Eager for Adventure? Sign Up Here ; Contestants Will Be Faced with a Variety of Physical and Mental Challenges When Plymouth's First 'Adventure Race' Takes Place Later This Year. The Precise Course and Activities Are a Closely Guarded Secret and Will Only Be Revealed On the Morning of the Marjon Adventure Day (Mad), but Reporter Dominic Jeff Met the Organisers to Get a Taste of the Activities On Offer

Plymouth Evening Herald, The › August 06, 2009

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KAYAKING across stretches of open sea, abseiling from a football stadium, holding a jellied eel in your mouth - these are the kinds of challenge you could face if you enter the Plymouth MAD race.

Of course, first you'll have to find where the challenges are taking place using map and compass, and run or cycle between them.

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Eager for Adventure? Sign Up Here ; Contestants Will Be Faced with a Variety of Physical and Mental Challenges When Plymouth's First 'Adventure Race' Takes Place Later This Year. The Precise Course and Activities Are a Closely Guarded Secret and Will Only Be Revealed On the Morning of the Marjon Adventure Day (Mad), but Reporter Dominic Jeff Met the Organisers to Get a Taste of the Activities On Offer

Adventure racing is said to have started with the Karrimor International Mountain Marathon, a blend of longdistance fell- running and orienteering that required participants to carry all their kit for a multi-day event ...

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