Six days in and only seven teams remain officially ranked in the Patagonian Expedition Race. While they suffer through the remaining legs, the other brave souls who have been beaten by conditions so much bigger than any of us, must suffer the disappointment of no longer being allowed to headbutt the hardship out there. Merrell […]
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The four South Africans making up Merrell Adventure Addicts have been ploughing their way across the barren, inhospitable coastline and grasslands of southern Chile like a team of oxwagon, with heads down into the fierce headwinds. Two days into the 600km Patagonian Expedition Race and they have already covered half the course distance – 34km
Team Merrell Adventure Addicts start their assault on the wilds of southern Chile today, setting off on the 600km Patagonian Expedition Race at 13h00 SA time. At the briefing they were given 12 maps, ranging in scale from 1:50 000 to 1:200 000, with the organiser’s idea of ‘best option’ drawn on. It seems micro
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“Time to go be hardcore South Africans.” Teams have just received their maps. “It’s simple and it’s long and it’s daunting.”
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The Merrell Adventure Addicts have packed their bags with the warmest of everything and headed off to the very south of Chile, landing on Friday in Punta Arenas for the start of the Patagonia Expedition Race 2016. The organisers of what is labelled The Last Wild Race put out a message saying “This goes beyond
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The Merrell Adventure Addicts team talks about training for the upcoming icy Patagonia Expedition Race during a South African heatwave in February 2016.
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“The Patagonia race has always been that large shiny red apple in the fruit bowl that I was told not to eat. It is just too daunting to attempt. But it has always been the real challenge to me: to mess around in those freezing conditions that have never been much a part of my
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If you want to go play in a place where people look at you blankly should you say ‘heatwave,’ Patagonia in the south of South America is a good choice. To be sure though, plan to go to the very south of the south, where you can almost sniff distant Antarctica. Source four drysuits, ice
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Not one team completed the full planned course of The World Championship Adventure Race 2015 in Brazil. New Zealand team Seagate dominated the field of the world’s best competitors and were undoubtedly and deservedly the winners, but even they would not have managed to come in before the final cut off time of 169hours (7
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South African team Merrell continues to rile the dot watching audience of the Adventure Racing World Championship. The course has definitely turned out to be the most brutal yet, the winners now expected in at least one and a half days later than anticipated, and less than a third of teams possibly finishing the full
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