Jungle Marathon 2012

Jungle Marathon 2011

Juli Goldstein is running for raising funds for Stryder Cancer Foundation
and awareness about marine mammal's current situation world wide.

 

Becky Wood  volunteering just like our mate below

Jungle Marathon 2011

Tom and Jacob

Tom from Australia will run JM 2011 and is found himself already at Alter do chao acclimatising. Same to Jacob. Becky Wood this time will be in the medical team. The medical team and several other runners will get to here tonight. The paradise will soon turn into hell!

MARATONA DA SELVA 2009

A expectativa de todos envolvidos na Maratona da Selva é grande para a edição de 2009. Este ano teremos a participação de competidores dos mais variados países e será a mais internacional das cinco edições.
Cerca de 100 atletas vindos da Austrália, Nova Zelândia, Estados Unidos, Canadá, México, China, Guiana Francesa, África do Sul, Egito, Estônia, Inglaterra, Escócia, Pais de Gales, Irlanda do Norte, Irlanda, Itália, Portugal, França, Dinamarca, Noruega, Suécia, Alemanha, e claro do Brasil estarão na linha de largada e sonham cruzar a linha de chegada desta vez em Santarém.
A competição poderá ser acompanhada como de costume pelos mais variados meios de comunicação. Blogs, web sites, revistas, jornais e estações de rádio e televisão no Brasil e no exterior.

Um dos últimos a se inscrever foi Robert Bennett dos Estados Unidos que participou no ano passado, mas terminou sendo evacuado no final da terceira etapa para a UTI em Santarém onde passou a maior parte da corrida acompanhando pela televisão. Robert está determinado a chegar a Santarém correndo ao invés de ambulancha!
A Maratona da Selva 2009 acontecerá de 8 a 17 de Outubro.
Para informações contactar Gil Serique Gil@junglemarathon.com visite o site oficial da corrida e o blog www.junglemarathon.blogspot.com

TV Tapajos/Jungle Marathon

TV Tapajos team, I mean Cassielen, was there and certainly will be this year as well. See you there then.

Marathon Lads

JM 2008

Widi 2007 winner

Don't ever get tired of JM.

2008 VERSION WILL BE AWESOME!!!!

WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE!!!!!!!!!

JM2008

Competitors from around the globe will once again battle it out on tracks and trails through the Amazon Jungle in Brazil. In 2008, competitors will have the choice of two distances: 200km or 100km, which will be completed in stages throughout the week. The longer distance will include six stages and the shorter will include four. Those of you choosing the 100km distance will continue to experience the jungle environment until the finish of the 200km race and will then attend the prize giving and race wrap party.

Competitors in all distances are required to be self-sufficient from their arrival in Brazil until the finish lunch at the end of the 200km stage. Runners are required to carry their foods and provisions during the race and we will provide them with bottled water at designated checkpoints.

The Jungle Marathon will take place in the Tapajos National Forest, a 600 thousand hectares of preotected Rainforest in Santarem Brazil, in October 2008. Due to the isolated location and extreme conditions of this race, places are limited. Be a part of this incredible adventure.

Tapajos National Forest

FLONA TAPAJOS

The Home of Jungle Marathon
www.junglemarathon.com

Jungle Marathon 2008

I was just visited by Shirley Thompson, the idealiser of Jungle Marathon.
I have great admiration for her as a woman of attitude and as a transparent friend.

The jungle Marathon is an amazing event in the heart of Brazilian Amazon in which local communities are truly involved and benefited and participants from all over the world have a chance to learn about the Tapajos National Forest and its people plus run the wildest marathon in the world.
I was the photographer and interpreter from last year's version. I am happy to know that some of the runners are returning again, an evidence that the competition is quite terrific, and the 2008 version will ceratainly be much much better. I am sure everyone will be much more fitted.

Jungle Marathon 2008

The Jungle Marathon is a stage race that takes place in annually in the Floresta National de Tapajos, in the Amazon Jungle in Brazil. Approximately 75 competitors take part in the event each year, from around the world. There are two options of distances for the competitors to take part in, either 200kms over 6 stages, or 100kms over 4 stages... the highlight of the longer distance is 'the long stage', which is 80kms and has a time limit of 35 hours!

The runners will be self sufficient, carrying all food and provisions for the duration of the race. Bottled water will be supplied at designated checkpoints. Nights will be spent sleeping in hammocks along the shores of the Tapajos river. All competitors will be required to provide their own hammocks (which should include a mosquito net and rain fly sheet).

The course route will follow pre-existing paths, tracks and trails through primary jungle. There will be natural obstacles to pass including streams and shallow rivers. The route will be marked using coloured tape, paint markings and the use of landmarks. Each competitor will be supplied with a route book, and should be able to navigate. There will be a night stage, which should be illuminated. Distances for each stage range between 13 and 80 kilometres.