RoanokeOutside.com partners with ‘Gear Junkie’ for outdoor Treasure Hunt
One-day-only Treasure Hunt event in a Roanoke wilderness park on July 11th
RoanokeOutside.com partners with ‘Gear Junkie’ for outdoor Treasure Hunt
Yuki Joy Brings the Ultimate Victory
Checkpoint Zero Signs on to Adventure Race Costa Rica
Adventure Racing National Championship Heads to Moab, Utah
Checkpoint Tracker Winner Will Compete in Abu Dhabi
Untamed New England – Day 1 – Wet feet and great locals
Having been raised in NY, but spent much of my adult working life in the south, I’ve not had a chance to do any adventure racing in the north east. When Eastern Mountain Sports approached me to join them at Untamed I jumped at the opportunity, not only to race in a new area of the country, [...]
Our sleep strategy in Costa Rica
I had some wee company on my Saturday bike ride this week. My daughter, Patsy, 2, was a little more relaxed that I was as we pedaled our Atlanta neighborhood route. I was sweating while she was sleeping. At one point I glanced back to see why she was so quiet. I saw her snoozing. [...]
Aug 16, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Eastern Mountain Sports / Checkpoint Zero has a new mascot
Every team needs a mascot, and for this year’s Untamed New England adventure race the mascot has been found. During a last minute training ride this Sunday, Jennifer Shultis and I came across this lonely fellow just looking for some adventure. He was one of a small tribe of castaway misfits at a roadside yard [...]
Aug 10, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Ultimate XC Day 3 – A new champion
After three days of racing, ImONPoint’s Jennifer Moos took home the womens title of Ultimate XC Full Solo Champion. Australian Lucy Eykamp was second. The mens award ceremony was long complete before I got to the line and I don’t think the results have been posted online yet. As I sit at home in my [...]
Jun 28, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Ultimate XC Day 3 – Plenty of climbing
Even though the first 70 km was not so bad, there was plenty of bad stuff to go. This shot is of one typical part of the 1+ hour climbs that took us from bottom to top.I’m sure the guys who finished several hours ahead of me rode the whole thing, but I was on [...]
Jun 28, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Ultimate XC Day 3 – 100km to finish it off
The last day of the Ultimate XC brought the most fear with it. We’d survived the previous two days of torture, and the finish line was only 100 km away. The day started on some brilliant single track on private property that burned up the first 25 km of the day. If I hadn’t have [...]
Jun 28, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Ultimate XC Day 2 – Making the move towards first
As I started the last 7 kilometer downhill I was caught, and promptly passed by Jen Shultis. She was on a mission to catch the female just ahead of her, which she was able to do. I think Jen finished 4th woman of the day, and first among the full solo women. She may have [...]
Ultimate XC Day 2 – Elevate me
Believe it or not, the run actually went through here. For several long sections of the course we were bushwhacking through areas just like this, no trail except what got trampled down. The course was very well marked with flagging tape the yellow arrows seen above. Over all it was a very scenic, but difficult [...]
Jun 26, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Ultimate XC Day 2 – The river run
Today’s 56k run quickly lead us to the river run section. It was a couple kilometers long and started by the racers plunging waist deep (on me) into a cold mountain stream. The stream got shallower and turned into the shallow rocky creek shown above. We were told we had to run up the creek, [...]
Jun 26, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Ultimate XC Day 1 – The portages
We had 4 portages today, the shortest being about 100 meters. The next two were 250-350 meters. Jennifer Moos is shown above negotiating her boat on the longest of the three short portages. The longest portage of the day was a claimed 3.5 km (with a disclaimer of “If it’s 5.2km, $#!% happens.”). Luckily our [...]
Jun 25, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Ultimate XC Day 1 – The rapids take their toll
Poor borrowed boat…After paddling 9k across a scenic lake, racers entered a narrow river filled with dead fall, sandy bottoms, rocky shoals, and some true rapids consisting of classes I-III. At the first rapid, as Allen McAdams was about to drop in, he was distracted by a French speaking man waving and shouting frantically atop [...]
Jun 25, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Ultimate XC Day 1 – All smiles at the starting line.
It was and early start, 4:30 AM, but all smiles this morning before we started the paddling section on Day 1 of the Ultimate XC. With a claimed 34 miles of paddling ahead, we new it was going to be a tough day. At the race briefing the night before the race director said “Anyone who [...]
Jun 25, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Ultimate XC – Paddle forecast is… rough.
The late afternoon brought a stiff breeze towards the Tremblant village. Along with the wind, 1 foot rolling waves turned the lake into a challenging venue for testing out the borrowed and rented boats. I could barely hold myself steady while Allen powers through the waves trying to surf towards the beach. Meanwhile, the kite boarders were [...]
Ultimate XC – Boat Prep
Before any boats are allowed onto the lake they must be washed to prevent foreign invasive species from getting into the beautiful lakes in the area. Five minutes with a pressure washer seems to do the trick.
Jun 24, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Ultimate XC – Onsite at Mont Tremblant
After an adventurous journey to Mont Tremblant we woke this monring and found our way to registration. Driving in we saw a huge banner along side the road advertising the race. Most normal folks have only signed up for one of the three events, or possible the hafh challenge. Only the truly nutty, such [...]
Jun 24, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Tecnu Extreme/StaphAseptic Takes 1st Place at Equinox Traverse
Charlie Kharsa, Matt Hayes, Mari Chandler, and Kyle Peter of Team Tecnu Extreme/StaphAseptic were off to Covington Virginia for the 2010 Equinox Traverse 2 day adventure race. Looking at the course layout and number of CP’s (19 mandatory, and 21 optional) the night before the race, Kyle predicted we would finish within 36 hours. We talked to the course [...]
Jun 24, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Who’s in first?
First class that is. With a minor scare about being delayed, it turn out that our flight was oversold. We didn’t have seats but we did take them up on American Airlines offer to reroute us. We are delayed a couple hours but scored first class seats the whole way. If nothing else, we’ll score [...]
