The preview of the TITAN DESERT 2015 by Alejandro Santamaría

Alejandro is going to play for the first time the TITAN DESERT and will be the luxury reporter of Triathlon News

 

 

With everything ready to start the test, he tells us his vision before the race.

This is one of those challenges I had pending and luckily in this edition I will be able to enjoy, or suffer. Although I'm not going to dispute since I've come as a coach, to take care of my friends and live this experience.

The Titan is a human challenge. One of the stages is the dreaded marathon stage. In which the athletes do not receive any type of assistance, only water and food. Everyone must carry their sleeping bag and what they need to spend the night and start the next day with another stage.

6 Stages in precarious conditions of more than 100 km by mtb through the desert. Sleeping in a Haimas itinerant camp in different parts of Morocco. It is a great experience and an adventure for the 600 participants.

An adventure for which each participant has to pay around € 2000 for registration apart from the flight and other expenses. They will even have to pay for part of the water and other drinks such as coffee and all at the price of desert. Also sleep on a mattress on the floor in Haimas shared between 3 in which at 3 in the afternoon in full sun it can be within 50 degrees.

No luxury, no comfort, common bathrooms and all week eating the same thing with rice, pasta, chicken, fruit and little else. Apart from the beatings and miseries that they must go through every day including steps through the demanding Atlas. However, most repeat. 

 

A Haima in the TITAN DESERT

 

This week is for many the most anticipated week of the year. Very few are the professionals who participate, the majority are normal people, even some managers accustomed to other luxuries who this week get rid of the office, take off their ties and come to the desert to measure themselves and also to make friends.

The desert ends up uniting and that is seen from the first day at the airport where they meet joyfully familiar faces with the complicity of the hardships of last year and the satisfaction of despite feeling fortunate to be in an unforgettable experience for a lifetime .

Alejandro Santamaría  

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