avalancha team

Thanks to Suunto and Movescount, ten Red Bull X-Alps athletes are tracking their training with Suunto t6c heart rate monitors. Every session is logged onto a special group hosted by Suunto's online sports community www.movescount.com.

The ten athletes will record and upload all their data right up until the race start on July 17, 2011.

He's one of the best known figures to have emerged from the Red Bull X-Alps and in 2011 will be just one of two athletes to have participated in all five editions of the race. Romanian Toma Coconea won the hearts of millions of Red Bull X-Alps fans in 2007 when his exploits on foot earned him the nickname "Running Man".

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