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The Cartagena XI Cartagena Trail race returns to Cartagena on Sunday, November 26, and will travel through the Natural Area of ​​Sierra de La Muela, with the peaks of great hardness: El Roldán, La Muela and Cabo Tiñoso.
The test becomes the first marathon by mountain of Cartagena included in the Regional Marathon Championship of the Mountaineering Federation of the Region of Murcia.
The Cartagena Trai was presented Thursday by the Councilor for Sports, Ricardo Segado;
the president of the Excursionist Center of Cartagena, Salvador Inglés;
the director of the Cartagena Trail race, Tony Egea;
and the technician of the Sports Promotion Service of the UPCT, Ricardo Ibáñez.
The Cartagena Trail serves to energize the Cartagena coast through sports, especially the non-seasonal season, highlighting the west and its surroundings.
An event that, in the words of the mayor of the Sports Area, "will attract both elite athletes and amateurs from all over Spain, because it is a benchmark in the world of mountain racing, inside and outside the Region of Murcia."
The test has aroused great interest and account, for months, with 300 registered participants, the maximum allowed for being a Protected Natural Area.
The Department of Sports, has been next to the Trail as stated Segado, "coordinating efforts with the organization to ensure the success of this test."
The Cartagena Trail is the fusion between sport and coexistence since in the goal, (the Sports Palace) will become a sport festival with games, a climbing wall, food and all entertained with music.
THE RACES
The race has, in its eleventh edition, three tests: marathon (44 km.), Promo (18 km.) And Nordic walking (16 km.).
enrolled in Cartagena Trail will run through the most emblematic places of the west coast.
This Natural Area includes the summits of Roldán, La Muela and Cabo Tiñoso.
The marathon race starts from La Azohía and arrives in Cartagena (at the Sports Palace).
It has a route of 44 kilometers along the west coast and an accumulated difference of 2,400 meters.
One of the attractions of the race is that ninety percent of it is enjoyed overlooking the sea.
Last year the winner of the test got the test in 4 hours and 24 minutes.
A very technical test and that professionals dispute.
The promo test, on the other hand, is a new test designed for amateur runners who want to try on the mountain before launching into the marathon.
The route is 18 km.
and 800 meters of difference, with exit and goal in Cartagena, (in the Sports Palace).
And finally the Nordic march, a pilot test although it is a very old discipline that is disputed in the countries of the north of Europe but that in Spain is making its way little by little.
It is a mountain sport that consists of walking with specially designed walking sticks for the development of this physical activity, with the aim of optimizing the physical effort made in the bio-mechanical movement of our body while walking.
The route is 16 km.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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