Adventure Race LI

Summary

The LIOC is trying to make history again, this time by organizing Long Island’s first true Adventure Race.  This 5-hour (or maybe 6-hour) race is suitable for beginners and the optional checkpoints, which lengthens and increases the difficulty, makes it challenging for seasoned racers.  We’ll paddle the Nissequogue River on the outgoing tide for about 6 miles, mountain bike about 10-12 miles over to and through Sunken Meadow State Park (SM), then trek about 6-8 miles through both the Nissequogue River (NRSP) and Sunken Meadow State Parks.  Racers will write the codes they find on orange streamers for both mandatory and optional checkpoints on their “Control sheets.”

How to pre-register:

1. Print and sign LIOC entry form/waiver

2. Print and sign kayak rental waiver.  We encourage everyone to rent double kayaks (faster with 2 people, cheaper, and levels the playing field)

3. Email the forms above to GMalings@gmail.com or mail them to Glen Malings, 19 Black Rock Road, Glen Head, NY 11545

4. Payment: via Zelle 516-477-0852 or paper check to address above. Entire Adventure Race fee $100 ($60 if you're using your own boat).  Kayak only would be $90, bike and/or trek only would be $30.  Early birds (before Labor Day) will get a $10 discount and LIOC members get another $10 discount.

Race Day details

We'll meet at the Nissequogue River State Park at 7:45am (Park starts charging at 8) in the NW parking lot (see map).  We’ll hand out final maps and “Control sheets” that you’ll write onto as you find each control checkpoint.  We'll leave our cars, with bikes locked up, and take the Kayak Rental shuttle to Paul Givens Park.  If you have your own boat, you can drop it off at Paul Givens, then drive one car back to NRSP and take the shuttle back.  

We’ll start sending boats out after high tide (9:36am).  There will be mandatory and optional checkpoints (streamers hung with codes written on them) along the river before ending at the bluff below our cars.  As you approach the marina, you’ll see at least one building from the old Kings Park Psychiatric Center on the hill that you’ll be biking and trekking past later in your journey.  The rental company employees will take their kayaks; private boats can be left on the side and someone will watch them.  It’s about a ¼ mile portage to the public parking lot to load your kayak after the race.  Run up the hill to our cars where we grab our bikes.  

Next, we ride through the old Kings Park Psychiatric Center, find checkpoints hidden amongst the abandoned buildings, exit the park, ride ½ mile through a neighborhood, and enter SM at Kohr Road, across from Twin Oaks Drive.  We explore the trail systems in 3 sections of SM. We cross 25A twice and ask that you stay off Sunken Meadow Parkway.  We take Sunken Meadow Road back to NRSP (please obey traffic rules). Secure your bikes, re-fuel, and put on your running shoes.

Next, we trek around more abandoned buildings in the NRSP, cross Old Dock Road, and hit a cemetery and the bluffs overlooking Long Island Sound before we run the sand at the river’s mouth and then up to the finish line.

Finally, treat yourself to some standard after race fare provided by the race committee.  Please feel free to bring your own favorite post-race beverages.  We’ll have an awards ceremony at 3:30 for the following 7 categories: Overall male, female, Masters (over 50) male & female, male team. female team, and co-ed team.  We’ll post full results during the week on our website.

Post Race

If you enjoyed the race, please post your comments and pictures on our Facebook page. 

If you have suggestions for improvement, please send your comments to me.

Hope to see you there.

Glen 

516-477-0852