wanting to find out about as many adventury type races around the world for a project of mine… things like;

tour divide
that red bull trans-alp paraglide race
marathon de sables
that patagonian adventure race etc

any other ideas??

cheers!

http://www.adventurousexperiences.com/…/isle-of-man-adventure-race.aspx

Ben Nevis Triathlon…

Also check out the X Terra stuff, and then what’s that super grim one involving military style punishment?

EDIT: Ah yes.. Tough Guy http://www.toughguy.co.uk/

cool – thanks – any more for any more?

and if you’ve done them yourself, my email is tamarvin @ googlemail.com…!

Marathon De Sables. If you can get a place on it, that should really push you.

Failing that, have you considered something like the Alcatraz Ironman? Three sports in one and a lovely location to do them all in.

What’s the project?

alcatraz ironman sounds interesting…

molgrips – looking for interesting content/articles/interviews for a website (adventure travel) 🙂

oh, and some day i’d quite like to enter some of them!

http://www.comrades.com/

http://www.badwater.com/

There’s loads more than this, but this’ll get you started
SleepMonsters (AR forum and links to loads of events)
Open Adventure (AR Long and Short)
Adidas TerreX (AR/Coast to Coast alternating year to year)
Run Further UK Ultra Series (Running only)
Endurance Life (Run 10k-Ultra’s, Tri, AR inc. coast to Coast)
Racing The Planet (MDS like without the 3 year wait)
UTMB (CC and PTL too)
The Heb (AR lots of different formats now Joe’s running it)
3 Peaks Yacht Race (Sail, Run and short Bike, full for this year though I think)

that lot will keep you going for a while

I’ve done a fair few of these and have got a few on this year
or know people that have a lot of them

search SleepMonsters for the foreign ones they list/cover most of ’em

http://www.alaskaultrasport.com

Endurance Life are putting on the first off road Iron Man* in 2012.

Also look at the Norseman Tri, which is aparantly the hardest Iron Man race.

* it’s Iron Man distance but not an actual Iron Man event.

awesome, thanks for those. some inspiration there too!

29erkeith, i may get in touch at some point, if thats ok!

I attempted the English Channel last year as a solo swim, having a go at the Devices to Westminster canoe race next year. 125 miles nonstop paddling runs over Easter weekend. Should take about 20 hours to complete.

Arch to Arc London to Paris triathlon
Cook Strait Swim Swim from north to south island in NZ (my girlfriend has done this and the Channel)
Kepler Challenge 60 km off-road run

And I’ve done both Tour Divide and Iditarod Trail Invitational.

Don’t forget the strathpuffer.

Bike only but what views!
Wicklow 200

fantastic, thanks

aidan, i might get in touch with you too, perhaps!

Devises (sp?) Westminster is a famous route in canoeing circles. You’ll need to find a partner to do the one day race thoug.

There’s one on the Yukon as well but that’s harder to get to on a weekend.

When we were in BC there were some people racing down the coast of Canada in seakayaks.

There’s the Green river race which is only short but challenging!

@ hungry monkey, yeah no worries email in profile