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2008 Race Winners: Team Summit Achievement from Maine (Jeffrey Woods, Sarah Tilton, Chris Hayward)
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2008 2nd Place: Running Free from Quebec, CA (Harper Forbes, John Ranson, Denise Rispolie, James Galipeau)
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2008 3rd Place: Team Littleton Bike & Fitness from Littleton, NH (Dave Stiles, Jamie Myers, Jennifer Johnson, Melanie Brown)
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The Untamed New England Adventure Race
Untamed New England is proud to become an AR World Series event and a qualifier
for the Adventure Race World Championship. The AR World Series is a circuit
of 10 premiere adventure races creating a 12 month calendar of professional
events around the world. A world champion will be crowned at the 2009 Adventure Racing World
Championship in Portugal in December, and podium finishers at Untamed New England
will qualify for this Championship race! Read the full press release.
For three days, July 9-12 2009, teams will race non-stop through the mountains, rivers, and forests
of Untamed New England. They must travel under their own power.
Teams will navigate with map and compass through pine forests, wetlands, and mountains;
paddle rivers fed by melting snow; bike staggering mountain passes and twisty trails;
dangle from ropes on exposed cliff faces.
The racing is non-stop until they cross the finish line.
There are no aid stations, no support crews, no specified "rest" periods; it's just the team,
totally self-sufficient, against the Untamed New England course.
Follow the 2009 race in the Live Race Portal>>
Review the 2008 race >>
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More Race News . . .
The 2008 race gets underway on July 9th, and all the latest from the event will be available starting July 1st
in our
Live Race Portal >>.
Members of the Media may want to visit our Media section, and sign up to get email dispatches
fresh from the race course (once the race begins,
they go out every 8 hours and include photos, standings, and more)>>
Environmental Focus
For years, Untamed Adventure has been on the forefront of the "green" racing revolution. Untamed New England
is proud to be carbon neutral (through carbon credit programs), adhere to sustainable course
designs, and include conservation projects in the course -- participants help their community in a very real and
hands on way!
Check out this video from a conservation project in the 2008 Untamed New England;
teams helped the Forest Society to organize their sustainable fuel (timber) for the next winter by doing some
manual labor for a great cause:
Here are some of the other things we've included in past races:
- During a trekking leg, adventure race teams marked 7 miles of trails with tree-friendly signage
- During a paddling leg, adventure race teams removed heavy rubber tires from a river and paddled them to our pre-arranged
tire-drop depot
- Teams organized thousands of pounds of timber for use by the Forest Society's sustainable wood-burning stove system
- During a biking leg, adventure race teams cleared deadfall and brush from overgrown trails
We've done many other creative green projects as part of our races . . . trash pick-up, invasive species removal,
bird habitat recovery, and more.
We absolutely walk the walk on environmental responsibility and it distinguishes our races in a great way!
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