Eco-Challenge, X Games, Raid Gauloises... Move over! We've got our own adventure race coming to Portland this summer! Racing Ahead Inc. is organizing the Discover Portland Urban Adventure Race on Saturday, June 11th. It's going to be 6 hours of mountain biking, canoeing, urban trekking and navigation on a course in and around Portland.

This is a great opportunity for adventure racing rookies (like me!) to give the sport a good try. It'll no doubt be very demanding, frustrating and exhausting (sounds like fun, eh?!), but I bet it'll be a whole lot of fun too!

Registration is already open. I know it's only February, but getting a team together and training for a race like this will take some time. Best to get in now and get on with the regimen. You're going to be paddling and biking and hiking anyway, so why not? Besides, the better shape you're in, the more pizza and beer you can put away without guilt. So c'mon all you outdoor fanatics--get your team together. June will be here in no time.