Video: Yojanan Reyes’ great project with the UCI in the Canary Islands

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This is the only sports event in the Canary Islands created by tourism professionals from the islands who also love cycling. An unprecedented success story in the promotion of the archipelago with the support of Turismo de Gran Canaria and Maspalomas Costa Canaria. Became one of the highlights of the sport in the islands. Everything comes from an idea from Yojanán Reyes, who has the emotional strength of pedaling to solve his particular mountain passes at the top of Gran Canaria from Fataga. The Epic Gran Canaria Riu Hotels & Resorts It has already reached a participation record, with more than 400 participants from twenty nationalities. EPIC Gran Canaria Riu Hotels & Resorts renews its edition and does so incorporated into the UCI International cycling calendar and as a qualifying event in the Gran Fondo World Tour.

The idea. He went to his company, RIU Hotels, with an idea and they bet on it. Since then, Gran Canaria’s EPIC has been unstoppable. The secret must surely be to conduct a heavy test organized by cycling professionals to the point that the RIU has strengthened its presence in cycling as a promotional tool.

Not easy. The rigor of the test and its relationships have created one of the best competitions in the islands. With the support of Riu Hotels from the beginning, this event brought together a dozen athletes who “reached the top in international cycling” in the five pillars of the sport, “technical, tactical, physical and psychological” thus managing to “make history” and reach “the highest level”.

Gran Canaria Hotel and Tourism Support. The success of the project is such that Riu’s commercial director, Maurice Damen, has no doubts about entering the glue that binds the EPIC chain. “It continues to grow, it is a source of pride”, and they will always continue behind EPIC Gran Canaria Riu Hotels & Resorts because “it is a it is a pleasure for us to be able to support an event with the best cyclists in the worldeither”. With more than a dozen international champions and hundreds of world podiums accumulated to its credit, the south of Gran Canaria already shines with the best professional cycling, and 400 participants from 18 nationalities.

Diary. On February 11, the first stage of the EPIC Gran Canaria RIU Hotels&Resorts will be held, with a length of 115 kilometers and two timed sections, starting from the RIU Palace Maspalomas on a route that will pass through Arteara, Fataga, Tirajana and El Pajar to Pasito Blanco . The first scheduled part of this stage is from Aqualand to Ayagaures, with Pedro González finishing on top in a Time trial of 12.3 kilometers at 470 meters of altitude; and the second from Pasito Blanco to Ayacata, with 45 kilometers at an altitude of 1,304 meters, and a descent of 1,038 meters.

The second of the stages, which will take place on February 12, has only one timed section. The second stage is 75 kilometers long, with a 22 km time trial that will be the key to deciding the podium. Leaving from the RIU Palace Maspalomas hotel, the participants will head to the competition section from Mirador, with a route that goes through Fataga to Tirajana, with a height of 925 meters, a drop of 810 meters and average slopes of 4% . .

The Epic Gran Canaria cycling event Riu Hotels & Resorts will be held the day before the competition with renowned nutritionist and Mr. Olympia European champion, Endika Montielwho will hold a conference on Friday the 10. Endika Montiel, nutritionist, personal trainer and coach, with more than 237,000 followers on Instagram, will talk about the content of her two bestsellers in which she addresses conscious fasting.

Montiel will speak on the 10th to all fans, professionals and sports and health enthusiasts in a unique presentation on the island, free of charge and will serve as an introduction to their participation in the exam. Endika Montiel has been positioning himself as a benchmark in the sports world for 15 years specialized in nutrition with studies aimed at cellular and sports nutrition, which he currently combines with nutritionist and personal trainer work, as well as advice on sports supplements and natural products.

He refers to himself as ‘Nutrisano’ and has published two books ‘Conscious Fasting’ and ‘Slaves to Food’, leaders in sales.

Free registration for this conference is now open on the race’s social networks, and will be available until full capacity is reached. After Endika Montiel’s conference, EPIC Gran Canaria Riu Hotels & Resorts will have a round table at 5:00 pm, Joseba Beloki, I

Source: La Verdad

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