Every year I like to fit an interstate race into the calendar. In the past, this has generally been Max24, but with the Adventure Junkies organising a 24hr race during what is otherwise a relatively quiet time on the racing calendar, X-Marathon was to be it in 2013. I’d heard a lot of good things […]
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Urban Rogue Event Report
Firstly, thank you to all those who took on the Urban Rogue in the spirit of a fun night out. The general consensus was that the race was a success and everyone enjoyed themselves. All the check points proved to be spot on, which is the number one goal of an organiser. We had a […]
Urban Rogue Preliminary Results
Preliminary results for the Urban Rogue can be found below. I still need to go through and verify all the score card answers and competitor’s own maths! If you think you can spot an error in your category, team name, score, time, etc, please get in touch. A full report will follow shortly. However, thank […]
Urban Rogue Final Instructions
A PDF version of this information for easy printing can be dowloaded here: Urban Rogue Final Instructions. Thank you for your entry into the Urban Rogue – a 3 hour metrogaine taking in the Brisbane city Friday night lights on a summer evening. Below is all the information required for competitors about the event. Make […]
Ocean to Colleges 85
Edit for 2015 Ocean to Colleges 85 So the trip below didn’t happen in 2014. A couple of weeks before the paddle, I had an email from Alan to say that he’d injured his shoulder “boarding in Japan” and wasn’t going to be fit for the challenge. I promptly postponed the paddle and proceeded to tell […]
Darkside Report
It’s going to take a while for me to fully digest my experience from the 2013 Darkside race. In the end we ran a close 4th place in the mixed (5th overall) being beaten out by Infinite and Tiger Adventure by 2 and 5 minutes respectively after over 12 hours of racing. Ultimately the result […]
Perseverance…
No, this is not a motivational blog post about the attributes required by adventure racers to reach their goals – its a race HQ anouncement for the 2014 Rogue24 Adventuregaine! Next years race will be hosted at the Lake Perseverance Active Recreation Centre. Bordered by multiple state and national parks, cattle grazing country, rocky gorges and expansive […]
XPD Spectators Guide
The XPD course is due to be revealed very shortly, and while I unfortunately won’t be racing, needless to say I’m still very excited. As an avid follower of expedition races in the AR World Series, keeping tabs on events is becoming increasingly easier thanks to a combination of social media and live GPS tracking. […]
Active Adventures
With the decision by Geocentric Outdoors to wind up their Adventure Racing QLD (ARQ) sprint series of races at the end of 2008 to focus solely on the longer events like XPD and GeoQuest, the options for sprint races in Queensland looked to be under jeopardy leaving only In2Adventure and Max Adventure with just a […]
AR Map Quality?
The team over at iAdventure have raised an interesting debate in regards to map quality at Adventure Races. The question in debate can be read in full below, but in a nut shell they ask whether Adventure Racing risks becoming too soft if competitors expect the quality of maps common to orienteering and even rogaining? […]
