Cycling

The cycling stage starts from “Lion Heart” base camp on Perla beach and goes along the coastal promenade in the city of Primorsko along the entire length of Iglika Street, turns right onto 3rd March Street, then at the roundabout takes a left on the road to Kiten and continues to the fork for the village of Pismenovo, where cyclists turn right for the village. Pismenovo marks the 11th km on an all-asphalt road of the route and the first support checkpoint providing water and food.

The route goes to the village of Vizitsa on a relatively flat road, hard at some places, soft and dusty at others, goes through the first steep descent along the track and reaches the water tap in the village of Vizitsa at the 27th km. From there, cyclists turn right on the asphalt road to the village of Zabernovo and follow it to the entrance of the village, which is the 36th km and offers a second checkpoint with water and food. A slight technical descent follows in a patterned shade with blind turns, sharp stones and deep tracks at places, leading to a collapsed bridge. The route goes around the bridge through a smoothed bypass on its left side, 50 meters before the bridge itself, then exits to the Veleka River and follows the road on the east side of the river to the Sboryana guest house – the third major check point enroute with a cut-off time of 3:30 from the start of the stage or 12:30 with a 7:00 o’clock am race start. This is the 52nd km of the track, which immediately before the bridge over the Veleka River in the Kachul area, a few meters after the Sboryana guest house, turns sharply to the left with an almost U-turn on a hill AND DOES NOT CROSS THE BRIDGE AND THE MAIN ASPHALT ROAD. The route takes the participants through fields, leads them into the forest and heads towards Yanchov bair and Stoyuv chukar areas. The road runs relatively parallel to the main road in the village of Gramatikovo – Malko Tarnovo, but without crossing the asphalt it continues in the direction of Brod and the chapel of St. Trinity. The route is forested and hilly. The entrance to the Brod area is along a steep and wide slope, followed by a steep but short climb immediately before the fourth check point on the route, chapel of St. Troitsa at approximately 75th km. After the penultimate point, cyclists follow a dirt road to the track leading to the village of Vizitsa, cross it with a right-left turn and take a slight uphill to the area of ​​Rusevo. They pass through several fields and begin a long descent to the Oreshka Reka to the Kara Ivana area. They cross the river bed, then cross a small field with an observation tower and enter a steep climb in the direction of the village of Fazanovo, where the last point of the route awaits them at approximately 84 km. This point has a cut-off time of 7:30 hours or 4:30 PM. The cycling stage continues without entering the village back to the Base Camp through the fields of Fazanovo, with a smooth descent to the apiary, the last climb to the transmission lines and after a short forest section steps onto the asphalt 5 km from Perla beach. From there, it leads the cyclists to Base Camp on the same road they started the stage on.

Checking time: 8 hours

Highest point: 380 m

Total Positive Displacement: 1750 m

Distance: 96 km

BASE CAMP – S. PISMENOVO – S. VIZITSA – S. ZABERNOVO – M. TRAKII CAMP – SBORYANA (M. KACHUL) – CHAPEL OF ST. TRINITY – S. FAZANOVO – BASE CAMP, PEARL BEACH

Track profile and GPS track.