As if the previous day wasn’t enough, the Caribbean weather opened its clouds and rain fell from the heavens all of last night and throughout the entire day.

Yet what for many might be terrible weather for some it means no more than a day at their hometown slopes with the cool water keeping them sane, or must we say insane?

Setting an amazing pace the compact leading group left the town of Turrialba towards the railroad tracks in the lowlands where one of the main highlights, besides riding on the tracks for over 50 kilometers were the railroad bridges over some of Costa Rica’s most ferocious rivers.

Special carts were created to transport some of the racers across the bridges, mainly those that were affected by vertigo.

The level of the rivers, high in volume roaring down from the many mountains forced the organization to detour the race to a new course which led racers nearly 20 kilometers on a parallel highway. Cars, buses and trucks were now also involved in the race, beeping as racers passed and taking pictures of the racers while they passed them along the way. An entire country participated on this event.

Flat tires, blown gear sets and broken rims were the seen all through this section.

At the end, Manuel Prado, a true conqueror and a humble man faithful to his roots shower the leg-power that brews on the mountains of Costa Rica.

Congratulations to Manuel Prado, Alex Grant, Deiber Esquivel, Louise Kobin, Adriana Rojas, Emma Smith and 219 racers from all over the world on the completion of this challenging event.

1 Deiber Esquivel 4:34:15  
2 Benjamin Sonntag 0:00:17  
3 Manuel Prado 0:02:46  
4 Alex Grant 0:02:47  
5 Carlos Abellan Ossenbach 0:04:53  
6 Roberto Heras 0:11:10  
7 Jeremiah Bishop 0:15:06  
8 Luis Diego Sibaja 0:17:44  
9 Bart Gillespie 0:17:45  
10 Marc Traiter 0:22:04  
11 Kris Janssens 0:29:30  
12 Juan Ignacio Mendez 0:31:53  
13 Alfredo Acosta Gonzalez 0:34:59  
14 Alban Figueroa 0:35:50  
15 Cory Wallace 0:37:56  
16 Simon Tremblay 0:40:20  
17 Esteban Pacheco Quiros 0:41:11  
18 Brayan Alders 0:45:45  
19 Eduard Hernandez Teixidor 0:58:38  
20 Samuel De La Sotta 1:01:19  
21 Oscar Marin Jimenez 1:06:55  
22 Daniel Garcia Matamoros 1:11:13  
23 Arnoldo Loaiza 1:14:52  
24 Sebastian Conejo 1:29:55  
Women
  Result
1 Louise Kobin 5:13:00  
2 Adriana Rojas 0:26:16  
Master A men
  Result
1 Benjamin Bostrom 4:35:59  
2 Ron Ellis 0:16:02  
3 Santos Corea 0:16:26  
4 Alexander Ramirez Vega 0:27:57  
5 Dax Jaikel 0:36:01  
6 Justin Pokrivka 0:49:19  
7 Allen Castro Alfaro 0:52:01  
8 Jose Santos Miranda 0:54:44  
9 Marco Antonio Valverde Lara 0:55:18  
10 Orion Orca Akerson 0:59:31  
11 Marc Seidel 0:59:33  
12 Carlo Mi Garcia D 0:59:36  
13 Miguel Navarro Moral 1:07:46  
14 Allan Arguedas Varela 1:09:30  
15 Corey Scobie 1:11:56  
16 Zlatko Piskulich 1:20:01  
17 Cory Smith 1:20:43  
18 Chris Wieczorek 1:21:28  
19 Von Edwards 1:23:09  
Master B men
  Result
1 Rune Christopher Hoydahl 4:49:07  
2 Heinz Zoerweg 0:03:19  
3 John Bullens 0:16:09  
4 Carlos Arias Alvarado 0:22:53  
