Jean-Baptiste Sarrazin
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10:45 p.m., March 09, 2023
The half marathon took place last weekend. Among the participants, a young man from Les Sables d’Olonne challenged himself to run the race with… ski boots. A remarkable performance since Pierre Delacoux completed the race in less than two hours. He was invited to “Europe 1 Sport”.
It is a challenge that is, to say the least, unexpected. A young Vendéen, originally from Sables d’Olonne, decided to run the Paris half-marathon (Sunday March 5) with ski boots. A preposterous idea justified by Pierre Delacoux, the main interested party, in the program Europe 1 Sports (every evening from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.): “It’s a crazy challenge. I’m passionate about sports but also passionate about adventure. And even if I love to participate in competitions in a conventional way, I likes, from time to time, to break the routine a little bit and add a little originality to projects. And so there I had the idea of running with the most uncomfortable shoes possible”.
Each shoe weighed just under 2 kg. A great performance since Pierre Delacoux managed to complete the 21 km in less than two hours. And to do so, the amateur sportsman had to adapt: ”I trained with classic ski boots. But since there was no flexion when I ran, it was not viable, my feet did not weren’t breathing and were starting to swell. So I decided to remove part of the support liner in the shoe to incorporate a pair of running shoes.”
other challenges
This challenge, Pierre Delacoux decided it in the course of a conversation with collaborators. “It was the impossible challenge for physiotherapists and sports doctors. It stuck in my head for several months because I thought I could take it up. It didn’t seem inhuman to me,” he said at the microphone of Celine Geraud. The young athlete seems to have recovered very quickly from this performance since his “feet are in very good condition”, his whole “body too”. “I’m in great shape,” reassured the challenger.
Pierre Delacoux is on his first wacky challenge. In May 2022, he broke the world record for crossing the Channel on a paddle. “I won the record to my surprise. I’m proud of it,” he enthused in Europe 1 Sports. The young Vendéen does not intend to stop there. His next challenge is to swim across the North Chanel, the strait that separates Scotland from Northern Ireland. And this time he assures him, he will take up this “challenge” but in a “conventional way”.