Computer screens the world over have gone deaf. Supporters following the last day of the epic World Series Adventure Racing event, XPD in Australia, have been shouting with excitement, elation, encouragement or despair at their respective teams represented by dots on a live tracking site. Traversing a 650km unmarked route across remote areas of Townsville

Premier South African team Merrell Adventure Addicts is currently chasing down the Australian leaders, Peak Adventure in an epic 650 km non-stop, unsupported, multi-discipline race across the outback, rainforests, canyons, islands and oceans of Townsville, Queensland. Merrell had a tough night navigating through the rainforests at the top of a mountain, finding 7 checkpoints in

Dear Boss. Please excuse Armchair Adventurer from being productive this week. He is experiencing Obsessive Compulsive Dot Watch syndrome. He will be checking XPD Live Tracking every few minutes and shouting instructions at Dot Number 6 on the screen. Symptoms should subside sometime on Sunday when Merrell Adventure Addicts are due to complete the 650km

With bags and pockets as full as a centipede’s sock drawer Captain Graham Bird jetted off yesterday to join his team already in Australia preparing for the next Adventure Racing World Series event in the tropics of Townsville. Hanno Smit, Robyn Kime and Grant Ross have been there for a few days getting used to

If you can be heard by someone while singing an obscene song, you’ll be in trouble. (Australia, Summary Offences Act 1966) Dire are the consequences of wrong doing Down Under. When getting ready for any World Series expedition adventure race, not much specific information is made available to the participants. In August the Merrell Adventure

“Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.” Einstein. Of course what is impossible, is relative. To the Merrell Adventure Addicts team – preparing for the upcoming World Series XPD Adventure Race in Australia – completing all five events of the Knysna Oyster Big 5 Sports Challenge back to back in one day

The Merrell Adventure Addicts have converged for a training camp coinciding with the famous Pick ‘n Pay Knysna Oyster Festival. Over the last few years, the consolidation of an individual’s results from five of the festival’s sporting events has seen the rise in popularity and prestige of the Knysna Big 5. “This is an adventure

Podcast of Graham Bird’s interview with SAFM Sports Special on the 13th June after the Addicts win at Expedition Africa.