Alejandro Santamaría finisher in the Titan Desert

4 May 2015Updated May 4, 2015

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Alejandro Santamaría in the Titan Desert

My Titan Desert has been a different adventure. A test that I have been able to live from the inside, without competing or competing.

I have been able to see how the people who are going to finish the test suffer. Participants for whom reaching the goal at each stage is a special satisfaction and they spend the afternoon wondering if they will be able to overcome the next. They are the ones who do this big test. The feeling of the titans when crossing the finish line of the last stage is one of maximum joy; Those faces of emotion, those gestures, tears in their eyes, make them feel lucky despite all the suffering.

The organization of the Titan is huge, with a brutal deployment of media to mobilize the 600 participants and staff every day throughout Morocco and the most remote places. It is not easy at all to have all that logistics in the middle of the desert and for everything to be perfect. It is also a solidarity test, since they give work to the local people and every day the Titan and its participants leave supplies wherever they go.

They also risk and bet hard to make it a fun and unique test for participants with difficult moments to make participants feel something that without the Titan would be impossible. Although those risks in the navigation stage had us all in suspense (as one of the participants got lost looking for checkpoint 4 that and did not appear until 1:00 in the morning).

Alejandro Santamaría in the Titan Desert

It's a sports tourism vacation to the beast in an adventure plan, through unusual landscapes for us doing what we like surrounded by more passionate people like us.

My rhythm in the stages was calm guiding the group that I trained and with which I came to this test, but in some I left in the lead a few minutes to be able to see at the speed of vertigo that the contenders come out. There are many fast kilometers of long tracks ideal to go in platoon and for road cyclists.

The Titan is full of triathletes and it is a joy to meet familiar faces or fellow fatigue triathlons. This test is adapted to the characteristics of Ironman triathletes and adventurers looking for challenges, it is an event of personal improvement at all levels, physical and mental.

It is also a test of humanity where in moments you can get the best we have inside to help those next to us. In fact only a few dispute and compete in this test, and most will challenge themselves, it is a challenge that at least must be done once in life.

Participating in the Titan is not easy; Registration is high, you have to be well prepared and it is not available to everyone. For this reason, I want to give to those who would like to go but cannot, my participant shirt and my finisher jersey.

I raffle my shirt among all my Twitter followers @trientrenos who retweet this twit:

I draw my shirt #titandesert2015 among followers who retweet me @TomTomSpain @ActiveLanzarote @triathlon

Raffle the Titan jersey among all the followers of my personal Facebook page: Alejandro Santamaría who share this photo:

https://www.facebook.com/alejandro.santamaria.atleta