Adventure Racing

Adventure racing is a sport of the future. Especially in France and the US this is the most growing and trendy sport. In France itself there are over 600 competitions each year. Adventure racing is a team sport (2-4 people per team, each team must contain at least one person from the opposite sex) in which you move from point to point. The basic disciplines are:

  • Orientieering
  • Mountainbiking
  • Kayaking
  • Climbing/Adventure skills


    • Each of these sports can be repeated several times within the same race, depending upon format and lenght of the particular race.

    There can be also other disciplines such as hydrospeed, inline skating or canyoning.

    This newly and fascinating sport of adventure racing attracks the worlds best athletes: The best teams exist out of world champions from sports such as triathlon, orienteering, winter triathlon, canoeing, mountainbiking etc...
    The media interest is huge. Not just the spectacular pictures from repelling, tyrolien travers or hydrospeed give inspirations, but also reflection on team spirit, cameradery, stamina and mother natures beauty.

    Adventure racing is for everybody. For the beginner as well as for the professional. There are races that take 2-4 hours, whereas other races such as Raid Gauloise or Eco Challenges last until 7 days. But short or long: the experiences are the same: team spirit, cameradery, physical and mental challenges and all that while facing the elements.

    X-adventure racing serie is:

    > 5 adventure races around the world
    > 4 stages in Europe, 1 stage in USA
    > established itself as the "world cup" of adventure racing and is the offical qualifyer of the Raid Gauloises 2003
    > overall result for each years serie
    > for each stage: 20-25h effort, 200-250km and 4000-8000m altitude change
    > 5-18 disciplines which are: MTB, canoe, orienteering, kayak, climbing and Inline.
    > Teams contain 4 people (at least one of opposite sex) and 1-2 support people. Three competitors are always in action, while the fourth person meets up with the team in the following transition.
    > Each team is over 36h in competition. The material such as 4 MTB, shoes, clothes, inline, canoe etc..) is transported by the support vehicle from transition to transition.