Hello Everyone,
I hope this finds you all doing well and in good spirits. We would like to thank all of you for your support in building such positive energy for the sport of adventure racing in 2013. It is hard to believe that the The Maya Mountain Adventure Challenge is only a few short months away, and we will soon be starting another season of the NAARS. We have already seen an increased interest in race inclusion for 2014 from across the U.S. thanks to all of us working together. Our crew is excited for yet another year and the opportunity to learn and grow. The 90 minute Docu-Adventure following TeamSOG in the 2012 Season will be airing around the Holiday season on NBC Universal Sports. We will provide more information on dates and airtimes as the air date approaches.
Some of the major subjects that have been thrown around by different RDs that we feel are directly relevant to our sport are:
A. Having a non-profit governing body. USA triathlon, USA Cycling and USA Running have all been directly responsible for the unprecedented growth of their sports. USA Triathlon has seen a 300% growth over the last decade. It is imperative that any governing body for our sport be NON-Profit.
B. GPS?! Everyone has it, it is nearly impossible to officiate its use or (non-use), and it brings a map to your device.
NAARS would like to facilitate a chat session among Race Directors on this and other subjects in late November. If you would like to participate or if you have suggestions that you feel would help our sport continue to grow, please let us know by emailing info@americanadventuresports.com to provide you a date, time, and invite to the chat room.
From a logistics stand point, Gnarly Crew Media has rebuilt the NAARS website for 2014 in hopes of making it cleaner, the results submission process more streamlined, and make the rankings easily accessible for racers. Basically, we think it’s a lot better and welcome any feedback for improvements that we can make upon the platform prior to our series' start in March of 2014. As always we will be trying to get SWAG out as quickly as possible this season with the hopes that our sponsors provide the items upon schedule.
With the addition of new sponsors already, we have been enabled to offer the Regional Championship races over $5,000 worth of gear including a bike rack from the folks at Kuat and a $300 certificate for the winning coed elite team to use towards the 2014 Championship produced in the Badlands, ND by Andy Magness of ENDAR. Prestige and Prime race inclusion will both still be available as well with the same premise as last year. You can review all the perks of each sanctioning level under to Directors page on the new site. The race addition process for the calendar is now open along with the new race results submission form. Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns, we look forward to working with all of you again in 2014 and hope to see you in Belize racing or volunteering. Please contact Doug at doug@americanadventuresports.com if you are interested he can help/hook you up with pricing for traveling and/or competing.
Best Regards,
Ashley Reefer
Director of Business Development
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