[Triangle-AR] Re: Contact from TART Website: which race to start with?

[Sean Butler]

swhight at trimeris.com wrote:
> Dear Triangle Adventure Racing Team,
> A friend and I are interested in doing adventure racing.  We do a lot of trail running.  We have some mountainbike experience and have done a little orienteering with the Backwoods Orienteering Club.  We have a lot of questions on how to get started. i.e., which race to start with?  Where can we learn to rappel, kayak? And any general tips you are willing to share.  Our major dilemma, as I said is which race to start with?
> Any information would be greatly appreciated,
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Sheila and Shelly

[adding triangle-ar]

Hi,

I don't know of any shorter adventure races coming up in the next few 
months, but there are orienteering races and there is the annual soup 
bowl duathlon (x-country run, mtn bike, x-country run).  Orienteering 
will teach you navigation and you can work on you x-country running at 
the same time.  The schedule is:

http://www.treklite.com/bok/schedule.htm

I don't have a link for the soup bowl but you can check out 
http://trianglemtb.com/ as they usually have information in the forums.

Finally, I suggest joining the triangle-ar mail list.  It has been a bit 
quiet but there are some posts for getting together to train.  And 
hopefully in the spring we can put on another training race in the area. 
  Those are great places to start.

/Sean