Episode eight takes viewers to the historic town of Prachatice in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic where we meet one of the first families of XTERRA in Europe, the Pilousek’s, and two of the sport’s brightest stars – Morgane Riou and Arthur Forissier from France. #xterraplanet #xterraadventures
For over two decades Xterra has brought together some of the world’s fittest toughest and craftiest endurance athletes for a series of off-road triathlons races that combined open water swimming mountain biking and trail runners and demands skill and tenacity guile and grit more than a sport Xterra is a lifestyle requiring total
Commitment from the bold and ambitious warriors who want to test themselves against the elements the terrain the conditions and each other in some of the most spectacular natural settings in all of athletics in this the 24 season of Xterra racing the sports appeal continues to grow and as more and more professional athletes
Are drawn to its unique challenges the stakes are higher than the victories harder to come by but it’s more than just elite triathletes who live in Breivik’s Tara for the thousands of age group competitors training can become a personal mission in reaching an Xterra finish line represents a major life accomplishment
This series brings you the stories the motivations the frustrations and the triumphs of the 2019 Xterra world tour for episode 8 we head to the Czech Republic in the Bohemia region in the southwestern part of the country site of the 2019 Xterra European Championship especially South Bohemia it’s perfect
Because it’s quiet place with lot of nature we are near the National Park there’s no big towns near here no big roads and it’s quiet place with beautiful nature but also with profit it’s a town race director McHale pollution was born in profit Ichi the Renaissance era city
That serves as home base for this year’s race placet grew up playing ice hockey but was introduced to Xterra as a teenager through his father michael senior who placed 18th at the World Championships in Maui and then brought the sport to the Czech Republic organizing the first-ever Xterra
European Championship in 2004 I just remember it was big race and big afterparty I was 15 years old but I remember that huge after-party with fireworks rock bands and this is what really influenced me from my approach to organizing because I think Xterra shouldn’t be only rice should be big festival with music
And some good beer root beer and I really enjoyed when up the race if it came to the party and know more about each other and this is what Xterra is all about 15 years after that race an epic party the oldest Xterra race in Europe once again hosts the continental
Championship this time with Mikael jr. at the helm the organizing of races is very special for me it’s an important part of my life and for my father is the same and we are same in so many ways and this is one of it you know we need to organize something
When it comes to Xterra the pulao six love to organize and evangelize recommending the sport to any casual athletes they meet I will ask him if he has a swimming swimming goggles we have a mountain bike and running shoes at home and everybody said yes I have so why don’t you try Xterra I think this is extra anyone can do it but you need to do it once and you
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Talented professional field for the 2019 European Championship in his course to the sahaba National Forest favored a specific kind of athlete we also change for this year the run course because it’s longer it’s ten and half K long and we add more steep up hills for it
So I think it will also see the lightweight runners like Bradley wise or the chain guy called Carol Lucien the course was also tailor-made for elite woman morgen Roo The wrong part is my specialties we’re having stronger because I began with a run when I was ten years old so yeah it’s a lot of training to be good at running and also watching some technical parts because an Xterra you have to be good at the hill and the Sun but I’m
Better and also here you see it’s already this fitness path which makes me better than this some horse a girl better than some other girls is a modest way of putting it Rio has dominated her competition this season winning Xterra races in Italy Belgium and France in claiming her first
Career European titles at the ETU cross triathlon and cross two Athlon championships it’s a very special season for me because from the end of May and when you for the way that I took part so yeah it’s quite surprising for me because at the beginning of the year I had my
Curved bone broken so I thought that it will be very difficult for me as a student Forced to rest early in the year so she could heal Ryu didn’t round in a forum until mid-may but since then she has been unstoppable charging to victory after impressive victory on the strength of her running I think as a an athlet my best attribute success and fitness frame or something
I’ve acted in mother I never give give up I think my determination is a thing which helps me to do this good performance in the world but also in sports reowww who has a PhD in neuroscience works full-time as an engineer for the French military so she has to work out
Early in the morning during lunch breaks and in the evenings Between the sports and world I don’t have a lot of free time more but I tried to get you to relax and when I came to go to the restaurant with my boyfriend Lamar has a movie but it’s not so break-ins we take advantage of the travel with Xterra we take some holidays
In very good place with my boyfriend little doing well he liked to travel to discover a new country new country a new places I trained with my boyfriend but I also travel with him for the competition and yeah it’s really good to have him under AC because yes the difficulties are less important when we are two and in fact he helped me a lot on the training because intently
Tell me how to do which way to take and it’s very important to have him with me before the race we are at the mercy of Mother Nature but the kuleana the responsibility of a farmer is to provide food for the community no matter the challenges this segment is brought to
You by Maui Jim sunglasses Race morning August 3rd and 500 competitors prepared for the two lap 1500 meter swim among the elites another French athlete who like rue was enjoying a stellar summer our tour for ECA came into the European Championship on a three race winning streak having won the ITU cross try
World Championship in April Xterra Italy in May Xterra Switzerland in June and Xterra France in July when in a grilling finish he outdueled his countrymen are poor zeliha in the final kilometers of the run to take the narrow victory So for me the the best victory was in Francis several weeks ago because it was my first Xterra it’s in my city it’s in my country so yeah I had friends on the when to support me so yeah it was really crazy and the butter with the other
