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.

Nike on the skates (Portugal ARWC 2009)

Nike on the trek (Portugal ARWC 2009)

Orion checking maps in transition (Portugal ARWC 2009)

Our Estonian friends (Portugal ARWC 2009)

Our Estonian friends (Portugal ARWC 2009)

Pre-race dinner (Portugal ARWC 2009)

Punch (Portugal ARWC 2009)

Race day dawns (Portugal ARWC 2009)

Refueling (Portugal ARWC 2009)

Silly photographers (Portugal AWRC 2009)

Setting up (Portugal ARWC 2009)

Shadow games 2 (Portugal ARWC 2009)

Shadow games (Portugal ARWC 2009)

Sunrise again 2 (Portugal ARWC 2009)

Sunrise again (Portugal ARWC 2009)

Sunrise in the mountains 2 (Portugal ARWC 2009)

Sunrise in the mountains 3 (Portugal ARWC 2009)

Sunrise in the mountains 4 (Portugal ARWC 2009)

Sunrise in the mountains (Portugal ARWC 2009)

Sunrise (Portugal ARWC 2009)

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