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Triathlon training camps in www.costabravatrainingcamps.com www.costabrava.org www.costabravatrainingcamps.com 2 Contents 4 Costa Brava 5 How to get there? 7 The triathlon training destination! 8 Costa Brava triathlon camps 10 Swim Bike Run cities 20 Open Water Swimming 22 Costa Brava & Girona Pyrenees cycling backroads 24 Service Companies 26 Incoming travel agencies 28 Accommodation 30 About us 3 4 Costa Brava There are few places in the world home to Specialized Costa Brava accommodation so many scenic treasures, charming villages, and service companies provide tailored and cultural attractions as this corner of the services to maximize the benefits of training Mediterranean. The 200 km of coastline that programs. Get ready for your challenges stretch from Portbou to Blanes are 200 km and improve your sports performance at a of unforgettable sensations, where Nature, top destination. Book your triathlon training Culture and Gastronomy play a crucial role. In camp on the Costa Brava! the Costa Brava - Girona Pyrenees we have the formula for improving sports performance: training well and recovering better. We have state-of-the-art sports facilities and a natural environment that offers the ideal terrain and climate conditions for training and outdoor sports. For maximum performance, you need an optimum recovery. Train well, recover better Contact us! [email protected] www.costabravatrainingcamps.com 5 How to get there? FRANCE / FRANÇA GIRONA PYRENEES / PIRINEU DE GIRONA FIGUERES Port Banyoles Roses COSTA GIRONA BRAVA Girona - Costa Brava Airport Lloret Port de Mar Palamós Barcelona Girona Barcelona Mediterranean Sea / Mar Mediterrani 6 7 The triathlon training destination! The perfect combination of facilities, weather and terrain makes us one of the preferred destinations for training triathletes. Swimming in the open sea or in the calm waters of the lake of Banyoles and altitude training in the Cerdanya County are an added value and an undeniable differentiating factor. It’s a perfect place to train because of the lake, the swimming pool, great quite roads for riding, and the beautiful trails around the lake Ryan Sissons Team New Zealand Triathlon. 8 COSTA BRAVA TRIATHLON CAMPS THERE ARE FC BARCELONA HIGHSPEED MEDITERRANEAN DIET AND MESSI GIRONA SOCCER IN GIRONA LOCAL, HEALTHY FOOD PITCHES RAILWAY STATIONS AND FIGUERES 25 JUST AN HOUR AWAY EQUIPPED FOR PROFESSIONAL AND 3 hr 24 min 38 min 5 hr 44 min Go from the MOUNTAINS to the AMATEUR TEAM TRAINING SESSIONS MEDITERRANEAN MICFOOTBALL 1 h GIRONA BARCELONA SEA I n a single AIRPORT AIRPORT training session IS ONE OF THE A LENGTHY BIGGEST GRASSROOTS SOCCER SOCCER OUTDOOR NATURAL 300 DAYS OF CHAMPIONSHIPS IN EUROPE TRADITION PARKS SUN PER YEAR SPORTS 8 A SOCCER TEAM FRIENDLY MATCHES HOTELS PLAYING IN THE TOP OVER 3 WITH THEIR 200 THE MILD CLIMATE 300,000 NATIONAL LEAGUE FEDERATED IN SPRING, AUTUMN HOTEL BEDS OWN SOCCER CLUBS & AND WINTER Infografia FACILITIES GIRONA FC FOOTBALLERS IS IDEAL FOR 200 KM OF TRAINING COASTLINE ACCOMMODATION WITH CATERING for players’ Recovery THE BEST OUTDOORS FANTASTIC AND SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS TRAINING CAMPS BEACHES INCOMING AGENCIES CONVENTION INSTALLATIONS FOR with detailed local knowledge and a 16 CENTRES FACILITIES FOR TRAINING WELL, broad organizational accommodation and facilities for experience TRAINING WELL, EXCELLENT VALUE accommodation and facilities for RECOVERING FOR MONEY RECOVERING EVEN BETTER EVEN BETTER 9 COSTA BRAVA TRIATHLON CAMPS THERE ARE FC BARCELONA HIGHSPEED MEDITERRANEAN DIET AND MESSI GIRONA SOCCER IN GIRONA LOCAL, HEALTHY FOOD PITCHES RAILWAY STATIONS AND FIGUERES 25 JUST AN HOUR AWAY EQUIPPED FOR PROFESSIONAL AND 3 hr 24 min 38 min 5 hr 44 min Go from the MOUNTAINS to the AMATEUR TEAM TRAINING SESSIONS MEDITERRANEAN MICFOOTBALL 1 h GIRONA BARCELONA SEA I n a single AIRPORT AIRPORT training session IS ONE OF THE A LENGTHY BIGGEST GRASSROOTS SOCCER SOCCER OUTDOOR NATURAL 300 DAYS OF CHAMPIONSHIPS IN EUROPE TRADITION PARKS SUN PER YEAR SPORTS 8 A SOCCER TEAM FRIENDLY MATCHES HOTELS PLAYING IN THE TOP OVER 3 WITH THEIR 200 THE MILD CLIMATE 300,000 NATIONAL LEAGUE FEDERATED IN SPRING, AUTUMN HOTEL BEDS OWN SOCCER CLUBS & AND WINTER FACILITIES GIRONA FC FOOTBALLERS IS IDEAL FOR 200 KM OF TRAINING COASTLINE ACCOMMODATION WITH CATERING for players’ Recovery THE BEST OUTDOORS FANTASTIC AND SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS TRAINING CAMPS BEACHES INCOMING AGENCIES CONVENTION INSTALLATIONS FOR with detailed local knowledge and a 16 CENTRES FACILITIES FOR TRAINING WELL, broad organizational accommodation and facilities for experience TRAINING WELL, EXCELLENT VALUE accommodation and facilities for RECOVERING FOR MONEY RECOVERING EVEN BETTER EVEN BETTER 10 Swim