It is difficult to synthesize briefly the heap of feelings and sensations that taking part in the Andean Raid can suppose for everyone. Almost so difficult as to define what pushes many of us to raise his/her challenges -a priori unattainable for many other persons- or goals that suppose an excessive effort, in most of cases.
Probably it is our own pretense which drives us to raise such an aims. Long distances, raises without an end, decreases that will end up by starting a new ascent without end, cold, height, self-sufficiency, loneliness, the weight of the bike, the permanent dialog with our own limitations, capacities and disabilities, coming to the physical abandonment sometimes. All this, undoubtedly takes to the bottom of oneself, to the limit, this limit to which we come and state that still it is on some more distant station, or at least, this is our wish.
With these expositions, you may think that I wants to dissuade you from taking part in this hard and spectacular race, probably one of the hardest of the world. Far from it! who is reading know what I mean.