The Peneda-Gerês Trail Adventure race in Portugal is a wild route through river crossings, boulder fields and people’s gardens. When there is so much to discover, why do we follow trails and lose our sense of adventure?
If I were given 1,000 years to walk this earth, I still wouldn’t have discovered some of the places I visited this week at the Peneda-Gerês Trail Adventure race in northern Portugal.
The race was organised by Carlos Sa, a Portuguese ultra-runner and handsome chap. At times, it felt as though Carlos had got lost on a long training run – dropping a flag every 10 to 20 metres so that he could find his way back – and then we had the pleasure of following his wild route through some of the roughest terrain the mountains of the Peneda-Gerês National Park has to offer.
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