New world champions, Seagate, cross the line in the French Riviera after 5 days of racing.
Seagate are the World Champions - The winners of the 2012 Adventure Race World Championships arrived at the finish at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin just before midday today. Team Seagate of New Zealand paddled across the bay, past the waterfront hotels and cafes, through the bathers and pleasure boats and up to the pebble beach at the marina where a crowd of cheering supports and media were waiting for them.
Congratulations Thule, coming in in second place at the Adventure Racing World Championships. Last years winners.
Team Silva in 3rd place. This team has been on the ARWC podium for the last 4 AR World Championships.
Name: RAID IN FRANCE (AR World Championship 2012)
Website: http://www.raidinfrance.com/
Dates: 15 - 22 September 2012
Country: France
Region: Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur
Disciplines: Trek/Run, Mountain Bike, Kayak, Orienteering, Cave, Raft, Canyon, Snow/Ice Travel, Ropes
Winning Time Estimate: 5.5 Days (130 hours)
Course Open: 8 Days (192 hours)
Team Categories: ARWS Mixed Teams 4
Team Number Limit: 65 Teams
Logistics: Unsupported
Kayak Provision: Kayaks/ Rafts Provided
AR World Championship Qualifier: 1st Place receives free entry/ 2nd Place guaranteed spot to ARWC
Total Prize Money Pool: 50,000 Euro
Other Prizes: Sponsor Products
Team Entry Fee: 3,500 Euro
65 teams, 3 spanish alone and mixed
http://www.flickr.com//photos/72212682@N08/sets/72157628428440183/show/ 10. Columbia Vidaraid (vainqueur ARWS Gold Rush Motherlode)
Capitaine : Urtzi Iglesias
Membres de l’équipe : Jon Ander Arambalza - Saül Abril - Barbara Bomfim
44. Bimbache Somozas Extrem 2013 Capitaine : Antonio de la Rosa
Membres de l’équipe : Jesus Bermejo, Davis Garcia, Loreto Garcia
59. Bosi-Rios y Canoas Colombia Capitaine : Ruben Boada
Membres de l’équipe : Claudia Rubiano - Henrry Loppez – Carles Domingo
http://www.raidinfrance.com/finale-2012/liste-des-equipes/
Prologue - Raid in France 2012
1 Raidlight_LSN, 34 Raid in Fr France 260 21:34 260
2 Silva, 15 Raid in Fr France 260 22:14 260
3 Seagate, 3 Raid in Fr France 260 22:28 260
4 Columbia Vidaraid, 10 Raid in Fr France 260 23:31 260
5 Team Switzerland, 7 Raid in Fr France 260 23:33 260
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35 Bimbache Somozas Extrem, 44 Raid in Fr France 260 30:24 260
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47 Bosi-Rios y Canoas Colom, 59 Raid in Fr France 250 25:59 250
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65 Team Rodez, Invité Raid in Fr France 190 39:37 190
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Through day 4 teams have been making their way down the Vars river, on their bikes (or pushing them), in kayaks (or pushing them), and even abseiling down into the river, where they got to walk along the river some more!
Stage J, the mountain biking ‘Tour of Mercantour’ ended with a ride/walk along the river and where teams did need to push it was hard on their already sore feet, walking over the uneven boulders in cycling shoes. Chris Hope of the 64. Adidas Terrex team, who were racing in 6th place for most of the day, said that section just opened up the sores and blisters again, and after teams had reached the transition in a camping site just above the valley there was more trekking to come.
Stage K took teams up into the mountains, once again carrying their climbing gear. The ropes stages have been an integral part of each trekking stage, not just an added challenge on the route, so teams are used to carrying their climbing gear now. This time they would descend a canyon above the Gorge Daluis, a route which took several hours, and then abseil down into the gorge, to finish the section by walking along the river valley to a kayak put in.
It is a spectacular gorge, running for several kilometres and flanked by red rocks and high waterfalls, and the leading teams were through this stage in daylight. Adidas Terex almost forgot a mandatory piece of climbing equipment, a prusik, but decided they could make one with rope they had rather than go back and find it. By this stage of the race all the teams need to take great care at each transition, making sure they have all they need for each stage, and all the mandatory equipment. Getting through transition both quickly and efficiently is a key skill in expedition racing.
Once teams were down the abseil they were on the boulders of the Var valley again for a 90 minute walk out along the gorge to the kayak put in. They were not done with those boulders yet though – there was little water in the river and their kayaks were regularly hitting and getting stuck on them as they made their way down the valley.
The top 5 teams all set off down the river before nightfall. 03. Seagate with a lead of nearly 4 hours and their pursuers all grouped quite closely together. One concern they all had was that a dark zone would be applied to this stage as the route book said this might happen, but with such low water levels there were no safety concerns and teams were free to paddle through the night.
They are now moving towards AT12, which is the lowest point on the course … until the last few kilometres to the finish.
