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Croatia: 4 Islands MTB Race - Stage 3: Cres

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.

We started our island hoping early in the morning. First we took the ferry from island Rab to island Krk, where we took our car and boarded the ferry to island Cres. "Shepherd's Paradise" was very challenging. Windy and rainy weather along with the cold forced TuNa team to stop racing at feed zone 1. Team strategy was to make a longer rest, before tomorrow's final stage, that we wanted to finish.

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

Route Reveal 2019 Mitas 4 Islands Stage 3

 

Time to board the first ferry at 6 a.m.

Waiting for the second ferry on island Krk

No time for make up before stage 3

Straight from the ferry to steep track

Finally a straight section above the port

Tuši and Nada = TuNa

Flowers everywhere

 

Racing between olive trees

Black mamba taking a break

Nada was chasing the Italians

Close to our home

TuNa's Stage 3 Ride - Garmin Connect

Dinner time. Some delicious things were already waiting in the fridge when we arrived. Delicious salad, wine and rakia.

Stage 3 highlights

GeoCache found:
- Valbiska - Sidro / Anker, GCVR9F, that received a visit by trackable items "Siebasiach's Figure Eight Geocoin", TB735HE, "Bruno",  TB61JZ4, "Julia ud Zweeenes 100000 Caches", TB35GHN, "Sanban s1", TB42DJW and "Hippopo Théo", TB5HH08