Jorge Pérez de Leza: “The President”, is finally joining Deporte y Desafio’s runners team. After a couple of failed attempts, Berlin will be the place where Jorge will break ground in the hand cycling division.

As many of you know, the runners team of Deporte y Desafío gets together year after year to run a marathon and raise money through various sponsors in order to fund the Foundation’s sport and integration programs.

As President of Deporte y Desafío, I have always felt that I should be part of the effort and excitement that my friends have put in the three marathons they have ran so far. In the celebration dinner after each race, I was jealous of not being a runner myself. It was last year that we decided to chose a marathon where hand cycling was allowed and therefore I could participate with my great new bike.

I have previously competed in water skiing and snow skiing, but this is the first time I will face a running event. I have been training in a rather disorganized manner since May, and so far my arms seem to be up to the challenge. My hopes to finish the 42 Km are increasing day after day, and that will be my main goal for this year. And because I am told by the rest of the team that I need a more aggressive target, my second goal will be to finish the race below 2h and 30mins!

If you got so far as to read this page, I now have to ask you to sponsor me so that we beat last year’s fund raising record for Fundación Deporte y Desafío!!