The Addiction Adventure Race

The Addiction is a 2-day, non-stop, expedition-style adventure race—where teams of 2, 3 and 4 will trek, bike, paddle and navigate using a map and compass across a 160 to 180 mile linear racecourse in the Piedmont region of Virginia. Teams will travel through dense forest and trails, small Virginia towns that were all but forgotten with the rise of the industrial age and the decline of the railroad, and paddle historic rivers that were once the highways of Colonial Virginia.​

The Piedmont is one of 5 distinct geological regions that make up the state of Virginia. Our vision for the race is that every episode of The Addiction will take place in a different region of the state. Virginia is a playground for outdoor adventure—from the Cumberland Plateau to the Great Appalachian Valley, Blue Ridge Mountains, and the Tidewater region that flows into the Atlantic. 

With numerous outdoor recreation spaces—from state parks and forests to smaller local parks and trails systems—there is so much great land to play on. The Piedmont region is rich in American history—from the last battles of the civil war, to Jefferson’s Monticello, the rise of the railroad, where tobacco was king and people lived and died by the flow of the mighty and historic James River. 

​The Addiction is a sanctioned USARA event and 2019 Regional Qualifier for the USARA National Championships held in September.

Attention Ladies!  The Women of AR campaign is back and offering $300 scholarships to the first ten all-female teams to qualify and register for the 2019 USARA Adventure Race National Championship!

We are happy to support USARA’s Women of AR and with that we will match USARA's $300 sponsorship for the all-female division (2-, 3- and 4-person teams), provided we have at least three teams in the category. So get your friends together and let’s see some awesome Buff Betty’s take on The Addiction, and then the National Championships.