Burton and Job entered their first Adventure Race a year ago in February.
That's the kind of twisted logic that prevails in an adventure race.
As a result, an adventure race isn't necessarily to the swift.
"It's really more a matter of smarts than muscle, " says Secades, whose Venture 4 team won the Cal Eco Adventure race in 37 hours, 55 minutes.
I'd be paddling a kayak for the final segment of this seven-hour adventure race, so there was no need to conserve what was left of my aching knees and burning thighs.
The Los Angeles Police Department's SWAT guys are pretty tough fellas, but several of them had to be airlifted out of the Sierra Nevada mountains in the middle of an adventure race.
Do you really want to trade in a madcap romantic adventure culminating in a frantic race to the airport for a quick fiddle with Facebook mobile?
This time-hopping and time-wasting adventure stars Emilio Estevez as a race-car driver and Mick Jagger as the high-tech body snatcher who plunks Estevez out of a car wreck and sends him eighteen years into the future.
Technically a team event that includes an element of navigation, the term adventure racing has now grown to describe any race using two or more disciplines, such as running, biking or kayaking.
While the world's best adventure racers tend to be in outstanding physical shape, it's their guile and shrewdness that win the race.
The race, launched in 1992 by sailor Sir Chay Blyth , attracts more first-time sailors looking for adventure than it does veteran seafarers.
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