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Dealing with Wilderness Emergencies Experienced adventure racers know that when something goes wrong, getting yourself out of it will depend upon whether team members possess the right experience and skills. |
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Jungle footcare: Experienced racers share their secrets No matter what your training program was, how fast you are able to keep moving on a multi-day race often comes down to the condition of your feet. |
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Take Charge! Managing Your Emotions Adventure races can be an emotional roller coaster, with many highs and lows. How you are feeling at any given time will significantly affect your level of performance. |
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Seeing Is Believing! How To Use Visualisation Techniques Visualisation and Mental Rehearsal are one of the most heard of, and most popular mental training techniques |
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Ropes III - Ascending I can not emphasise this enough – PRACTICE – abseiling really doesn’t require much skill but ascending a rope does. |
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Ropes II - Abseiling So now you should all be standing at the top of a precipice with your back to the fresh air. |
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Ropes I - Equipment A series of articles attempting to demystify the use of ropes in Adventure Racing. |
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Set Goals to Succeed Are You Navigating Your Way To Success In Life’s Great Adventure Race? |
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Are You Tough Enough ... Mentally! Studies have shown that 85% of your success, depends primarily on your attitude rather than your aptitude |
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Expedition Racing And Sleep Strategy Their pre-race relaxation strategy was watching porn videos ,which kind of put me off my sandwiches, but I had a truly great time racing with them |
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Team Assistants – The Roadies of Adventure Racing Welcome to the wacky world of those sad individuals we all need but nobody really wants to be – the team assistant |
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Paddling Your Own Canoe – Without Going Up The Creek Water sections can provide some of the most exciting and memorable moments in adventure racing, from sea kayaking in the Atlantic Ocean in huge surf to rafting grade IV white-water. |
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Ten Golden Rules of Solo Racing You’re on a featureless moor in the pouring rain with two team-mates arguing about which way to go, thinking ‘If only I could get rid of those two idiots’ |
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Going in the Right Direction Navigation plays a crucial part in Adventure Racing but doing it consistently well can be very difficult. |
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Mountain biking Mountain biking forms an integral part of all adventure races. Strong teams can make up huge time advantages and good teamwork reaps rewards. |
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You Can Lead a Horse to Water but …. I didn’t know quite what I was letting myself in for. I’d never sat on a horse before – but I did know the front end bites and the back end kicks! |
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Setting a Training Schedule It is very difficult to set a training schedule for an adventure racer, especially in this day and age when people seem to work all the time. |
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Team Work It’s not difficult to see that activities/tasks are more efficiently done when people work together. The thing is, do we know what being a team player involves, and hence what makes good team work? |
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20 Ways to Motivate Yourself The hardest part of training is walking out of the door … So make it easy for yourself to do - enjoy it, get into a routine and be comfortable. If you do not enjoy it there’s little point. |
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Doing the Legwork – Running The broad spectrum of adventure races means that the type of running encountered can vary from short and fast stages to long 20 hour plus mountain sections. |
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Planning a Team Training and Race Schedule The success of any team requires careful and structured planning and in adventure racing this is even more important because of the diverse range of disciplines and athletes involved in the team. |
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