Sunday, October 20, 2024, 10:38
| Updated 11:59 a.m.
For Estefanía Unzu Ripoll, better known as Verdeliss on social media, it was her first night race and she took it on the street. The athlete and influencer, who is a mother of 8 children, won this Saturday at the Bilbao Night Marathon. Exultant with happiness, he has shared with his almost million and a half followers on Instagram his joy at this new victory in a sporting career that began in May 2023.
Since then it has won in San Juan (Argentina), Hesbaye (Belgium), Báscones (Spain), Helsinki (Finland), Logroño and this Saturday in Bilbao. «I have a txapela. STOP. I have a txapela. STOP. I have a txapelaaaaa. Still processing what I experienced yesterday…winner of the Bilbao marathon (have I told you that I have a txapela?)”, she wrote on her profile on the well-known social network along with several photographs of her triumphant arrival at the finish line.
For the Navarrese, the victory in the Bilbao night is a great step in her career. But, above all, he has highlighted the encouragement that the public gave him. «I feel like a winner of a lot of affection, of encouragement, of a public that made me feel supported from km 0 to 42. THANK YOU FROM THE HEART. Accumulated fatigue in the legs? You anesthetized it for me with every ‘aupa neska’.
New challenges
Verdeliss has acknowledged that it exceeded his expectations and praised the organization of the test. «The fireworks, live rock, dusk in the estuary, the speaker’s song haha! My congratulations to @totalenergiesbilbaomarathon, you know how to make running a real party,” he noted.
The athlete does not stop here, the challenges continue. «I want to complete the six majors. I have four, on November 3 in New York I will do the fifth and I have Boston left, which is in April and for which I already have a number,” she explained to this newspaper as soon as she received the champion txapela.
