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Marco Bajo and Minerva Gonzalez athletes with visual impairment, walking 3,400 kilometers on foot in 59 days, the project "Move for those who can not", will have one of their stops in Sewell, Plaza Adolfo Suarez, where they will be received by the mayor Joaquin Buendia.
The next Saturday, April 30, about 10:45 hours, is scheduled to arrive Sewer, Adolfo Suarez square, the "Solidarity Tour to Spain for Rare Diseases or Minority", at the gates of the City our Mayor, Joaquín Buendía, accompanied by the Councillor for Sports and Youth, Antonio Martinez Griñán.
EstaVuelta is designed to try to go through the greatest possible number of people, it is estimated at about 350 people, in order to disseminate all information on rare diseases by installing unaauto-caravan solidarity, which will be possible to make donations and acquire merchandising solidarity.
Around Solidarity is carried out Marcos Bajo and Minerva Gonzalez athletes with visual impairment and in the case of Marcos due to a rare disease, are the architects of the project Move for those who can not, Vuelta Solidarity to Spain to publicize the disease rare (ER), to encourage people with disabilities to practice healthy sport, eliminate social barriers and bring people the reality of patients and relatives of ER.
Also they aim to raise funds for continued research.
The challenge is on a tour of Spain in mode duathlon Tour Solidarity runs Spain to walking and cycling (mode duathlon.. 42 km run and 21 km in daily bike) in 59 days, which will connect the 15 autonomous communities Spanish of the Iberian peninsula, through several of its capital, in a route of about 3,400 km.
The route will begin in Madrid on April 21 and end in Barcelona on June 18, 2016.
Under Marcos he is accustomed to great challenges.
Last year completed the Volta a Catalunya Solidarity with the same goal, which made nearly 1,000 km on foot and alone for 19 days.
It is an amateur athlete who has retinitis pigmentosa, a disease that produces a visual impairment with a central view of only 5 degrees.
It began 18 years to participate in mountain races to guide blind people in the group ONCE Catalunya.
For 3 years the disease has been aggravated since then is usually guided to compete with absolute certainty.
It has been among the best guides and athletes statewide visual disabilities.
Marcos has been world champion in the combined of Parasky Games 2012 in visually impaired category, in 2012 made the jump to the marathon mountain and since then more and practice more distance events such as Marathon Collserola (Barcelona, 2012);
Marcha del Garraf (45 km Barcelona 2012.);
Madrid-Segovia (102 km 2013.);
Making 6 marathons (1 per day) in the Camino de Santiago del Norte (2013);
Participation in the Solidarity walk the ER (4 days - 240 km - 2013.);
MABO (Borriol Marathon 2014);
MIM (Marathon and Half Castellón - Penyagolosa 2014);
Participation in the Solidarity walk the ER (4 days - 180 km - 2014.);
Ultradistance Solidarity - 100 km El Cor de Caldes, Pol Project;
Spain champion Mountain Races for blind and visually impaired (Cerceda 11/08/2014).
Minerva with Marcos Gonzalez will also amateur sportsman totally blind since he was 8 years old.
It started at 9 years to participate in athletic events at the CREA (Centre for Educational Resources Andalusia) Luis Braille ONCE.
In 2012 he gave the jump to the marathon mountain and since then more and more evidence practice long distance, being one of the few blind women to practice this discipline and be crowned Kilimanjaro and Mount Toubkal.
But as always comment, his best prize in any career is to help other students with other disabilities or to make known the ER.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alcantarilla
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