Austria Australia was crazy it was so close to me that was really really good [Applause] There’s been a lot of good results for Parisi aid since he made the switch from mountain biking to triathlon at age 17 How to explain my my performance I think I trained really smarts with always the same coach so I do the same not the same training but I train in the same objectives same goal since several years maybe seven or eight so I have real
Logic training and all I do is go to the same direction and I think it it’s really fits to me I love it I take a lot of pleasure when training when racing and I think that that can explain kind of my performance but ECA came into the
Czech Republic knowing he had his work cut out for him it’s a European Championship so there is a strong profile I think many guys can be very strong the the first guy for me to be carefu DS of Josiah because he’s very strong it’s a strong right now
You never give up so really hard to beat In the pro men’s race Matteo pojat know of Italy took the early lead he was followed out of the water 30 seconds later by Francis Maxime Sanae and Australian Van Alen a large group that included South Africa’s Bradley vice Spain’s Rueben Rose Appa local favorite Luca Khokar and Frances art or
Serie came close behind our tour for ECA had a rough swim in came in the transition one more than a minute behind that big car at the first transition I saw some very strong athletes maybe the will to take with Ruben with Levi’s with Luca coca and my P because
After four chains and we very strong and we City a may have been relieved to find himself clear of his countrymen police eh but he had plenty to worry about in the form of three-time Xterra world champion Mugen was Appa the 34 year old Spaniard took charge and by midway through the mountain bike he
Was riding alone with a 35 second lead over vice JTA and Sanae were working together another minute back and foot ECA wit struggled on the swim was charged and hard to catch up when we founded Paul Mitchell nearly 40 years ago people would ask John Paul why do
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Beauty we are able to live among Xterra adventures is presented by the Hawaiian Islands visit go Hawaii calm Hawaii’s official tourism site Xterra racing an apparel for your active lifestyle visit Xterra planet.com in the women’s Pro Race the UK’s Nicole Walters was fastest on the swim with her country
Woman of Jackie Allen 20 seconds back Frances Morgan Rou exited the water in 15th place more than four minutes behind walkins close behind was local hero Alana Carrasco buck a two-time Winter Olympian in cross-country skiing who had at age forty already scored two Xterra wins on the season both course cava and
Rio had a lot of time to make up on the screen I finished at 15 places I think and the first group was not so bad but the second I was on my own and I was called because if it was without waste suits so not too bad for part for me the
First transition is I think it was okay I didn’t lose so much time and I could begin the bike quite good and fast Ryu was riding well early on but crash 10 kilometers in conjuring memories of her broken collarbone from early in the season she regrouped and kept pushing with
Chorus cava right on her wheel meanwhile Walters the leader out of the swim was fading fast with Jacky Allen taking over the lead heading into the second transition in Ryu and cross kava the two fastest bikers of the day closing quickly at the front of the men’s race
Roos Appa the experienced Spaniard came into t2 with a minute and a half lead on vice of South Africa three minutes behind the leader was a trio of Frenchman Maxime Sanae our tour said ëi and our tour for eca who after a subpar swim had put on a phenomenal effort on
The bike to pull back into contention I was confident at presentation because even if I was a little bit far from the lead I know that I knew that the bike was quite long and had a lot of time to come back from to catch read and
Was confident at this moment but no one had the confidence apart towards idiot who came out of t2 90 seconds down and started running with abandon crying that’s amazing one lap into the run the flying Frenchman had closed to within 50 seconds of the leader kuzava and once he had the Spaniard in
His sights the race was over when I saw Ruben just in front of me I knew maybe I will be European champ because I take three minutes on Ruben and I am better in sprint better if he actually rate so yeah it’s lots of emotion because it’s for me my first big win
So lots lots emotion Syria had laid down a run split that was the fastest on the day by nearly three and a half minutes an incredible margin his second victory of the season was also the biggest win of his career when I cross the line it’s something like
Pleasure something like I say okay you work so hard during maybe five years and now it’s your turn to be on the top it’s I’m very glad and proud of me kuzava finished well for second and vice held on for third good ECA paid for his
Efforts on the bike and was forced to settle for fourth a little more than a minute out of podium position as much as her countrymen are thought steady a morgan Rio is known for her running ability a participant in the 2005 World Cross Country Championships she is a different class of runner than
Her competitors and it seems no deficit after the swim or the bike is too large for her to make up on the run and this day was no different Rio turned closer to Jacky Allen with each stride and the result felt like an inevitability
And to run I had a very very good legs I felt that at the beginning in the long clean in the world and I tried to push around and the first look and I managed to to go to the first girl at the beginning of the second so then I just
Tried to manage this split and left Riemann young When she did adding a European Xterra title to what was already a sensational season so it’s the first time I win this European title in its era so it’s it’s ready it’s crazy I didn’t expect to win today because I knew that the modern field was was crazy and 25 girls I seen
With the best European girls on the spot so I’m very very happy and yeah this is the so now six win in a row for me so I hope it will continue an inspiring day for the elites for the age groupers for the sports-loving check spectators for
The race director and for the 2019 European Xterra champions Coming up in the next episode the 2019 Xterra world tour heads a few hours north to the Saxony region of Germany where a chubby kid turned world-class swimmer seeks his first elite Xterra Tour victory while a talented mother of one looks to extend her dominance in the
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