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Vision Quest: Images From Patagonian Exped Race

Team GearJunkie/YogaSlackers has been racing now for a week straight in southern Chile, where the Patagonian Expedition Race is held annually near the very tip of South America. Our squad is currently in third place and gunning toward the finish line today. Here are a few images from the action.

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Team GearJunkie starts 2012 Patagonian Expedition Race!

Our GearJunkie/YogaSlackers team is racing now in southern Chile. For the 10th running of the Patagonian Expedition Race teams will face 600km of trekking, biking, and kayaking down near the bottom of the globe.

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Video: Team Training on Ore. Coast

For some fun, as well as in prep for Team GearJunkie/YogaSlackers' return to Chile and the Patagonian Expedition Race, we took a Christmas break trip to the Oregon Coast. Road biking, big-wave kayaking, water rescue drills, and smoothies laced with habanero sauce were all a part of the action!

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Mud Pits and Barbed Wire: 'Adventure Racing' Faces Identity Crisis

Is the hottest trend in adventure racing really barbed wire and burning bales of hay? That's what a recent Outside magazine story proclaims, noting "obstacle races" like the Tough Mudder and the Spartan Race series as the future of the sport.

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No Sleep Allowed! What it takes to Win AR World Champs

Last month, racing for more than five days straight in the wilds of Tasmania, Team Thule Adventure won the 2011 Adventure Race World Championships, crowning the Sweden-based squad as the world's best adventure athletes. We interviewed Thule team captain Martin Flinta for some insight on what it takes to win the AR Worlds.

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Announcing 'GearJunkie/WEDALI' Race Team!

We are proud to announce a partnership with Minnesota-based Team WEDALI, the nation's No.1 adventure racing squad! Beginning in January, the team will be renamed Team GearJunkie/WEDALI and race under the "Team GJ" banner for the 2012 adventure racing season.

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Year in Review: Team GearJunkie/YogaSlackers

From Patagonia to British Columbia, and with more than a dozen domestic stops around the country in between, 2011 was a busy year for Team GearJunkie/YogaSlackers. This post summarizes the team's intense race season.

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'Unsanctioned Racing' Project

Pearl Izumi this fall launched a social media project called "Unsanctioned Racing" with a goal to motivate runners, cyclists and adventure racers to create their own events and get outside to play.

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WEDALI Wins Adventure Racing Championship

Funny yellow rainsuits aside, Team WEDALI is one of the stoutest race squads in the land. In this interview, we get the scoop from captain Justin Bakken on what it took to win -- by a large margin! -- at this year's Adventure Racing Championship in the deep woods of Kentucky.

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Video: Checkpoint Tracker 'Adventure Racing Championship'

Team GearJunkie/YogaSlackers took 6th place in last weekend's Checkpoint Tracker Adventure Racing Championships. This video recaps the low and high points from the event, where the squad raced for more than 24 hours straight in the woods of Kentucky.

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Orienteering race this wkend. Good times in northern MN! (Fell in swamp; cut up legs; ran prob. 15K in woods looking for orange flags. . .)