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Explore Sweden “Monster” |
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When most races go to shorter and shorter racecourses, Explore Sweden goes bananas and creates a Monster, a 1000 km non stop race including everything an adventure junkie can dream about!
Explore Sweden “Monster” – a member of the Adventure Racing World Series – will feature a 1,000 km course and will take place 2-9 July 2009 in central Sweden.
The race start (“race prologue”) will be timed to coincide with “Sundsvall Street Festival” – a celebration of almost 200,000 people with live music, local food, and adventure games in the city center.
Explore Sweden “Monster” will start with several hours and multiple disciplines through in an urban environment packed with cheering crowds and unexpected challenges.
-“Sundsvall is looking forward being host for Explore Sweden, which will have the adventure racing top teams on the startline. Sundsvall city environment with all the old turn of century houses, and our beautiful nature with the mountains and the water in surroundings will give the organizers the best conditions for an
exciting start and finish of the race, says Carina Nordström-Sköldh, Vice President of Sundsvall Arena.
“Our goal is that Sundsvall will be the premier city of event organizing north of “Mälardalen” and this kind of event is absolutely right in our strategy partly; to
develop sportsevent and that Explore Sweden will put Sundsvall on the map.”
The race is held in July when the summer is at its very best in Sweden. Daytime
temperatures are expected to be between 20-28 C (68 to 82 F) with night time temperatures around 12 C (53 F). Thanks to the midnight sun, the skies will be light for at least 20 hours!
The course will contain every adventure racers highest expectations with trekking
and orienteering along trails and in unmarked terrain. Both in highlands and in the lowlands, but also in an urban environment with paved roads, parks and
man-made surroundings. The teams will also find themselves along spectacular mountain traverses with unrivaled scenery along the Sweden/Norway border and will “rope up” into teams of four to cross glaciers and couloirs with ice axe and crampons.
For information
Mikael Lindnord
mikael@exploresweden.se |
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