For EDITORIAL USE only, please credit: Rick Tomlinson/Volvo Ocean Race. Crowds gather in the Galway race village for the arrival of the fleet at the finish of leg 7 The Volvo Ocean Race 2008-09 will be the 10th running of this ocean marathon. Starting from Alicante in Spain, on 4 October 2008, it will, for the first time, take in Cochin, India, Singapore and Qingdao, China before finishing in St Petersburg, Russia for the first time in the history of the race. Spanning some 37,000 nautical