Presentation V Edition Nissan Titan Desert, Yesterday saw the presentation of the fifth edition of the Nissan Titan Desert, mountain bike test that will elapse from 3 to 7 May 2010 in Moroccan land and covering more than 500 kilometers in five stages. This facility is already eight cities where the evidence has been presented, mainly organizational Catalan: Leon, Bilbao, Sevilla, Mallorca, Andorra, Vic and Banyoles.
The race, which despite its high hardness is aimed at both amateur and professional cyclists starts from the town of Erfoud and ending in Ouarzazate.
The big news of this fifth edition is the inclusion of a time trial, which give an extra-hard and demanding for participants, among which figures as Melcior Mauri (winner 2007), Roberto Heras (winner of editing 2008), Abraham Olano, Laurent Jalabert French, Italian Claudio Chiappucci or Peio Ruiz Cabestany. Some of them are already registered for the 2010 edition.
Also noteworthy is the reinstatement of the route through dunes, the increase in kilometers through the mountains and the adoption of a new category called mixed duo, and will consist of participation in pairs, always with a male and a female component, and which will complete the journey by saving the control points with a maximum of one minute apart.
Like last May, when the Catalan Israel Nunez proclaimed victor in this issue will return to complete a linear path, ie not be a departure / arrival coincident, but the race will be born and end in different cities.
The registration period which began on September 22 will be open until next March 19.
Navarre in Morocco The falcesino Angel Maria Troy, participant in the latest edition, witnessed the presentation, which stressed that “Morocco is not the best place to recover after riding a bicycle five days. Troy sentenced stating that “one thing has nothing to do with riding a bike around here.”
The stages are divided as follows: first, on 3 May, will be making contact with the ground, some eighty or ninety miles. The dunes and parts of tracks are the most remarkable sound of this first stage.
The first differences are expected in the next stage, which is more marathon, and will run for more abrupt shaped network, ending in a mountain pass, after traveling about a hundred miles.
On May 5, the race will traverse a mountain pass of some difficulty, then descend to rocky slopes, reaching goal after a drive of sandy tracks. The tour will be about sixty miles in the day, with a drop of about 1,800 meters.
The next day will be similar to its predecessor: a mountain ascent of about 1,200 meters, and also one hundred kilometers.
The last stage will consist of two parts: the first is a trial of about twenty miles, in which participants will come out the reverse order of standings, and a second part of the conventional type. The outcome between the two tests will the winner of the day.
Manu wedge, technical director of the test, said the increase in television channels that will broadcast the summaries of evidence (Teledeporte, ETB, ETC.) Between 12 and 15 minutes. “You have the same experiences that (Roberto) Heras or (Laurent) Jalabert, touch you can even sleep in the same haima. The only difference is that they will stage in six hours and will do the rest at nine,” said Slice .
Similarly, stressed that “the winners to face up to the podium is a poem that reflects the whole adventure,” and ended the exhibition describing the recommended methods for solving problems of ulcers and gastroenteritis, common in cyclists.
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