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Hello Racers! Thank you for coming out to our 2010 Baton Rouge Urban Adventure Race this past weekend. We were certainly blessed with great weather! Photos are posted for the Baton Rouge race. Click on the “Gallery” link at the top of the page and then choose the “Baton Rouge Pics”. [...]
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from the Times Picayune
Original Blog posted here:
June 12, 2010
Interview by Eric Trihardboy
New Orleans: In an unprecedented move, the Dirty Mama’s (a subsidiary of Fitbird Fitness, a local triathlon training center) propelled themselves to a “Team Best” finish at the Norco Spillway Adventure Race in New Orleans this past weekend and racked up 187 points as [...]
Hello Racers! Thank you for coming out to our 2010 Spillway Adventure Race this past weekend. It was another wild adventure! Photos are posted for the Spillway race. Click on the “Gallery” link at the top of the page and then choose the “Spillway Pics”. We also made a video [...]
Read More »Just a quick note:
This was my first time back to the Spillway race since 2007 (ironically, the first Adventure race I ever participated in). 2007 was run in April, was cool, raining, and muddy. 2010? What a difference.
8:00am Starting time saw am 84 Degree temp, with a humidity giving us a feels like 93 Degrees [...]
Submitted by admin on April 23, 2010 – 8:08 amNo Comment
Teamwork
Adventure Racing is one of the only sports in which you actually have to have your teammates with you, doing exactly what you’re doing, glued to your side at all times. That’s why Adventure Racing is just as much an [...]
Submitted by admin on April 21, 2010 – 8:03 amNo Comment
Climbing
You may not have to worry about doing any climbing in the sprint races, but you will more than likely have at least a rappel in the longer races. In expedition and 24-hour races, you may also have to do [...]
Submitted by admin on April 19, 2010 – 8:00 amNo Comment
Mountain Biking
Most people considering an adventure race are pretty familiar with mountain biking and what it takes to train for it, so I wont spend a lot of time here. I’ll just cover a few tips that are adventure racing [...]
Submitted by admin on April 17, 2010 – 8:00 amNo Comment
Navigation
Eighty and ninety percent of the races you will enter will have some kind of navigation or orienteering component. It’s a bit intimidating at first, but once you start learning and have some successes, this is an aspect of the [...]
Submitted by admin on April 15, 2010 – 3:21 pmNo Comment
Paddling
Becoming a good paddler is the fastest way to gain a competitive advantage in adventure racing, since it’s the weak link for most of the teams that cross over from triathlon. It’s very easy to gain a 10-15 minute lead [...]
Hello Racers! Thank you for coming out for our 4th annual Mobile Adventure Race this past weekend. Chickasabogue State Park was a great location for this exciting adventure! Photos are posted for the Mobile race. Click on the “Gallery” link at the top of the page and then choose the “Mobile Pics”. We also made [...]
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