit of 78 Triathlon or how to take the same time in a marathon as 180 km of bike after swimming champion style! This was on Saturday and my legs are still a little crumpled here...
Yesterday I had my heart full, not only for having completed another ironman, or better saying for having completed another Spirit, but for seeing that an idea that I, Pena, Hugo and Neves had 2 years ago ...
No mesmo dia em que no Havai se comemoravam os 40 anos do ironman, a muitos kms de distância, na cidade do Porto realizava-se a segunda edição do Spirit of 78 Triathlon, também nessa distância mítica e este ano, também, para comemorar essa efeméride...
