Adventure Racing World Champs 2009 – CrispNZ Trips

The Adventure Racing World Champs 2009 were held in Portugal in November. There were 59 teams signed up for the expedition -style race and it took the winners over five days to complete. Kati and myself supported Team Nike/Beaver Creek who finished 2nd overall. You can find an archive of my blog posts here with some videos here.

Above: Team Nike/Beaver Creek before race-start. From left to right: Chris, Mona, Mike, and George.

The top four finishers were

1st – Team Helly Hansen – Prunesco

2nd – Team Nike/Beaver Creek

3rd – Team Lundhags Adventure

4th – Team OrionHealth.com

Youtube videos:

Below is a collection of photos from the event. Use the page navigation below the pictures to view more photos.

Chris fixing bike 2 (Portugal ARWC 2009)

Chris fixing bike (Portugal ARWC 2009)

Chris fixing disc brakes (Portugal ARWC 2009)

Mike hanging from a tree 2 (Portugal ARWC 2009)

Mike hanging from a tree (Portugal ARWC 2009)

A walk for 8000 USD (Portugal ARWC 2009)

Aaron at the finish (Portugal ARWC 2009)

Aaron collects GPS (Portugal ARWC 2009)

Aaron gets ready to skate (Portugal ARWC 2009)

Aaron leads the way (Portugal ARWC 2009)

Aaron planning something (Portugal ARWC 2009)

Aaron shows the team the map (Portugal ARWC 2009)

All russian girls teams (Portugal ARWC 2009)

Almost ready to go (Portugal ARWC 2009)

At another transition (Portugal ARWC 2009)

At the finish line (Portugal ARWC 2009)

Blury Chris (Portugal ARWC 2009)

Camping (Portugal ARWC 2009)

Checking maps in transition (Portugal ARWC 2009)

Chris and Kati (Portugal ARWC 2009)

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