| The Coming 2006 Ace Race Season - Phil Humphries |
14 meg |
| Start the year by planning to do something different!
The Ace Race Series is a good way to dip you toe into the Adventure Racing
with one, two and five day events to test your fitness and navigation. Everything
for the total novice to the British Championships in Scotland. An interview
full of solid information. |
21/12/05
30 mins
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| Olympic Canoeist Andy Train |
14 meg |
| Andy Train tells us what its like to be in the Olympics
5 times representing the UK from 1984 to 2000. Perhaps not a backpacking
topic, but interesting all the same to hear about the back breaking training
our champions put themselves through to compete with the world’s best! |
20/11/05
31 mins
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| New York Marathon. So good he ran it twice! |
11 meg |
| Stuart Brown returns from New York and tells us
all about the atmosphere and his feeling as he ran at the biggest US event
of its kind. Full of useful and practical tips if you ever feel like attempting
a high profile marathon or would like to make the trip to New York independently. |
18/11/05
24 mins
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| Ace Racer Lucy Prosser gives us the low down on the XXX |
13 meg |
| Top 5 finisher of the XXX Ace Events Lucy Prosser gives us
an idea of what’s involved in these tough 2 day events, what activities
you have to undertake and why it is an ideal first time event for someone
who wants to push themselves that little bit harder. |
16/11/05
28 mins
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| KIMM 2005 Event Preview |
7.2 meg |
| What’s in store for us at
this years KIMM? How tough is the course going to be? We will have to wade
through a knee-deep river of mud to get to the campsite? Is there a bar?
Are there toilets? What should the first-timer have to consider? All these
questions are answered and more when we speak to the organiser Jen Longbottom
and course designer Steve Willis. |
19/10/05
15 mins
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| The toughest footrace on Earth! The Marathon des Sables |
16.7 meg |
| In 2005 Mark Brittain undertook the ‘toughest footrace
of earth’ advertised as ‘the world of lunatics and masochists’, the Marathon
Des Sables. It is easy to see why. 7 Days running 151 miles or 243km across
the Moroccan desert in 120 degrees carrying all your own kit! |
6/10/05
36 mins
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| Adventure Racing an amateur female perspective |
8.2 meg |
| Heather Elston a local part time adventure racer talks
to us about the KIMM the LAMM and how she fits it all into her everyday
life. With a full time job, a family of teenagers and everyday domestic
chores we find out from Heather what adventure racing can be like at a fun
level. |
6/10/05
17 mins
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