With three months to go until the Gore-Tex Transalpine Run gets under way, timing and heart rate monitor specialist Suunto has started the countdown as the timing partner of the endurance running event, which takes place from 3-10 September.
Taking place over 8 days, the team running event involves 8 stages over the Alps – encompassing 9 stage towns and 4 countries. The event involves 15,226 metres of climbing across a horizontal distance of 262.2K!
At Suunto’s online sports community movescount.com, the company has founded an extra training group dedicated to the ‘skyrunning’ event. The site enables athletes to exchange training tips. Reigning Gore-Tex Transalpine Run winner Stephan Tassani is also online to chat with Movescount members.
In addition, a training session has been made available by Germany’s Salomon Trail Running Team. A further attraction to race participants and members of the Transalpine Run group at Movecount is a competition to win a trip to the Enduro Challenge in San Francisco.