Story by Rob Howard and Anne-Marie Dunhill (SleepMonsters.com)
http://live.raidinfrance.com/in-the-valley-of-the-vars/
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The Adventure Tourists
On the morning of day 5 the teams bringing up the back of the race were arriving in AT9 after the high mountain trekking stage in the Mercantour National Park. Most of the teams arriving at this time had missed an earlier cut-off and are racing as unranked, some are combinations of teams and while we were in transition one French team was retiring and asking about the best way to hitch-hike back to the start, where they had left their car.
The race medic and the Race Director were both there and busy. The medic was patching up feet, attending to any eye injury and when he had the chance he was ringing the hospital to check on a couple of racers who have been admitted for a bike crash and dehydration. He said the race reminded him of the Raid Gauloises in terms of its difficulty and spirit, and that the medical work had been difficult.
Race Director, Pascal Bahaud, was busy trying to organise the logistics to support the race and said it was difficult as the race is very spread out. The Belgian team who were lost in the night are now in the town of Barcelonette but he wasn’t sure how, or if he could retrieve them, and at the same time knows the leaders will probably finish in the early hours of tomorrow morning. (Traditionally the race has been a supported event, with all teams having their own transport, so those dropping out have not been a problem, but the race switched to unsupported when it was elected for the World Champs, to come into line with others in the AR World Series.)
When I asked him why the teams short-coursed earlier in the race had not been taken further forward along the route he just said he wanted them all to have the chance to see the scenery on this part of the race and preferred to shorten the end of the course. (There are more cut-offs still to come and those teams who missed the first cut will almost certainly miss these as well.)
Mark Lattanzi of Dancing Pandas commented; “It was strange, they moved us forward on the course a little, then said we couldn’t restart until the early hours of the morning so we were still just as far behind. I think we’ll certainly miss the cut again later on as some of the team are struggling with blisters and there is a whole lot of trekking in this race.”
His team missed the cut before the via Ferrata, so didn’t get to do that, the rafting or the first kayaking stage and he added; “I’m looking forward to sitting in a boat!” He still has some way to go before that can happen. He was also looking forward to a hot meal. “We are going into town and are really hoping to get some food, we need hot protein now.”
He also said his team had already done a different via Ferrata. “I was navigating, not very well, and took them 300m up a via Ferrata in the mountains, only to realise the checkpoint was down the bottom all the time!”
In transition at the same time was Eoin Keith of Ireland, who started the race with BRAT Lupine, but is now with a French team of three. “I’m an adventure tourist now,” he said. His team had suffered the first injury of the race when Thomas Etter broke his leg, and he said his two remaining Brazilian team mates “just wanted to stay in bed one morning”.
Now he has joined another team, one of whom broke some ribs falling out of the rafts, so he is wondering if he is a Jonah and which of this companions will break something next!
“It took me a while to get out of race mode and into the idea of adventure tourism,” he said, “but I’m quite enjoying it now. We stop for coffee and I feel great. I don’t think I’ve ever felt so good in a race – I don’t even have a single blister. The scenery is fantastic too, the views and the alpine meadows are stunning – the whole course has been. Some of the mountain biking has been superb too – the best I’ve known anywhere.”
Story by Rob Howard and Anne-Marie Dunhill (SleepMonsters.com)
http://live.raidinfrance.com/the-adventure-tourists/
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Seagate are the World Champions
The winners of the 2012 Adventure Race World Championships arrived at the finish at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin just before midday today. Team Seagate of New Zealand paddled across the bay, past the waterfront hotels and cafes, through the bathers and pleasure boats and up to the pebble beach at the marina where a crowd of cheering supports and media were waiting for them.
On another hot, sunny day (there has been no other kind in this race so far) the team got to within a few metres of the beach when Nathan Fa’avae stepped across from one kayak to another and tipped his team mates into the sea! Sophie Hart paddled ashore laughing while the rest of her team enjoyed cooling off in the water where they all took off their buoyancy aids for the run up the beach and across the finish line.
The team ran through the finish hand in hand and Race Director Pascal Bahaud sprayed them with champagne before they talked to the press. Fa’avae was the spokesman. “We just came to run our own race and knew it would be highly competitive with so many great teams here, especially from France and Sweden, but felt if we ran our best race we could win. It’s a great feeling to be World Champions and to achieve our goals.
“It has been a fantastic race, a true World Championship course with some amazing sections … plus a few we wouldn’t necessarily want to come back and do again! I’m a bit of a paddler so I liked the rafting and kayaking day best, but some of the mountain biking was stunning too.”
Asked about lows he said, “I was really sick a few times, and those are always the low points. It’s not any particular part of the course which is the hardest, it’s when you have your own lows and how you deal with them.”
Both Fava’ae and Trevor Voyce had been ill with altitude on the high treks and Voyce said, ”The canyon was one of the best points for me, that’s when I was coming out of my lowest point and it helped get me going again.”
Chris Forne was surprised by how his team mates were affected. “I wasn’t expecting altitude to have such an effect,” he said, “I thought maybe you needed to be higher, but they were both really sick and not in a good way at all.” Forne has been a regular on the podium at the AR World Championships and was delighted to be back on top. “This is my second world title,” he said, “and it feels good after being second or third for the last 5 years!”
