Primal Quest Badlands: 600 miles of human drama
South Dakota (Global Adventures): One of the world's most challenging human endurance competitions will start on Friday, August 14. Primal Quest Badlands gets underway in South Dakota, where teams of four will embark on a ten-day, non-stop adventure race across 600-miles of challenging back country. They will run, trek, mountain bike, and paddle their way across the course, with a little spelunking and climbing thrown into the mix.
The race will require the teams to navigate their way, using just a compass and map, through a series of checkpoints that are strategically placed across the course. Good navigation skills will save time and energy, while inexperienced navigators can easily get lost, costing the team precious time.
Primal Quest runs non-stop once the starting gun sounds. That means that the teams will be racing for up to ten days, with little or no sleep and down time. The athletes will need to decide how long they can go without rest, and how long they can afford to sleep. While the race is underway, most teams will get just two hours of sleep each night, while burning as much as 8000-10,000 calories per day.
Until Primal Quest Badlands begins and the human drama unfolds, the details of the course will remain tightly under wraps.
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