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Croatia: 4 Islands MTB Race - Stage 4: Lošinj

Mitas 4 Islands MTB stage race (https://4islands.hr/) is inviolable a unique stage race that offers participants to bike on 4 different islands within 5 consecutive days passing by distinctive environments and challenging trails of islands Krk, Rab, Cres and Lošinj. Total trails distance is up to 255 km and climbing up to 5.000 meters. Well, this year it was even better, since Nada and me joined the race.

Although simple on the paper, the last stage named "push your limits" still required full attention and a lot of strength, but since TuNa team had a good recovery timing, we managed to reach the finish line in designated time. When we crossed it, The Queen played a song "We Are the Champions" just for us, while David continued with a song "Heroes". We immediately started with our regeneration beer, while Tina sang TuNa is "Simply the Best". Cheers!

Previous days of our 4 Islands MTB Race: Arrival (14571), Prologue (14572), Stage 1 (14573), Stage 2 (14574), Stage 3 (14575)

Route Reveal 2019 Mitas 4 Islands Stage 4

 

Preparing for the last stage near the sea

 

And here we are, crossing the start line

 

Nada in action

 

Spectators were on our side

 

Easy section

Sea was always nearby

Black Mamba taking a break

"push your limits" is another name for the Stage 4

Half of the stage was quickly behind us

Rocky trail

The steepest part is behind us

 

Trail for testing the bike and the rider

No mistakes

Finally a stage without the rain

Team 362 passing the photo stage

 

Through Veli Lošinj

Elevators were not operating, so we had to take the stairs

 

Perfect day for cycling

Organizers really chose awesome and demanding trails

No, we are not on vacation

Last curves of the last stage

The crowd went crazy, when they saw us on the finishing straight

And TuNa team finished the stage on Lošinj

TuNa's Stage 4 Ride - Garmin Connect

 

 One for the album. Well, two.

Nada and Tuši - Finishers of 2019 4 Islands MTB race

 

Doping time

 

After dinner we decided to use our free drink coupons at the finishing party

Stage 4 highlights

GeoCaches found (all received a visit by trackable items "Siebasiach's Figure Eight Geocoin", TB735HE, "Julia ud Zweeenes 100000 Caches", TB35GHN, "Sanban s1", TB42DJW, "Bruno",  TB61JZ4 and "Hippopo Théo", TB5HH08):
- Kula, GC6KNTF
- Suncana Uvala, GC7XQ4A