EDP DesafíOSOmiedo 2019 receives more than 2000 applications

Wednesday 27, February 2019

On Thursday, February 28, at 19.30, the raffle of race bibs will be held live from the headquarters of EDP Oviedo

The seventh edition of EDP DesafíOSOmiedo, that will be held on July 27 in Pola de Somiedo (Asturias), opened the pre-inscriptions period on February 8, and closed last Friday with more than 2 000 applications, specifically 2194, distributed between the Ultra EDP DesafíOSOmiedo (806) and the EDP Marathon DesafíOSOmiedo (1388).

EDP DesafíOSOmiedo has been for a long time a regular race on the calendar of many Asturian runners, but year after year, the interest for the race increases, and it has become a much awaited date for runners from provinces all over Spain, like Madrid, Huesca, Almeria, Seville, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Ceuta, etc. The 7th edition has also received applications of runners from outside the country – the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Portugal, the United States, Mexico, South Africa… these are some of the more than 14 countries registered on the platform.

A success in number and places of origin of the runners interested in participating in the Asturian race that this year will be the Spanish Championship of Ultra individual and regional selections, the Grand Prix Inverse, of the Spanish Federation of Mountain Sports and Climbing (FEDME), also being part of the Spanish Cup of Ultra Races, specifically the second event of the Cup to be held.

The EDP raffle DesafiOSOmiedo will take place tomorrow, Thursday 28, at 19:30 in EDP’s headquarters in Oviedo, and will be broadcasted live from the Facebook site of the race thanks to TrailCast. The organization will allocate a total of 700 race bibs among its two modalities: 300 for the EDP ultra DesafiOSOmiedo (UTDS) and 400 for the EDP Marathon DesafiOSOmiedo (MDS).

The EDP DesafiOSOmiedo goes over the incomparable spots from Somiedo and offers in its program two modalities: the EDP Ultra DesafiOSOmiedo (UTDS), 85 kilometers long, and with 10 000 meters of accumulated slop, was won last year by Juanjo Somohano, with a time of 09:08.32, and by Azara García de Los Salmones, with 10:11:17, beating the race’s record; and the EDP Marathon DesafiOSOmiedo (MDS), 46 kilometers long, with 5 500 meters of accumulated slop, which was won in the 2018 eddition by Pablo Villa, with 04:13:51 and Sandra Sevillano, with 05:06:55.