The Great Adventure Challenge – Royal National Park, New South Wales
Volunteered for an adventure race called “The Great Adventure Challenge“. It was held in the Royal National Park and was a corporate focused event aimed at raising funds for an organization called Starlight. This was the first adventure race I have seen first-hand and witnessing the competition has gotten me interested in pursuing adventure racing in between triathlon. Next week I am currently scheduled to volunteer for a marathon in Sydney, but am thinking about going up to volunteer with the same race crew at a 24 hour adventure race instead. The Royal National Park has a variety of terrain, is relatively tourist free, and there is a rail line that goes directly to the park from the city.
Getting on rail to go to the park
One of the stages involved building a raft out of 3 tubes, 3 planks and a pole, and a variety of lengths of rope. The participants had to carry the supplies down from the top of a ridge to the beach.
The lead team heads out
Teams racing to build their boats and complete the stage
The fight over who will be last place at this stage
The last to finish building their vessel heads out
Seven hours in and a few stages later the course has started to conquer some individuals
The inaugural winners enjoy their victory champagne out of their trophy
