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Less than two months for the ultramaratoniano Andres Lledo leaves for Chile to overcome your next challenge of the four Grand Slam Desert, through the Atacama Desert, Chile 250 km by land, seven days and warm the driest desert on the planet.
And just twenty days after travel to Antarctica, the frozen desert where cold (below zero), and extreme conditions blizzard will end the world's toughest test.
To meet these two tests, Cartagena is conducting a spice preparation l, with the sole aim of achieving his dream, in one year to complete the Grand Slam 4Deserts and become part of the history of this type of testing, because they are few athletes in the world have succeeded.
In preparation, Lledo trained in both meteorological environments that await you, supporting one hand, high temperatures of our earth at this time of year and, secondly, the low temperatures in cold chambers JIMBOFRESH and LIFT SUR, particularly cold storage with wind tunnel.
With the preparation in these chambers, it is checked if the system is suitable for temperatures of 10 degrees below zero you will have to endure, pore is therefore not a training run to win resilience, is training for the environment and conditions.
The entire team of Andres is practically new, special clothing for those temperatures, humid environments shoes, socks, thermal water drums to prevent freezing of water and snow goggle.
The athlete will have virtually no break between the two tests, since l bequeath to Chile on October 15 and 28 of the same month leave for Antarctica. Know we are one step from finish but we also know that we have the most hard, this soon after each other will be decisive action in Chile decide Antarctica, with the least possible back injuries Atacama be the goal, says Lledo.
Monitoring of Cartagena in his feat can be done through social media, website of the City of Cartagena and his own.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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