USARA Adventure Racing National Championships
Hidden Valley, PA
October 15-16, 2010
Weather: Cold and wet to start, sunny through the day, cold and windy during the night

Race Report by Jeff Dicky

To close out my season, I’ve been doing some long distance racing – the Shenandoah 100, an 18 hour adventure race at the end of September, and most recently, the USARA Adventure Race National Championships in and around Hidden Valley, PA.  The national championship race is a 30 hour co-ed event for teams of 3 that included something like 150k of mountain biking, 3-4 hours of kayaking, and a whole lot of running/trekking and orienteering. 

I was racing with my adventure racing team, Team Remington-Mountain Khakis/Trakkers, a team I’ve been with for a few years, who had fielded two co-ed and one masters teams for the event.  Going into the race, the R-MK/T team was the #1 ranked team in the US.

Unfortunately, the pro mountain bike woman who I was to race with broke her foot a few weeks before the race and we were just able to find a sub for her before the event started.

The race started off cold and early with a short orienteering course around the Hidden Valley ski area (this was after we had less than an hour to plot out all of our checkpoints on two huge maps and try to determine the best route).…

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Categories: Adventure Racing, Biking, Nutrition, Race Reports

The Trakkers Adventure Racing team has picked up several new sponsors to help send its teams to several national races and well as some international races.  The team picked up two new sponsors for theses events.  The Remington Arms Company – http://www.remington.com/ and Mountain Khakis – http://www.mountainkhakis.com/ have signed on as new premiere sponsors for the team.  They have provided both financial support as well as team gear for the team.  The team is currently ranked #1 in the in the United States Adventure Racing Association ranking system – http://www.usara.com/ going into the final race of the season.  The USARA National race will take place this Friday in Hidden Valley, PA.  The Adventure Racing team qualified in several races this season and will have three different team racing this Friday in a 30 hour Adventure Race covering over 100 miles in the mountains of Southern Pennsylvania.

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After Seven Years of Adventure Racing I have never completed a perfect race.  It’s almost an impossible feat.  That is why we Adventure Race.  The concept of Adventure Racing is making adjustments as new challenges are thrown at you during a race.  The team that wins is the team that goes as fast as possible and makes the fewest mistakes. You cross train by trail running, mountain biking, canoeing, swimming, orienteering, map reading, race strategies, and climbing.  I now have 75 races behind me and one perfect race. 

We have been racing as the Trakkers Adventure Racing team for the last two years and have gained a lot of good experience during that time.  We are fortunate enough to be ranked #1 in the USARA ranking in 2010.  With good results comes national attention and we have gained new sponsors because of our results.  As of last week our team name changed to Remington\Mountain Khakis – Trakkers.  We added two new premier sponsor to the Adventure Racing team.  The Black Beard Adventure Race in Nags Head, North Carolina was to be our first race under our new name.

I was racing in the co-ed division with Veronica Ivey and Greg Voelkel.  Veronica’s is in her 20’s, Greg’s in his 30’s and I’m in my 40’s, so we were representing a 20 year age gap.  The race course was…

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Categories: Adventure Racing, Biking, Events, Race Reports, Race Results

The Trakkers Adventure Racing team sent two team to the Odyssey July 24 race.  Our 24 hour team finished second in the One Day Race and our sprint team finished 1^st in their race.  It was a great family friendly activity for both teams.  Michael, Greg, Timm, and Veronica raced in the sprint race.  The race consisted of a two mile mountain climb prolog run followed by a quick transition to an eight mile run\trek to find two checkpoints.  After the trekking section we ran to the river for a three mile paddle.  The river was really low so we had to drag our canoes over the rocks at least 10 times.  Once we exited the water we were still in the top two teams.  We jumped on our bikes and pulled ahead of everyone.  We hit the first checkpoint and then head back down the mountain for a river crossing.  However the map had a road crossing the river that was torn down 20 years ago and we were now on private property.  The owner tracked us down on an ATV and let it be known we were on private property.  We let them see our maps and let them know about the race and asked their advice about routes and they decided not to shoot us and let us mover along to the next checkpoint.  We got to a rail to trail path and arrived at checkpoint 9…

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Categories: Adventure Racing, Family & Friends, Race Reports, Racing

Team Trakker wins the Wild and Wonderful 24 hour Adventure Race bye 5 seconds over ROC.  Full race report will follow once the team wakes up.

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Categories: Adventure Racing, Team
Tags: Adventure Racing

Team Trakker is currently in 1st place at the Wild & Wonderful Adventure Race.  If they finish in the top three they will be ranked #1 in the USARA Ranking – http://www.usara.com/current_rankings.aspx and #1 in the Checkpoint Tracker rankings – http://www.checkpointtracker.com/rankings.  This will be the first time a team has been ranked 1st in both ranking system.  Rock on team Trakkers.  You can follow them online at – http://www.checkpointtracker.com/events/15

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Categories: Triathlons

 Yough Xtreme Adventure Race 2010 – Team Trakkers Race Report & Results
Date: April 24, 2010
Attendees: 140
Race Start Weather 46 degrees and light rain 
Race start – Greg and Cassie are in front to me

The race consisted of about 35+ miles of mountain bike trails with relentless climbs and scary downhill’s, a paddle section of 9 miles of whitewater with up to class III rapids and a lot of slow flat water in between. About 15 miles of running and 20 seconds of walking and a  140′ rappel that was cancelled because of rain.

How about doing ALL the above in hypothermia-inducing rain, chilled to the bone, with cramping muscles.  Yes we can!!!!!!!

Team Trakker had seven racers in the race.  Team 1 (Mike, Cassie, and Greg), Team 2 (Tim, Danielle, and Scott) and Monika was racing with team ATP. We plotted out our race strategy on Friday night.  They gave us all the checkpoints in advance except the orienteering course.  Doug Crytzer of American Adventure Sports stated that this course was not about strategy but about speed.  He said don’t over think it just run the race.  However we all plotted out different strategies for the race about routing, transition, clothing, nutrition, and speed.

Here’s the race map to highlight the elevation and terrain.

At 8 am sharp, Doug started off the racers for a lung-busting…

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Categories: Adventure Racing, Events, Race Reports, Race Results, Racing
Tags: Trakkers Adventure Racing

The Trakkers Adventure Racing team enters the 2010 season ranked # 2 in the Nation in both the USARA and Checkpoint Tracker ranking systems.  The team has been training all around the country over the last few months and now enters their upcoming races with a hunger to move into the top spot in the nation.

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Categories: Adventure Racing
Tags: Adventure Racing, Canoeing, Endurance sports, map reading, Mountain biking, Trail running

The Trakkers Adventure Racing team enters the 2010 season ranked # 2 in the Nation in Bothe the USARA and Checkpoint Tracker ranking systems. The team has been training all around the country over the last few months and now enters their upcoming races with a hunger to move into the top spot in the nation.

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Tags: Adventure Racing, Canoeing, Endurance sports, map reading, Mountain biking, Trail running

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