That's it. She's down. At 4:30 a.m., Martin Lazar arrived at the finish line, thus concluding this year's, officially the second year of the Montane Jibe Jaha. We tip our hats to Martin and marvel at his steady, machine-like pace. At the same time, his calm and sovereign approach to the matter deserves admiration as well. He simply calculated how it would be, and then it mostly was. Not even Martina...
Uffff, that was a mess. Eight days, five hours and 13 minutes. Tomáš Kadlec was the first in the three-year history of the race to finish on the royal 600 km route. An incredible performance and huge congratulations!! We are extremely happy that Tomáš made it to the finish line and we have to admit that we would not have bet on him at the beginning and that's the point...
You may be wondering why we don't publish text messages and photos from competitors anymore. The answer is simple. Martin's phone hasn't been working since Kraliki and Tomas lost it yesterday somewhere in the bush. So we have no connection with them and they have no connection with us. According to the rules, this should be a reason for not continuing the race, because a charged and working phone is mandatory equipment. But we're not gonna stick it to them...
There were fewer competitors, but due to logistical problems and a missing signal it was not possible to write a report yesterday. So we are making amends here and recapping the last two days under the magnifying glass. These were in the form of challenging completions of the 300km route and even more challenging continuations on the 600km route. So let's start with the weather, which has played a very significant destabilising line of morale and will this year. When one day the sky gave the racers...
Tuesday 6.2. 0:14 Matěj Jakoubek - Těbůch, Venco! Looks like a disqualification. The fourth mandatory 4 minutes after midnight. But considering my mood it's still quite early 🙂 02:13 Tomas Kadlec - I've moved here I'm going to sleep (Tomas's first text message for the whole race 🙂 11:30 Matěj Jakoubek - Orlický I went on foot. We'll see what Jeseníky....
We report from the finish and checkpoint at 300 km in Jeseníky from Petříkov. The signal is very sporadic here and so we chase it around and thanks to that we can't offer interesting moving pictures (e.g. Martin Gaba's famous ski finish). The night on the ridges of both the Eagle and Jeseníky mountains was quite strict. True, it wasn't raining, but it was a real blast. Snow during the day...
14:18 Martin Gabla - The Orlické Mountains were pretty tough... 15:15 Martin Gabla . i don't race, i survive 17:05 Matěj Jakoubek - Hey!? And how do you drink beer from a can when you have a loom behind your head and you don't want to throw your back out with every sip? 17:07 Aunt Vera - Systematically squeezing the can from the bottom from the side...
A large pack of stop-and-go crawlers dropped out of our monitor dot tracking, but even so, there is no shortage of unnecessary page refreshes at unnecessarily short intervals. The morning started with Luboš Kocourek's departure to the east. Again it was raining solidly and so there was nothing to envy. Luboš was worried about some bug and when I saw on his phone that he was calling me, it was clear what he wanted to tell me....
20:00 Lenka Zemínová - Thank you for the great experience...I have my 150 behind me and megarespect in front of everyone. I'm finally going to enjoy the follow me from the couch 🙂 Give, give!!! 21:00 I have to add my thanks to Venc, Hosta and the rest of the family for the great organization and beautiful route. I wish everyone on the route the best of strength to finish/finish in good health....
The first route is closed as of 9 o'clock today. Those who have finished are already enjoying the fact that they can just look out the window at the rain, that they don't have to walk far with skis on their backs and can enjoy their intense experience. Those who have gone further, on the other hand, have to look out of the windows at the rain as people...