Tips for an Ultraman by the Spanish 3 participating in the World Championship

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3 Spanish athletes participate this weekend in the ULTRAMAN World Championship in HAWAI. We speak with Marc, Roger and Marcos to ask for their advice to face your first ULTRAMAN.

Marc Puig

Marc Puig

For Marc Puig, with nothing less than 4 podiums in the 5 Ultraman tests that you have made, it is essential to have a good coach as well as time to be able to prepare everything well “you have to like training because you are going to do it a lot and be aware at all times that you are signed up for this test. I recommend Be calm and calm and set small goals because if they are very long distances can be made eternal if you do not plan the race well "

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Roger Lacaci

Roger Lacaci

For Roger Lacaci, 5 are the key points:

It is very important review all the material necessary since once the competition begins any carelessness can leave you out of the race.

Nutrition and hydration is super important the before / during / after the competition. It is essential to take it into account.

Of course, get well trained. 

I also recommend attend the organization's briefing, where they explain the route of the three days, and above all what is prohibited such as your team passing you a bottle from the van in motion, having to put one foot on the ground at each stop or run with headphones, do drafting swimming or cycling any of these and many more, first it is a warning and then it is disqualification, so pay close attention to the briefing!

And my fifth and most important advice is that the Cava bottle this cool to be able to celebrate the arrival ????

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Marcos Bonilla

Marcos Bonilla

Marcos Bonilla, for his part, tells us:

Plan ALL the Ultraman well; choose the food, the material, and the clothes you are going to use well. LLogistics in an Ultraman is superimportant, Especially because they tend to be outside of your country and that implies the need to organize everything in time; accommodation, travel, assistance car, transport of material (the bike is something very delicate to transport), hours of sleep, training, briefings ... and without forgetting that the legs that go to the ultraman ... are very different from the tired legs that return . All that is also part of the Ultraman, and the result depends largely on it. Prepares and organizes everything that can be baked.

Coordinate well with your team, in a triathlon of these characteristics they are as important as you and you depend on 100% of them. How they assist you depends on a high percentage of your results. So you should start by taking care of them. We can literally say that our life is at its mercy. Make that team YOUR team; organize them your way, communicate continuously and create a special bond; without them you will never be Ultraman. They are going to give you food, they are going to change the cans, they are going to cure you, they are going to escort you… Your life depends on them, and your defeats and victories will also be theirs.

Take a good medicine cabinet: I think there are too many words. In the UM we are well protected with doctors and physiotherapists before, during and after each stage. But you still have to bring a good medicine kit ready so that your team of assistants can use in all kinds of situations. It is worth doing a small economic effort to prepare a good first-aid kit at any pharmacy. What is the most common? Well, without counting a fall or more serious accidents; special ointments for chafing, burns, eye drops, protective dressings, second skins, anti-inflammatory, stomach protectors etc ... What I apply to everything we go; in the UM multiply the kit of a normal race by 100.

ENJOY the Ultraman: The UM is a such extraordinary experience that it is so difficult to explain how the idea that you can imagine what it feels without having lived it (and you will say: "like everything in life"). In the UM you live the magic from before it startsr because the relationship and the treatment with the other triathletes and teams is different (to the force) than in other triathlons, in which it does not give place to live or share so much, and I assure you that I share all those sufferings and joys create a special link, so special that there is no language, person, circumstance or barrier that could prevent it.

Just completing that distance is practically magic, but it is magic especially because there are situations that only occur in a UM ... The magic of the Ultraman is: To overtake or forward a partner, it is not like in any triathlon, when you overtake someone in an ultraman it is like an energy exchange, it gives you time to give you a hug, to take her hand, to kiss her, to shout in her ear: "WE CAN!", And that gives you strength in those moments that you can not even imagine. The magic of the ultraman: because you are lucky to give and receive strength from all your companions.

The magic of the Ultraman is that in 3 days people who are real strangers become almost part of your family. The magic of the ultraman: because what may seem a disgrace at first, in the end it becomes a gift fallen from the sky to live an epic that will only end if you get to the end, that is the magic of the Ultraman. That is the magic, to believe in you and to verify in your person that the greatest victory is to overcome oneself.

- Keep in mind the three Hawaiian words on which the UM is based and gives meaning:

-ALOHA = LOVE

-OHANA = FAMILY

-KOKUA = HELP

Be very present in the UM these three words because they give meaning to this competition for something.

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