Month: November 2018

Team Adventure Cats capped off the 2018 adventure racing season with the Milwaukee Area Fall Frenzy. Last year, the MAFF was our first ever adventure race. We had learned a lot from the competition last year, as well as from competing in the Chasin’ The Bone and Half Ocho Adventure races earlier in the year. In preparation, I even started to develop my own course locally.

I have to admit that the thought of adventure races really provided me with motivation this past year when it came to workouts. The thought of competing got me out for more and longer workouts than I would have otherwise. It led me to find some new workout routes and combine biking and trail running in workouts too.

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I recently organized a field day and camp out for our Cub Scout Pack. We held it in our nearby Kettle Moraine State Forest Northern Unit. I think that the event was a success and all of the scouts that attended seemed to have a good time. Reflecting back on the event, I think that it was successful because while I over-planned with programming, we were flexible in execution and readily cut portions of the programming out in favor of free play and relaxation. That being said, I think that the programming materials that I’ll provide below helped the kids to all really learn something and even knock out some requirements.

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