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Title: Yukon River Quest Post by: gcheung on November 07, 2009, 02:07:43 PM Has anyone completed this race, where you paddle 740 km from Whitehorse to Dawson City? We are a new adventure racing team and are looking into doing this race. Any insites would really help.
Thanks Title: Re: Yukon River Quest Post by: madcap on November 07, 2009, 05:37:32 PM Contact Andrea Dillon at [email protected]. She and her friends did it in 2006.
Title: Re: Yukon River Quest Post by: gcheung on November 08, 2009, 11:55:21 AM Thanks madcap! I hope she responds.
Title: Re: Yukon River Quest Post by: glowing_ice on November 09, 2009, 11:51:08 AM it's a crazy event dude... i would probably attempt it once in my life time. prepare for close to zero sleep and paddling like a zombie.
Title: Re: Yukon River Quest Post by: EWL on November 09, 2009, 03:06:45 PM it's a crazy event dude... i would probably attempt it once in my life time. prepare for close to zero sleep and paddling like a zombie. I'm not sure if the zero sleep and paddling like a zombie sounds like fun... hahaha... Where would you even find more info on this? Just to see how you can get to zero sleep and zombie paddling... Title: Re: Yukon River Quest Post by: NFW on November 09, 2009, 11:24:38 PM Once in a lifetime adventure for sure...so you can at least say you've done it lol
more info -> http://www.yukonriverquest.com/ Title: Re: Yukon River Quest Post by: Openocean on November 15, 2009, 12:31:46 PM Just so you know:
There are now three races on the Yukon river full race: Whitehorse to the Arctic Ocean - about 1000 klm The Yukon River Quest - This is the classic - Whitehorse to Dawson - 700+ klms and 52 plus hours Yukon Race - about 320 klm takes takes 30 plus hours with two 8 hour rests- reasonable The later race is scheduled in August and every year they will pick a different course. Sounds Like fun ! Title: Re: Yukon River Quest Post by: gcheung on November 15, 2009, 04:26:47 PM Andrea still hasn't responded to me. I just have questions about multi day canoe trips. Thats a lot of paddling, and I was wondering what the smartest and most efficient way of training for it is to avoid injury when come race time. We are doing off season training, nothing on water yet. I guess I can look into OC 6. Since they do a lot longer distances.
Thanks in advance Title: Re: Yukon River Quest Post by: NFW on November 15, 2009, 08:32:39 PM Training with OC6 will definitely help.
As for injury prevention, I'd recommend LOTS of stretching, dedicate at least 15-30 minutes for it. Title: Re: Yukon River Quest Post by: mandachan on November 16, 2009, 10:32:21 PM My teammate has done it (with Andrea I believe) and she hallucinated during the race... she swore she saw Elvis.
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