Check out this video and watch as Team OrionHealth.com crosses the finish line on Primal Quest Badlands Web Episode 8. For more videos, check out http://legendaryrandyericksenfilms.wikispaces.com/

Costa Rica, the new member of the Adventure Race World Series will stage one of the nine races that are held around the world. Prior to the World Championship to be in Spain later in November.

Our last race for the year got off to an auspicious start when our team mate Jacob Roberts called to say he’d come off second best with a car while out biking and had a broken shoulder. Luckily for Jacob he didn’t look as bad as his bike or we’d have been at his funeral.

After a 3-year absence of such an event in the UK, the ‘adidas TERREX Adventure Race‘ will take place in August of 2010. Teams of 4 will compete in this 4-day non-stop expedition race throughout the Lake District (the North West of England). The dates for the event are August 27-30, 2010. Race registration is £1350 per team. The race will include the core AR disciplines as well as some ’surprises taking racers to those hidden gems’.

On today’s biking stage, when many teams anticipated a strong challenge from their nearest rivals, the violent wind that arose during the night proved to be their most persistent adversary.

Check out this video and watch as Team OrionHealth.com heads for the finish line while Salomon/Crested Butte chases them on Primal Quest Badlands Web Episode 7. For more videos, check out http://legendaryrandyericksenfilms.wikispaces.com/

GEELONG’S Grant Suckling employed the wisdom of his little girl to win the Lorne Anaconda Adventure Race on Sunday morning, crossing the line before a crowd of 3,000-plus spectators, just 30 seconds ahead of arch rival Perth’s Sean O’Neill.

Doug Crytzer sent me this video of Team SOG’s Maggie Hamill on her Redpoint of the asthetic overhanging arete, Mutiny (5.11c/d), in the Pirate’s Cove of Summersville Lake, WV.

Since early yesterday morning, the teams have been struggling against the relentless heat and endless dunes of the Rub Al Khali. The leading teams completed the 120km at around 9h30 this morning – they were followed by a long string of teams throughout the afternoon.

At 07:00 this morning the teams left the camp at Liwa Dune for the first day of a gruelling 120km trek through the Rub Al Khali – the legendary and unforgiving “Empty Quarter”.

After a restorative night spent bivouacking on an island north of Abu Dhabi city, the teams set off early this morning for the long paddle back to Corniche Beach.

World records fell at the AIDA Freediving World Championships 2009 Thursday, December 3, with William Trubridge (NZL) and Natalia Molchanova (RUS) setting new marks in the men’s and women’s Constant Weight No Fins (CNF) categories at Dean’s Blue Hole in the Bahamas.

Trubridge, 29, beat his own record set last April by two metres to reach 90m below the surface and become World Champion. The dive took 3min 40sec and it is the third time he has broken this record in two years. Second place was William Winram (CAN) with 86m and Frenchman Guillaume Nery third at 78m.

When it comes to mountain biking in British Columbia, Canada most people hear about the trails around the North Shore in North Vancouver and the trails and bike park in Whistler. However, taking a 1.5 hour ferry ride over to Vancouver Island is well worth the trip with most of the trails being within 1.5 hours of Nanaimo.

America’s Qualifier for the Adventure Racing World Championship in 2010, the Untamed New England, is now accepting team registrations.

The 2010 Untamed New England race will run August 12-15, and be hosted from the famous Balsams Grand Resort in the extreme north of New Hampshire. The race course features 3 days of non-stop paddling, biking, trekking, ropes, orienteering, and environmental conservation projects.

When i first read the tweet this morning from Steve Casmiro, I was in shock. According to the post on The Adventure Life, the magazine will cease operations immediately and the current issue (December/January) will be the last one to be published.

With the technical verifications completed, the 40 teams competing in the 3rd Abu Dhabi Adventure Challenge are ready to take the start tomorrow morning at 8 o’clock for the first day’s racing.

I saw a tweet the other day while on the road and was reminded of it when I was over at The Adventure Blog. The helmet cams have captured so much great video of some great adventures yet some of them I am content to just watch them from the safety of my chair (rather than be the one wearing it at the time-namely waterfall drops). In this video, kayaker Dave Hoffman drops 90 feet off Metlako Falls in Oregon. He stated that the visor on his helmet broke and spray skirt imploded and he had to swin but could not wait to do it again. Very cool indeed!

With the economy still at a historic low, we wanted to discuss ways to get into adventure sports while keeping your budget intact.

Of all the ‘adventure sports’, trail running would have to be the easiest on the wallet. During mild weather, one can just head out the door wearing just about anything. However, if you have ever lived or raced in the south during July or August, it doesn’t take long to figure out that a cotton t-shirt is not quality gear. I don’t remember the last time I bought a cotton t-shirt though they are forever accumulating in my closet from every event in which I compete or volunteer. Cool weather apparel involves a little more of an investment but the dividends will be worth it in the long run and those cotton sweatpants will be a distant memory.

The promise of a topflight competition, coupled with an itinerary that highlights cultural as well as natural splendours, has lured a record number of local teams, newcomers and seasoned squads from around the globe to this year’s Abu Dhabi Adventure Challenge.

The 2009 AIDA Freediving World Championships are now well underway with heats in the men’s and women’s Constant Weight, No Fins (CNF) category already completed at the event location at Dean’s Blue Hole in the Bahamas.

Words I here regularly around the house. My wife Paulette Kirby has joined up with Team Kayak Lake Mead for the February Patagonia Expedition Race. But we will have NO training at our house.

OK. I understand, but then what do you call last weekend?