On a Personal Note – The Quoll Adventuregaine

After photographing extreme sports, outdoor adventure for the last few years, I kind of felt it was time to re-ignight that burning flame that was hidden away inside. You could almost say the jealousy was painful, the athletes striving towards there personal goals and reaping the rewards, friendship’s a big one for me.

So two years on I have been actively involved in the Adventure Racing community and haven’t looked back since, becoming a better mountain biker, trail runner and have kayaking skills which often get laughed at. But that’s a whole other story. As I’ve said before “this is just the start of my adventure career”.

What I really wanted to share with you is my last race the Quoll Adventuregaine, a long (33hr) or short course (15hr) depending on how fit you are feeling, this race involves a series of hike, bike, canoe stages while navigating. The real explanation from Adventure Sport website.

Like the small native marsupial that the event draws its name from, the Northern Quoll, this event is a cryptic, partly nocturnal event designed to challenge your physical endurance, team work and navigation skills while traversing a wide variety of landscapes. A sequential multiple rogaine or orienteering format allows competitors to re-group throughout the course in a friendly race format that will make the 2009 Quoll Adventuregaine a challenging yet achievable event for athletes of all abilities.

Andre an adventure specialist, outdoor educator and all-round good guy tee’d us up to compete as a team for the 15hr Adventuregaine, settling on ‘The Murray Anderson-Clemence experience featuring Andre Vogel’ for a team name. The race was very challenging with a lack of sleep and a constant burring in my legs (I guess that’s that flame I was trying to re-ignight – bugger!) we traveled on. Being the second time I’ve raced with Andre we pan out to be a relaxed well oiled team and in the future we will race on.

See us in action below, thanks Darren Osmand for theses awesome images.