Gustavo Rodríguez tells us his plans for the 2014

After the magnificent season in the 2013 with the runners-up in Duathlon and MD Triathlon in Desafio Posadas, the victories in medium distance triathlons such as ICAN, Pálmaces, Ecotrimad or Guadalajara, how do you propose the 2014?

2014 is presented as a year full of new challenges, with some project already underway and above all many ideas in the head. Professionally I'm still in the Vigo Trek Bike Store and I also return to the subject of personal trainings.

I do not want to get involved with large groups and take everything in a personalized way 100%, in the little I have been getting some satisfactions ... I love the feeling of helping people progress, but above all, teach them to enjoy sports.

Sporting the idea in this 2014 was to focus a little more on the long distance and make a calendar a bit more international.

Last year I made my debut in the Challenge of Calella and in the Ironman of Florida and the experience amazed me ... even though things did not finish as I wanted, it was a great experience. I think that with a little more experience and adaptation, it is a distance that can be adapted well to my characteristics.

Unfortunately the lack of financial support have made me take a step back and rethink the whole calendar a bit ... even so I have the confidence that doing things well helps, sooner or later, they will end up arriving ... and I am now in those accounts and looking for careers.

This year will you take the rematch of the MD Spain Championship?

Yes, it is a race that motivates me a lot and more in a circuit that adapts so well to my characteristics as the Ecotrimad. I hope to arrive in one of my best moments of form.

After your second attempt on LD in the Ironman of Florida, where you showed a great adaptation getting a great time with 8: 35, are you going to dedicate this season to try to break out at this distance?

I had planned to get fully into the distance, but I am realizing that now I do not have the time to prepare or the financial support to make an LD schedule in conditions. So I will focus on the middle distance in the first part of the year, and depending on how things go I will decide what to do in the second, although I probably use the summer to prepare a pair of LDs

With what moment do you stay of all the 2013?

The first part of the season in general I found myself very well on the bike. If I have to stay with the sensations of some race it could be with the Ecotrimad bike. But if you ask me for a moment I'll stay with Pálmaces or Guadalajara, more than for the race, for the people, the atmosphere and everything that was the trip itself ... and the debut in the distance ironman 

Can you tell us something for the 2014?

Well, I have several things in mind. In the middle distance the Iberian Cup, the ICAN Malaga, Guadalajara, Ecotrimad, Buelna ... and in Long Victory, Ocean Lava, Mallorca and maybe Cozumel ... There is nothing fixed but that's where the shots will go.