12° Giro Lago di Resia 2011

Graun/Curon (Italy), Saturday 30 July 2011

Over 2200 runners completed last year's summer evening run around the Reschensee, an artificial lake at 1500 metres above sea level, surrounded by snow-capped mountains.

The lake sits in the far north of Italy, on the borders with Austria and Switzerland. Most people in the region speak German as a first language.

The route of the Reschenseelauf is 15.3 kilometres long, undulating, mostly on asphalt, and very scenic. It runs all the way along the lakefront!

The start and finish is in Graun (Italian: Curon), near the 14th-century church tower that rises spookily out of the lake. The church and 163 homes were submerged when the lake was created in 1950.

In order to avoid overcrowding of the course, which is quite narrow in parts, runners will be started in four groups, in intervals of six minutes.

In 2010, the winners were Peter Lanziner (49:35) and Maja Gautschi (59:24).

Country: Italy

Venue (Map): Graun / Curon (Bolzano 102km, Innsbruck 122km, Verona 247km, Ljubljana 450km)

Date: 30 July 2011 (Saturday)

Distance: 15.3km (run and nordic walking)

Start time: 17.00/17:06/17:12/17:18 (runners); 17:28 (nordic walkers)

Start and finish: Graun/Curon, near the church tower

Entries: online (until 24 July 2011); late entries on the day (until 16.00hrs) if entry limit of 3000 runners has not been reached; entrants may have to provide a medical certificate at registration

Entry fees: 25/30/40 euros (until 1 June/until 24 July/until 30 July 2011)

Race centre: at the start (30 July 2011, 11.00-16.00)

You get: goodie bag, timing chip rental; massage at the finish; prize raffle

Prizes: product prizes to the first 10 M/F and to the first 5 in each category

Showers and changing facilities: yes

Award ceremony: 20.30

Number of finishers 2010: 2218 runners, 149 walkers, 17 handcyclists, 274 children

Event website (in German and Italian): Reschenseelauf

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