So much life literally in such a small body. So much energy in a mother who has given birth to eight children. So much resistance in a person on the edge of quarantine. So much power in two fine legs loaded with kilometers. Estefanía Unzu Ripoll (39 years), better known as Verdeliss, won on Tuesday the fifth consecutive test corresponding to the World Marathon Challengeconsisting of completing 7 marathons in 7 days and 7 different continents.
The Spanish an athlete and ‘influencer’ (1.5 million followers in the Instagram social network and more than 2 million on YouTube, where their videos exceed 700 million views), which he had already won in Antarctica (January 31) , South Africa (February 1), Australia (February 2) and Dubai (February 3), ran especially motivated. Because he did it at home, in the Jarama circuit of Madrid and, above all, because there were encouraging her parents, her husband, friends, fans and her eight children.
Heroicity, madness or health risk? The ‘world marathon challenge’ monopolizes many qualifiers, but what nobody doubts is that completing seven marathons in seven days on the seven continents is a real deed, while a hard punishment for the body, taken to the limit without rest margin and fighting time decompensation when traveling through different time uses. Beyond the 42,195 meters That you have to face daily, athletes must face long -distance flight disorders, lack of sleep hours or run with such different temperatures. It is an experience that Verdeliss is living.
With Aritz serminarhusband of the athlete and ‘influencer’, in the main stands of Jarama, accompanied by her eight children, Verdeliss complete the 11 turns to the Madrid autodrome in little more than three hours (3:11:27). Beyond the personal and sports challenge of La Navarra, its deed has a beneficial intention. Verdeliss tries to raise funds for Claudia, a six -year -old girl suffering from the Menke-Hennekam syndromea disease of those considered rare and that, being hereditary, is given by the malformation of the lymphatic system. There are only 80 cases in the world.
Verdeliss’s feat began in the Antarcticaunder extreme weather. She was the first woman to go through the finish line and the fourth of the general, with a time of 3 hours 38 minutes and 53 seconds. And from the cold of the north pole to the African heat of Cape City, in South Africawhere he won the race again even ahead of male participants (3h.10’14 ”). “My only discomfort is that I have carbonized skin … the hurry is not good advisors and I forgot to apply the sunscreen,” he explained after the South African race and while I reached Perth (Australia) Together with the 53 participants who survived the experience. 14 hours of flight, with a technical scale in Mauritania, they only had a time and a half to move from the airport to the vicinity of the Swan River, where the third marathon began, which also dominated ahead of all the participants (3h: 10.30 ”) , running this time at night and with a temperature of 22 degrees.
Also absolutely won the marathon of Dubai (EAU) With the best time until that moment (3: 09.46 ‘), which consolidates it as an undisputed leader of this world challenge. Plaster that Mutilva had serious stomach problems, with belly pain, in the middle of the test.
Together with Verdeliss compete for another 61 participants. In total, 46 men and 16 women from 20 countries (25 from the United States, 17 of China and 5 from Great Britain, among others). To turn the world running – in all the senses – it is mandatory to pay $ 49,000 (47,000 euros).
It is an initiative that was born as a personal challenge of the Irish Richard Donovanwho in 2012 got the feat using regular flights. Shortly after I believe the world marathon challenge in competitive format. In the first editions they continued to jump between continents in regular lines, but currently they already use an exclusive hired aircraft for the challenge. That private plane in which all participants travel is the key that the challenge can be completed. «It is not a normal plane. Inside, it seems military. The nose is glass and makes a tremendous noise, to the point of needing helmets with noise cancellation, ”explains Verdeliss.
This Tuesday, after 9 at night, once the goal of Jarama was closed, the participants got on their plane again. To complete the challenge, the 42,195 km of rigor in Fortaleza, Brazil, and many others in Miami, United States, tomorrow.
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