there's something satisfying about looking for a checkpoint in the middle of the woods and finding it.

I mean, it's like you're a little kid finding a birthday present or opening a birthday present.

It's just like, it's really exciting.

And you're like, okay, a little success.

Now let's find another one, you know.

It's addictive in a lot of ways.

Yeah. you know it's addictive in a lot of ways Hey folks, welcome to the adventure to the adventure sports podcast. I'm your host, Mason Gravely. Today we're talking to Mark Latanzi about adventure racing. If you've heard of adventure racing, we've definitely featured it on the show, people who've done adventure racing before. But we've never just gone over what is the sport, how to do at least not in a long time there has been a

resurgence recently with the amazon documentary coming out a few years ago about the

eco challenge in fiji someone who's a part of that adventure was mark here mark has been in this

adventure racing world for over 20 years he's literally written a book about it, loves to teach people,

and loves to introduce new people. So I thought he'd be a great guest to feature just about

this sport and some of the things I can do. But Mark's going to tell you more about what adventure

racing is, why people do it, and some of the ways that you can get involved. But before we jump in,

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