Here is the testimony of Adri and Ferran, two members of the Aspace Camina team, a worker and a boy from the Badalona CTO, who tell us about their experience at the Trailwalker 2018 last weekend.
We recommend this emotional and real read, which thanks the entire Aspace team who made it possible, which remembers so many workers and collaborators who were there to support. Once again, thank you.
Testimony of Adri:
"I don't even know where to start...
It all started again, in the month of September, and I say again because it's already the third TrailWalker that the Aspace Camina team has done, and this time, with all due respect to the other two, we've surpassed ourselves, and that's how we wanted it to be if not, we wouldn't have done it.
We wanted Ferran Valdivia, from CTO Badalona, to be part of the team and finish the 100km. To do this we made 2 teams, one team sponsored by Fundació MRW, made up of Àngel, Miqui, Ferran, Maria, Meri and myself, and the other sponsored by Ipsen Pharma and made up of Albert, Jessica, Carlos, Mel, Ana and Irene. Gracare Orthopedics helped us prepare Ferran's chair.
Once inside... Wow what a TrailWalker!! about 7 hours in the rain and including a landslide. It's been very hard, I think the hardest of the three we've done. Bringing Ferran we knew it would be hard, but in so much rain, mud and puddles hehehe no!! What nobody knew was that we had a rope tied to Sant Feliu de Guíxols, Girona and Àmer that was pulling us.
Walking 100km in 27 hours is a beast, but when you know that you have so many, so many people by your side who are waiting for you at the end like Bianca, Nati, Rhoda, Yvette, Dani, Llorenç, the Clàudia, our relatives, people who accompany you during stages like Pau and Paco or Xavi de Gracare and Elena Gilabert and Miriam Torrella, Dani Alfayate and Laura, people who come to see you at some point like Trini or Elena Puigdevall, that there is a group of boys from Respir who come to see you on Saturday and to receive you on Sunday is amazing.
And now I speak for myself, the motivation is so high that "I can't do it anymore" disappears from the mind, and the only goal is to walk, have fun and help the team, the pain is obviously there, because your feet hurt every time you stop and so do your muscles and this is where what for us has been the strongest push comes in, with all due respect to everyone: The "physios" of ASPACE.
Girona km 57, arrival time 23:30 at night (we have been walking here for 13 hours and 30 minutes), what comes after Girona is the night, a very hard stage, since when we face the last section of the parking lot and see the entrance to the pavilion, we find ourselves making a corridor on either side of Joan, Maider, Anna, Jeni, Xènia, Georgina, Jaume, Miriam, all they Aspace physiotherapists and Anna Vidal (2 trails with Aspace Camina) and all the support team. It can't be explained in words, it has to be experienced! They left us like new. There Mickey is forced to leave due to pain, and this is a beastly morale drop for the whole team. Some of us mourned his loss, and Joan decides to walk the night with us!! We recovered 2 hours during the night, maybe because Ferran fell asleep and didn't chat so much... lol
She has been a very emotional TrailWalker. Exciting and fun. The Support team has given everything, Maria, Meri, Irene and Anna you are fantastic, really. Without good support it is impossible to do it, and they without previous experience, they did it wonderfully, a sock here, a sock there, sandwiches, macaroni (delicious by the way, the kitchen boys from Badalona cooked them for everyone us!), waters, chocolates, t-shirts, blankets, raincoats, coffee makers, broths, I with vegetables, the other with chicken, a dark chocolate, the other with almonds, everything here, everything there, mount, mount, mount, mount, mount, mount….Support!!
Aspace Camina, a project for everyone!! I think that this time it belongs to everyone!! We just walk, you push us to keep going!! Thanks a million!!!"
Ferran's testimony:
"My first trailwalker: it was harder than I imagined. It was also much more exciting, fun and tiring.
The setbacks we encountered were very important. Seven hours of non-stop rain and a lot of mud all along the way, rock falls that made me hold my chair and my arms in order to continue, we also passed through a huge puddle and at night it was freezing cold.
All this would not have been possible without the help of twelve crazy people, monitors and friends of Aspace!"
Gallery of videos and images of Ferran and the ASPACE CAMINA team, a project of all:
ASPACE WALK, Trailwalker 2018 difficulties from Aspace Catalonia Foundation on Vimeo.
ASPACE CAMINA, Trailwalker 2018 celebration from Aspace Catalonia Foundation on Vimeo.
ASPACE CAMINA, trailwalker night point arrival 2018 from Aspace Catalonia Foundation on Vimeo.
