Portal de Cartagena
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The Second Road Strengths started walking one day before departure.
The festive atmosphere that characterized the civil-military launched its first edition on Friday repeated again during the delivery of dorsal nearly 3,000 participants.
From ten in the morning, Marine Corps personnel has begun to distribute along with the accreditation must stamp the walkers in various controls of the route, a task that is scheduled to last until nine o'clock at night, and can also take a few minutes before departure, the same Saturday.
In addition to the qualifications and dorsal, participants received a bag containing a bag with various gifts from sponsors.
The test will start tomorrow, at eight o'clock in the Town Hall Square, after the usual words of the mayor of Cartagena, Pilar Barreiro, and the Maritime Action Admiral chief, Emilio José Nieto, and the hoisting of Flag chaired the esplanade of the Heroes of Cavite.
The horn of one of the Navy ships will be in charge of giving out.
Then the more than 2,800 participants in the general test, they face the challenge of completing a journey of 51 kilometers, with a cumulative drop of 1,800 meters in less than 12 hours.
For those who make running, time to complete it could be reduced to less than five hours.
The smallest will have a special test of 2.5 kilometers, consisting of up to Castillo de la Concepción, which will be output at 11 hours from the town hall square.
In the afternoon, at 18 pm in the School of Marine and General Albacete Fuster Tentegorra, is hosting the awards ceremony for the participants.
The operation of the test is composed of 303 professionals in the Navy, 303 between officers and troops, to which we must add about 100 volunteers from the University and 150 municipal workers and volunteers, including police (41 troops), Civil Protection ( 40 personnel), staff of brigades and Sports.
80 percent of walkers are in the region and the rest coming from other parts of the country such as Cadiz, Alicante, Madrid, Valencia, Almeria, La Coruña and even Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
The challenge for the second year has no age: 66 of those enrolled are between 55 and 60 years, 10 of them women, and 48 participants are over 60 years, of whom three are women.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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