Extreme sport challengers return from Hawaii

Nov 09, 2006

Natarsha Jazepczyk from UOW's Personnel Services and third year Bachelor of Primary Education degree student Mark Feeney recently returned from Maui, Hawaii after competing in a gruelling extreme sport challenge.

The X-TERRA World Championships involved 16 representatives from Australia and consisted of a 1.5km ocean swim, a 30km mountain bike ride with more than a 1,000 metre vertical climb up the slopes of Maui's Haleakala volcano and 11km of trail run covering a dozen different surfaces from sand to lava rock.

Natarsha and Mark came in at 11th and 7th place respectively.

"I knocked 40 mintes off last year's time which I'm very happy about," said Natarsha.

The world championship was limited to 450 of the world's best X-TERRA athletes who had qualified at events around the world. It was televised for a one-hour feature in the United States and overseas.