Adventure Racing Is the Crazy Person’s Next Big Thing

The New York Times takes a willing look at adventure racing in this report from the Endophin Fix, a 130-mile competition in West Virginia’s Monongahela National Forest. The paper reports that in this race, in which 28 teams were given 41 hours to complete a course that included wilderness trekking, white-water kayaking, rope
climbing and mountain biking, half of the athletes would drop out. Only half? Geezer is concerned about the high percentage of crazy people riding bikes through the woods– at night–in the rain. And that number, apparently, is growing. The Times tell us that last year, the United States Adventure Racing Association sanctioned
roughly 300 races, a tenfold increase from 2000. The paper reports that races range from
the half-day "sprints" to the medium-length races like the Endorphin
Fix to the weeklong Primal Quest, a 500-mile epic to be held in June in
the Utah desert..
Read more in the Times.  Check out Adventure Race Reports, where crazy people share their race experiences.