5 Bruce Eric Young Nearing    
6 Fernando Salazar Chavaria    
7 Allan St Pierre 0:23:06  
8 Randall Vargas 0:37:13  
9 Dean Hill 0:44:27  
10 Shawn Ruda 0:46:26  
11 Alejandro Alvarado Castro 0:51:40  
12 Tiziano Gortan 0:52:04  
13 Per Martin Gundersen 0:56:20  
14 Carlos Cardemil Vergine 0:56:23  
15 Eduardo Del Collado 0:58:39  
16 Ron Castia Livermore 0:58:49  
17 Carlos Elizondo Vargas 1:01:08  
18 Juan Carlos Apilluelo Fernandez 1:07:32  
19 Tjeerd De Vries 1:11:23  
20 Tom De Haan 1:11:24  
21 Marcel Molendijk 1:11:25  
22 Carlos Carranza Morales 1:12:13  
23 Enrique Navas Pes 1:15:04  
Veteran men
  Result
1 Ole Kristian Silseth 5:38:15  
2 Don Sissons 0:18:26  
Men final general classification
  Result
1 Manuel Prado 18:09:28  
2 Alex Grant 0:22:24  
3 Deiber Esquivel 0:24:11  
4 Marc Traiter 0:27:02  
5 Jeremiah Bishop 0:34:54  
6 Benjamin Sonntag 0:57:26  
7 Roberto Heras 0:58:40  
8 Carlos Abellan Ossenbach 1:38:06  
9 Juan Ignacio Mendez 1:41:24  
10 Bart Gillespie 2:10:03  
11 Cory Wallace 2:12:58  
12 Alban Figueroa 2:38:13  
13 Alfredo Acosta Gonzalez 2:51:51  
14 Luis Diego Sibaja 2:52:18  
15 Kris Janssens 3:13:48  
16 Brayan Alders 4:28:08  
17 Esteban Pacheco Quiros 4:43:37  
18 Simon Tremblay 5:04:07  
19 Samuel De La Sotta 5:37:23  
20 Oscar Marin Jimenez 6:04:41  
21 Eduard Hernandez Teixidor 6:27:55  
22 Arnoldo Loaiza 7:01:06  
23 Daniel Garcia Matamoros 8:17:07  
24 Sebastian Conejo 9:35:16  
Women final general classification
  Result
1 Louise Kobin 22:21:58  
2 Adriana Rojas 0:21:23  
Master A men final general classification
  Result
1 Benjamin Bostrom 18:36:38  
2 Santos Corea 1:36:33  
3 Alexander Ramirez Vega 3:36:13  
4 Dax Jaikel 3:43:32  
5 Ron Ellis 3:48:46  
6 Allen Castro Alfaro 4:19:45  
7 Marc Seidel 5:21:35  
8 Corey Scobie 5:34:26  
9 Marco Antonio Valverde Lara 6:21:15  
10 Jose Santos Miranda 6:21:50  
11 Von Edwards 6:34:08  
12 Justin Pokrivka 6:34:21  
13 Zlatko Piskulich 6:46:21  
14 Carlo Mi Garcia D 7:00:21  
15 Miguel Navarro Moral 7:20:08  
16 Chris Wieczorek 7:28:30  
17 Orion Orca Akerson 7:29:42  
18 Allan Arguedas Varela 8:00:23  
19 Cory Smith 8:47:13  
Master B men final general classification
  Result
1 Heinz Zoerweg 18:43:19  
2 Rune Christopher Hoydahl 2:09:03  
3 John Bullens 2:58:27  
4 Allan St Pierre 3:15:34  
5 Carlos Arias Alvarado 3:40:45  
6 Bruce Eric Young Nearing 4:14:53  
7 Alejandro Alvarado Castro 4:28:33  
8 Fernando Salazar Chavaria 4:33:23  
9 Randall Vargas 4:42:04  
10 Juan Carlos Apilluelo Fernandez 5:48:39  
11 Shawn Ruda 6:01:09  
12 Dean Hill 6:07:09  
13 Tjeerd De Vries 6:26:20  
14 Tom De Haan    
15 Marcel Molendijk 6:26:22  
16 Per Martin Gundersen 6:33:07  
17 Carlos Cardemil Vergine 6:39:53  
18 Ron Castia Livermore 6:58:25  
19 Carlos Elizondo Vargas 6:58:39  
20 Tiziano Gortan 7:15:37  
21 Carlos Carranza Morales 7:19:42  
22 Eduardo Del Collado 8:25:24  
23 Enrique Navas Pes 8:54:58  
Veteran men final general classification
  Result
1 Ole Kristian Silseth 23:37:41  
2 Don Sissons 1:51:53