Godzone Interview with Hugh Stodart and Brendan Hills

31 of March Adventure Junkie brought into life another Series of adventure races around Melbourne. Although the Junkies 2011 races reputation is delivering tough and ultimate challenges, this race series are achievable by inexperienced people who just stepped into adventure racing and even have no experience with orienteering, mountain biking and kayaking at all.
Read more“Absolutely amazing race, impossible to compare with any races which I’ve done before”- Maria Plyashechko, after completing the Patagonian Expedition Race, 2012.
The place and course.
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It was an epic weekend for everyone raced X-Marathon 2011. Course was really challenging even for experienced racers.
Overall Pro course winners are Jarad Kohlar and James Pretto (team PeakAdventure) who absolutely smashed it from the very beginning. They were closely followed by another elite team Blackheart with (Rob Preston and Kathryn Ewels). Thule Adventure team (Jacky Boisset and Myriam Guillot) finished third.
Lite course winners are ladies from Micky's Fitness- Deanna Blegg, one of the strongest Australian adventure racers, and Erica Marr, first time racer.
Team Iggle Piggle and Macca Pacca with Joel Deans and Dean Murray beat everyone in Adventure course category. Well done to all other teams!
Final Results and Splits are available.
Photos are available here>>>
X-Marathon final instructions are now available. There were a few changes in equipment list highlighted below:
- It is mandatory to have for safety reasons to have Mobile phone (Telstra) in waterproof bag with full charge switched on during the race per team
- It is essential to have good waterproof bike computer, for Pro course it is also recommended to have two good bike computers per team for redundancy
- For everyone it is highly recommended to have pencil and ruler for Adventure Rogaine.
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Q: What happen if team finished after Cut-off time? |
Race is over, all teams crossed the finish line. Final results are now published and available here >>>
Photos are available >>> and video is coming very shortly.
Thanks everyone for coming and making this event happened!!!
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