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1.4.16 The Torreño Tomas Ruiz has closed a good year in the national tour of mushing, sport in which it competes with dog sledding (sleds, tricycles or scooters) regulated by the Royal Spanish Federation of Sports Car Winter (RFEDI).
Ruiz, based in Nava Campaign (Hellín), is a specialist of the sport in the category DR6, four-wheeled cart pulled by six dogs in which it covers the sprint short distances over land.
Torreño Mountaineering technician which is already climbed the podium twice two championships in Spain.
He was champion in 2014 in the Cantabrian town of Polientes and was runner-up last November in Covarrubias (Burgos).
And all this despite being self-taught in this sport, both driving and vehicle construction.
"I started with two dogs, now the kid myself and work with them for eight hours a day," explains Ruiz.
"I bought a bicycle as a child and I was changing, and I'm still learning driving every day, especially in the sled, which does not address," he says.
It has nine dogs, five males and four females alaskana race, and has kennels, shooting equipment, a trailer, and vehicles of training and competition (a tricycle and a sled).
And Thomas not to: their next competitions will be a race in Hellin on 17 January, the snow Championship in Spain (Baqueira in March) and the European 2016 to be held in England, and in November.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Las Torres de Cotillas
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