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FLORIDA XTREME is North Florida's Largest Extreme Racing Club which is involved in sports like adventure racing, trail running, off-road triathlons and other endurance events. We are a source for teams and racers to meet, train, learn, gather teammates and race together. FLORIDA XTREME is an organization dedicated to sharing the adventure racing experience with athletes of all fitness levels, skills, and abilities in North Florida and South Georgia. Please sign up to be a member and enjoy great benefits as well as never race alone by using the contact information below. Check us out on Meet-up.com for other training and meetings. Just type in Florida Xtreme Adventure Racing.
Our General Membership is free and our Premeire Membership is only $35 per year. Sign-up todayto be receive our newsletters with information on local training, events and clinics.
Many of us have been competing in running and biking events for years and found that no matter how much training we do that it is very hard to win a solo event. Adventure Racing is about using your brain, teamwork and strategy, not just being the strongest or fastest athlete. At events we have seen the most physically fit teams take off in the wrong direction. Adventure racing has leveled the playing field for athletes that can prepare, plan, navigate, communicate and work hard to win the race without being superstars.
Adventure racing (AR) is an outdoor endurance sport requiring teams of varying size (usually 3 or 4) to travel through a series of checkpoints by varying means of transportation. Most AR events include the following three core disciplines: Mountain biking, Running/hiking and Padding via canoe or kayak.
Many races include other sports, including but not limited to navigation using map & compass, caving, inline skating, river swimming, mountain climbing & rappelling via ropes, whitewater rafting, skiing, archery, sailing and "special" obstacle-based tests. Race durations vary anywhere between 6-hour "sprints" to 10 day "expeditions." To be considered in the competitive class of most races, teams must be mixed-gender and all team members must travel together from start to finish.
A typical event does not disclose the actual race course until just before the start of competition. Many times, teams are merely given topographical maps and a list of numerical coordinates that correspond to each of the checkpoints on the course. Teams must accurately plot these coordinates and on their own determine the best route to take to each point. This often entails both on and off trail travel, so efficient route selection and strategy play an important part of every team's race. A bad navigation decision usually leads to a team getting lost and may cost them time, effort, and energy.
In addition to physical prowess, teamwork and interpersonal dynamics are major factors in determining how well a team performs. Team ingenuity and adaptation to the elements is key rule and not the exception. Teams are usually permitted to come up with innovative ways to speed their progress. For instance, using bungee to tow teammates is a common occurrence on hiking and biking segments. In the past, some teams have resorted to using umbrellas as makeshift sails on flat-water paddling legs.
What is Adventure Racing?
"Never train or race alone!"
Come out and join us and be safe.
Sad Example: The captain of one of the best teams in the Nation (Team MOAT/Peak.com) has passed away after falling more than 150 feet while trail running in Colorado. Reports are that he did not die after the fall and with help may have lived.
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FLORIDA'S PREMIERE ADVENTURE RACING CLUB
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Latest News:
Upcoming Events:
1/01/10
Team Florida Xtreme is set for 2010.
Caption: Jeff Leininger
Bruce Meier
Kim Melzer
Wanda Timmons
12/02/09
Team Florida Xtreme placed 2nd in the Open Division of the Pangea Adventure Racing series for 2009.
11/24/09
Pangea Adventure Racing plans 12 races for 2010.
11/01/09
Track Florida Xtreme on facebook.
Link to FLX Facebook
General Membership is free and our Premeire Membership is only $35 per year. Sign-up today to be receive our newsletters with information on local training, events and clinics.
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The new 2010 Florida Xtreme Adventure Racing Team.
Jeff Leininger, Bruce Meier, Kim Melzer, Wanda Timmons Jim Gorton, Darrell Kinder and Ron Eaglin. We have over 15 races planned for this year and are looking forward to becoming a team to watch. In the first race of the year (Resolution 8 hour) we pulled off... a second place finish in the 4-person coed division and third overall.
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Feb 20th. Stuart, Florida
March 6th. Orlando, Florida
30 and 5 hour races.
April 17th.St Augustine, Florida.
In Memory of David Boyd
APRIL 17th and 18th, 2010 Nocatee, Florida.
Pangea Adventure Racing and Florida Xtreme brings you the Nocatee Conquest (formerly the Atlantic Coast Conquest) 30 hour Elite multi day and 5 hour Sport Adventure Races. This years event begins and ends in the Town of Nocatee with Car Show and Farmers Market to name a few of the activities taking place at the Start/Finish. Great place for family, friends, spectators and media alike.
For more information go to Pangea Adventure Racing
