One month for the XTerra Basque Country

The Basque Country will host on June 21 the demanding XTERRA BASQUE COUNTRY, a cros triathlon or mountain triathlon event that places it in the prestigious world XTERRA circuit, whose queen test has been held annually in Hawaii since 1996.

 

 

It will be the only test of this circuit to be held in the north of the State, where five other tests are held in 2015. It will also be the Euskadi Championship of Triathlon Cros in its distance and a maximum participation of 500 triathletes is allowed.

The event will be organized by the Fortuna Sports Club, with the collaboration of the Basque Triathlon Federation, the Commonwealth of Debagoiena, the Department of Tourism of the Basque Government, the Diputación Foral de Álava and other entities and local associations.

 

 

The first discipline of this combined race, swimming, will be held in the Ullibarri-Gamboa reservoir, in the Provincial Park of Landa, usual point of this modality of other triathlons, and then the participants will take the mountain bike or BTT with destination to the Sanctuary of Arantzazu, crossing the Sierra de Elgea and the forests near the Sanctuary in a hard circuit with many technical stretches.

After reaching Arantzazu, the athletes must put on their mountain shoes and climb the high mountain fields under the crestery that make up the Aloña and Aizkorri mountain ranges, arriving at the hermitage of Urbia to return and finish in the singular sanctuary that contains works of Jorge Oteiza and Eduardo Chillida, which makes that it gathers all the characteristics so that the development of the XTERRA Basque Country is spectacular.

The XTERRA BASQUE COUNTRY will have the star participation of the Valencian Rubén Ruzafa, current XTERRA world champion and former mountain trial professional cyclist.

The test allows to register in two distances, PRO for experts and OPEN for initiates and also for teams of three members.

Technical data:

Fecha: 21 / 06 / 2015

Departure: Landa Provincial Park (Ullibarri-Gamboa-Álava Reservoir)

Arrival: Sanctuary of Arantzazu (Gipuzkoa)

DistancesPRO (swimming: 1.500 m; MTB: 36 km; Running: 11,5 km)

OPEN distances (swimming: 750 m; MTB: 28 km; Running: 5,6 km)

Maximum capacity: 500

Possibility of individual and team participation

registration: www.xterraspain.com

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