On The Pegs July 2019 - Volume 4 - Issue 7 | Page 70

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it eighteen years ago when I used to be an enduro rider. Then two years later it
became official, and now we have over a thousand enduro riders coming every
year just from Costa Rica. This event takes place now in July, on July 5th and. 6th.
This year the Jurassic Trial Organization helped them organize a bit. We’re bring-
ing Alfred Gomez from Spain with Husky. So he’s coming to do some clinics and
all that. But my point is that this enduro has spectacular zones in the center of the
jungle in Nandayure province. This is very important for you to know: the Nicoya
peninsula is considered the largest blue zone in the world [A Blue Zone is an area
with longer than normal life expectancies]. So that’s where this enduro takes
place. The inter-zones we have chosen are the same routes as this enduro, but the
hardest. So the hardest routes for this enduro are the inter-zones of the Jurassic.
So the Jurassic is not something that you say, “Oh, well, I’m going to have some
fun.” No, no, no. If you finish, you are ready to go to a Scottish, and finish the first
three days.
Tell me about the name Jurassic?
The Jurassic is because Costa Rica, I don’t know if you’ve seen the Jurassic Park
movies? Every time in all different movies they’ve done, you will see that a certain