The beginnings of Trail Running
27 May 2020With how fashionable it is to run off the tarmac, there is much talk of what has been the first race in the world of Trail and many debates have been held to try to clarify who can have the primacy or what race can be the first in the world . To have broker…
100km of Namib Desert
16 May 2020The legs that move, the pulse that increases, the breathing that is agitated … are sensations that we all have when running anywhere, but in Namibia they feel before starting. Just looking at the landscape makes you want to explore it, to share a few jumps with a group of antelopes, or to try to…
Recce for the new Namib Race
16 May 2020Political movements affect many things, including sports events. RacingThePlanet, the organization of this race was originally created in Egypt in 2005 and named it Sahara Race, it spent a year in Jordan and finally to avoid further problems it landed in Namibia. It was originally designed on the Skeleton Coast, a lost area in the…
Recce for RTP Georgia
16 May 2020The first problem with him when dealing with RacingThePlanet designing a race in Georgia is my ignorance. Apart from the “American State of Georgia” I did not know where the country was located, although I had an idea and the second was to realize that the total dimension of the country is 550km from East…
The adventure of running trough the desert
15 May 2020Article recently published in TrailRun magazine where you can read it in full in which I talk about what it is to run through the desert with Zitoway, an Italian organization dedicated to this for more than 20 years. Trail running may be new words but discipline is not and in addition to mountain races,…
How to design a Trail race? – PART 2
13 May 2020Second part of the recently published article (HERE you can read the first part) where I briefly explain how ultra-distance races are designed in extreme locations. The walking The new design of any race involves knowing the territory as a local, or better. The better it is known, the more attractive the race will be,…
Race marking, recommendations
13 May 2020Today we will talk about Trail races and specifically about Marking, which is my business. Now unfortunately there have been no races for a long time and therefore not work, perhaps it is the free time that gives a lot to think about and to cherish some more or less disastrous anecdotes when it comes…
How to design a Trail Running race – Part 1
12 April 2020PART 1 Designing a trail running race is not easy. There are many factors that can affect the final result and on which the future race and its success over time will depend completely. I have been working as an extreme trail running designer for more than 17 years with international Organizations such as RacingThePlanet…
The three myths: Do we really understand race organizers?
10 April 2020In these times of Coronavirus, I am re-editing some already published texts that can be entertaining to re read. This article was published in Runner’s World in September 2016. Some myths in the world of race organization. Why is it good to earn money if you are a mechanic but not if you are a…
History of The 4 Deserts
17 March 202010 years ago it occurred to me to run the 4 most extreme races in the world, in Spain nobody knew anything about these tests and when they were completed, in just over 14 months I became the first Spanish to do so. Today these races are known and many other trail runners have run…