Nev Dama Adventure Race
Czech Chills and Spills
Jan Smolik / 05.10.2006
While the organizers were busy setting up starting line, building the introductory city park orienteering and manning the first few checkpoints, the racers were having their last real meal or were panicking over their backpacks trying not to forget anything for the first stage. Some of them had just met their teammates for the first time. One member of CBTP team only arrived from Italy where he was on family holiday during night before the race.
Some teams were not that lucky to have all four members ready, ambitious Debra CZ lost their teammate in the evening before race when he found out he had a fever. The remaining members spent the morning persuading some of the organizers to switch sides and race with them, but they failed. Team Vysmash had also already arrived as a three-member team so both teams decided to start as unclassified.
Parks and Monasteries
Exactly at 10am the Mayor of Zadni Treban set teams off. The introductory park orienteering lead them trough Zadni Treban, a village with 621 inhabitants located just 20 km from Prague that and serving as recreational zone for country’s capital. It was intended just as a warm up, but new houses and fences built over the roads marked in the map made it more difficult. Also selecting the right time to cross the busy railroad was a bit challenging.
The following canoeing and in-line skating sections took teams to Prague. Team Omjakon Sweaters from Finland took advantage of their strong hands and tehcnique from cross-country skiing and took the lead. Unfortunately during the in-lines the first injury occurred. A member of English team High 5/Snowcard.co.uk team fell when a car honked him. He twisted his ankle and ended up in hospital.
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