The Lensoise Fabienne Derain is ready for the Raid Amazones in Sri Lanka
By Florian Brassart
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Dozens and dozens of women will take over the leadership of the Sri Lanka next spring to participate in the Raid Amazons. Fabienne Derainnative Lens (Pas-de-Calais), is part of. She is going there from March 27 to April 6, 2022 with a friend.
Fabienne is 54 years old and still wants to take up challenges. “I go there to surpass myself, to discover a new culture,” she says. The Raid Amazones is also an opportunity to help associations, “we will spend our afternoons with them”.
A sporting and human adventure
The events will therefore take place in the morning, they are very varied: archery, trail running, canoeing, mountain biking, run & bike, treasure hunt… “It’s going to be very physical. There will be lots of young girls so I don’t think we can win. I don’t even know what we can win in the end, ”she laughs. “Our victory would be to finish all the trials. »
Fabienne, however, registered somewhat at random, “I got to know the Raid Amazones because the challenge was celebrating its 20th anniversary. I looked at what it was and I liked it. It was at this point that a person living in Marseille contacted her… “We were together in engineering school at the time, she saw that I was taking part and she suggested that we team up. »
Every month, the duo meet to train for the future events that await them in Sri Lanka. “You have to get your body used to performing these exercises. There, the climate will be different and we will have to get up early,” insists Fabienne.
The two women planned to stay put for a while after the Amazon Raid. “We plan to rest and visit a bit. I don’t know the country at all, I’m just starting to find out. It will be a total discovery, but it looks great. »
Note that eight other women from Pas-de-Calais will participate in this 2022 edition. We wish them good luck!
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