As I’ve become more interested in adventure racing, I started thinking more about both race strategy and race conditioning. I wanted to do more race-simulative training, especially brick workouts. I wanted to think about navigation and choosing effective routes. So I created my own adventure race course. All of the information, maps, and instructions are on a new dedicated MARC page of IOTN. Anyone is free to use these and to complete the course at their leisure.
The current course is short – it is about 5 miles of navigation and 12 miles of bike. No paddling discipline yet. Even someone new to AR should be able to complete the course in four hours. Another goal of mine was to provide people in the area an opportunity to try adventure racing on their own schedule.
I do plan for this to be a work in progress and would like to provide a couple of different versions or lengths of the course.
Did you try out my course? Let me what you thought!