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Two Rivers Adventure Race

Sat October 26 - Sun October 27, 2024 Philadelphia, PA 19119 US Directions

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Two Rivers Adventure Race

$300 8:00AM EDT - 2:00PM EDT Registration Opens April 5, 2024 at 12:00am EDT

Race Website

Additional race information can be found at https://www.rootstockracing.com/two-rivers-adventure-race.html.

Place

TBA - within two hours of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA US 19119

Description

The Two Rivers Adventure Race returns in 2024 as Rootstock Racing's premier one-day adventure race, combining mountain biking, foot travel, packrafting, canoeing, and map-and-compass navigation, all within two hours of Philadelphia. The thirty-hour event, sanctioned by the US Adventure Racing Association, will serve as the inaugural championship for the Adventure Racing World Series (ARWS) North American Region. The stakes at the race are high: the winning team of the premier division will earn a free entry into the 2025 Adventure Racing World Championship in British Columbia, Canada!

The event will also serve as the final race in the inaugural Mid-Atlantic Autumn Adventure Series, which links together the Two Rivers with Broad Road Off Run's Fall Foliage and Delmarva's Storm the Eastern Shore for an adventure-filled October. Cash prizes available!

This year's race offers everything you have come to expect from Rootstock events: challenging navigation, rewarding checkpoints, plenty of strategy and route choice, and a fun and welcoming community. It is a course ready for top competitors, and it is accessible to newer racers excited to get their feet wet in overnight racing. And you will absolutely get your feet wet! The highlight of the 2024 course will be an expedition-race style trek/packrafting** stage that will offer significant choice in both route and mode of travel. 

While the Two Rivers is not a beginner race, we design the course with all caliber of teams in mind, using a "modified rogaine" format. All teams must complete a designated mandatory route which requires less navigational ability and is short enough that all teams should have time to reach the finish line with adequate baseline fitness. For more experienced teams there will be additional, optional checkpoints to challenge even the fastest teams and best navigators.

**For teams that are not interested in packrafting or not able to secure packrafts, we have designed an alternate course that may involve additional canoeing. Alternate course teams will be ranked behind teams completing the full course as designed.

DIVISIONS: Single-gender and mixed-gender teams of 2-4 racers; male, female, and nonbinary solo athletes

  • Teams in the premier division, mixed-3/4, are eligible to compete for the free entry to the 2025 ARWS World Championship. These teams must have competed in at least one additional race in the North American Series in order to earn the free entry. At least two members from the winning team must be on the roster for the World Championship. 

PRICE:

  • April 1 to July 30: $300 per person (see notes below on pre-registration)
  • August 1 to September 30: $330
  • October 1 to October 21, as space allows: $350 

DISTANCES:

  • Trekking: 25 miles
  • Biking: 60 miles
  • Paddling (canoeing and packrafting combined): 35 miles
  • TOTAL: 120 miles

ENTRY INCLUDES:

  • Custom swag
  • Live tracking
  • Watercraft for canoeing section** (note: racers must provide their own packrafts, paddles, and PFDs for the packraft section)
  • Comprehensive safety team
  • Post-race awards banquet and meal
  • On-course logistics and support
  • Overnight parking
  • High quality event photos
  • Points in both the USARA national rankings and the ARWS rankings

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