• Nearly 1000 participants at the first edition.
    24 July 2015
    BERGAMO - July 18 2015 Two weeks to the start of the Reda Rewoolution Orobie Ultra-Trail® and lots of anticipation for the two scheduled competitions, set at first in Val Seriana (Clusone, Friday
    July 31 at 2pm), the following morning in Val Brembana ( Carona, Saturday August 1 at 8:00am) and then in the upper part of the province including Bergamo’s Upper Town.
    It’s an event that since its very first edition presents itself decidedly and with excellence even at an international level: as a matter of facts the parti
    cipants are nearly 1000; 649 men and 71 women at GTO’s starting line and 223 men and 28 women for OUT. 27 nations represented including names of certain prestige.
    The Big ones in the starting list for the 140km race: Marco Gazzola (CH), Pablo Criado (ES), Xiao Ling Wang (RC) and the Italian Marco Zanchi, Gianluca Galeati, Christian Insam, Claudio Chiarini and Stefano Ruzza. Among the women: Nerea Martinez (ES), Ana Bustamante Velez (ES) and the Italian Cinzia Bertasa, Graziana Pe and Lisa Borzani.
    Among its favorites, the 70km Gran Trail Orobie presents Sondre Amdahl (NOR), Jordi “Toti” Bes (ES), Jan Zemanik (CZ), Pablo Barnes (ARG) and Filippo Cannetta. Among the women Cristina Bes (ES) and the strong skyracer and crosscountry skier from Bergamo Carolina Tiraboschi and SimonettaCastelli.
    We’d like to remind all athletes that the assignment of the goody bags will take place on Thursday (from 9:00am to 11:00pm for both races) and Friday (from 5:00am to 7:00am for OUT and from 11:00am to 11:00pm for GTO) in the Pala Norda sport center in Piazzale Enrico Tiraboschi, Bergamo. This location won’t only be the headquarters of the race office but also the meeting point for the busses which will then take the athletes to the respective starting points.
    The bibs will be assigned, as written on the regulation, upon the submission of the filled in form that will be sent to you in the next days via email and all participants must show an ID card, the mandatory equipment and the medical checkup: the latter will be requested only to those who have a red dot neartheir name in the starting list.
    For all the athletes we then remind the main briefing moments, which will take place in both cases at PALANORDA:
    OUT Briefing
    , Friday July 31st at 9:00am
    GTO Briefing
    , Friday July 31st at 7:30pm
    In the later part of the afternoon and during the evening of Thursday, for the athletes, but also for all those who will go along with them and the entire town, there will be a double appointment at
    Domus Bergamo in Piazza Dante, Bergamo. At 6:30pm there will be the
    Opening Press Conference of the Reda Rewoolution Orobie Ultra-Trail® with the bib assignment to the competing athletes followed at
    9:00pm by the open access conference named “Mental preparation for endurance sports” presented by Pietro Trabucchi, well known psychologist and writer for his studies regarding resilience.
    Between the two appointments, we’d like to inform you that there will also be the chance to taste, in the designated area of the Domus Bergamo, a genuine and local sandwich with cheese, salame and a homebrewed beer at the agreed price of 10 euros. In the previous email we had also mentioned that we would give a list of the mountain cabins involved in the race: here is the list of their names following the progression order of the race, showing the approximate time of when the athletes will pass
    by. 
    Rif. Rino Olmo: Friday 3.30pm - Friday 6.30pm
    Chalet dell’Aquila: Friday 4.30pm - Friday 7.30pm
    Rif. Antonio Curò: Friday- 7.00pm - Saturday 00.00
    Rif. Baroni al Brunone: Friday 10.00pm - Saturday 9.00am
    Rif. F.lli Calvi: Saturday 0.30am - Saturday 12.00pm
    Rif. Laghi Gemelli: Saturday 2.30am - Saturday 4.00pm
    Rif. Alpe Corte: Saturday 3.30am - Saturday 7.00pm 
    Rif. Capanna 2000: Saturday 5.00am - Saturday 10.00 pm
    Rif. Monte Poieto: Saturday 8.30am - Sunday 8.00am

    So we will catch up with you next week and we invite you to retrieve all the information you’re missing on the event’s official website www.orobieultratrail.com and to stay updated through theFacebook page.