Story · Ride
Birkebeiner
84 km
Ride over the mountains with the prince's pack.
Ride 84 km. Carry 3.5 kg. Only the distance is checked.
- It stands on
- Iron Riders' day
What it takes
Before you go.
- Recommended first
- Iron Riders' day
- Weekly distance
- About 84 km of riding a week on average over 6 weeks
- Long ride
- 63 km, at least once in the last 6 weeks. Finishing Iron Riders' day counts
- Taper
- An easier week before the event week
The story
In 1206 two Birkebeiner warriors carried the infant prince Haakon on skis over the mountains to safety. Today riders go from Rena to Lillehammer with a 3.5 kg pack, in his memory. Source: Birkebeiner.
The ladder
- Fox's crossing/
- Thirty-miler/
- Mauna Loa 1859/
- Kailash kora/
- Chilkoot/
- Jouett's ride/
- Iron Riders' day/
- Birkebeiner