Bike Run cities Banyoles [email protected] www.turismeiesport.cat Swimming pool lane, surrounded by nature trails for running and amazing roads, of all kind of heights and little traffic, for cycling. In Banyoles, the triathlon has also found an ideal space for training and organising competitions. In fact, it is probably the most suitable place in Catalonia for practising this discipline. This is explained by the fact that the triathlon combines three sports which are widely developed in Banyoles: swimming, which has a long tradition and excellent facilities. Since 1985, Banyoles has hosted the Triathlon of Catalonia with Olympic distance. It has also organised a B-distance Triathlon, a Duathlon, a people’s Triathlon and other competitions which prove the quality of the Sports Tourism Destination. 11 Banyoles Lake is also an ideal training area 2 pools for swimming. The lake now has a swimming Indoor pool 25 x 16m 8 lanes heated training lane in the lake which goes from Club Outdoor pool 25 x 12m 6 lanes heated Natació Banyoles to the lakeside Tourist Office, with a length of 500 metres. For road cycling, the roads are well adapted Rocacorba is one of the most challenging and have moderate traffic. The gradients vary climbs of the area. An 880-metres elevation and you can choose from routes that are more and 13.8 kilometres separate you from the pronounced in the direction of la Garrotxa and peak. You climb 540 metres in six kilometres the Pyrenees, or the flatter ones in the direction during the second part of the climb, alternating of l’Empordà and the Costa Brava. very steep slopes of between 12 and 15%. Running can be done around the lake and through woodland of a technical level. In the surroundings of Banyoles, there are amazing roads with practically no traffic, with a great variety of circuits, with greater and lesser gradients, amazing ports like Rocacorba, unique roads like Mieres and Santa Pau, the chance to get close to the sea Marcel Zamora Triathlete. Winner of 6 Embrunman and 5 Ironman Nice 12 Girona [email protected] www.girona.cat/dte The charm of Girona itself and the surrounding countryside, its sports installations and its human size, all help to make it a perfect sports tourism destination. If, besides all this, we consider the excellent range of modern hotels, it is easy to understand why so many professional athletes and teams regularly choose Girona as their training base. The city has also been approved by the Catalan Tourist Board as a Sports Tourism Destination, in recognition of its wide variety of first-rate resources and services, sports installations, accessible accommodation and specialised services to cater for both professional sportspeople and tourists wanting to do some sport. Girona was awarded this seal of approval because of its present and potential development of cycling and running in particular, but it also includes swimming, athletics, tennis and triathlon. 13 GEiEG Olimpic Pool C. Esport, 16 · 17007 Girona +34 620 462 855 · + 34 972 201 047 [email protected] · www.geieg.cat GEiEG is a Girona organization catering for over Technical specifications twenty different sports disciplines and cultural, social and leisure activities. Size 50 x 21 meters Depth 2.1 Our installations can host pre-season training camps and sessions held by teams from other Number of lanes 8 clubs, associations and organizations, and this Heating yes has proved to be a highly successful experience Chlorination Salt water chlorination for all concerned. system system We have 265,000 m2 of sports installations split into three sports centres in the city of Girona. Facility's other services At our Sant Ponç complex, there are 2 covered 25 m pool · Tennis courts · Paddle tennis courts · swimming pools, a 50 m Olympic-size pool and Squash courts · Weights room and cardiovascular another pool measuring 25 x 12 m, with 6 lanes exercise gym · Aerobics and keep-fit rooms · and a depth of 1.9 m. Restaurant · Sauna Road cycling lovers will enjoy the as Cannondale- Garmin, GreenEdge, Sky, large network of secondary roads with Rabobank and BMC, among others, all use unforgettable views and points of interest, Girona city as a base camp for their training due to Girona's strategic location between the programmes. Pyrenees and the Costa Brava. The Gavarres Massif, spanning nearly 350 Famous international professional cyclists km², is a magnificent area for mountain bike such as Rory Sutherland, Marcel Kittel, Ryder lovers to explore. Pedalling along tracks, Hesjedal, Robert Gesink, Dan Martin, Sharon rough trails, and woodland paths... is a unique Laws, Lucy Martin, Emilia Fahlin, Georgia way to experience the exceptional natural Bronzini, all stay in Girona for long periods surroundings in the area. while training for the Giro d'Italia, the Tour de France and the