Enric Casacuberta jokes imagining what he might find in a few months when he arrives in the state of Illinois, in the United States. “I imagine myself a bit like Forrest Gump, running in front of a crowd”, he says, laughing. He's not wrong. An American NGO awaits this 61-year-old official from the Moià Town Hall with open arms, as if he were a rock star, to accompany him and take photos with him, he explains. “The truth is that it has gotten very big. I don't quite understand how it all happened so quickly”. created a website to raise funds... and created a website to raise funds... and we had to train”. Yes, train. Especially him, because contrary to what one might think, Enric was not a person accustomed to running marathons. “If you had seen me two years ago, you would have thought this guy was incapable of running a race. I walked a lot, I did sports... but not races. I weighed about 90 kg and now I'm around 72. So I've been training to be ready. Two years ago I went to the Ripoll Half Marathon and I won it right from the start. In my age category, mind you”, points out this man who has been working at the Moià Town Hall for twenty years, where he will request a leave of absence.