Miguel Indurain's second youth challenge: “It scares me a little”

The video reviewed the route of the next Garmin Titan Desert, which will be held from April 19 to 24 in the desert of Morocco, and to each plane the eyes of Miguel Indurain open more, and more, and more. Honestly, I didn't know that there were mountains of more than 4,000 meters. That scared me a little. I know the Alps, the Dolomites, but the Atlas is going to be new for me, I recognized this Thursday at the presentation of Barcelona the winner of five Tour de France that, in a kind of second youth at 55, poses a major challenge .

Together with his eldest son, 24 years old, and his friend Melcior Mauri, a regular of the test, is released with the mountain bike in one of the toughest competitions of the specialty, the Titan. After the good performances of former professionals such as his contemporary Claudio Chiapucci, Cadel Evans or Joaquim Rodrguez, MTB lovers look forward to discovering where to arrive, although on Thursday he warned: My goal is to finish. I want to do the Titan once and that's it. That was enough for me. I also don't think I'm going to get hooked and do it every year.

I've been preparing for a few months and I hope to arrive. The truth is that I go little by little. I still go out with the road pedals, although what worries me most is not the bike. I am worried about the material. For example, for the dunes, I have been told to wear time trial socks, so that I do not enter sand, and I had not even thought about it, said Indurain that he has completely changed his routines.

Before Mauri convinced him to do the Titan, his winters were resting in Pamplona, ​​months without touching the bike that shattered in April when the thermometers rise. This winter, on the other hand, has happened without stopping, with the mountain bike up and down trying to adapt to the novelty.

I have trained with some of those who are going to dispute the general and ask me if I adapt well to that of sleeping in championships. But if in the Tour, when I started, we always sleep in places like that. I do not think that is a problem, Indurain said Thursday accompanied by the four-time winner of the Titan and a favorite to win this yearJosep Betal. The cyclist combined cycling with his car shop until 2018, when he closed it and went to live in Costa Rica, to focus on races like the one that awaits him in April.