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Autor: www.patagonianexpeditionrace.com   
Srijeda, 16 Veljača 2011 21:32

 

Race Interview – Ad Natura Karibu! Evo i prvih dojmova s Kraja Svijeta.... Elvir i Dario dali su intervju za službene stranice organizatora. Pa pročitajmo!

It took Croatian Dario Rocco just a few seconds to agree to join his arch rival Elvir Sulic’s team for this year’s Wenger Patagonian Expedition Race, creating a strong combination of Croatia’s two biggest rival adventure racing teams. Ad Natura - Karibu spent an entire year preparing to race in Patagonia and it worked as they made it to the finish fit and healthy, securing a fourth place finish. Speaking inside the Pali Aike crater at the finish of the race, Rocco and Sulic reveal their race story – and tell how the forests of Patagonia almost had them beat…

Dario Rocco
"To finish is a great feeling. This is an accomplishment of something we have been preparing for a year to do, and there was a moment in the race where it was so hard we thought we were not going to make it and that all our preparations over the last year would be lost. So to get here now, oh, it is amazing."

Elvir Sulic
"It was a great race, and the scenery was amazing. At the start of the race, it was fantastic, Torres del Paine looked amazing. As a climber, I would love to come back to climb the Torres, but only on an easy route! The second kayak section, when we went close to the ice, paddling through small pieces, that was amazing. The trekking. Well, that was different…!"

Elvir Sulic
"Between PC10 and PC11, at the end of the second trek, we were wondering if we would finish. We went to the wrong valley and we spent two hours walking, were totally wet and could not find the way. We made a bivouac at the saddle and then walked seven hours with no food.

"We had to eat calafate berries, lots of them, so we were luck to have them there. We walked around a lake and that area had the best calafate! In Punta Arenas we had one local guy show us what calafates were, and they showed us they were purple-blue. But here they are red. We just found out you can eat them red, so that’s good! 

"What was motivating us right then was that at the transition we had food and when we got there we ate for 30 minutes non-stop. We knew the time limit was 2am and we arrived at PC11 at 10am, but on the way there we were thinking that the organiser would maybe decide to shorten the trekking section, which in the end they did." 

Elvir Sulic
"The trekking was really slow. It was not navigation, it was just getting through it. We called it swimming in the forest. If you were lucky you could find a good way but in the forest the speed is so slow."

Darjo Rocco
"This last biking section was very long – but it was not difficult. The first team had strong winds, so they were moving without pedalling. We had really strong winds at the start but on the straight sections there was no wind behind us by the end. But at least there was no wind in our chests. Navigation is always hard at night, but it was not so hard on the bike."

Darjo Rocco
"We consumed a lot of energy, but we managed it very well. In terms of our equipment and our food, we had very good preparation and we had no extra waste so we weren't carrying extra weight. We even used the rope we had to carry, because before PC8 we went straight over the mountains and we climbed at night. Elvir climbed up something vertical so he could lay the rope and we all carried on up so we could pass."

Elvir Sulic
"We knew it would be very tough here, but we didn’t expect the kind of vegetation we went through. We expected long sections in the kayaking and the mountain biking, and that was great, but we did not imagine Patagonia could be like what we experienced in the trekking! It was totally wild!"

Elvir Sulic
"The hardest part of the race was the trekking. We like trekking normally, it is our strongest discipline, but it was completely different here. I had imagined Patagonia as wide open spaces and bare mountains. There is a lot of that, but there is also a lot of forest! Along the mountains, on the turba, and in the wide open spaces, the trekking was amazing. In the forest, it was pretty tough. It’s wild, it’s just, really wild, and that is why it is hard! I would like to come back here again, but right now I am thinking maybe as a tourist or a volunteer! Our jobs mean we are quite busy in the summer and quite free in February, so you never know…!"

Elvir Sulic
"We are very happy to have finished the race and we are very happy for the team. Darjo has just joined us for this race, he was the captain of Croatia’s other biggest adventure racing team but when I asked him last year if he would like to come here he took two seconds to say yes! Now we have proved we can race together and the team will continue for new adventures. We had one goal when we came here, and that was to finish. And we did it."

 
 
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