The 2007 Mark Webber Pure Tasmania Challenge
Teams Prepare for the 3rd Mark Webber Challenge
12.11.2007
When asked what will be better about this year’s event Mark Webber, the Formula One racing driver and the event founder, replied, “We continue to make incremental improvements to the Challenge year on year to ensure maximum satisfaction for competitors. And from the few hints I’m allowed, I think our course director, Tim Saul, has set the best course we’ve ever seen - I’m really looking forward to it.�
Sixty competitors including three Olympians (Michael Klim, James Tomkins and Tatiana Grigorieva), two time world champion adventure racer, Richard Ussher, 1993 Stawell Gift winner Jason Richardson and a Captain in the Australian Army, Jeremy Ross, will arrive into Launceston, Tasmania on November 16 to embark on the 450km race that will take them through some of the world’s most breathtaking but unforgiving terrain.
“To spend time with like-minded individual’s, and experience the chemistry that develops between everyone is really satisfying. After some tough days, it’s a great feeling seeing people smiling through their sweat and doing something for great charities�, says Mark Webber.
Over seven day’s competitors will cycle, kayak and run over 80km each day. Starting on November 17 at Cradle Mountain competitors will complete three days in and around the Cradle Mountain/Barrington region before moving across to the east coast to tackle some open water kayaking, coastal treks and steep mountain bike rides around Freycinet Peninsula, before finishing in Hobart on November 23 with some mystery urban challenges.
In three short years the Mark Webber Pure Tasmania Challenge has become a truly international event and is building a reputation as one of the most premium adventure races available for elites and amateurs in the world. This year the Challenge has attracted two teams from Singapore, a world class pair in Richard and Elina Ussher from New Zealand, as well as Brits Justin Goulding and F3 driver Alex Waters. Aussie Jarad Kohlar will be looking to get revenge on Captain Jeremy Ross who last month beat him in the Pure Tasmania Freycinet Lodge Challenge by less than one minute.
This year the Mark Webber Challenge Foundation, which raises funds through the Mark Webber Pure Tasmania Challenge, is supporting the Leukaemia Foundation and the Save the Tassie Devil Appeal.
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