Adventure Racing

To say that today has been an eventful day does not nearly begin to hint at what has gone down.

The race preparations are complete and it is time to do this!

Wish Team Gear Junkie luck! The four-person squad heads south to Tierra del Fuego and the Wenger Patagonian Expedition Race this week.

Here is the official preview video for the 2010 Wenger Patagonian Expedition Race, a nine-day event that Team Gear Junkie begins in one week!

Sound waves reverberate from the Tunebug Shake device, turning a sports helmet shell into a speaker of sorts.

Gear Junkie prepares for the Wenger Patagonian Expedition Race, a weeklong endurance event next month through Tierra del Fuego, Chile.

Nicola MacLeod, an army doctor from Edinburgh, is among the world’s best adventure racers. This is an exclusive GJ interview.

The Gear Junkie is heading to Patagonia! The job: To captain a team in the Wenger Patagonian Expedition Race, one of “the toughest ultra-endurance events…

Last summer, Gear Junkie raced in a six-hour rogaine orienteering race. It included about 20 miles of running on trails and in the woods of…

In an effort to “turn a page in the sport of adventure racing,” a new program offers an alternative to the long-standard USARA rankings and…

Public transit, problem-solving, and urban challenges define citywide scavenger hunt races, which are based partly on “The Amazing Race” television series. Team Gear Junkie took…

Next month, the Yogaslackers organization and Northern Heights Rock Gym will be hosting their second adventure race. . . in North Dakota.

Contributor Jason Magness writes on his 10+ years of experience with the MontBell Thermawrap line, outerwear that weighs almost nothing and insulates even when wet.

If you want to stay fit for your whole life — even run into your 80s or 90s — Roy M. Wallack’s latest book, “Run…

Someone once told me that races are nothing more than an event where you can show off how hard you have trained, and I think…

Take some tea tree oil, add jojoba, mix in some lavender and neem leaf extract and you have the base formula for Brave Soldier skin…

Can you say ‘spanked’? Out of my league, maybe. This weekend I raced in the Big Blues Ramble orienteering meet outside Chicago, where a hundred…

Tonight I head south from Minneapolis on the long drive to Chicago, where the Big Blues Ramble orienteering meet is taking place in the woods…

This is the second part of my recap on last weekend’s END-AR, a 12-hour adventure race in North Dakota. My team, Covert Loons, took first…

Last weekend I competed in the END-AR, a 12-hour adventure race in North Dakota. My team, Covert Loons, took first place, pushing hard for 75…

Well, I lived. My epic weekend — a 12-hour adventure race on Saturday, then a marathon on Sunday — went pretty much as planned. Both…

I’m likely in over my head this weekend: At 1 p.m. this afternoon I’m heading to North Dakota to race in the state’s first-ever adventure…