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How to Become a Successful Racer and Adventure Athlete Why should you take a pair of sandals, a dollar bill, and a car antenna to your next adventure race? You'll find the answer to that question and many others in Runner's World Guide to Adventure Racing. In this authoritative guide, Ian Adamson shares his insider secrets for training, racing, team building, conflict management, injury prevention, equipment repair, sleep management, and much more. Often referred to as the Michael Jordan of adventure racing, Adamson helps you navigate any type of adventure race, from short sprint race to full-length expedition. In this guide, you'll find: - Detailed training plans for recreational and compet...
The sport of adventure racing enjoys high visibility thanks to events such as Eco-Challenge, the Raid Gauloises and New Zealand's Southern Traverse. This text traces the growth of the sport, describes skills required for the various sports, and offers guidelines on equipment, training and preparation.
'Hilarious'Outsider MagazineLonglisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year In Bump, Bike & Baby, Moire O'Sullivan charts her journey from happy, carefree mountain runner to reluctant, stay-at-home mother of two. With her sights set on winning Ireland's National Adventure Racing Series, she manages to maintain her post-natal sanity, and slowly learns to become a loving and occasionally functioning mum.
Presents advice and instructions on the sport of adventure racing covering such topics as equipment, navigational tools, maintenance and repair of bikes, canoes and kayaks, and training.
In this beloved romance by master storyteller Kay Hooper, a woman who experiences car trouble in the Rocky Mountains gets more than she bargained for when she stumbles upon an investigator's stakeout operation. She is taken captive by the handsome, rugged man—not to be released until his investigation is complete. But Teddy quickly discovers that she doesn't much mind being detained by Zach...she's powerfully attracted to him, and she won't rest until he gives in to his own attraction.
"First published in the U.K. by Two Roads in 2017"--Title page verso in 2017.
This book gives practical advice on how to prepare and train for adventrue racing and multisport events. There are methods for improving skills and sound medical and nutritional advice for improved performance. Leading adventure racers reveal some of their secrets.
Rebecca Rusch is one of the great endurance athletes of our time. Known today as the Queen of Pain for her perseverance as a relentlessly fast runner, paddler, and mountain bike racer, Rusch was a normal kid from Chicago who abandoned a predictable life for one of adventure. In her new book Rusch to Glory: Adventure, Risk & Triumph on the Path Less Traveled, Rusch weaves her fascinating life's story among the exotic locales and extreme conditions that forged an extraordinary athlete from ordinary roots. Rusch has run the gauntlet of endurance sports over her career as a professional athlete-- climbing, adventure racing, whitewater rafting, cross-country skiing, and mountain biking--racking u...
Explores the do's and don't's of this high-powered and high-risk series of events that take place often in exotic locales.
In May and June 2007, Scotland hosted the World Championship - Adventure Racing. A gruelling course of 550 kilometres was designed to take 196 of the world best adventure racing athletes on a unique Scottish experience. The seven day course included the Isle of Rum, Lochaber, Loch Ness, Rannoch Moor and the high summits of picturesque Glen Coe. With over 200 awesome images and an inspiring journal this beautiful coffee table book is a true reflection of what this international race was all about.