Adventure Racing - Softcover

Marais, Jacques; Speville, Lisa De

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0736059113 ISBN 13: 9780736059114

Verlag: Human Kinetics Publishers, 2004

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Take the ultimate endurance challenge! Adventure Racing is the complete guide to the skills, equipment, strategies, navigation, and nutrition used by the top adventure racers around the globe.

Start with the right gear to perform your best—even in desert, rainforest, and subzero environments. Then learn the skills for trekking, mountain biking, canoeing and kayaking, and mountaineering.

Insights on team strategy, use of support crews, map reading, and magnetic deviation will keep you on track. And the right fuel for changing conditions, medical know-how, and survival skills will keep you in the race.

Profiles and stories from the top races and adventure racers provide a taste of the exciting challenges of the sport. They'll inspire you to test yourself time and again in the most addictive team endurance sport on the planet.

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Jacques Marais is a professional photographer, writer, and consulting editor who specializes in adventure, eco, and wilderness activities based in southern Africa. He is a regular contributor to a host of leading South African magazines and newspapers, and his work is regularly featured in magazines such as Men's Health, Sports Illustrated, Discovery Magazine, and Runner's World. Through his extensive international travels, Marais has compiled a vast library of photography showcasing the most remote and beautiful corners of the globe.

Marais lives in Cape Town, South Africa.

Lisa de Speville received her honors degree in medical cell biology, but her passion for sport and adventure has dominated her career direction. She is the owner and editor of South Africa's adventure racing Web site, www.AR.co.za, and works as a freelance journalist, Web designer, and adventure racing camerawoman. Speville won Brazil's Jungle Marathon in 2003, and she has completed numerous multiday adventure races and solo self-sufficient ultra footraces.

Speville lives in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Human Kinetics Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0736059113
• ISBN 13: 9780736059114
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160
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