Traveling from Eibar to Seville by car can be done a bit long, but by bicycle the path takes dyes of Odyssey.Those 1,000 kilometers are those facing José Antonio Fernández 'Nene', an athlete who has marked a challenge against himself and who at the same time wants to spread the importance of sport in the lives of people with diabetes.
The departure will take place tomorrow, Sunday, at 10 am in the Plaza de Unzaga.The Eibarrés cycling club has called the cyclists who want to accompany him in his start and those people who want to encourage 'Nene' in his challenge.
The corridor lived in Eibar in 2014, working at the Egui Egui Printing company."The emotional bond that unites me to Eibar and its surroundings is very strong, so I decided that I had to join these two cities in this challenge," said the Sevillian cyclist already on a way to Eibar.
A month ago that José Antonio Fernández 'Nene' presented the project that has been title 'Challenge Diabetes Team-Ride 4 Children', which consists of traveling the more than a thousand kilometers that separate Eibar from the Hispanic capital over its bicycle.He will do so with the aim of promoting and raising awareness about the importance of practicing physical and sports activity for good diabetes control.
"The emotional bond that unites me to Eibar and your whole environment is very strong"
The protagonist of this story is 38 years old and discovered that he was diabetic ten.The conditions of a type 1 diabetes have not prevented him from working as a coach and monitor of activities in sports centers and maintaining a career of overcoming that has led him to participate in medium and long distance triathlons.Precisely two years ago one of his greatest achievements arrived, being a finalist in Ultraman, a 10 kilometers in swimming, 420 by bicycle and 84 career on foot.He became the world's first athlete with type 1 diabetes to get it.
first 32 -hour pull
The greatest difficulty of this challenge will be in the modality he has chosen, the so -called 'non stop', in which there will barely rest."Every three hours I have stipulated a stop of about thirty minutes, but the first sleepless pull is 32 hours," he says.With this, 'baby' wants to demonstrate that diabetes does not imply a limit and that with good control and physical preparation can be perfectly handled.It is about overcoming the fears and taboos that until recently prevented sports or physical activity when debuting in the disease.
The marked goal is to reach the Plaza de España in Seville on Wednesday 14, World Diabetes Day.José Antonio Fernández wants to help the children in his city with this disease through the campaign 'With diabetes you can'.The funds that are collected will be destined to the Association for the Attention and Defense of the Diabetic Child of Seville (ANADIS).