Sophie Hart had particular praise for the Race Director Pascal Bahaud. “It’s been such an amazing course and he has taken us to beautiful places and to the limits of our ability, allowing us to rely on our own resources and teamwork. It was a brave and challenging course and he is a great Race Director.” She also said to Fa’avae, “You’ll have to warm me if you going to jump out of the boat in future!”
Louise Foulkes of the AR World Series congratulated the team and said; “It’s definitely a world class course, tough and linear expedition racing and full of hard, technical sections. I can see why the French teams race so well when they have races like this – the course has been mind-blowing. We couldn’t be more pleased with the race as a fitting end to the World Series this year.”
Story by Rob Howard and Anne-Marie Dunhill (SleepMonsters.com)
Rank Name Stage Total Time
1 03. Seagate (3) 18 125h40'
2 01. Thule (1) 18 129h17'
3 15. Silva (15) 18 129h16'
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4 25. Raidlight Canoë Evasion (25) 16 123h34'
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5 12. Vibram Lafuma (12) 15 113h59'
6 64. Adidas Terrex (64) 15 114h4'
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7 05. Tecnu Adventure Racing (5) 14 116h1'
8 34. Raidlight_LSN (34) 15 117h48'
9 10. Columbia Vidaraid (10) 15 119h37'
10 65. Ertips (65) 15 119h37'
11 67. FJS Boosted by Midroc (67) 15 119h44'
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12 07. Imboden Bikes Switzerland (7) 14 123h58'
13 70. Salewa Trailteam (70) 14 110h7'
14 48. Berghaus Accom Nutrend (48) 14 114h49'
15 47. Pentathlon des Neiges Processia (47)14 116h28'
16 32. Axa-Adidas (32) 14 117h12'
17 38. Vaucluse Aventures Lafuma (38) 14 124h39'
18 42. Arverne Outdoor – Intersport (42) 14 125h30'
19 53. Mountain Hardwear (53) 14 126h16'
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20 08. Dart Nuun SportMulti (8) 12 114h54'
21 44. Arcostarica Meridianoraid (44) 12 117h50'
22 52. Raid 74 – Maxi Race (52) 11 119h40'
23 23. Issy Aventure 1 – Withspirit.fr (23)11 120h3'
24 68. Czech Adidas Terrex (68) 12 121h53'
25 22. Garmin Adventure (22) 12 122h17'
26 31. Agde Raid Aventure Cyrpeo (31) 12 124h57'
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27 26. Polarpuls (26) 10 101h16'
28 36. PowerBar Inov8 (36) 11 103h33'
29 14. Skandia Salomon Trail Tour (14) 11 107h51'
30 40. Bim Bim Team Raid (40) 11 108h0'
31 50. Adventureracers.dk (50) 11 108h37'
32 73. Haut Jura Aventure (73) 11 109h53'
33 28. Danish Adventureteam (28) 11 114h16'
34 66. GMPA Raid Aventure (66) 11 111h12'
35 37. Passion Raid Nantes (37) 11 114h38'
36 21. Issy Aventure 2 – Withspirit.fr (21)12 124h30'
37 54. Belgium Dream Team (54) 12 122h8'
38 29. Dunkerque Raids Aventure (29) 11 110h17'
39 51. Salomon-Suunto Opavanet (51) 11 111h4'
40 24. Yogi Tea – Raid74 (24) 11 113h58'
41 57. Twister Adventure (57) 11 114h32'
42 43. Dutch BioniX (43) 11 106h37'
43 60. Saferbo-Seti Traxion (60) 11 108h3'
44 41. Dancing Pandas (41) 11 110h9'
45 55. Griffons Punch Power – CPA (55) 11 114h38'
46 69. Ducati Bicycles – Rideaway (69) 11 107h41'
47 13. Lafuma Vibram (13) 14 122h54'
48 59. Bosi-Rios y Canoas Colombia (59) 12 114h0'
49 49. Bart Superano (49) 12 116h0'
50 71. Adventure Race Team Germany (71) 11 105h39'
51 46. SXM (46) 11 113h28'
52 63. Raid Quechua (63) 16 119h30'
53 02. Ecuador Nissan (2) 10 108h46'
54 39. Vtopo (39) 10 82h30'
55 62. ODS 67 Powerbar (62) 9 84h16'
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56 33. DareDevils Adventure Racing (33) 8 64h43'
57 20. ScandinavianOutdoorStore.com (20) 8 97h14'
58 56. Aquitaine Safety (56) 8 63h6'
59 09. Omjakon (9) 7 57h58'
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60 30. Sweco Adventure (30) 3 19h8'
61 45. Littoral Aventure (45) 2 25h20'
62 06. Selva Kailash (6) 3 26h36'
63 72. Cosa Nostra (72) 3 30h55'
64 35. Brat Lupine (35) 2 6h53'
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