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Welcome to Adventure Chronicles! The place to post your own Adventure or read someone else's. Because in an Adventure, everyone has a story to tell!.

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Chronicles:
January 2003 - North Georgia 30hr Adventure Race directed by RaceDay Company was Team AdventureCarolinas first race together as a team. Team members are Drew Wilson, Richard Ridlehuber and Tim LaRose - w/ support by Thomas DeMaria. On the coldest weekend of the year (lows below zero at the start) 83 teams converged on Suches, GA to take on the 100 mile course of mtn. biking, paddling, hiking & navigation in the 30 hour time limit. There was 2- 4 inches of snow covers most of the course in the beautiful mountains of North Georgia. At 5am, Saturday the race began at the Woody Gap School.....[More]

June 2002 Mountain Sports Festival Adventure Race directed by RacingAhead.com was Team New England Backpackers first race together as a team. Team members are Drew Wilson, Deborah Doyle and Tim LaRose. Promptly at 6am the race started and Thomas ran up with the maps and instructions. He read out the order of events and began plotting our course. The course would be we were told, in the race info, about 45 total mile give or take 5 for going the wrong way. It would begin with a hike to a point on the Blue Ridge Parkway (BRP) to the unmanned bike drop off, then bike down to Asheville to the last TA for a short paddle on the French Broad and ending with some urban orienteering to the town square and finish. Find out what happened....[More]

The May 2002 Carolina Challenge Adventure Race directed by Radical Adventures was Team Oobe/ AdventureCarolinas.com's first race together as a team. Team members are Drew wilson, Kim Morrow and Ken Harris.
The race start was supposed to be at 11am but because of the weather things took a bit longer and luckily the downpours ceased around 11:20am for what would turn out to be a muddy/ exciting race. For any of you who run, you will have never experienced true cross-country until you've done 4 miles on horse trails after 8 hours of steady rainfall. A top-3 finish in the co-ed division would qualify the team for the Sprint National Championships later in 2002. Find out what happened.... [More]

October 2001 12 Hour Appalachian "Not-So" Extreme Adventure Race directed by RacingAhead.com was team sponge Bob Square Pants first race together as a team. Team members are Drew wilson, Deborah Doyle and Richard Ridlehuber.
We’ve been preparing for weeks, training, getting gear together, and talking about different scenarios. Deb, co-captain, has been regaining fitness lost during time off for some surgery. She’s been training with her hard-core Atlanta pals and recently placed 5th in an in-line skate race. She’s peaking. Drew, team captain, has been dealing with one of those moving leg injuries since August that never seemed to get healed completely before he opted to “hammer” and re-injure himself. He trains daily and is strong in each of the disciplines, running/hiking, paddling, and Mtn biking and maintains a high level of fitness. I started running 5 weeks ago and lifting weights to develop my weaknesses that are inherent to any cyclist. Cyclists have strong hearts, legs that are good for pushing a crank in circles thousands of times an hour, a good sense of pace and endurance and bike handling skills. But cyclists do not have legs/ankles for hiking/running or arms/shoulders for paddling. [More]

NOC 8 Hour Adventure Race in Bryson City, NC on February 8th, 2001. This race was to be 30 miles of running, mtn. biking, paddling etc. Our first AR together that was under 30 hours in duration!
We got there Friday around 4pm, Derek Kozlowski, Renee Johnson, (crew) Thomas DeMaria and Myself, and went through the rigors of gear check-in. The meeting at 8pm was nothing new, no details except where it starts, the Nantahala Commercial Launch. So we went to sleep after rearranging gear for a 3rd, 4th or 5th time to the sounds of torrential rain. I didn't sleep well and woke up at 4am to get started.[More]

NOC 30 Hour Adventure Race in Bryson City, NC on March 9th, 2001. On March 9, 2001, I found myself again at Nantahala Outdoor Center, going through the now familiar gear check and team registration. This was my team’s second 30-hour adventure race at NOC, and by now the check-in process was well wired. Only a year ago, we had stood in the same spot, getting ready for our first adventure race of any kind. Starting with a 30-hour race is a little intense, but we were determined in our ignorance. Now, after several adventure races under our belt, we were much more prepared for what we were about to get into. Much better weather with highs in the mid 60's and lows above freezing how bad could it be?
Renee Johnson, Drew Wilson, and myself, Derek Kozlowski, made up Team Adventure Junkies. Additionally, Thomas DeMaria and Karl Johnson, Renee’s husband, formed our support crew. We were determined to do our best this time, and had been plotting our strategy for a year in anticipation of this event. Each of us had achieved several milestones in the previous year that we felt would increase our chances of finishing this grueling race. Renee had competed in her first marathon, Drew had logged several personal best’s in triathlons, and I had summitted Alaska’s Mt. McKinley. Surely we were better prepared than most for this race, with a reputation as being the hardest 30-hour event in the country. [More]

Muttley's "revised" Team of Evia Crump, Cary Kinrose-Wright, Jamie Webster, Derek Weekly & Holly MacSweeney competed in the Fort Bragg Perimeter Challenge on Nov. 4 & 5. In some 19+ hours they did a forced ruck march for 29.2 miles with 20lb. pack, did some obstacles, land nav., paddling, 2 mile litter carry with 98 lbs., and finally a 20 mile sprint to the finish. Here is their story of overcoming foot odor, poor military distance calculations, and electrolyte deficiency for a supreme finish and meeting their team's goals and making a showing as the the best Adventure Racers out there. By Holly "Weeny" MacSweeney
With the Muttley's Gang Team Roster finalized less than a week before the race, and most team members never having met the others, there was a lot of uncertainty about team dynamics & compatibility. I was in the fortunate position to have already met and been slightly familiar with everyone's experience and skill level. To be honest, in my mind, it was very questionable as to whether we would finish the race. My cynicism was not brought on because of a lack of will, desire or drive of any team member; but, merely by the of the lack of experience in 24 hr races, as well as the fact that only one of us had ever run more than 26 miles at one time (Jamie). A few of us may have hiked more than this, but likely no more than 35 miles. The goals of the race were laid out early on by Evia as the following: 1. Have fun; 2. All five team members to finish the race; and 3. Beat at least one military team. Goals 1 & 3 were very achievable (if beating a team meant going further), but Goal 2 was certainly not a given. [More]