All prepared for the Spanish Long Distance Duathlon Championship in Orihuela
Orihuela dresses up to receive throughout the 13 of March the Spanish Championship of Long Distance Duathlon.
An edition that comes full of novelties, with a renewed circuits that will go through the old town of a city steeped in history.
The emblematic Puerta de la Olma will be the core of a day that will begin with the male and female elite departures from the 9: 00 and 9: 05 h respectively, giving way to the Paratriathlon and then the Age Groups and finally, the test Open. A first segment of 16 km divided into two laps of 6 km along a half turn of 4 km that will run through the old town of Alicante, surrounding some of the historic icons of the city.
The cycling circuit will consist of a single lap of 65 km. A demanding section that will be developed on asphalt, with an accumulated positive / negative slope of around 897 m, which this time will include the climb to the Rebate pass. Finally, there will be a half lap of 2 km of running and a more complete lap of 6 km until reaching a total of 8 km. A competition whose awarding of medals is scheduled to start at 15 pm.
Analyzing the new routes, Raúl Amatriaín, winner of the 2015 edition, highlighted that it is a circuit "Entrants in the cycling sector, long, quite hard and as you do not control well you can pass bill". For the duck of the Saltoki Trikideak, tomorrow's race will be "more spectacular, it will run faster and you have to face the competition with your head because if you force a lot in the first sixteen kilometer race segment then it can be very hard for you the bicycle path, very typical of this area, very rompepiernas ". Amatriaín arrives in Orihuela with the mission of revalidating the title, but in front he will have to measure himself with duathletes of the likes of Lluis Villa, Juan Bautista Nadal or Cristóbal García Guillén.
In female elite, Monica Falgueras, of the Focus Race Team will fight to take over the long distance scepter. "It's the third time I've come to Orihuela and I've seen that it's flatter and it's fine, I guess everyone will get better by having a little less hardness." For Falgueras the route of the race on foot will be more exciting for the athletes and spectators, since "the previous circuit of the test saw you less, you were a long time in the field, and this time we will go through the center of the city and the spirit of the people that are going to make us give a percentage more to everyone ".
At the same time, during the afternoon of this Saturday, the presentation "Women and sport in the sports press" was given by Clara Sainz de Baranda. Organized by the Research Center for Gender Studies and A300w, with the collaboration of the Faculty of Social and Legal Sciences of the Miguel Hernández University of Elche and the FETRI.
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