Many
people have asked what the word gax stands for. So I'll write
it here.
During the 80:s Arcade Games made its entry to Sweden and that
was the coolest and most exciting thing to do as a kid, so that's
what me and my friends occasionally did. And me and my brother during
all trips abroad. Still, all I remember during a trip to Cyprus is
an Arcade Game called Ladybug - if one took a chair and hit
the game with it you could play for free, and we did, every hour we
could get away from the family. Otherwise, 1942 was my favourite.
If you were really good you could write your name with three letters
on the games High Score List. I always wrote zyx (because it
was unique and did not take very long time to manoeuvre with the joystick).
My kid brother wrote gax, a very cool name/word. When I was
looking for a name for the race I took the coolest word I knew and
at the same time I can salute my brother. The word does pretty much
not "exist", it is now "our" word.
It could have been an apronym for Great Adventure X-treme or
one could make up an backronym, but this is not the case.
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gax history
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| Year: |
Race: |
Distance: |
Number
of starters: |
Number
of finishers: |
| 2006 |
the
gax 100 miles |
160,9
km |
6 |
4
- 67 % |
| 2007 |
the
gax 100 (and 50) miles |
160,9
and 80,47 km |
25 |
19
- 76 % |
| 2008 |
the
gax 100 (and 50) miles |
160,9
and 80,47 km |
21 |
14
- 67 % |
| 2009 |
the
gax 100 (and 50) miles |
160,9
and 80,47 km |
41 |
31
- 76 % |
| 2010 |
the
gax training pass |
52,047
km |
14 |
11
- 79 % |
| 2010 |
the
gax trans scania
|
246 km |
31 |
12 - 39 %
|
| Sum: |
6 |
1183,057 km
|
138 |
91 - 66 % |
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| 2011 |
the
gax training pass |
50+
km |
? |
? |
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the gax Hall of Fame
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# of gax races
|
Name & country
|
Years of participation
|
| 6 |
Stefan Samuelsson (SE) |
2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2010
|
5
|
Stefan Olsson (SE)
|
2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 |
4
|
Jan Söderkvist (DE) |
2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 |
3
|
Christine Schröder (DE) |
2008, 2009, 2010 |
3
|
Christian Hottas (SE) |
2008, 2009, 2010 |
3
|
Carl Johan Robertsson (SE) |
2008, 2009, 2010 |
3
|
Björn Svensson (SE)
|
2009, 2010, 2010
|
| 3 |
Ross Nugent (UK/SE)
|
2007, 2009, 2010
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