Continuing the racing activity by CAT Totana athletes, Sunday morning was held on February 3, with enough wind, the second edition of the Half Marathon "Mazarrón Bay", proves that this year had a slight change for either the original circuit and had a participation of 300 athletes, including representing the CAT were Eduardo C.
Vera and Antonio J. Lucas
Martinez de La Hidalga.
Shortly after 10am turned out to athletes, who endured some sections of the course in strong winds, which did not prevent CAT representatives consiguiesen both brands.
So grazed Edu Senior podium in the end with a great lap time of 1:24:28, ranking 22nd overall and fourth in his class, only separated by one second to third.
Meanwhile Antonio finished with a time of 1:34:34.
The following weekend, on Sunday February 10 was a new edition of "Valentine", held in San Javier and had a great turnout of almost 800 athletes.
The test had a distance of 10 kilometers and the CAT was well represented by seven athletes.
The first to cross the finish line, making a great career was Bartolomé Sánchez Muñoz with a great time of 36:48 was ranked 22 overall and seventh in the Senior category.
Pepe Martinez Ballester finished in 48:15, followed by the trio of Diego Vidal, Pepe Alcaraz and Sáez Hippolytus, who crossed the finish line in 51:37.
After them came the pairing of Susi Andreu and Jesus Martinez with a time of 57:33.
Already in Mountain Races section, on Sunday February 24 began a new edition of the Regional League and Mountain Races as it did in previous years with the rise Cieza Portazgo, test of 24.6 kilometers and 1335 cumulative positive vertical meters, with the two major difficulties in the Watchtower and uploaded to the top of Portazgo.
Around 10 in the morning turned out to nearly 400 athletes taking part in the race.
In the test were representing the CAT Pepe Sáez, Regino Rodriguez and Agustin Carrasco, achieving great times.
So Regino, who debuted with the mountain section, ending with a great lap of 2:27:21, which led him to the position 22 of the general and the podium in second place in Veterans category.
Augustin ended the test with a time of 2:59:39 and 4:19:43 Pepe Sáez on.
The upcoming events where athletes will be present in the CAT half marathon will be held in Cartagena, Murcia, Puerto Lumbreras or Pilar de la Horadada, as well as multiple shorter distance races.
