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| » 15th May 2008 >>> The first teams are already rowing in the Duero river | ||||||
The French of the Wilsa HellyHansen and Lafuma Sport2000 Vibram and the Finns of the Multisport.fi are outlined like the three first of the raid Bimbache Extrem Castilla y León 2008, that will tomorrow finalize in Peñafiel after three days of competition non-stop.
Vadocondes (Burgos), 15th of may – the raid Bimbache Extrem Castilla y León 2008 confronts its last phase, with the section of kayak of 64 km by the Duero river between the Burgos locality of Vadocondes and the Valladolid city of Peñafiel, where is the finish line of the race harder and international adventure raid of Spain. In waters of the Duero already is the first classified teams, although their arrival is predicted to the Friday morning, as the organization prohibits navigation by the river between 21h and 6.30h am. Therefore, when the night falls, the teams that are rowing will have to look for a place in the border to plant their camping and to rest until the dawn.
After arriving at the ski resort of La Pinilla in the evening and during the night and yesterday completing the obligatory rest of 4 hours established by the organization, the teams faced one quite long section of trekking of 12 hours of duration. Those 46 km and 1,730 ms of ascent drop took to them from the station of La Pinilla to level 1,800 of the station, where they had to make a special test of ropes, that consisted of one tyroline and a passage by a tibetan bridge. Thence they raised until the top of the mountain range and they went by the edge until the Tierra de Ayllón, where they had to find a marker within a cave and to lower by a cannon until the neighborhoods of the town of Grado del Pico, where they cycled again.
A ultrafast section of MTB That section of bikes had to take them from there to the Vadocondes, to the shore of the Duero river. They were little more than 100 km of distance and 1,130 ms of drop, that the first teams crossed in a time record of 7 hours, one hour faster of the best time anticipated by the organization.
In Vadocondes, they kayaks were waiting for them that, thence they have to take rowing until Peñafiel, in a long sector of 64 km and 11 hours of duration. Too long to finish before 21h, maximum schedule allowed by the organization to continue rowing, questions of security. To that hour, the teams will have to be stopped where they are and to encamp until tomorrow morning at 6.30h am. Thence, they will continue until Peñafiel, where they will have a special test of ascend by ropes in the walls of the castle and a tyroline that it will give by finalized the raid.
LEADERBOARD IN T10 (Vadocondes)
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| » 14th May 2008 >>> Wisla HellyHansen takes advantage in head | ||||||
The French team stands out in the first position taking advantage of one long night of bike and fog. Multisport.fi and Lafuma Sport2000 Vibram fight now by the other two positions of podium. Four teams leave the race.
La Pinilla (Segovia), 14 of May - The raid Bimbache Extrem Castilla and Leon 2008 clarify the first positions, after half and a day of uninterrupted competition. The French team of the Wisla HellyHansen has remained in solitaire at the top of a race that has left four of the teams that took the start: Proinde Aventura, Air France Industries, Buff and Gallaecia Bugarent-Cucos. Both first of these team left the race before initiating the section of kayak in the dam of the Alto Pontón, although the French team has decided to continue outside competition, skipping a pair of sectors, to enjoy the places by which the raid passes throug.
The first night of race was little than less infernal for the fifteen participant teams. The cold intensified during the nocturnal hours, and one thick fog covered the top of the Mountain range of Guadarrama, by where the competitors in one long section of mountain bike of 97 km of distance and 2,250 ms of positive drop had to do. Those adverse meteorological conditions made difficult the orienteering of the teams, who was in zones with a visibility less than five meters, motivated the abandonment of Gallaecia and Buff, that also had injuries in some of their members. The bike section, in addition, was able to distance to the Wisla HellyHansen of the Multisport.fi, that until then had been competing at an even level in first position.
Cloudy morning and rainy day The first lights of a cloudy morning has taken to the front teams until the locality of Somosierra, where they changed the bikes by the slippers to face a section of trekking of 15 km by Sierra Cebollera that included the spectacular canyonering. Rains fallen during the last days have significantly increased the volume of this cannon, offering some of the most spectacular images of this hard test of adventure sports in flown rappel by the interior of an impetuous waterfall. That trekking has confirmed the tendency of the increase of the advantage of the Wilsa HellyHansen on the Multisport.fi, that has been seen even surpassed by the equipment Lafuma Sport2000 Vibram, also of French nationality. Another team that also wasted time in this point was the Teva-La Pinilla-Trangoworld, that was in the fourth seat but without options to fight by podium if some important error of those ahead teams.
After the canyonering, the teams had to return to Somosierra and to get on bike to go again to the town of Riaza, where they take the in line skates to make 9 km that separate this population of the ski resort of La Pinilla skating. Once arrived at La Pinilla, the organization forced all the teams to make a shutdown of 4 hours to rest, a measure that tries to guarantee a minimum security for competitors who accumulate at those moments 30 hours of uninterrupted race (the first one classified). It is possible to say that that rest was made in the new shelter of La Pinilla, an installation with all the comforts and ideal to get one's strength back
After the rest, the teams had to face to another long section that surely will take all the night to them to first, or good part of the next day to the most left behind. It’s a trekking of 46 km of distance and 1,730 ms of positive drop, with a spectacular technical fixe ropes and tibetan bridge, in the high zone of the station of La Pinilla. This long walk borders the limits of the Natural Park of the Hayedo de Tejera Negra and it go deeper into the zone of Ayllón. There, before returning to get the bikes in the spring of the Manadero, they will have to make another special discipline, in this case of speleology.
