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What
is Adventure Racing?
Adventure racing is an ultra-endurance event that
requires coed teams to practice in many disciplines through a variety of
terrain: running, biking, paddling, climbing, swimming, and hiking through,
mountains, deserts, bogs, lakes, plains, and oceans. A race can last hours,
days, or even weeks. From start to finish you navigate the race course, not
knowing your course until the night, the day (and sometimes) during the race.
Once you start it is no stopping until the
finish. Adventure Races force you to be completely self-reliant. Your team is on
its own. You are expected to deal with whatever arises, without outside help. To
finish your team must stay together, physically and mentally, while the race
course fights back. Adventure Racing requires group skills in communication,
leadership and decision making.
Adventure racing tests your outdoor and problem
solving skills. Map and compass navigation is a necessity. Knowledge of the
natural world is required. Rappelling and rope work is common to find in almost
all races. When the unexpected occurs, you must make tough decisions under
stress and fatigue.
Adventure racing tests your ability to think, strategize and
anticipate while enduring extreme mental and physical exhaustion. Many teams
don’t even finish. This is why Adventure Racing is one of a very few sports
that when you finish you are considered a winner.
Complete a course from 25 to 500 miles on little
or no sleep, sometimes dehydration, total darkness, and unknown danger, as fast
as you can, and you've got yourself an exhilarating and challenging adventure
race. Adventure racing is an extreme sport. That's part of the appeal.
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