Adventure Racing #25: Staging Your Own Adventure Race

Описание: IF YOU'RE GOING TO TRAIN, TRAIN AGAINST OTHER TEAMS! 😁

Yes, you can stage your own adventure race! Whether it will be wildly successful or not is a different question, but this episode will cover how ARonAR hosted an informal training event for a bunch of teams for very little cost, and everyone had a stonking time getting sunburnt, trashed, exhausted and filthy.

The teams crossed the finishing line grinning like Cheshire cats, and are clamouring for more.

Most importantly, hopefully this episode will help to develop the sport of AR from grassroots level, which ARonAR considers fundamental for sustained growth.

The kayaks were supplied by https://www.burnseries.co.uk/
The maps were printed by https://www.bmlprint.co.uk/

00:00 Intro
O0:49 Obstacles to staging a race
03:28 Make it as real as possible
03:57 Invitation only
04:34 A good location
04:57 Find a race base
06:00 Scouting online
07:07 Score vs Linear?
08:19 Choosing CPs
10:55 Photos instead of dibbers
11:39 Orienteering apps
12:22 Logistics
13:19 Water stages
14:49 Planning your route
15:33 GPS trackers
16:49 Map printing
17:26 All costs shared
17:58 Introducing newbies to AR
19:23 Publicising the event
20:16 Example maps
22:45 Prologues
26:43 Post race social

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Some images courtesy of Legendary Randy Ericksen

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