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The Cartagena athlete has just returned after winning the twelfth position in the second challenge of Grand Slam 4Deserts China.
The athlete confesses that he has been one of the toughest tests due to poor conditions and knee injury
The Cartagena Lledo athlete Andrew is at home ready to invigorate and enjoy yours.
And last week faced one of the toughest challenges and hitherto unknown to him, the Gobi March.
This is the second round of the Grand Slam 4Deserts ultramarathon, in which hundreds of athletes have to tour four deserts in the world.
It has been the hardest challenge, not only physically, but the mental part, due to the weather and the knee injury, explained Tuesday own Andrés Lledo, who was in the morning with the Councillor for Sports, Diego Ortega, in the Municipal Sports Pavilion Wssell Guimbarda.
No doubt his sore leg took their toll the athlete, who confessed that there was a time when the leg told me I could not run anymore, but you had to go and stay the course. And so he did, goes twelfth place overall, after traveling 250 miles of this second challenge.
Olympic Chema Martínez was the first Spanish winner and being Lledo the second highest ranked of the five who have represented Spain in the Gobi March.
Now time to rest, many hours of physio, rebuild feet and thought to the next challenge, added the athlete.
In October it will be when Lledo again, full of energy, to further advance the 4Deserts with proof of Atacama (Chile).
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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