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Tahko-Arena team is out for the final but longest stage

Friday, 13 November 2009 05:21 |

Girls managed to finish forth stage really fast and have had a few hours slept in next transition waiting leader teams arrival. Such “special” rule is in place at Portuguese XPD – once you are on a short course, you will have to wait first long-course team and start out of transition only afterwards. This has a lot of positive moments in it – it is an additional sleep time! Girls after their slept looks very well and headed to the last but the longest fifth stage ahead of leading teams. After trekking stage long kayaking stage, and teams have to transport their kayaks from TA to the paddling start about 1km by rough terrain – it takes 1 hour for some teams to do this! Girls were in head of everybody here – our support team provided them with wheel carts and they managed to be out in minutes. They are at 49km kayak stage, and once they will finish it, it will be “only” 44km MTB, 38km trekking, 75km MTB and final 24km trekking. You can follow Tahko-Arena team on ARWC 2009 website.

Tahko-Arena in the middle of the race

Thursday, 12 November 2009 12:10 |

The early morning was not that bright – 50 minutes were spent in transition to go to short route. Girls almost managed to get into cut-off time – only 1 minute late, but organizers were strict – and next stage should be done in short course. It will be about 60km MTB and some optional checkpoints on a route. At approximately 10AM girls should appear at transition AssistArea4, where they will re-enter full course.

Tahko-Arena team is doing well!

Wednesday, 11 November 2009 10:21 |

Tahko-Arena team after 2 days and 22 hours of racing is doing well, collecting all mandatory and optional checkpoints. Currently teams are on long 41.1 km trekking (stage S2S3 called “Turistrela Adventure”). It is 2506m total ascend on this stage. There are whole bunch of mandatory and optional checkpoint, and girls are managed to get all of them so far.

Next section will be 21km MTB downhill followed by 20km kayaking stage. It will be long 96km MTB section afterwards, with 2,5km total ascent. Leaders estimated speed for this stage is barely above 11km/h. Keep fingers crossed!

Tahko-Arena started ARWC 2009!

Monday, 09 November 2009 10:38 |

Portugal. Adventure Racing World Championship 2009 started today here. As it is should be for a race of such status, it was started from 1,5 hour briefing, where teams and assistants had received pack of 65 maps and road books. The long non-stop race started from short “warm-up” section.

Day First. Warm-up section had been started, and it’s format is most likely can be clafssified as an adventure rogaining. The goal is to collect maximum point, but there are some mandatory checkpoints and some optional. Teams subdivided in two groups – first is going to collect optional checkpoint, and second one skipping them and heading directly to mandatory CP’s. Time will show who was right, but Tahko-Arena team was in second group.

Day Second. Girls successfully finished “warm-up”, relaxed for a few hours in bus transferring them to the start of the main course. They had started the race, and now their tactics is changed – so far all optional checkpoints are collected.

Tahko-Arena team arrived to Portugal

Friday, 06 November 2009 03:08 |

Russian four-girl team Tahko-Arena is currently arrived to Portugal XPD Adventure Racing World Championships! This is amazing news – team is finally get to the place – full female team Arena goes to fight in premium mixed category, and their chances are not that bad! The captain of a team is Maria Plyashechko. Her racing comrades will be – Helena Bondar – one of the best orienteering sportsmen in Russia National Team; Ann Burlinova, who is also great in navigation, the most experienced in AR russian lady and is really keen on doing this race well; Ekaterina Kononova – the Mountain Bike Orienteering Russia National Team member. Keep updated – check upcoming news on our portal!