See It Icebreaker Zone Long Sleeve Half Zip Wool Base Layers Use three AAA batteries or throw in the CORE USB rechargeable battery. The red mode doesn’t blind your teammates. The Petal Actik has a wide or mixed beam and a few brightness settings. Having light is vital to see where you’re going and what you’re doing. It’s dark and everyone is tired and hungry. Here is some highly recommended gear that should last longer than you will. When you’re days into a tough leg on an adventure race, your gear has to perform flawlessly. I took gear that I had tested and put through the wringer on training sessions. For this race it was a mix of these three, but durability won over all. Kuenster: Durability or weight depending on the race. On shorter races you can get away with light gear that functions okay, but in an expedition race where you can be on course for 10 days, you need gear that will function as intended and hold up for the length of the race. Harte: Use specific gear that is light in weight, but balanced with durability. TM: How do you decide what gear you take with you? Weight? Flexibility? Multi-use? Also a better headlamp mine crapped out on the first night. By the end though, I think I perfected the ‘squat and back the ass up’ moves required to dodge getting tangled going through dense areas. Breaking through bush, ferns taller than my head, and fighting through vines with a two piece paddle stuck in my pack (aka rabbit ears) proved, err, patience testing as I continuously got caught on things. TM: What gear did you wish you had on your last race? Green: Rain jacket, rain pants, running tights, bike shorts, wool base layers, light weight puffy, toque, gloves, poles (essential with a heavy pack and coming off a broken leg) waterproof socks, headlamp, tent, stove, pot, dry suit, packraft, pfd, helmet, two-piece paddle, bike, and all my bike gear. Everything for trekking, kayaking, pack rafting, mountain biking, climbing and caving. TM: What gear did you take on your last race? Green: By being harassed into it by friends? If you do not know anyone already racing you can often join a team via the internet or race website. Harte: If possible find a friend who is already adventure racing and join them for a half day race or a distance you feel comfortable with. The longer legs of the race definitely added an extra mental and physical challenge, especially when your packs are super heavy carrying all of your food, gear, boats, PFDs, white water helmets and paddles! Each race has its unique flavor depending on terrain, race director, weather, and race field. The legs of the race (sections before you changed up disciplines) were often a day or longer, versus a few hours that you see in shorter races. Green: FUN! If you are into eight days of suffering in one of the most beautiful places in the world–which luckily I am. Not many in the world live up to that standard. Where teamwork and safety and skills preparation are critical. Kuenster: GODZone was a true expedition race in the spirit of the old-school adventure races. Some sections of the course were measured in days and not hours. You were very much on your own in the wilderness and waterways and you had to look out for your safety as well as you ability to complete the course quickly. In the case of GODzone, it had a true “Expedition” feel, which also referred to the difficulty of the task at hand. Harte: GODZone is an “Expedition” race, which typically refers to the length of time or days in which you will be racing. TM: What is the GODzone adventure race like? Stephanie Green: I’m a newer addition to the team! We placed first in the money category in the 2017 San Luis Obispo Dawn to Dusk adventure race. Since then we have continued to notch showings at international expedition races as well as local shorter races. Tim Kuenster: The NorCal team name originated in 2014 when we went to do our third trip to do the Patagonian Expedition Race. Eventually a group of us from work decided to enter a 24-hour race and it was all of our first time racing. It took many years before I would race myself, but I never lost sight of the dream to adventure race. The Manual: How did the NorCal Team start?Ĭanice Harte: I first became aware of adventure racing watching the ECO Challenge and was instantly hooked. At the end we get into some recommendations for solid gear to start with. Team members Canice Harte, Tim Kuenster, Andrew Peterson, and Stephanie Green took some time away from training for the Expedition Oregon adventure race to answer a few questions. We caught up with Team NorCal just after they finished the GODZone adventure race in New Zealand, one of the hardest adventure races in the world.
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