Punta Umbría hosts tomorrow the first stage of the first edition of the Triathlon Challenge Diabetes, organized by the Team One athletes team and the Spanish Association for Sport with Diabetes (AEDD).
There will be seven athletes who will carry out the three tests included in this sports modality.The Alma Mater of the initiative, the physical education professor Fernando Herrera said that "the priority on this occasion is to launch a message: that having diabetes and practicing sports are fully compatible things."
In fact, all athletes are type 1 diabetics although Herrera hastened to add that the same message is used for those suffering from diabetes mellitus or type 2 diabetes that is growing quite quickly in today's society.However, this call was born with the purpose of persisting in the coming years and with the possibility of changing aspects of its current configuration.
Tomorrow's sporting event also has the collaboration of the Huelva Diabetes Association and the Triathlon Club of Huelva.The program will begin at 9:00.The meeting point is the esplanade next to the chiringuito shrimp.The first of the tests will be swimming in parallel.Then it will be the time to take the bicycle and travel in it 10 kilometers to the chiringuito of the crossing.Finally, the running race will be played on the promenade.
Subsequently, the members of Diabetes Triathlon will give a talk-colloquium in the House of Culture at 12:00.
This triathlon also has marathon dyes since the same test that will be held at Punta Umbría tomorrow, will be repeated in the rest of the Andalusian provinces on consecutive days ending the 25 in Huerma (Granada).
Tests are not competitive.The important thing is to spread that with good control of the disease and proper preparation, not only diabetes is not a limit when carrying out sports activities, but also physical activity has to be one of the basic pillars,Next to insulin, of its treatment.
Fernando Herrera has worked thoroughly to give birth to this project.He has personally in charge of his design and other preparations.Thanks to the help of several sports clubs, the different routes have been designed.Herrera acknowledges that "without his help, this initiative would not have been able to get ahead, so we have to expressly thank all these clubs that have disinterestedly wanted to collaborate so that this project would not remain in a utopia."Some of the same can be said of the associations of patients who have given their collaboration in the field of logistics.