GALLERY FROM PEŤA JANÍČEK DAY 1
Our first photographer Peťa Janíček prepared for you great gallery of Day 1.
You can enjoy his pictures from start and Český Les.
This year we are gonna follow also a fight on Short route, where leaders on RP1 are Piero Sestak (111) and ...Lukáš Blail (12).
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MARTIN PODSTATA ROZJEL PŘI SVÉ PREMIÉŘE BOJ O PÓDIUM
Zatím největším překvapením prvního dne je průběžné třetí místo Martina Podstaty (č. 49), který si na RACZ odbývá svou ultracyklistickou premiéru - dosud nikdy neujel v kuse více než 300km.
Se zkušenostmi ...spíše s triatlony a pouze výletním bikepackingem, dorazil s úsměvem na tváři na RP1 v Prášilech na třetím místě, pouze 28min za aktuálním lídrem Tomem Křováčkem. Druhý jede Michal Dušek s mankem 12min.
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ČESKÝ LES
First 130km leads through remoted Area of Český Les mountain, where Riders enjoys deep forests and huge plains with golden grass.
But these landscapes are not for free. The elevation gain is rising, mainly ascent to Čerchov is true "leg killer", with 12% slope ...sections.
Riders also passed through first big attraction of the Route, breathtaking ruin of St. Jan Křtitel church.
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RACZ26 JUST STARTED !!!
Few minutes after 8am started fifth edition of Race Across Czechia.
More than 120 riders departed from picturesque square in Planá, for 1130km (or 820km) route through best parts of southern Czechia, to Velká Javořina.
Wish them good luck And follow... or event via GPS tracking:
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You can support our charity collection for domestici.cz during the Race.
https://www.domestici.cz/vyzva/racz26
SOCIAL RIDE AND PRE-START MEETING
Well, tommorow is "Day D", So our Riders are slowly arriving to majestic Chodovar brewery.
We are happy that almost 40 riders attended our Social Ride to Mariánské Lázně and also visited brewery Area.
Now it is a time for good ...food, good sleep And get ready for tommorow big start
CHARITY COLLECTION FOR DOMESTICI !!!
As you should already know, during RACZ26 we would like to support a charity project "Domestici", which tries to improve palliative care in Czechia.
Martin Souček - elite czech ultracyclist and initiator and main boss of Domestici - will... attend this year´s edition as a Rider and will introduce Domestici during pre-start meeting.
All Riders will get a chance to become Domestics, but if also you - if you like our event and purpose of Domestici activities - can help them by sending voluntary amount, through collection on their website:
https://www.domestici.cz/vyzva/racz26
We will be also happy if you share this link on your social networks ;-)
Our goal is to raise 250 000 CZK (10 000 EUR) - and our team tried to lead by example and send first 20 000 CZK.
Will we make it together?
JOIN US FOR A SOCIAL RIDE
Last year we established a new tradition and organized cca 40km Social Ride, where Riders - but also their friends or racz fans - can test their bike and legs, meet with other Riders in easy pace and discover some other nice places of mostwestern part of Czechia.
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We start tommorow, on Wednesday 8th July, at 2pm, from Chodovar brewery. We plan a route to Marianské Lázně, with stop for an ice cream nearby iconic "Singing fountain", and for a beer in local pub Pod tribunou.
You are all warmly invited!
POZVÁNKA NA START RACZ26
Po čtyřech ročnících víceméně "na tajňáka" bude mít letošní edice RACZ konečně slavnostní start trochu na úrovni - z krásného náměstí Svobody v Plané, za podpory paní starostky a za asistence městské policie.
Nečekejte ...nafukovací bránu ani kovové ploty. Nemáme ani DJe. Ale jsme přesvědčeni že start 1100km poutě, přes hory a doly až na Velkou Javořinu, bude pro všechny zúčastněné silným zážitkem.
Zveme tímto na start také všechny občany Plané, rodinné příslušníky závodníky a všechny srdcaře z komunity okolo Bikepackingu a UB Cupu.
Vyrážíme ve čtvrtek v 8:00, možná lehce po 😉
RACZ26 RESTPOINTS
RestPoints became a crucial part of our event´s organization.
They serve as a caravanserai in a desert, where pilgrims had a chance to take a rest, get some food, and in our case also meet with a Team and other Riders.
For RACZ26 we arranged them in these ...superb places:
190. km - hostinec U Michala in Prášily
560. km - Holenský Dvůr
810. km - Dalešice brewery
All of them have awesome atmosphere and we are sure, that our Riders will enjoy their time here. Mainly Dalešice brewery is incredibly picturesque.
We would like to invite also RACZ fans And whole community around UB Cup to come here during the Race, to taste its vibe And meet friends.
We visited RP2 And RP3 on Thursday and filled it Will some food a finisher merch 🏅