It’s been a busy few days here at Jockfall. From Feb. 25th to 28th 13 athletes took part in our training course, powered by Trollkraft Adventure. As always, many lessons were learnt and all participtants now have a lot more confidence to face the challenges ahead. Due to the rather warm temperatures, one of the main challenges will be to stay dry …
Towards the end of the training course more athletes had started to arrive. We dealt with paperwork, handed out rental kit, had our briefing this morning, followed by the Laplandprayer, organised by Race Chaplain Pat Cooke-Rogers and, finally, our big dinner.
Tomorrow at 08:00am we will load everyone’s sleds and head all down to Överkalix. From 09:00am the “Lapland Arctic Arena” will open – which means there will be snacks, hot drinks and later on also a Kid’s Race. Anyone who is interested in this, please just visit whenever you want. The Arena will close at noon. We will start our 20 and 50 km races at 09:30am. Then, right after, the athletes in the 185 and 500 km races will head out.
For updates during the race we will mainly use our facebook and instagram pages. Also, if you would like to follow the progress of our athletes, please check out the tracking page (linked on our landing page).