Adventure Racing Poland Championship 2009

The longest adventure race in Poland!

...after swimming stage is completed mountain-biking stage is about to begin... in the dark you can only see shadows with blue head-lights... amazing sight... for a moment I glimpse on the timer... it shows 45km/h... narrow road leading down, through the cottage... you can only hear air whistling and tires buzzing...

...ford through swamp, about 500m... we put our all equipment into the backpacks and hold it above our heads... time by time I stumble on floated trees... I take another step and find myself waist-high in the swamp... and it goes on... I have difficulties with taking my legs out... in the deepest place I’m submerged to my neck...

...it’s late... we’ll finish kayak stage in the night... I take my head-light and few additional batteries... I bless my experience and foresight... we flow on Czarna Hancza River... lot’s of  gulfs... a real labyrinth of water plants... it’s dark, there’s no time for sleep... your eyes start to hurt of looking into the darkness... your body, all the time wet, starts to protest with convulsions...

...step after step we go further... you start to see unreal things and to have serious hallucinations... I have problems with images processing... what I see now and what I have just seen are one image for me... and that will be like to the end of the Race... monotonous and almost automatic going further...

...I’m exhausted and close to resign... desperation is up to it’s limits... we clench our teeth... knees, hands, back hurt... but we go further... we have no strength left to talk... but the desirable goal is closer with every minute...

about Adventure Racing Poland Championship 2005
Kuba Drabikowski, De Integro Team

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