Travel Guide Concept

Adventure racing is one of the longest mounting sports in the world. It engages many disciplines such as biking, running/trekking, canoeing, orienteering and mystery events.

But what really makes this such a unique sport is that you compete as a team, not as an personality, and you do not have to be the best or fastest to be successful. These races test your will and patience and success is achieved by crossing the finish line.

In 1980, the Alpine Ironman was detained in New Zealand. Personality competitors ran, paddled and skied to a distant finish line. Later that year, the Alpine Ironman\'s originator, Robin Judkins launched the better-known Coast to Coast race, which also implicated all the elements of modern adventure racing, trail running, and mountain biking and paddling. Separately, a North American race, the Alaska Mountain Wilderness Classic debuted in 1982 and complicated six days of unsupported wilderness racing (carry all food and equipment, no roads, no support) over a 150 mile course. It continues today, changing courses every 3 years.

The vast majority of adventure races comprise trail running, mountain biking and (ideally) a paddling event. Navigation and rope work are also characteristic in all but the shortest races, but this is only the beginning. Part of the application of adventure racing is expecting the unexpected. Race directors pride themselves at challenging racers with unforeseen or unusual tasks.

Races habitually feature:
•Paddling: kayaks, canoes, out-riggers, rafts and tubing.
•Itinerant on wheel: Mountain Bikes, kick-scooters, in-line skates, roller skates.