Benidorm opens a one-kilometer training zone in El Moralet urban park

El Moralet urban park now has a new training area for running, walking, and general sports enthusiasts. It's a one-kilometre-long trail marked along one of the park's main thoroughfares. It has barely any gradient and begins (or ends, depending on how you look at it) next to the Guillermo Amor Sports City.

The trail is a project developed by the Departments of Environment, Employment, Sports, and Parks and Gardens, and was visited this morning by the heads of these departments and other members of the local government, accompanied by athletes and users.

The renovation and marking of the new trail was carried out by students from the Benidorm Nature and Sports Employment Workshop, which employs twenty unemployed workers for a year to carry out forest conservation and sports promotion work. This workshop has received a €549,528 grant from the Valencian Employment and Training Service (LABORA).

The workshop has two groups of ten people; one for "Auxiliary Activities in Forest Conservation and Improvement" and "Reforestation and Silvicultural Treatments," while the second receives training in "Auxiliary Operations in the Organisation of Activities and Operation of Sports Facilities" and "Bicycle Route Guidance." This second group has focused its activities on the development of trails and cycle paths and other municipal sports facilities, such as the one visited today, which is now available to all users.

The new training area is a nearly straight track located north of the sports complex and runs along one of the existing paths to the western zone. It is also marked every hundred meters, so that users are always aware of the distance travelled. This signage also serves, as the Councillor for Sports, Javier Jordá, emphasised, "to help athletes who are training and want to improve their times, or for people who have to take physical tests to apply for a competition, for example." The councillor has not ruled out the possibility of additional signage in the future or the creation of new routes with different distances in the same area at the request of the athletes themselves.