6/10/2023 0 Comments Seven race gear![]() ![]() It will begin with 16.6 mile road run on the Animas River Trail. The race will start and finish at Santa Rita Park. Hughes, however, said individuals and smaller teams will need support to help them with their gear. Ultra athletes, however, can compete as ultra heptathletes or as ultra duos and ultra trios. 16, is designed for teams of two up to nine people, so people can rely on teammates for some help. Those activities, “are why people come here, and so many people (who live in Durango) do all of them.” “I thought, ‘this is the perfect race for Durango,’” Hughes said. “But I admit surprise that it hadn’t already been done here by someone else, years ago – until we started to try and do it.” I competed in a similar one in Vancouver,” Merkley said. ![]() Hughes is putting on the event with her brother, Dan Merkley, who cofounded the relay with Shawn Snow in the Heber Valley near Park City, Utah, in 2021. She competes in local races, and often plans multi-discipline sport outings with her family. A shorter, 68-mile sprint, however, is also available.Įrin Hughes, an ICU nurse at Mercy Hospital who has lived in Durango for 20 years, is the race director. The relay includes road running, trail running, mountain biking, road cycling, open-water swimming, paddle boarding and paddling either a kayak or a canoe.Įach leg will be a challenge by itself, and the grand total of the daylong competition will be 109 miles. (Courtesy of Valkyrie Multisport Relay)Ī new team relay is coming to Durango this spring, challenging athletes in seven different outdoor activities. The seven-sport relay is coming to Durango on Sept. Competitors race on their stand-up paddle boards in a previous edition of the Valkyrie Multisport Relay in Utah. ![]()
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