A radar prohibits more than 30 km/hour Alcoy. Men want to show that they can skip it … running

There is nothing more human than trying to overcome yourself. To consider a goal and try to go further is an aspiration as ancient as the human race. The same essence of the Olympic Games is that: exceed the maximum brands we know and measure our most perfect physical performance. And if the competent authority prohibits exceeding them, with more desire you try.

Run, Alcoyano. It has been in Alcoy, in one of its most central streets, Sant Vicent Ferrer. There is installed a “pedagogical” radar that marks a maximum of 30 kilometers per hour for vehicles passing through the road. A group of countrymen has wondered if they would be able to pass that speed … running. The result: a video that in Tiktok has generated more than 3700 kilometers, more than 240,000 likes and four million visualizations.

What is a pedagogical radar? It is a radar with electronic panels that show drivers the speed at which they are circulating and alert them if they exceed the limits of the road: if they pass without exceeding the speed they receive a smiling face in green, and if they pass, they get a sad face and the warning in red. They are located above all where the maximum allowed is 30 kilometers per hour, in areas where high accidents or school environments have been detected. In any case, They do not sanction the driverthey only measure and report the speed, hence the name.

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Can you or cannot? The obvious question what we have to do in the face of such a challenge is: Can you run more than 30 kilometers per hour? In the video, in fact, a single person gets it on the hair, but it is very complicated: only elite athletes in very short distances manage to stay so above: The World Record is USAIN BOLTwho reached a peak speed of 44.72 km/h during its historic race in 2009, and its average in the 100 meters was about 37.57 km/h.

Uncles things. What we see here is a typically masculine behavior, with a small competition to measure themselves with their peers and evaluate their own abilities and achievements. Here, the dynamics of “who manages to go faster” is a clear example of comparison between pairswhere recognition and status are obtained to overcome others in a public and visible test. In this case, yes, the activity is not risky, a detail that sometimes appears in this type of competitions, where it seeks to demonstrate through virile risk behaviors, such as reckless driving. Although very healthy for the knees are not these jogs.

Stones throw, running radars. Actually, it is not necessary to get so transcendent or psychologists: this impulse to overcome the brand that indicates the radar is pure male competitiveness that sets in a large number of stupid competitions in which uncles embark. Reported a couple of summers, when it became fashion stones. Entertain with any bullshit (how many social media accounts you know that are Trick Shots increasingly wiring and demential), compete for anything, male life.

Sport as a measure of all things. You just have to see José Luis Almeida Belowing the Balonazos Any child that is put in front of the intuitively understanding everything that leads us to this point: virile exhibitionism, playing regular everything but believing Greek athletes just because once in the courtyard of the school we put a head goal. But it is the magic of sport, which acts as a masculinity standardization device: the body is a performance machine, and attributes such as strength, resistance, speed and competitiveness become male value standards.

Therefore, if we measure the same in terms of “running in front of a radar” we will understand the not -so -epic side of the situation: the obsession to compete can convert any daily situation into a “battle” or a “party.” Who eats faster, who arrives before the office by car or who drinks more beers. “Sunday’s hero” who is able to momentarily match the USA Bolt brand for a thousandth of a second. The epic at a very specific point of the cosmos.

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