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Gustavo Rodríguez with an eye to the Ironman of Kona 2019.

Champion of Spain of Media Distancia in Guadalajara, first in Zarautz, first in Rioja and second in Pamplona, ​​this has been the successful first part of the season for Galician.

The Galician triathlete Gustavo Rodríguez, closed the first part of this season with victory last weekend atl Half Distance Triathlon of La Rioja and almost ensures in this way the Copa de España de Media Distancia.

Gustavo, now you take a active rest of two weeks to face with force the second part of the year in which the Long Distance and get the rating for Kona 2019 They are your maximum objectives.

After a more complicated start than usual, with a harsh winter where the injuries and some other health problem prevented Gustavo Rodriguez from doing a preseason as well as he would have liked, the Galician will face his way to the next months. Kona 2019.

The season began in Pamplona, ​​in the Half Triathlon Pamplona-Iruña, in which a puncture in the bicycle sector prevented him from climbing to the top of the podium, achieving a second position, which left good feelings for one of the objectives of this part of the season, revalidation Championship of Spain of Average Distance, which he achieved last May in Guadalajara. A victory that was sustained in a large bicycle sector Gustavo's specialty.

The following appointments resulted in victories, in Zarauz in one of the most demanding triathlons and with the greatest tradition of the national middle distance circuit and last weekend in Logroño, in the triathlon of Average Distance of the Rioja, a victory that places him leader of the Spanish Open of Media Distancia.

In short, there have been 3 victories that leave Gustavo Rodríguez as one of the best national triathletes of the long and medium distance, who will now take two weeks of active rest to face the second part of the season with an eye to the demanding and tough Long Distance.

Next objectives

Among its objectives are to dispute the Spanish Long Distance Championship, the demanding and hard Embrunman one of the most popular long distance triathlons in Europe and the TAlpe d'Huez riathlon with the mythical climb to Alpe d'Huez in the bicycle sector.

But everything is focused on the great goal of the season, in the most ambitious Galician project, "Kona 2019 project”, to qualify this year 2018 to compete in the World Championship in 2019 Ironman from Kona in Hawaii, the appointment will be at the end of the year at the Ironman Wales and/or Ironman Malaysia, that is where the definitive ticket to Hawaii must be obtained and where “Project Kona 2019” becomes a reality.

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