Xtreme Endurance: Abu Dhabi Adventure Challenge

The 2nd Annual Abu Dhabi Adventure Challenge will be kicking off on Friday.  This adventure race will be pitting coed teams of four against a six stage, desert romp that features six different disciplines (including the very interesting ‘camel hiking’).  The winning team will take home a share of a $230,000 prize purse.

The Abu Dhabi Adventure Challenge will have participants showing their skills in sea kayaking, camel hiking, cross orienteering, mountain biking, adventure running, rope activities, and in-line skating.  That is a pretty varied list of events that will require all sorts of different skill sets.

The current team line-up can be found here.  It looks like there will be 37 teams competing in this years event, from 27 different countries.  These extreme adventure races always offer up some exciting action and interesting team play, while also throwing in some interesting factors.  Last year’s Abu Dhabi Adventure Challenge seen many of the participants struggle with the camel hiking-an event that many were hoping would not return.  It does make for an interesting twist, trying to control and maintain an animal over a designated area, that most adventure races couldn’t quite incorporate.  Only in the deserts of Abu Dhabi does this event stand a chance of offering an extreme element to the race.  Put these camels in their own environment, lash them to a couple of racers vying for $230,000, and let the fun begin!

The Adventure Blog will be giving regular updates on this event.  I might even throw in a couple of these myself.  We will see how it pans out.  Good luck, everyone!