Discussion: ITERA 2014
in: Adventure Racing; General
Aug 11, 2014 9:01 PM
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no one's posted yet? not even KP w his pre-race podium predictions?
anyway, ITERA started this morning in Wales. the course is 600km and open until the afternoon of Friday 15-Aug.
some cool things from the pre-race briefing:
"Racers all have a timing chip attached to their wrist to record their times in (and sometimes out) of checkpoints (CP’s). They have one each, attached to their wrists with a secure band (like a hospital tag) to ensure all team members visit a checkpoint." (these are in addition to the team tracker)
"The race also has a system of coloured race bibs. All the teams will start with 3 red and one white bib – if they miss a checkpoint they swap the white bib for a black one to show they are a short course team."
"On day one all of the checkpoints are mandatory, so everyone will be doing the same thing up to the zipline challenge and after that there are only a couple of mandatory checkpoints, and teams can choose whether or not to visit the rest."
"Their route book specifies a penalty time for each checkpoint, so they know what the penalty will be if they miss one. So, for example, if they don’t go to the Snowdon summit CP there is a 6 hour penalty. At the finish the race will be scored on time taken on the course." not sure if this means teams are double-penalized for skipping CPs (loss of CP + time penalty)?
live tracking http://live.itera.co.uk/index.htm
team list http://entries.itera.co.uk/entrants_boats.php?race...
Open Adventure FB page https://www.facebook.com/openadventure
anyway, ITERA started this morning in Wales. the course is 600km and open until the afternoon of Friday 15-Aug.
some cool things from the pre-race briefing:
"Racers all have a timing chip attached to their wrist to record their times in (and sometimes out) of checkpoints (CP’s). They have one each, attached to their wrists with a secure band (like a hospital tag) to ensure all team members visit a checkpoint." (these are in addition to the team tracker)
"The race also has a system of coloured race bibs. All the teams will start with 3 red and one white bib – if they miss a checkpoint they swap the white bib for a black one to show they are a short course team."
"On day one all of the checkpoints are mandatory, so everyone will be doing the same thing up to the zipline challenge and after that there are only a couple of mandatory checkpoints, and teams can choose whether or not to visit the rest."
"Their route book specifies a penalty time for each checkpoint, so they know what the penalty will be if they miss one. So, for example, if they don’t go to the Snowdon summit CP there is a 6 hour penalty. At the finish the race will be scored on time taken on the course." not sure if this means teams are double-penalized for skipping CPs (loss of CP + time penalty)?
live tracking http://live.itera.co.uk/index.htm
team list http://entries.itera.co.uk/entrants_boats.php?race...
Open Adventure FB page https://www.facebook.com/openadventure
Aug 11, 2014 9:36 PM
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black bib is cool idea.
tracking is here in fullscreen: http://maps.opentracking.co.uk/itera2014.cfm
Adidas is tearing away from the pack. Crazy speed.
Lotsa rain and wind on those peaks tonight - nasty!
:D
tracking is here in fullscreen: http://maps.opentracking.co.uk/itera2014.cfm
Adidas is tearing away from the pack. Crazy speed.
Lotsa rain and wind on those peaks tonight - nasty!
:D
Aug 18, 2014 7:13 PM
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Bib system was ace, good call by James on that one. Certainly was blustery on the summits as well, cracking race route concocted by Tom Gibbs made for a tough race where you were in the chase even when you thought you were wrecked and it was over...so easy to forget that everybody else is also wrecked! Another very well run event by open adventure :-)
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