Many high-performance athletes plan and carry out their respective pre-seasons in Colombian territory, either in the mountains of Antioquia, the Eje Cafetero or Boyacá to take advantage of a training carried out at important heights on the sea level.
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The French Sofiane Sehili He was another of the cyclists who decided to do a demanding training session in Colombian territory. And the results were more than flattering, as reported by the magazine Deriva, which at the beginning of the year accompanied him for several days with the purpose of looking for the best point of training and performance physical.
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This season the Frenchman has won two of the most important races in the world: the Tour Dividein the United States (4,420 km) and Silk Road Mountain Racein Kyrgyzstan (1,900 km).
When Deriva contacted him, he was already in Medellín and had started his journey in Bogotá, passing through Villa de Leyva and going up to Cocuy to then go to Barichara, Bucaramanga and Medellín.
In this parallel task of creating content for the page of Shimano, a brand that sponsors him, as well as the chronicle for the media in question, they had Mariquita, Tolima, as a meeting point to take a three-day tour with the athlete .
The idea was to cross the central mountain range through the Lebanon-Murillo-Manizales road, crossing the Nevado del Ruiz volcanoto be able to be at a maximum height of 4,200 meters above sea level while crossing a landscape that mixes the sublime and the fatal, remembering the tragedy of the volcano eruption in 1986, which completely buried the municipality of Armero, Tolima.
The next day, they took the route from the Termales del Ruiz hotel to Manizales-Chinchiná-Pereira-Filandia-Salento. And on the last day they crossed the central mountain range again, but this time along the road parallel to The linebetween Salento and Ibagué crossing the forest of wax palm in the Touch.
They were 3 days of high intensity in terms of time and accumulated unevenness. A training that was decisive so that in less than a month the cyclist achieved two of his main sports achievements in world-renowned races.
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