Merit is huge, indisputable. The feat of running seven marathons in seven days has a huge value for what it means of physical effort, recovery capacity, mental strength and resistance to injuries. What was achieved by Estefanía Unzu in a week is … worthy of praise as a sports deed outside the excess advertising exploitation that could have generated.
From the strictly sports point of view, the Navarra runner is what is known in athletics as an ultrafondist, that is, a specialist in distances superior to the marathon. Unzu was proclaimed champion of Spain in May last year with a seven -hour and 59 -minute chrono, an excellent brand, close to the record of Spain (7h52 ‘, in the hands of Mireia Sosa) and that means running a marathon in 3h22’ … And follow at that rhythm another 58 kilometers!
The least interesting part from the point of view of sports performance is what refers to running on the five continents, something more typical of Guinness records and closer to the adventure or the mass show than the strictly physical. Performing these marathons on all continents is more a logistics and travel organization issue than purely sports. It is a collection of interest for advertising purposes but with a solidarity objective worthy of praise: to raise funds for the investigation of Menke-Hennekam syndrome and help Claudia, a six-year-old girl who suffers from this disease.
Really for an ultra -fund athlete, marathons are affordable distances, because they represent only a fraction of the tests for which they are prepared … let’s not forget that there are 24 -hour records and tests of up to six days running. The Japanese Miho Nakata beat in 2023 a world record running 270 kilometers in 24 hours, which converts the marathon almost into a speed test for her.
However, the greatest merit of Verdeliss is not having run seven marathons in seven days, or having stepped on all continents in a week. His uniqueness is in his bisoñez as an ultrafondist and having debuted after being the mother of eight children. The really spectacular thing about Estefanía Unzu is that we are facing a woman who began to take the competition with 37 years. To be a 100 -kilometer champion of Spain in less than two years is a feat in itself. It is a broker with a custom physicist for long distances. Perhaps a great athlete if he had launched before the competition.
In any case, Verdels has a great Atlético future ahead. As the mythical cardiologist George Sheehan (the one who proposed to President Nixon that Americans will not work on Wednesdays to reduce the infarct rate) affirmed) any athlete will improve its brands for ten years whatever the age at which it begins to compete. Estefanía has just reached the wonderful and demanding world of athletics. Many titles await him.
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