Long course at night for the adventurous!

Night Adventure is the longest and the most demanding race distance of the event where the teams get to see urban Turku as well as quiet pristine forests and rural areas. Turku as a location offers new and interesting playground for multisport race in Finland. The Night Adventure has the most demanding course of the event in terms of length and terrain as well as with navigation. 3-member teams are required to have orienteering skills both on mountain bikes, running and paddling. The race offers high quality maps, action packed course and a midnight sun which you don't want to miss. 

A mountain bike or fat bike is recommended as a bike as the route runs on trails of varying levels of difficulty as well as tractor tracks, dirt roads and asphalt. Running sections offer varying terrain, while the paddling sections run in flat water. To spice up a bit, the course will have surprising elements such as rope and water activities. So be prepared for everything!

The start is due on 7th of June on Saturday evening at 18.00, so the teams get to experience the famous Finnish summer night when the sun doesn't set at all. You'll only need your head lamp for a short time during the darkest hours. The finish line awaits the fastest on Saturday morning, though the route is open until late Saturday afternoon. It takes about  10 hours for the fastest teams, but the route is open for 19 hours. The route is about 100 km in total, of which ca. 50 km of cycling, 20 km running and 25km kayaking. This race is an adventure race compressed into 10-19 hours as it runs through the night and have all the elements of a longer race. 

This race works perfectly as a try-out race for teams who are aiming for Adventure racing European series races or for the European Champs Endurance Quest held in Savonlinna, Finland in August 2025!

Climbing equipment

The organizer takes care of all the equipment for rope activities. Racers will only bring gloves suitable for rope activities. The best gloves are the ones with a leather palm. A bike helmet must be worn in all rope activities.

Paddling

The organizer provides one Star Duo double kayak, 2 paddles and 2 paddling vests for each team. In addition to this, the teams have to get themselves one single kayak, a paddle and a paddling vest, since all 3 team members are paddling together. The organizer will inform later where the competitors' own paddling equipment should be left before starting together. The single kayak can be of any type, taking into account the skills of the paddler, the paddling conditions and the speed of double kayak. The team can use their own paddles and paddling vests if they wish. Do not make any fixing adjustments to the kayaks which can damage the kayak. It is also possible to rent kayaks from the organizer. Contact the organizer if your team needs a rental kayak. 

GPS-tracking and results

Rules

ARWS-rules (Adventure racing world series) will be applied to Turku City Adventure. Click the link below for the rules. The key rules: 

• Checkpoints should be collected in chronological order unless otherwise stated in the route book 
• The ranking is decided as follows: A) The most checkpoints collected B) the fastest time. This means that those who have completed the entire course are always ahead of the teams that have missed one or more checkpoints. Teams that missed a CP earlier in the race stay behind in the results of the teams that missed a CP later in the race. 
• The team moves along the route together, the distance between team members may be max. 100m 
  
  

Additions and deviations to the rules announced by the competition organizer: 

• On land, Star Duo duo kayaks must be carried, pulling kayaks will result in a time penalty of 1 h
• General ARWS  equipment list will not be applied in Turku City Adventure. See the the equipment list above