The I Diabetes Triathlon Andalucía will leave on July 18 from Punta Umbría

The Spanish Association for Sport with Diabetes and the Team One Diabetes Challenge team, organize the first Tourthon Tour -Triathlon Diabetes Touruucía under the direction of Fernando Herrera Atienza.It will feature the sponsorship of Janssen and Lifescan (Jhonson & Amp laboratory; Jhonson) and Diabalance (Pascual and Esteve Group).The southern brands and Archa Max will be responsible for equipping the participants.

Triathlon Diabetes Tour Andalucía 2015 is a project that has been able to gesture thanks to the intervention of Fernando Herrera Atienza (professional in sports and athlete sciences with type 1 diabetes for 18 years), head of it, who has been able to take toThe practice an idea that had been hovering for several years by the head.The First Triathlon Diabetes Andalucía, will take place between July 18 and 25, next July.

The peculiarity of this Tour is that for 8 consecutive days, a group of 9 athletes with type 1 diabetes, will perform a sprint triathlon in each of the Andalusian provinces (some by relays according to their discipline and others in a complete way), with theObject to send the message that diabetes should not limit us when proposing different sports challenges, but with good control of the disease and good preparation, we can deal with everything we propose, marking ourselves ourselveslimits and not the disease, having to constitute physical activity a fundamental part of its treatment.

For this reason, the character of this test is fundamentally educational, in terms of type 1 diabetes, it will be a non -competitive sporting event, taking advantage of the fact that some headquarters coincide where triathlon tests are held with camps for children/As with diabetes so that participating athletes intervene in group therapeutic education courses for children with diabetes that were carried out in the cities of Seville, Córdoba and Granada, on July 19, 22 and 25 respectively.

The main objective pursued with this project is to instill a correct diabetological education to be ableServe as an experience and to expand in future editions participation to other people with diabetes.

These athletes will take themselves and autonomously, the management and rigorous control of their glucose levels before, during and after each of the physical tests they face and will be followed at a distance by health professionals with extensive experience in theSector through the Internet and Video Daily Conference.Subsequently, each test will perform at each headquarters a talk-collacus in which they will expose their experience to manage diabetes and sport in a healthy way, trying mainly to minors so that the sport becomes a fundamental part of its treatment.

These 9 athletes are all of them amateur, because as we have already indicated the main object of this project is to show all that linked to diabetes in one way or another, that sport is fundamental in good control of the disease and that isImportant to include it among our daily routines, so, what better to demonstrate that people on foot in which the sport is present in their day to day and does not dedicate themselves professionally.

Since through this event, what is intended is to serve as a reference to motivate that every person suffering from diabetes includes the sports of any kind in their life, the Tourucia Tourucia 2015 diabetes will serve as the basis of astudy through which an investigation into the response of the organism will be carried out in the face of efforts made continuously and as an impact on the control of diabetes, and thus disseminate within the scientific community, with real data, our own experience.Continuous monitoring of the entire project will be carried out by a media professional in order to conclude that educational work through a didactic and descriptive video of all the strategies used by the participants in the test.

Fernando Herrera Atienza has personally responsible for designing the project and other preparations, given their professional experience in the sports field, with the help of several sports clubs of each of the localities where the different routes will take place, which have beenturned fully into this project and have given us many facilities.

- Triathlon Club of Huelva.
- Club Triathlon Punta Umbría
- Biciomaniaxtreme Club (Seville).
- Triathlon Club Algeciras.
- Steelives - Triathlon.
- Duatlon la Carlota
- Club Triathlon Vialterra Ubeda.
- Club Triathlon El Ejido.

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