Winter Challenge 2011 Adventure Race

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Sun 14 Aug 2011 - 12:00am

Posted by Alaster M on Tue, 5 Jul 2011
Leaders: No leader
Standard: Everyone welcome
Meeting: Tue, 2 Aug 2011, 7:30 pm


Announce - Winter Challenge 2011 Adventure Race – 14th August 2011 Adventure Junkie announces a new 8 hours Adventure Race in Victoria. This race includes navigation, kayaking, mountain biking and trekking. Two different courses are prepared to challenge teams of two – the Pro course with overall distance under 90km (maximum distance through all CP's) and leading time under 6 hours, and Lite course without kayaking stage, 4 hours leading time and overall distance under 60km (maximum distance through all CP's). Date is 14th of August, exact location – to be announced about 1 week prior the start about 180 km north of Melbourne.

$1000 prize money for Pro course and six free entries to next event in December announced. There is a good chance to have extra prizes for all six categories, but this still to be confirmed.

Adventure Junkie is a new initiative of two adventure racers originally from Russia – Maria and Serge. Both competed internationally last five years and caught couple of great ideas how to add some new flavors to established adventure racing structures. Besides, for last three years they have been running a lot of events, culminating 3 day winter Tahko Adventure Race in Finland and Salomon Trail Running in Moscow.

This race will have good maps, electronic timing, transportation of participants equipment to transition area, simple navigation on kayak and MTB, getting harder during trekking/running stage.

Registration is open, hurry up, spots are limited to first 50 teams.


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