New goal reached!!

Hi everybody!

I’m too excited to annunciate, after twenty-seven hard days, I have reached my objective: Crossing Greenland coast to coast.

But it was not easy, the Autumn in Greenland put us to the limit, with very hard weather conditions, like a hurricane with winds above 140km/h or more than twenty days with the known ”whiteout effect”, a very thick, constant fog which makes you confuse the limits of the surface with the sky. You are not able to see the horizon and, because of that, the orientation in these circumstances is very complicate.

I have to thanks this amazing experience to the team of Norwegian explorers who have guided me day by day across the challenges that we found and which I will face by myself at the South Pole.

Now it’s time to rest, to return to the training and preparation of my great challenge of this year: arriving the South Pole. I am also looking for the support of brands which could be interested in my project, so I have to start working really soon.

Thank you for all the support and congratulation messages. It is easier not being afraid in this way.

Bye!

Asturianos por el mundo (English version)

Hi everybody!

In this new post I want to share a new TV reportage in RTPA Channel (asturian public media) where I could show the hard work and effort that hold this adventure.

 

Asturianos por el mundo

I am very gratefully because of all this media have been interested in this project. For this reason, I've received thousands of supportive comments

Interest is bigger thanks to some media like “Marca”, which has included me in its cover recently, “El Larguero” or this TV program.

Enjoy it!

Bye!

#Interview at "El Larguero"

Hello everyone!

As I said in a previous post, some media have contacted me to ask about my next challenge.

This time it was the Spanish famous sports program "El Larguero"(SER Radio) who made me an interview that you can hear in this post.

From here I want to thank for the support and interest shown by the team of this program, sports information leader in radio in Spain, with over one million listeners daily.

For me it was an honor to participate in this program and I appreciate the opportunity of being able to share my passion with them and with their audience, and I send them a strong hug from Greenland, where I am training to overcoming this challenge.

Bye!

#The last test

Hi everybody

I’m finally writing from Greenland, a new adventure before the challenge at the South Pole.

My intention is training myself and get more experience in similar conditions that I am going to find at the Antarctica. Because of that  I have to try all the materials, the weight I will carry on, the clothes I must to wear and, most of all,  to find the way overcoming all the different obstacles that I could find like clefts, thaw, rivers, lakes, cold, hurricane winds, snow, adverse conditions…

For all of that I have the great help of the Norwegian explorer Bengt Rotmo, who will guide me during this training which will last 25 days.

I will tell you all the news during this experience in this blog or my personal sites in Twitter and Facebook. Also in this direction: http://www.ousland.no/blog/

Bye!

#Mental training

Hello everybody

I ´m still in Norway, training for the challenge who is waiting for me at the South Pole. The physical training is very important and I am doing my best, sure than the psychological training.

 In this project that I am about to make, there are really hard days in completely loneliness waiting for me in one of the most extreme places in the world. Because of this I want to share with all of you some tips on how to train your mind against a goal to reach.

Concentration is vital to keep the motivation during the challenge. Some effective techniques:

1. Focus on breathing: leaving it flow, it is useful for relaxation too.
2. Focus on execution:  keeping in your mind just the goal, taking the other entire stimulus apart.
3. Develop performance rituals: this technique make you feel sure and focus.
4. See yourself overcoming the challenge: it is vital during the train for the motivation.
5. Total thought control: Learning how to eliminate the negative thoughts automatically could be useful to avoid decay during the execution of the challenge.
6.  Not to discourage against fail: it is a good opportunity to learn what you did wrong.
7. Thinking in pictures full of energy: very effective against the fatigue.
8. Raising the breath can help to physical activation.
9. Controlling the emotion is vital because it affects the breathing, sweating…
10.  Any time is good to practice these techniques, not just during the competition.