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 Sportstrack is delighted to announce its Strategic Partnership with Ambition Events who organize some of the most exciting and challenging adventure races in the world. Sportstrack will provide real time GPS trail recording at a number of exciting forthcoming events starting with the UK Ultra Running Coast Challenge on 11-13 September 2008.
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Ambition Events www.ambitionevents.com who focus on providing the most challenging Ultra Marathons and Adventure Races in the world, have joined with Sportstrack to provide real time GPS tracking of participants across all their events. Ambition organize the RAW (Run Across the World) series of events which are set in the most harsh and demanding of locations all over the world, over routes so grueling and severe that every finisher can stand proud in the knowledge that it can be done. Each RAW challenge is over 100 miles of non stop, feet numbing, muscle aching endurance that will test the body to its ultimate limit. Forthcoming RAW events include RAW Britain, RAW Emirates, RAW Africa , RAW Scandinavia and RAW Arctic.
Ambition Events also organize the UK Ultra Running series of events which includes the Coast Challenge, Pennine Challenge, Thames Path Ultra, Tring 2 Town, and the Night Day Marathon in Stratford-upon-Avon. This is a unique series of ultra marathons which have been gaining popularity over the last few years, raced by individuals who seek to achieve higher goals, take on unique challenges and find new mountains to climb.
Stewart Gilmour of Sportstrack commented “These events are ideal to track live for the added interest of all participants, family friends, well-wishers or sponsors and surely if you were to accept a challenge like this then you would want to record your achievement. “
As well as tracking your progress in real time Sportstrack also stores all your data, providing you with a minute by minute, meter by meter record of your achievement to examine, enjoy and share at any time.
SportsTrack is delighted to be appointed an Official Partner and provide real time GPS tracking at the London Triathlon, London Duathlon and Run to the Beat.
IMG www.imgworld.com, specialists in mass participation events, has appointed Sportstrack UK as an official partner to provide real time GPS tracking of participants at the forthcoming London Triathlon, London Duathlon and Run to the Beat mass events. 13,000 participants at the London Triathlon will swim, cycle and run their way around the London course and SportsTrack UK will track a select group of participants on each day. Charity teams, celebrities and elete athletes will be tracked in real time with their location information projected onto street maps of London and displayed on a large plasma screen at the event. The information will also be available through the internet by clicking on the suitable links on SportsTrack’s website and IMG’s pages. The information will also be available on mobile phones via SportsTrack mobi application. SportsTrack UK is delighted to work along with IMG Mass Participation Sports who run the London Triathlon, Duathlon and Run to the Beat and understand the value of SportsTrack for participants and spectators. Ian Hulbert, managing director of SportsTrack UK said “We know that everyone wants to feel involved in Mass Events and SportsTrack is alone in the field in achieving that aim.” |
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New for 2008 – integrate your SportsTrack unit with your Polar heart rate monitor
SportsTrack can now be integrated with Polar Heart Rate monitors to allow your heart rate and your speed to be displayed on the unit’s screen and to be analysed in real time or later at your convenience.
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Sportstrack Freedom Challange event, from 16th June.
The Freedom Trail Click here for live tracking
> was launched as part of South Africa's "10 years of
Freedom" celebrations.
> is a mountain bike trail consisting of dirt roads, dirt tracks and cattle tracks designed for mountain bike touring but with technical variation
> currently runs 2300 kilometres from Pietermaritzburg (outside Durban) to Cape Town.
> can be ridden throughout the year (weather permitting) and in one go or in sections.
> is designed to be ridden unsupported. |
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