by Craig Edwards. What do you do when it has been raining consistently for quite a while and you have been stuck inside going crazy? – grab a white-water boat, some mates, and head to a swollen creek of course!!! Which is exactly what we did on the weekend. After hearing glowing reports of the […]
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Rogue Welcome Samurai Sportswear
Team Rogue are excited to annoucne a new sponsored partnership with Samurai Sportswear. Samurai Sportswear specialise in customised multisport team uniforms, with an almost infinite range of design options in performance fabrics, enabling them to create a unique identity for any team. They’ve certainly come to the table in support of team Rogue, ensuring in […]
What’s To A Name?
The very nature of adventure racing as a sport means that the composition of teams – that is, their team members, sponsors and team names – are very fluid. The physically demanding nature of AR, coupled with the high costs of travel and inherent challenges of just making it to the start line of an […]
Adventure Junkie Up The Ante
Exciting news on the Adventure Racing front with a whole swag of new races entering the 2012 calendar courtesy of the relatively new events company Adventure Junkie. Staging races in and around the Melbourne area, Adventure Junkie ran both an 8hr and a 24hr adventure race in 2011. According the Adventure Junkie Website, these races […]
A Changing of the Guard
Some exciting news on the Queensland Adventure Racing scene to be announced recently is the hand over of the City Raid and Hells Bells 24hr Adventure Race series from Geocentric to the all new adventure events company Dare You Adventure. Dare You Adventure are headed up, in part, by team Rogue”s friend Robbie Andrews from […]
Prepateller Bursitis a.k.a. An $820 Knock on the Knee
Injuries suck. I guess that is a statement of the obvious, but for me, they are probably the most frustrating aspect of adventure racing. Not so much for the pain they cause, but the time lost during recovery which could be spent running and riding around in the bush. Over the past few years, I’ve […]
Begin Countdown…
Was just doing a quick check in at the Godzone Adventure Race website this morning when I realised it is now officially 100 days until the race starts. Time to start ramping up the training I guess. Anyone keen for a New Years Day ride?
XPD World Champs Race Report Collection
XPD in Tasmania, doubling as the Adventure Racing World Champs, certainly lived up to it”s tag line of “as much an expedition as a race”. Much has been written about the race, so instead of adding more words to the electronic cloud that is the interwebs, here is a collection of great race reports from […]
Revisiting the Darkside
The 2011 Darkside Champs headed back to the Tweed Valley Region with an extended 18 hour course that promised to push leading teams to the full time limit. Team Rogue”s Liam and Craig teamed up with Shaun and Russ from Spin City Cycles to take out a podium position. The race report from our night […]
2011 GeoQuest in Nambucca Heads
Our fourth trip down to GeoQuest at Nambucca Heads was another successful outing, taking a win in the mens division and crawling our way back into 9th spot overall after coming off the first leg in dead last. This race had it all with “pack rafting”, big surf for the ocean paddle and challenging weather […]