LEADERBOARD IN T8 (La Pinilla)
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| » 13th May 2008 >>> French and Finnis fight by the first seat | ||||||
The teams Wilsa HellyHansen and Multisport.fi shares the leadership of the Bimbache Extrem Castilla y León 2008 after the first demanding sectors of the race. The rain and the fog complicate the ascent to Peñalara, in trekking of 8 hours.
Segovia, 13th of May - The raid Bimbache Extrem Castilla and León 2008 has lived today Tuesday on 13th May the first day of competition. After the start of Segovia and first sectors of rough estimate between the 15 participant teams, with disciplines of urban orienteering and in line skates, first trekking of the race has begun to mark important differences between the teams from the noon.
This first section of trekking consisted of a long loop of 49 km and more than 2,000 ms of positive drop with start and arrival to the zone of the Granja de San Ildefonso, passing through several mountain tops between which it emphasized the Peñalara tip (2,428 ms). The teams Wilsa HellyHansen and Multisport.fi has taken the advantage from the first moment and they have not done more than progressively to increase the differences with the teams pursuers, although circulating always on a par among them. Behind French and Finns, also French of Lafuma Sport2000 Vibram and Spaniards of the Teva-La Pinilla-Trangoworld, to fifteen minutes of first before initiating the ascent to Peñalara and half an hour of them when finishing the sector.
After descending from mountains passing through the spectacular waterfall of El Chorro, the teams has gone until the dam of the Alto Pontón to make a simple section of kayak of one hour of duration, introduction for the quite long and decisive section of mountain bike, about 100 km of distance and 2,250 ms of positive drop that will take all the night to them.
LEADERBOARD IN PC14 (befote the long section of MTB)
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| » 13th May 2008 >>> El Aqueduct of Segovia says goodbye to the adventurers | ||||||
The raid Bimbache Extrem Castilla y León 2008 has taken the start this morning from the city of Segovia. The 60 runners of the 15 participant teams are already in the heat of effort and with 450 km full of difficulties ahead.
Segovia, 13th of May – At 9h in the morning, the Roman Aqueduct of Segovia has been the idyllic scene of the start of the raid Bimbache Extrem Castilla and Leon 2008. The mayor of the city and the delegate of the Junta of Castilla y Leon have given spirits to the 60 sportsmen of the 15 participant teams, in the beginning of a day's work that will take until Peñafiel after 450 km full of challenges and adventures to them.
The first discipline of the race has been a pretty specific section of urban orienteering, in which the runners have had to orient themselves between the streets of Segovia to find the points indicated on a tourist map of the city and to respond the concrete questions raised by the organization. The Alcázar, the Door of San Andrés, the seat of San Martin or the Artillery school have been some of the locations that the teams has had to visit in this beginning of the race.
Segovia by the highway of San Ildefonso, where they took the in-line skates to make a section of 9 km on them, through a bike lane and a local highway. All it before undertaking one long section of trekking of 49 km in which they will have to raise the Peñalara hill and that will take at least 8 hours to them of long walk, before arriving at the dam of the Pontón Alto.
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| » 12th May 2008 >>> The Bimbache Extrem Castilla y León 2008 warm up motors | ||||||
The start of the hardest and internacional raid of Spain will take place this Wednesday morning at 9h from the Aqueduct of Segovia. The 15 participant teams will ahead have about 450 km of hard adventure disciplines.
Segovia, 12th of may – The teams in the raid BIMBACHE EXTREM CASTILLA Y LEÓN 2008 already take care of their arms in the hotel Venta Juanilla with an eye on the start of the race, that will take place tomorrow Wednesday at 9h in the morning from the Aqueduct of Segovia. The day of today, dedicated to the technical verifications and the last previous instructions, has revealed to the runners the exact route of the race, secret until the last moment. Therefore, the 15 teams with a total of 60 sportsmen and sportswomen and of seven different nationalities have put details to an itinerary of 448 km of distance and 9,000 meters of positive drop.
The first disciplines which the racers will have to submit to, are an urban orienteering by the city of Segovia and a section of in-line skating of 9 km of distance. All it before the first great challenge of the Bimbache: a section of trekking of 49 km of distance, with more than 2,000 meters of ascent drop, that will take to them to pass through the Peñalara hill (2,428 ms) and the waterfall of El Chorro, in addition to La Granja de San Ildefonso. The fastest teams will spend 8 hours in this section, whereas the forecast for slowest is of 14 hours.
A relaxing sector of kayak by the dam of the Pontón Alto will serve as introduction for the last test of the day, a section of mountain bike of almost 100 km in which the first teams will pass all the night in full activity.
Canyonering befote resting in La Pinilla Already on the following day, Wednesday, the teams will have to face to a trekking in which it includes a technical canyonering, another section of mountain bike and the ascent to the ski resort of La Pinilla in skates. There, the teams will obligatorily have to stop a minimum of 4 hours, after 30 hours of race for first and 50 hours for the last ones.
The last part of the race is formed by successive intense sections of trekking, MTB and kayak. First of them, trekking, includes a spectacular special tests of fixe ropes, tibetan bridge and spelunking, with almost 50 km altogether and more than 1,700 meters of ascent drop. The MTB will again force to pedal for more than 8 hours, with more than 100 km of route. But probably, the hardest section is going to be final kayak by the Duero river, that will lead to the teams until Peñafiel after 64 km of alternate oar with several carries of the boat. Already in Peñafiel, the racers will have to ascend by ropes the walls of the castle.
The arrival of the first teams will take place Friday midday, although there will continue arriving teams at the castle of Peñafiel until Saturday at 16h, when the finish line is closed. |
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