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Alejandro Izquierdo & his IronMck Born in Madrid in 1977, has resided in various cities in Spain: Gran Canaria, Soria, Valladolid and Madrid, where he finally settled in 1995. Behind the project Ironmck there is a large team of people trained for the moment, by four people, who has devoted time and enthusiasm to move forward with this great challenge.

The alma mater of this group is, without a doubt, Alejandro Izquierdo.

The author, the actor of Ironmck, he will have to leave the skin on the hard Ironman Lanzarote and suffer the cold ice of the summit of McKinley, not only he had the idea but he also promoted the challenge and has encouraged the rest Group to develop this site. He has also managed to motivate our sponsors to collaborate in the project.

The Challenge IRONMCK 30.2 “30 Days for 2 major challenges” seeks to resolve, in a unique and groundbreaking, two sports projects of high difficulty and themselves possess a great recognition among members of the respective triathlon and alpine communities: The Ironman of Lanzarote and Mount McKinley. It is the latter, of a proposal of extreme ambition, and hold the great particularity of IronMcK 30.2, circumscribe both events to a small temporary space of just 30 days.

The first evidence of the scale of the challenge is the difficulty inherent in itself and presents each of the challenges separately.

The Ironman of Lanzarote is know as one of the toughest challenges on the planet or both body and mind. Not surprisingly, even the most experienced triathletes have needed two or three attempts to be able to finalize the course, and the constant winds on the island are well known and familiar to the long-distance triathletes. Therefore, the chances of success diminish.

As to Mount McKinley, it is one of the most complex mountains, cold and remote planet. It’s considered a benchmark of first category in the high mountains, and very probably the most difficult beyond the domains of the Himalayas. Absolutely it is a mountain  with arctic conditions, complete self-sufficiency, technical steps and definitely a challenge of high difficulty. Worth knowing too is that McKinley will be for the author the third summit of the “Seven Summits”, consisting climb the highest peaks on each of the Seven Continents.

Another major feature of the challenge are the antagonistic conditions of both scenarios: the warm volcanic island of Lanzarote against the Alaskan Arctic. Both locations offer very different conditions; heat and dry winds of Lanzarote turn now to the hurricane and Polar Alaska. The gradient of temperatures between 60 and 70 degrees, the higher pressure at half Atmosphere, all in scarce days.

Another element, clearly differentiating is the kind of effort; much more “explosive” in Lanzarote and more sustained in Alaska, another great paradox of the challenge. Unbelievably the Ironman is the evidence of “speed”, Mckinley of the “substance”.

The preparation required for both activities is another of the peculiarities at the same time and difficulty of the challenge. The Ironman requires a continuous fitness for about seven months, engaged in a huge volume of kilometers in the three disciplines (translated into about 20 hours a week will mean). Meanwhile, the McKinley require preparation of a technical, physical and mental very different and difficult to quantify but also excellent.

Thus, there are many difficulties that challenge represents, as we have already seen evidence of ultra-resistance as the Ironman, which obviously will be exhausting, this post gradient of temperature and conditions to be faced to reach Alaska, a tremendously preparation complex and finally having to cope with a logistical and budget actually compromising. To this the condition of being a beginner must be added in both tests and try to finalize both consecutively without intermediate recovery.

To paraphrase certain words prayed in a tomb in the cemetery in the Mountains Inca Bridge, at the foot of Aconcagua: “Just try it will feel as a privileged, achieve it, an election”.

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