The video reviewed the route of the next Garmin Titan Desert, which will be held from April 19 to 24 in the desert of Morocco, and to each plane the eyes of Miguel Indurain opened more, and more, and more. «Honestly, I didn't know there were mountains over 4,000 meters there. That scared me a little. I know the Alps, the Dolomites, but the Atlas is going to be new for me », recognized on Thursday at the presentation of Barcelona the winner of five Tour de France that, in a kind of second youth at age 55, poses a challenge capital.
Together with his eldest son, 24 years old, and his friend Melcior Mauri , a regular of the test, he will debut with the mountain bike in one of the toughest competitions of the specialty, the Titan. After the good performances of former professionals such as his contemporary Claudio Chiapucci, Cadel Evans or Joaquim Rodríguez , MTB lovers are eager to discover how far he will go, although he on Thursday warned: «My goal will be to end. I want to do the Titan once and that's it. That was enough for me. Nor do I think I'm going to get hooked and do it every year.
«I've been preparing for a few months and I hope to arrive. The truth is that I go little by little. I still go out with the road pedals, although what worries me most is not the bike. I am worried about the material. For example, for the dunes, I have been told to wear time trial socks, so that I do not enter sand, and I had not even thought about it, ”said Indurain, who has completely changed his routines.
Before Mauri convinced him to do the Titan, his winters were resting in Pamplona, months without touching the bike that broke suddenly in April when the thermometers rise. This winter, on the other hand, has happened without stopping, with the mountain bike up and down trying to adapt to the novelty.
«I have trained with some of those who are going to dispute the general and ask me if I will adapt well to that of sleeping in championships. But if on the Tour, when I started, we always slept in places like that. I don't think that's a problem, ”Indurain said Thursday accompanied by the four-time Titan winner and top favorite to this year's victory , Josep Betalú . The cyclist combined cycling with his car shop until 2018, when he closed it and went to live in Costa Rica, to focus on races like the one that awaits him in April.
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