Corrida de Aventura é...
Adventure Racing is...
(With thanks to Robert Nagle)
Adventure racing is an ultra-endurance event that requires coed teams to excel in many disciplines through a variety of ecosystems: running, biking, paddling, climbing, swimming, sailing, riding horseback through forests, mountains, deserts, bogs, lakes, plains, and oceans. You may race days or even weeks...
Non-stop.
What is adventure racing?
Adventure racing can be defined as a non-stop, multi-day, multi-discipline, team event. In many ways it can be likened to an expedition with a stopwatch.
The goal of the competition is to be the first team to get all members across the finish line together. The most common disciplines involved in an adventure race are mountain biking, hiking, paddling, and rappelling.
There are many different lengths and formats of events, ranging from off-road triathlons, to month-long expeditions. The course should take competitors through remote wilderness where they must travel without outside assistance. Each team must use strategy to determine the best route, equipment, food and pace to maintain to win.
Corridas de Aventura
Hoje em dia o desporto aventura, e principalmente as corridas de aventura estão na ordem do dia. Existem provas para todo o tipo de atletas e que aproveitam zonas remotas de muitos países para mostrar a natureza em estado puro. As corridas de aventura são o desporto de equipa mais completo e desafiante dos nossos dias, onde o equilíbrio do conjunto é mais importante do que o vedetismo individual, onde a experiência nas várias técnicas desportivas é mais importante que a perícia, onde ganhar ou perder é relativo e depende sobretudo da superação dos limites individuais e colectivos dos participantes. O formato dessas corridas envolve vários desportos de aventura como BTT, Orientação, Actividades com Cordas, Tiro com Arco, Actividades Náuticas, Teem Bulding, etc. Além disso o percurso é revelado as equipes (geralmente formadas de 3 a 5 membros de ambos os sexos) minutos antes da largada, e que deve ser seguido através do uso de mapas e bússola, não é permitido o uso de equipamento de orientação por satélite. O percurso, por onde as equipas viajam 24 horas por dia, passa por rios, lagos, desertos, mares, montanhas, com uma extensão que pode ir até cerca de 300 Km dependendo de cada evento. A primeira equipa a chegar completa a meta, é a vencedora.
Recomendações
Capacidade em orientar-se em terreno desconhecido e acidentado, confiança nos membros da equipa e persistência em continuar na corrida mesmo sem dormir são alguns factores que tornam as corridas de aventura num dos desportos que mais desafios nos lançam. A resistência física e mental fazem a diferença entre as equipas participantes.
Adventure racing is fantastic!
What it's all about, read or ask us more
ADVENTURE SPORT
Adventure sports, also known as "extreme sports", is a relatively young sport, covering a group of endurance competitions where the participants are not necessarily aware of the course and the disciplines of the race can be any non-motorized way of moving in nature, such as running, orienteering, cycling, mountainbiking, climbing, mountaineering, abseiling, jumar climbing, kayaking, canoeing, rafting, caving, swimming and in-line skating.
The races are physically extremely demanding (competitors burn ca. 11.000 calories/day), but in addition to technical skills and the outstanding physical shape of the individuals, the very essence of the race is teamwork.
Team dynamics are essential, as the competitors attempt to solve problems and overcome obstacles with little sleep, little food, and under the constant stress of being in a race against time and against other teams. The entire team has to arrive at the finish in order to win.
The length of the races range from a few hours up to several days. The big competitions usually last from 5-8 days, time running without breaks from start to finish.
Nokia Adventure
(With thanks to Robert Nagle)
Adventure racing is an ultra-endurance event that requires coed teams to excel in many disciplines through a variety of ecosystems: running, biking, paddling, climbing, swimming, sailing, riding horseback through forests, mountains, deserts, bogs, lakes, plains, and oceans. You may race days or even weeks...
Non-stop.
What is adventure racing?
Adventure racing can be defined as a non-stop, multi-day, multi-discipline, team event. In many ways it can be likened to an expedition with a stopwatch.
The goal of the competition is to be the first team to get all members across the finish line together. The most common disciplines involved in an adventure race are mountain biking, hiking, paddling, and rappelling.
There are many different lengths and formats of events, ranging from off-road triathlons, to month-long expeditions. The course should take competitors through remote wilderness where they must travel without outside assistance. Each team must use strategy to determine the best route, equipment, food and pace to maintain to win.
Corridas de Aventura
Hoje em dia o desporto aventura, e principalmente as corridas de aventura estão na ordem do dia. Existem provas para todo o tipo de atletas e que aproveitam zonas remotas de muitos países para mostrar a natureza em estado puro. As corridas de aventura são o desporto de equipa mais completo e desafiante dos nossos dias, onde o equilíbrio do conjunto é mais importante do que o vedetismo individual, onde a experiência nas várias técnicas desportivas é mais importante que a perícia, onde ganhar ou perder é relativo e depende sobretudo da superação dos limites individuais e colectivos dos participantes. O formato dessas corridas envolve vários desportos de aventura como BTT, Orientação, Actividades com Cordas, Tiro com Arco, Actividades Náuticas, Teem Bulding, etc. Além disso o percurso é revelado as equipes (geralmente formadas de 3 a 5 membros de ambos os sexos) minutos antes da largada, e que deve ser seguido através do uso de mapas e bússola, não é permitido o uso de equipamento de orientação por satélite. O percurso, por onde as equipas viajam 24 horas por dia, passa por rios, lagos, desertos, mares, montanhas, com uma extensão que pode ir até cerca de 300 Km dependendo de cada evento. A primeira equipa a chegar completa a meta, é a vencedora.
Recomendações
Capacidade em orientar-se em terreno desconhecido e acidentado, confiança nos membros da equipa e persistência em continuar na corrida mesmo sem dormir são alguns factores que tornam as corridas de aventura num dos desportos que mais desafios nos lançam. A resistência física e mental fazem a diferença entre as equipas participantes.
Adventure racing is fantastic!
What it's all about, read or ask us more
ADVENTURE SPORT
Adventure sports, also known as "extreme sports", is a relatively young sport, covering a group of endurance competitions where the participants are not necessarily aware of the course and the disciplines of the race can be any non-motorized way of moving in nature, such as running, orienteering, cycling, mountainbiking, climbing, mountaineering, abseiling, jumar climbing, kayaking, canoeing, rafting, caving, swimming and in-line skating.
The races are physically extremely demanding (competitors burn ca. 11.000 calories/day), but in addition to technical skills and the outstanding physical shape of the individuals, the very essence of the race is teamwork.
Team dynamics are essential, as the competitors attempt to solve problems and overcome obstacles with little sleep, little food, and under the constant stress of being in a race against time and against other teams. The entire team has to arrive at the finish in order to win.
The length of the races range from a few hours up to several days. The big competitions usually last from 5-8 days, time running without breaks from start to finish.
Nokia Adventure
