offroadfinnmark was an amazing combination of beautiful scenery, pure wilderness and extreme technical riding. The extreme aspect of the race gives you an incomparable opportunity to push yourself to the very brink. Riding 700km in so demanding terrain has an impact on your overall physical health, muscles, ligaments, mental endurance and social interaction skills. Lab tests shows the maximum oxygen intake and anaerobic threshold values shows dramatical improvement from the tests taken 2 days before the race to the tests taken 5 days after the race. Other riders also reported that their technical riding skills were improved by riding the intense and demanding track 15-20hrs straight.

-Tor Oskar Thomassen, 2008 test race participant