Small everyday joys. The conquest of breakfast to prepare yourself, even if you know very well that dad Gianni would never give up the pleasure of having everything ready for you. The chipped enamel of the right thumb. Chipped? Gnawed. For anxiety. Anxiety. Anxiety. Anxiety. Damn anxiety. “You have to get your calluses Larissaaa!”: This is what my mother always says, Fiona, or rather the “gendarme” Fiona. Repeat ten-hundred-thousand times «Perfer et obdura», that is «Endure and resist». Training, studying. Always, as a mantra.
Feeling good when friends care about you. Sometimes a laughing face, a message, two whispered words, even a silence is enough. And dad Gianni who asks her: “How did you go tonight with Chip and Dale?”. Chip and Dale. Francesco and Cosimo, friends. “I keep telling myself that every race is unique, what font is to live the challenge, never for fun but without forgetting to have fun”: so he writes Larissa Iapichino on page 64 of his Running in the air (ed. Mondadori, 132 pages, € 17.50), novel by a young woman who is also a long jump champion, there are existential trajectories that cannot be avoided. Fiona May, la mamma, a monument of Italian sport. A jump of 6 meters and 91 centimeters. Record. Yours, of record. Record. The of him, of record. You can jump in time. Gianni Iapichino, the father, former pole vault champion, today his coach.
“There is no dream without commitment, Larissa.” They tell her, she repeats it to herself, because she knows it is one of the few certainties we have. She opens Instagram, a leap to heart. It is the Gen Z that grows, between real life, social (e) and dreamed. And in fact, at the opening of the novel Larissa wanted to write: «Dedicated to all dreamers, never give up». Both of them “Musketeers” – they are always Chip and Dale – they got engaged. “So now you don’t consider me anymore?”
Larissa is 19 years old. Daughter, sister, friend, professional sportswoman, woman, student. On page 69 Larissa writes: «Every victory is never the last, you have to regain everything every time ». It is valid in sport, it is valid in life. And she doesn’t always go smoothly. There’s an ice pack to keep her company after her injury. Video calls with the friend of a lifetime, Gioia. Trying on the nail polish simultaneously: show. Ana’s nose that pops out everywhere, when it’s sunny. A daughter who asks a father with a guitar in his hand: «You make me Starway to Heaven? ”
Arranging your room: what a drag. What had Father said that time? She had said that “sport is also a choice, Larissa. The real challenge is to get to know each other and sport helps you to do so ». A sportswoman who after the race can’t wait to go back to the hotel and lie down on the bed and dreams of being a knight crossing boundless lands. «When I return home I have the dawn in my heart, the thoughts present and tinged with pink, the light footsteps as in the figures of Botticelli». The love? Love, yes. It is on page 123 that we find the heart of this beautiful novel, written in a hurry, because running is the life of those who go with a light heart and a soul on their shoulders towards the age of twenty (Larissa turns them on July 18). “Where there seem to be impossible challenges, what matters is to always identify the way to jump over, beyond the borders, further and further. Right?”. Right.
Source: Vanity Fair
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