THE SECOND ANNUAL CALLEVA ADVENTURE RACE 2009

Race News and Updates



Calleva Adventure Race 2009—Not your ordinary adventure race!

After an incredible inaugural adventure race in 2008, Calleva is back for round 2. Don't miss the most exciting race in the Washington, DC metro area.

This year we will have two categories: Expert for advance racers and SPORT for strong athletes with limited experience in adventure racing. Both categories will have up to 10 hours to complete the course, but Expert category will include more technical disciplines that require special skills.

Expert category navigation will be on the Pro level and will be used in every discipline of the Expert course: including paddling, white water swimming (canceled for 2009), mountain biking, and trekking. Mountain biking will include technical single track, gravel roads, paved roads and even some off road riding.

Sport category navigation will be more obvious, but still will require good knowledge of map and compass use. Biking sections will be mostly on roads with some shortcut options through single track. The Sport Category will include the famous Calleva challenges. If you are new to the sport, or do not have a good navigator on your team, this category is for you.

Teams of 2, 3 and solo racers are welcome.
Weather in Poolesville

SCHEDULE:

August 9th, 2009. Poolesville, MD.
  • 7:30 AM - Registration and Check-In opens at Riley's Lock. All team members must be present for mandatory gear check. Bibs, number for bikes, maps, rules of travel, and give-a-way stuff will be distributed to teams at the end of check-in.
  • 8:15 AM - Mandatory race briefing. All teams and team members must be present.
  • 9:00 AM - Race starts. Location will be announced at the race briefing.
  • 7:00 PM - Official race finish at Riley's Lock. Teams that cross the finish line after that time will be unofficially ranked and will be ineligible for awards.

DIRECTIONS:

13015 Riley's Lock Rd. Poolesville MD 20837 Click here to get driving directions from your address!

Registration schedule

  • Early registration before May 31th - $75 per racer
  • Late registration June 1st - August 1st $100 per racer
  • Last week and the race day registration $125 per racer (subject to availability)
    •  No refunds after June 1st.

    The Race is sold out.
    No more spots are available.
    For waiting list email us.

    Every racer must sign the race waiver [.pdf file] and bring it to check-in on the race day. In addition to that every racer that is less than 18 years old must fill and bring to-check in waiver for minors form [.pdf file].

    For volunteer oportunities, please, contact Karen. Middle and high school students can get up to 8 hours of community service for helping us with the race. Every student must be accompanied by adult, number of spots is limited.

    Gear list was updated on 06/22/2009

    About Prizes

    This year both categories (Expert and SPORT) will have the Prime Division of three person Co-Ed and three person female (sorry boys) teams. This division will be eligible for the main prizes. All other teams and solo racers will fight for Open Division prizes.

    For sponsors oportunities, please, contact Matt Markoff




                                                                                

    Testimonials

    • Thank you very much for putting on a great race. We had a blast and look forward to the next one.
    • Great race!!! Can not wait to do it again next year.
    • Thank you for the amazing race you put on this past Sunday. Incredible inaugural race!
    • We had a great time. Many many great things to say, amazing group of volunteers (and a lot of them) loved the "real orienteering".

    RACE NEWS AND UPDATES:

    Aug 17, 2009

    500+ race photos.

    Vladimir Bukalo Photography presents:

    The Second Annual Calleva Adventure Race PHOTOS. You will need to register (it’s free) to see and purchase individual photos. You also can buy a DVD disk with ALL high resolution race photos (about 700 photos, 2 GB total) for $20 plus $5 shipping directly from Calleva.
    There are two payment options
    1) PayPal $25 to Photobuk@gmail.com
    2) Send a $25 check to Calleva: 13015 Riley's Lock Rd. Poolesville MD 20837. Make check payable to Calleva and don’t forget to write your shipping address.
    If you have any questions, email us.





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    Aug 13, 2009

    Video from the start


    Start and prologue of the race. We got one team with wrong passport at the end of the prologue. That's where the video stops :-)

    We have more photos to come very soon. Most likely tomorrow.



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    Aug 11, 2009

    The Final Results

    The Second Annual Calleva Race Official results including CP breakdown:

    EXPERT | SPORT


    The SPORT category ranking was calculated by adjusted racing time plus penalties, minus bonuses.

    EXPERT teams ranking was more complicated. Only 3 teams finished the full course within final cutoff at 19:00. These 3 teams were ranked ahead of all other teams.

    Despite terrible weather all teams in both SPORT and EXPERT managed to finish the race, a great accomplishment in itself. Only one team lost one of their teammates, but continued the race unofficially.

    First place in Prime division and free entree to 2010 Calleva Adventure Race is awarded to team A-List/Too Many Kids (EXPERT course) and team U.H.B. (SPORT category). Team U.H.B. is overall winner and is the only team that took all possible bonuses in the SPORT category. In the EXPERT category the overall winner is soloist ATP (Scott Pleban), clearing the course and finishing the race 19 minutes before the cutoff time. We also want to mention team Panic Azimuth got all possible points in EXPERT category course.

    We want to thank all racers for taking on this incredible challenge. We have already started working on 2010 Calleva Adventure Race.

    Keep up the good training and get ready for next year.




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