Adventure Race Croatia 2023 | Race information

ADVENTURE RACE CROATIA 2023

- from the river to the sea -

LOCATION & DATE

Croatia, Gorski Kotar & Istria 
14 – 20 May 2023

THE RACE

DISCIPLINES: Run/hike, MTB, paddling, ropes, navigation
DISTANCE: 500 km
CATEGORIES: ARWS Mixed Teams 4
TEAM LIMIT: 30 teams
WINNING TIME: around 75 hours
COURSE OPEN: 102 hours

LOGISTICS

Unsupported
Kayaks and rafts provided
MANDATORY EQUIPMENT: ARWS Standard list
RULES:  Standard ARWS rules

PRIZES

1st Place – Free entry to ARWC 2024
1st Place – Free entry to ARC 2024
2nd Place – Free entry to ARC 2024
3rd Place – 50 % entry to ARC 2024

Every edition of Adventure Race Croatia explores a new part of our beautiful country. Team of 4 (with one person being of opposite sex) will try to navigate thier way from control point to control point in a number of disciplines. Disciplines include: mountain biking, trekking, kayaking and orienteering.
Adventure Race Croatia is somewhat different from most of the races in ARWS. Not to say that there is anything wrong with other races but we prefer to have shorter stages and more of them. ARC will typically have between 14 -17 stages and hike stages will rarely be over 40 km, bike stages over 100 km and kayak stages over 40 km.
A lot of stages means a lot of transitions so you can think of transitions as a separate discipline because you can loose a lot of time in them if you are not organized, prepared and efficient. So don’t forget to train transitions too.

SCHEDULE

SATURDAY, 13. 5. 2023.

• Transfer from Pula Airport 14:00
• Registration 14:00 - 22:00
• Tracker instructions 14:00 - 22:00
• TA boxes distribution 14:00 - 22:00
• Photoshoot in race bibs 14:00 - 22:00
• Race equipment check-up 14:00 - 22:00
• Dinner 19:00

SUNDAY, 14. 5. 2023.

• Registration 9:00 - 11:00
• TA boxes distribution 9:00 - 11:00
• Tracker instructions 9:00 - 11:00
• Photoshoot in race bibs 9:00 - 11:00
• Race equipment check-up 9:00 - 11:00
• Race briefing & maps 11:30 - 14:30
• Dinner 18:00
• Drop off – paddle bags 16:00 - 21:00
• Drop off – gear boxes 16:00 - 21:00
• Drop off – bike boxes 16:00 - 21:00

MONDAY, 15. 5. 2023.

• Transfer to start location 4:00
• Race start 8:00

TUE - THU, 16. - 18. 5. 2023.

• Race days
• THURSDAY - Finish for the fastest teams

FRIDAY, 19. 5. 2023.

• Race finish – 104 hours from start
• Dinner
• Award ceremony

SAT - SUN, 20. - 21. 5. 2023.

• Transfer to Pula Airport

RANKING

We will introduce a new ranking system for ARC 2024.
Some check points will be  Mandatory Check Points (CP) and some will be Optional Check Points (OCP).
Mandatory CP’s are obviously mandatory and teams will need to collect all of them in order to be ranked. Optional CP’s will have time value that will be added to the total race time for teams that do not collect them.
Once a team misses their first Optional CP’s it immediately goes from Full Course team to a Short Course team.
The teams from the Short course cannot be ranked higher than teams from the Full Course.

The winner is the team with all check points (mandatory and optional) collected in the fastest time.
If none of the teams collects all the CP’s (mandatory and optional) the winner is the team that has collected all the Mandatory CP’s in the fastest time (with the added time for every OCP they missed).