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| The three categories to participate will be: running, mountain biking and strength training.
There will be prizes by raffle for all those who pass the tests | The Councilor for Sports, Irene Jódar, and the sports technician, Daniel Navarro, presented, this morning, the program prepared by the Department of Sports of the City of Lorca "+ MOVIMIENTO + SALUD", whose objective is to promote the practice of physical activity by the population of the municipality of Lorca offering different alternatives to practice and win prizes. Irene Jódar explained that "for this, different challenges are proposed within three types of activity in which different aspects of healthy physical condition are worked on, such as running, mountain biking, and strength training.
In order to participate In the program and qualify for the prizes, participants must use any mobile application with GPS registration (Strava, Garmin Connect, Nike Run Club, etc.), so that the correct performance of the races on foot and bicycle routes can be verified In order to verify the strength training, the participant must send a video to the phone 692-135-008, via 'WhatsApp', with each of the challenges completed, so that they can be verified by the technicians of the Department of Sports of the City council of Lorca ". Athletes who wish to participate will be able to register as of this Wednesday, November 25 to participate in this program that will remain active between December 1 and March 31, 2021.
During this period, the chosen modalities can be completed and the videos sent and tracks of the activities to the number mentioned above. Jódar Pérez has added that "during this situation, so exceptional, of a pandemic from the Department we have proposed to reach the entire population of the municipality, so that physical activity or the great sports offer that we had before and which they were all Lorca's are used to.
We want to return the illusion, the desire, and the competition in a different way, adapted to these times.
" Daniel Navarro, who will direct this program organized by the Department of Sports has explained "the most technical part of it: the race on foot will consist of making eight different routes through the municipality of Lorca, whose distance will be 5 to 12 kilometers, choosing the place of the practice freely.
The eight races must be registered with the distances that will be specified in the bases.
For example, the first of 5 to 5.5 km, and the seventh will range from 9.5 and 10.5 kilometers, of so that the distances are progressively widened.
The application used by the participant must include, at least, date (time of the activity), average pace, duration and distance traveled.
The highest average pace at which they should be completed the sessions will be 6 minutes and 30 seconds per kilometer ". Regarding the mountain bike modality "there will be eight different routes to be made through the municipality of Lorca, whose routes will have an approximate distance of between 20 and 40 km and the place of practice can also be freely chosen.
The average pace at which the sessions must be completed and it will be higher than 15 km / h ", commented technician Daniel Navarro. Daniel Navarro has detailed that "we propose the modality of strength training, in which participants will have to perform eight challenges consisting of multi-joint exercises that require little material.
In this case, it will be differentiated between men and women and each user must record a video completing each of the exercises in the indicated time.
Some of these challenges will be doing squats, push-ups, forward lunges or chin-ups.
" The bases of this program are posted on the web Deportes.lorca.es, where we can also watch videos that teach us how to perform these strength exercises correctly. Navarro explained that "in this program there will be no shortage of prizes, which will be awarded in March 2021, and which will consist of up to 15 tickets per modality, for a value of € 25 in sports equipment, with all people who complete it one of the modalities presented.
These prizes are not cumulative.
For those who successfully complete the three modalities, up to a maximum of 15 prizes will also be raffled, consisting of gift tickets of € 100 in sports equipment and a voucher for a dinner of 40 € for two people.
These prizes cannot be combined with the previous ones.
And you can only participate once per person ". To register for this "+ Movimiento + Salud" program, you will have to fill out a form, which can be found at sports.lorca.es, where you will also find all the information necessary for optimal participation, videos, bases, etc.
We remember that in all modalities the challenges must be accredited, sharing the tracks and through videos, specifically in Strength Training, sending them to the telephone number provided by the organization, who will ultimately be in charge of the validation of the tests. To reach as many people as possible, you can share photos or videos on social networks with the hashtag # + Movimiento + Salud.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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