{"id":8779,"date":"2018-05-23T10:39:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T10:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timingsense.com\/blog\/titan-desert-2016\/"},"modified":"2018-07-05T11:53:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T11:53:14","slug":"titan-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timingsense.com\/en\/blog\/titan-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"Titan Desert, the hardest cycling race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Only the name is a source of respect and admiration for cycling and mountain biking lovers<\/strong>. This legendary event is a six-stage adventure through the Middle Atlas and the Moroccan desert in which you must not only fight against extreme elements: heat and cold, heavy night rains, sand… but also against your own survival instinct to achieve the final goal: a challenge within reach of very few people. The Titan Desert<\/strong> 2018 in its thirteenth edition had more than six hundred registered who covered just over 600 kilometers with a 7,500 meter drop, from Boumade Dades to Maadid, divided into six stages in the area of Errachidia, between dunes and mountains of the Moroccan desert<\/strong> geography, fighting against temperatures that exceeded 40 degrees.<\/p>\n

In this edition of Titan Desert<\/strong> 2018 they decided to start with the toughest stage of all. A high mountain stage, in a loop, with a great ascent and a stretch that runs through an absolutely spectacular gorge. Most of the traffic will be on tracks in good condition, and the difficulty of the stage lies in the high level difference accumulated, which is the absolute record in a stage of the Titan Desert.<\/p>\n

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<\/center>Such is the adventure of the Titan Desert that it is an addictive race for the participants<\/strong>, the more of them Spanish, who do not hesitate to repeat year after year.\u00a0Because the Titan Desert is not only suffering and harshness, it is prestige and pride for facing the titan of cycling events<\/strong> and achieving the goal of becoming a “legend”. A “legend” is reached when a competitor accumulates more than 3,500 kilometres of evidence, for this purpose it is necessary to finish at least 5 editions of the Titan Desert. With this challenge ahead of us, for many of the riders the important thing is not to qualify but to finish it; it’s not about competing against the rest, but against yourself.<\/p>\n

But the Titan Desert’s hardness is not only suffered by runners. It’s a fact that the timing skills of such a peculiar type of race involves many complexities that require a unique type of technology to facilitate this task.<\/p>\n

Timer tips for the Titan Desert:<\/em><\/h2>\n