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$10 for nighttime trekking and orienteering at Robinette’s orchards and woods. A really fun time! 100% thumbs up from past racers. Go to www.miadventureracing.com for details.

Feb 9  Grand Rapids Urban Adventure Race: Winter Edition, 3.5 hrs, Cannonsburg Ski Area April 27  Hurt the Dirt trail race, 10K, half marathon, full marathon, Luton Park, Rockford June 29  Grand Rapids Urban Adventure Race: Summer Edition, 4 hrs, Rockford … Continue reading →

While hundreds of thousands experience basically the same obstacle and mud races from city to city across the U.S. this year, no one will experience anything quite like the ArtPrize Edition of the Grand Rapids Urban Adventure Race. Except you! … Continue reading →

ArtPrize Adventure Race and Zombie Dash Registration Now Open! ~Experience the only adventure race on the planet that throws you in the middle of a world-class art festival and makes you engage in its art while you run, bike, climb, … Continue reading →

Thanks to you, we believe West Michigan now has had more adventure races (our four and at least two others) and racers (over 2,000) since our first GR Urban Adventure Race last July than any city in the nation! Once the … Continue reading →

The Banff Mountain Film Festival takes place in Banff, Canada each fall, and the Banff Centre then sends the best films to locations around the world. The films highlight climbing, mountain biking, mountain expeditions, as well as other outdoor adventure, … Continue reading →

You can’t get to where you want to go if you don’t know where you are. No other skill is more important in adventure racing than navigation. And the most important rule in navigation and orienteering (navigation on a “micro” … Continue reading →

… according to a 2010 study by the Outdoor Foundation, with more than one million participants in 2009, an 18% increase from 2008. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704071704576276914097802174.html