Miles / day : 55 m ( 88km ) Total : 3271,87 m ( 5235km )
Daily running time : 10 h 00min / Daily average speed : 5, 5 m / h ( 8,8 km / h )
COPACABANA 11th of November / 35 degrees
73 days, 3 hours and 40 minutes
Traditional atmosphere of a Sunday afternoon. Usual folklore, swimsuits show ( I must admit we don’t grow weary of it ) surf boards, sunburnt muscles, the scene is set , but don’t worry, it isn’t by Donald Cardouel and the costumes aren’t designed by Roger Hart, they are much tighter, you see!!! Well , anyway you can imagine, can’t you?
Let’s go .. Vamos a la playa……….Take a towel and follow me…
In the middle of this festival of idleness and pleasure, a man is going to join in but not for the same reasons. Arrived around 1.30pm, not lazy the devil, our eater of asphalt will be the first one, by setting foot in Copacabana, this sacred myth, to achieve the "Trans South America"
73 days, 3hours and 40 minutes for 5235 kilometres of effort, of pain, of sweat, but today a lump in his throat, his muscles tetanized, he’ll give himself up to the happiness of being able to touch perfection, and of having made his kid’s dream come true. Exactly under the sun with as witnesses an attractive audience won over by his achievement. People stop, ask one another, wonder.. Who is this little man kissing the sand of Rio?
That’s it. We finish early today, you’ll easily understand the necessity. It’s boiling hot, and they have a nice alcohol of cane syrup multo bon. You see, after 73 days, 3hours and 40 minutes we are parched, we have a lump in our throats too but not for the same reason.
For the last time in the name of Serge and of the team tchao, tchao…
