Adventure Race
Adventure racing is a sport of both mental and physical greatness. It is challenging
yourself beyond limits in your own mind. Adventure racing takes training, specialized
gear, and certain skill knowledge. This adventure racing multimedia website is
a collection of articles written by adventure racers for others to learn from.
Adventure racing is a great sport to get into if you really love multiple outdoor
sports such as mountain biking, hiking, paddling either canoe or kayak, rappelling
and orienteering. You can have access to all our training articles about foot
care, mountain biking, gear, climbing skills, hydration and a collection of things
you should think about before your first adventure race.
Adventure
Racing can be one of the toughest and most personally challenging sport there
is. Here are some thoughts on the meaning of adventure racing:
What
I have taken from adventure racing is who I am. Women get a sense of their selves
from doing an adventure race--An emotional summit. Find that self-love. Finding
that appreciation for who I am and what I can offer to other people. ~Jenny
Hadfield
Adventure race takes your life to a whole other level. It's an
obsession. It gives you the confidence to achieve your goals. If you have finished
your goal of finishing such a tough task, going for 24 hours or two days in an
race for example, you feel like a lot of your other things you have to achieve
become a lot easier. You can obtain your goals easier. Everything seems easy compared
to an adventure race in a nutshell. ~Mike Meadows
Simply, it challenges
you mentally and physically. ~Joe Amato
One thing I bring back is that
anything is possible. Before I started adventure racing, I never thought I would
be able to come out and do the things I do: Race for 24 hours. Cover 90 miles.
So I take back that almost anything is possible. Next to meeting my wife and having
three beautiful children, adventure racing is probably the third most special
thing that I do. You just can't challenge yourself in this kind of environment
everyday. ~Tom Houston
Why do it? Some people say that we're "nuts."
I get that all the time. It has to do with pushing yourself--Just wanting to compete.
Today, I learned I could be miserable and still have that mental ability to push
through things and still accomplished what I wanted to do. ~Chad Smith
The
Teamwork aspect is what really drew me to the sport and what I still find attractive
about it. It's the biggest challenge in the sport because you never know from
team to team and race to race how your team dynamics will come into play except
that it affects your team wholly. 98% of your success or failure within a race
is dependent on your teamwork-whether it goes well or bad, How you deal with situations
that come up because in every race something that crops up. But that's also the
challenging fun part of the sport because if you do have really good teamwork
and it's really strong, you can be super competitive and do really well. ~Teri
Smith
The authors of this site are all adventure
race athletes of some sort. Sure we're may not all be the superstars of the sport,
but we are out there racing. There is so much new interest in the sport of adventure
racing and so many ways each of us can improve our racing, we felt the need for
a website devoted to sharing this gained knowledge. Enjoy the many features on
training programs, team-building skills, and race tips that will help get you
to the finish line.
Thanks for visiting our Adventure Racing
Training Website. Train Smart, Race Hard
Warning: Adventure racing and its multi-sport components is inherently dangerous
and may cause serious injury or death. You should not depend solely on information
gathered from this website for your personal safety. Your climbing, paddling,
biking, trekking safety depends on your own judgment based on competent instruction,
experience, and a realistic assessment of your abilities. Your use of the information
contained within this website indicates your assumption of the risk of death or
serious injury as a result of adventure racing risks and is a acknowledgment of
your own responsibility for your safety and for receiving proper instruction for
adventure race training.
