On Saturday at 13h00 Merrell set off well as expected at the start of the Adventure Racing World Championships. In this race with the paddling discipline dominating, by necessity, the 700km course in the wetland of the Pantanal, the team of four, including Graham Bird and Robyn Kime, has long been marked as the one […]
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South African team Merrell Adventure Addicts are in the Pantanal, at the very heart of South America for the very soul of Adventure Racing as they are about to compete in the World Championships 2015. The best teams in the world are arriving and the best of those will win what is already predicted to
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Prepping for the upcoming Adventure Racing World Champs in Brazil has involved a lot of admin. Not least figuring out how to get from one airport to another – in the same city! – in less than 6 hours. The team flies into the busiest airport in South America and, with bike boxes, backpacks, lifejackets
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Brazil may invoke images of bikinis, beach volleyball, flip flops and football but when the race info pack states mandatory equipment to be carried is a machete with blade of at least 35cm, a distress signal flare, a pulley and 3 carabiners, one gets the idea that participants in the upcoming Adventure Racing World Championships
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Hanno Smit reports: Reporting on an Expedition race, lasting a handful of days becomes parabolically more comprehensive to a point where technical details blur into emotional and psychological ebbs and flows. The journey, recalculated, translates to an experience of a month or more. So, how would I give feedback of a race of this nature
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Footage of the Merrell Adventure Addicts competing in the 650km Australia XPD – 5-10 August 2015. Watch for the Sleepmonster.
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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
Merrell storms into 2nd place at XPD – Vasbytality! Read More »
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
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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
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