The adventure lifestyle

About a month ago I was reading about training for adventure racing, and stumbled upon a comment that was something along the likes of - training for AR is easier if you have an adventure lifestyle.

What the person meant was that if hiking and cycling are part of your recreational activities, something that you do routinely during the weekends and after work, then it gets massively easier to just enroll in a race - compared to how it would be if you only did non-adventurous activites like reading or watching movies in your free time.

We are very much into the adventure lifestyle, always looking to do something physical of that kind when we have free time - which I guess is also why I am drawn to running and cycling longer distances rather than just a 10k, for instance. In fact, it always struck me when in the past I met people who did run, but never more than 15ks as they like the speed of those shorter distances - as I felt like they were missing something. I was listening to a podcast with Amelia Boone just yesterday while gardening in which she said the same thing - hence the timing of today’s post.

To each their own - as always..