Photography & words: Tiago Nunes
Welcome to Ponte de Lima! Once again one of the oldest villages from Portugal hosted an Enduro Race powered by Pé do Negro in cooperation with Visit Ponte de Lima, together they worked hard and put together a great blind race weekend. From the good gastronomy to breathtaking landscapes, this place has everything to be a place to visit and if you're a mountain bike rider you will pass out here. Growing in the mountain biking community and making is know path supported by the government you can roll down along Ponte de Lima Bike Park which made part of a segment in Gamble Film, chill with your mates at the pump track and rip some enduro trails built by Pé do Negro and other associations.
The mountains were ready to receive over 100 riders from Duo Category to E-Bikes, facing in two days of blind racing with a total of 50 km over 8 challenging stages with the last one coming down the mountains and crossing the medieval and historical streets of Ponte de Lima. In the end, Killian Callaghan was the fastest man during all weekend taking a solid first place in Portugal, while Áurea Agostinho dominated the Women category by over 5:53m, while the José Oliveira e João Gomes took a win as a Duo leaving the second ones behind only at 28 seconds.
Ride Hard. Drink Harder.This was the DUO Category spirit, some were in full race mode and some just cruisin along the trails.The wild horses of Ponte de Lima are more than accustomed to share their pasture.José Oliveira and João Gomes dominated during the weekend the Duo category.Final ResultsMen
1) Killian Callaghan - 24:52m
2) Nuno Sousa - 28:06m
3) Jose Ucha - 29:01m
Duo
1) José Oliveira / João Gomes - 25:56m
2) Guilherme Simões / André Rodrigues - 26:24m
3) Sauro Agostinho / Pedro Oliveira - 27:33m
Women
1) Aurea Agostinho - 33:13m
2) Leandra Gomes - 39:06m
3) Gabriela Vasconcelos - 43:10m
Rookie
1) Dan Hole - 27:57m
2) Tomás Chumbo - 33:33m
3) Henrique Marques - 37:40m
Master
1) Luís Ferreira - 28:32m
2) Carlos FIlipe Lopes - 28:48m
3) Miguel Cruz - 29:30m
Super Master
1) Ruben Amoedo - 28:28m
2) David Guerra - 28:53m
3) João Cordeiro - 29:06m
Veterans
1) Jose González - 31:54m
2) Amandio Pereira - 31:58m
3) Acácio Pires - 41:41m
E-Bike
1) Paulo Machado - 31:57m
2) André Fernandes - 34:33m
3) Vitor Pereira - 40:58m
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