Preview: LCC Vienna Polar Bear Race 2010 - 2nd Race

Vienna (Austria), Sunday 21 February 2010

For the eighth time, the athletics club LCC Wien offers a series of three running events over the winter. Each event incorporates a 7km race and a half marathon.

1st race: Sunday 17 January 2010

2nd race: Sunday 21 February 2010

3rd race: Sunday 21 March 2010

All races are held on a 7km course in the large Prater park in Austria's capital Vienna. The half marathon consists of three laps and an additional 97.5 metres.

The course, which is used in many running events organized by the LCC, is certified and very flat and fast. It includes one turning point in each lap as most of the route is on an out-and-back section of the 4km-long Prater Hauptallee.

In 2009, Hermann Peindl (1:15:16) and Ingrid Eichberger (1:22:42) won the second half marathon of the series.

Country: Austria

Venue (Map): Wien-Prater

Date: 21 February 2010 (Sunday)

Distance: 7km; 21.1km (certified by AIMS)

Start time: 10.00

Start and finish: Hauptallee in the Prater park, near Ernst-Happel-Stadion and Stadionbad

Entries: advance entries until 16 February 2010 online (payment by credit card) or in person in the race centre (Thursday 18 February and Friday 19 February from 16.00 to 21.00); late entries on the day from 8.00 to 9.30

Entry fees: 11.50 EUR (advance entries), 15 EUR (late entries on the day)

Deposit for the race number: 3 EUR 

Timing: ChampionChip - use your own chip or rent a chip for 3 EUR (25 EUR deposit) 

Race centre: LCC-Zentrum in the Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Sektor C/D, Meiereistraße 7, 1020 Wien

You get: prize raffle; medal and T-shirt to participants in all three events

Prizes: trophies

Showers, changing facilities, sauna: in the LCC-Zentrum

Presentation and prize raffle: 13.30 in the LCC-Zentrum

Number of finishers 2009: 288 (7km), 348 (21km)

Event website (in German): lcc-wien.at

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