WHAT IS ADVENTURE RACING??
Expedition Adventure racing is about three things:
- A penchant for extreme suffering
- A penchant for perserverance against all odds
- Teamwork
It is about being good at a lot of things and not being great at anything. No amount of pre-planning has ever led to us having a smooth race. We just expect things to go in an unexpected direction. This kind of thinking makes life in general a little bit easier too. So whether we are lost in the middle of the Australian outback with no food or water, stranded with no headlamps on top of a desert spire as the sun sets, or the Peace Love Car runs out of gas in Nowhere, Wyoming...someone will inevitably say with a smile, "It's just adventure race training". Here is one of our favorite videos from the 2011 season, we feel it portrays Adventure Racing quite well...
Adventure/Expedition Racing has been catagorized as Type 3 fun- Fitz Cahall describes Type 3 fun as "The epic. The suffer fest. This is collarbone breaking, giardia-getting, soaked-to-the-bone, carnage." Check out his podcast entitled Fun Divided By Three - where he describes type 3 fun in detail and shares why on earth people like ourselves constantly choose this type of Fun....
TEAM YOGASLACKERS:
The core of Team YogaSlackers is Jason, Chelsey and Daniel Staudigal with Stephen Regenold (aka The Gear Junkie), Andy Magness (Jason's twin), Paul Cassedy and Sam Salwei coming in to race with them throughout the year. They have teamed up with GearJunkie for the second year in a row to be Team YogaSlackers/Gearjunkie. In 2011 they took 2nd in The Patagonian Expedition Race, 5th in Raid the North, 4th in The Idaho Expediton Race, 2nd in Gold Rush and 5th in Checkpoint Nationals. You can follow our team at www.gearjunkie.com/team or right here on the site! We will be posting training and race videos every so often, so watch and get inspired to get out and go play!!!!
If anyone is interested in trying out an adventure race - Jason and Chelsey put one on with the help of Glenn of Desert Dash every year in their home town- Bend, Oregon. Bend is an amazing playground, it offers world class mountain biking, paddling, hiking and climbing! This year we are planning a 36 hour and a 12 hour adventure race called the Bend-AR. The dates are set for September 21, 2012. So mark your calenders and get training! To register please go to www.bend-ar.com. Check out this video from BABAR 2011 to get siked!
Andy Magness puts on a couple different races in North Dakota- including 2 Adventure Races, a 12 hour mountain bike race, a canoe race and a winter tri race. You can find more info on these races at www.endracing.com.
QUESTIONS AND VIDEOS
If you have any questions at all please feel free to email the crew at yogaslackers@gmail.com and we will help you out! In the mean time, enjoy our videos on our youtube channel
