The technical director of the test underlines in the V Congress of Trail Running organized by the UCAM of Cartagena that "the most important is the coordination between civil and military institutions, designing three different environments to avoid possible threats or react to them."
The more than 200 registered in the V International University Congress of Trail Running of Adventure 'Route of the Strengths' organized by the Faculty of Sports of the San Antonio Catholic University in the Cartagena campus of Los Dolores have been able to meet this morning at the hands of the director Technician of the Route of the Strengths, Miguel Gallardo, how the security device and the provisioning of the Route of the Fortresses of this year is organized.
Gallardo explained in his lecture that "although we set up an advanced command post, the control of the entire device is not centralized only in the Navy, since we divide the scope of action into three zones: the city, the suburbs and the military sphere, where we distribute functions the personnel of Marine Infantry, the Naval Police that protects us, the Civil Guard for the non-rural area, the National Police that is responsible for the management of the terrorist threat, and the Local Police, which is responsible fundamentally traffic control. "
"The response of this whole device, together with the health care provider with the 061, Civil Protection and Red Cross, connected with hospitals, is ready to meet any of the 41 possible incidents that have been detected that can occur, ranging from falls, blisters, cramps or exhaustion, until the loss of a person or a terrorist attack such as those that occurred in Barcelona or the New York marathon, "explained Gallardo.
In addition, logistic this year have increased to 15,000 liters of water to drink and have added two tanks of water for runners to cool.
Tips for functional recovery of the corridor
On the other hand, the Practiser physiotherapist Gabriel Aguilera has explained at the congress of the UCAM the factors that can cause an injury, which type of injuries are more frequent due to running, how they are treated and tips for the cured patient to perform a series of exercises that prevent it from happening again.
In addition, the professor of the Université de Toulon Fabrice Vercruyssen explained the model of performance and optimization of Trail Running of short distance,
During the inauguration of the Congress, the General Director of Sports of the Autonomous Community, Alonso Gómez López, stressed that "once again, with this event, the UCAM is spearhead in Sports, which makes us feel proud from the Regional Government of this University, which makes us grow as a Region ".
The program continued in the afternoon with a round table on training and competition of the trail runner and the presentation of posters of the children's contest and poster of the youth contest, while tomorrow professors from the universities of Granada and Almeria will speak on the design of competency tasks for introduce mountain races and adventure raids in Physical Education.
Tomorrow's session will also review how to deal with type q diabetes in ultraresistance, followed by a workshop on the use of Nordic walking sticks in trail races and, finally, analyze the communicative dimension of the tests of trail running and adventure raids.
Source: UCAM Cartagena