Books: Beppe Scotti’s ‘Il cercatore’ comes out, ‘so the encounter with running changed my life’

“The seeker. My story of growth through sport in the wilderness”, written by Beppe Scotti with Elisa Racchetti and published by the Ultra publishing house, arrives in bookstores and on all e-commerce sites. The book tells of Scotti’s chance encounter with running and how this encounter changed his life, translating into an “introspective path of growth”. “It all began with a disappointment: I would have had to abandon my great love, rugby, due to ‘age limits’ – says the author, who is a food entrepreneur – I was forty-two years old, and they seemed too young to resign myself to living as a spectator. I started running for fun, without knowing that my life would change. Because running pushed me to undertake an introspective path of growth. While writing the book, I retraced the races I faced and made myself I realize that I really made a lot of effort: marathons, ultramarathons, ultratrails in the deserts, in the mountains, ultracycling, adventure race. Thanks to the effort and willpower I got to the bottom of these feats. I made a book thinking that my story could also encourage a change in readers. I did it to testify that talent is a gift, and even if you are not gifted with it you can achieve great goals “.