There’s a new challenge for Pascal Pich, the quintuple world champion of ultra triathlon, which will try this time to make a double and a déca Ironman on each of five continents.

Having accumulated the victories at the international level, having realized the Tour de France 2009 in 8 days and 8 nights and having chained 24 triathlons, for a total of 5000 kilometers during the X’ TREM tour 2011, the French athlete decided this time, to gobble up not less than 60 Ironman over one year (current Record = 41 Ironman realized by Italian Vincenzo Catalano).

In 48 years and in full ownership of his means, Pascal PICH, intends to demonstrate by beating his 10th World record, when there is no age old to be successful and effective.

charged program over one year, because, if double Ironman (7.6 km of swimming / 360 km of cycling / 84 km of running) stays an easy test which comes true within 24 hours, the déca Ironman for its part (38 km swimming / 1800 km cycling / 423 km running) chokes up between 8 and 10 days, according to the capacities of the athlete at the moment T and conditions of races which will be met on the ground.

To make a déca Ironman on a season stays an exceptional performance. To date, only about fifty athletes worldwide were capable of getting through it. To decide to cover this distance on five occasions in the year recovers simply from the physiological exploit.

Specialist of the challenges that the common run of people would have even no idea to imagine, Pascal PICH should dash for his challenge at the end of the year. Months to come will be of use to the implementation of the event and to the physical preparation of the athlete which goes out of a grave wound to the ankle, during the Stars of sport (french event for all internationals athletes), which left him without physical activity for 3 months.

To date, all the destinations are not still known, but Ecuador, United Arab Emirates, South Africa, Australia, United States and China should welcome very certainly the athlete.

The budget and the partners susceptible remain to find to take up the challenge by joining to a rigorous athlete, conveying values such as the stamina, the resistance, the performance, the longevity or still the overtaking of one, the self-abnegation, the management of the sleep and the pain, for which he likes to say that it ” is only an information “.

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