IT Consultancy and Adventure Racing

For a while now Adventure Racing has been touted as the fastest growing team sport in the world.

I'm not convinced this is true, maybe in the first year when it went from about 100 idiots worldwide to about 1000, but certainly in NZ the numbers seem to have stabilised, and though new faces appear at most races, old faces are also starting to drop out.

The main problem with AR is that it brings you into contact with so many different groups of people, all of whom you have to go out training with, and it doesn't take long for AR and Multisport ( after all, you can't always find team mates, so you have to practise and race solo too ) to take over your life!

If you're in Wellington then you can do a lot worse than get on Shane Ross' email list, which keeps people up to date with what's going on in the MS scene around the NZ capital ( drop me an email and I'll forward your address on to Shane ), as well as joining the Wellington Ridge Runners Yahoo group. So that's Kayaking and off road running covered, then you should probably pop across to the pnp website, and get involved in Road and/ or MTB riding there, and bingo, all your free time is suddently taken up with Rogaines, kayak races and thrashing your bike up to the windmill and back!

In 2005 I formed Capital Stamina with Barry, Shane, Claire and Helen. In 2007, after going through half a dozen female leads, we competed in XPD 3rd Ed. with Kirstine.

This was the culmination of 3 years effort as a team, which has seen us win the Arrow 24 hr championships twice, and a hard year for me personally, which had already included GORAR in Australia, and Worlds in Scotland!

May/ June 2007 - Thoughts and details about worlds.

August 2007 - Race report on the way, but in the meantime here are some lessons learnt at XPD.

OK, here's the report

2008 is now being spent with a new team, 4TC, that currently consists of myself, Danielle Winslow and Grant Burke ( though we have already had guest appearances from Rachel Ockelford and Sakkie Meyer ), and kicked off to a succesful start at the Mountain HardWear Edge of Reality