Helly Hansen – Prunesco & Nikwax
Long term supports and good friends of Team Helly Hansen – Prunesco, Nikwax have once again used an image to promote their products. In Aprils edtion of Mountain Biking UK the image of Mark and Nicola can be seen leaving the first transition in this years Wenger Patagonian Expedition Race on mountain bike. The advert can be seen here.
The team prepared their equipment including bike bags with the following Nikwax products: Tech Wash for the Jackets,trousers and dry suits. TX-Direct Wash In for Jackets, Trousers and Drysuits. Tx-Direct – Spray-On for the Bike Bags. Base Wash for Base Layers and leggings. The team also used SkitoStop on their base layers to aviod been bitten by any bugs in the area and used SkitoStop Sun Cream to prevent sun burn. All poduct details can be found on the Nikwax website.
7 Days to go….
With only 7 days to go until the team leave the UK and head to Patagonia, Nicola comments on the 2009 and 2010 event..Click Here to read.
First insight into the WPER 2010 course…
Back from a two-week scouting expedition to the wilds of Tierra del Fuego, Chile, Race Director Stjepan Pavicic, Ann Meidinger, and other members of the Wenger Patagonian Expedition Race team have completed the planning and layout for much of the 2010 course. This interview with Pavicic is a trip report and a sneak peek on some details of the upcoming race, which kicks off on February 9. Click Here for report
Nicola interviewed on Gearjunkie
Gearjunkie interview: looking back at the World Championships and forward to the Wenger Patagonian Expedition Race here!
MSN Video winning ARWC
Winning the World Champs video on MSN news, click here
A Fly on the wall…. the Support Crew View!
About a month ago a short fella with a big grin winged me an email on the off chance that I may support his team in the world champs in Portugal. It all sounded a nice idea, but with a busy schedule of events to manage and two little 7 month old thurlows these opportunities often get short shrift. However I put the idea to my wife Lisa who promptly replied with “If I’d been asked, I’d go” which was the seal of approval I needed to go. Read More
Warren’s account of winning the World Championships
Tom and I shared a hearty handshake when we met at Heathrow’s Terminal 1 as we’d not seen each other for a while. Despite the warmth of our embrace the sense of muted enthusiasm for the task ahead was palpable. Expedition racing had unfortunately become a results based enterprise with every mishap, non-finish, injury, and team mate debacle magnified by the pain of a million blistered footsteps. The emotional upheaval of leaving a young family behind was not getting any easier. Read More
Helly Hansen – Prunesco on UK TV
The Adventure Racing World Championships are due to be screened on Channel 4 in early 2010. Good way to brush off those winter blues!
Dream Team TV were out in force in Portugal. Chris, Eric and Patrick out in the sticks running faster than us, backwards and uphill with a camera as usual!
Helly Hansen Store Opens In Manchester 27 October 2009
Fiona, Howard and Bruce had a great time attending the launch of the Flagship Helly Hansen Store in the Manchester Arndale Centre. Not having been to the Manchester before we were hugely impressed at how showy and busy it was. The doormen were unmissable in bright orange Helly Hansen Survival Suits and the red carpet snaking in the door up to the Ice Bar was a give-away. Enjoying vodka and tonics with ice slivers (so much more interesting than normal ice cubes) we mingled with celebrities (footballers WAG’s no less), photographers and all our friends at Helly Hansen – Emma, Jax and David, Paul Magner – the man who organises the Helly Hansen Adventure Challenge Series, Daria from Hill and Knowlton, Kate from ADPR and Peter from HH’s head office in Norway was here especially for the launch and also looking at locations for more stores.
We chose a few more essential items that we couldn’t get through winter without and then teamed up to go on an orienteering course around the city. Should have been wearing HH shoes as the high heels slowed some of us down, however the vodka shots at check points helped and were a nice change to regular race gel shots! We arrived at the Champagne bar and drank some special HH cocktails, inspired by the baselayer range. The HH Cool was very refreshing and the HH Warm was going to cause sore heads in the morning!
It was great to meet the HH team in a social atmosphere and it was fabulous to see all the new HH products, from the lifestyle items through to the professional outdoor wear in the flesh! We think that the store will be hugely successful and we’ll be going back next year to see the summer kit! If you are in Manchster then it is definately worth a visit, as they have a mighty range of jackets and other items in store to keep you warm and dry over the winter. We will also keep you posted with news of the other stores as they happen and the new e-commerce store which will be launched in the spring. You can read more about Helly Hansen Manchester and see what is happening via their facebook page.
