dontgetlost - ARK Fest

ARK FEST!

This page is still under construction but our ARK athletes can expect a muddy finale to each ARK session at ARK-FEST!

Each session of Adventure Running Kids concludes with ARK-FEST! . Visit ARK-FEST for part or all of the two hours of mud, fun and adventure (5:30-7:30PM).

ARK-FEST! includes:

-group warm-up

-ARK race

-Parents Challenge (Are you faster than an ARK racer?)

-Post race food

-Participation awards

-Adventure Seminar by a local adventure runner

Our Adventure Seminars are presented by a local or Canadian athletes and world class Adventure Runners. The Adventure Seminar at ARK-FEST! is an important part of our program as they inspire, empower and motivate our Adventure Running Kids. If you would like to be an Adventure Speaker, please contact us.

WHO ARE OUR ADVENTURE SPEAKERS?

Mark Tamminga, along with his wife, Joany Verschuuren, has traveled extensively to race in some of the most exotic and tough multi-day stage running races in the world. Between 2005 and 2007, they ran three of the four stage races in Racing the Planet's 4 Deserts Series.

After winning the Atacama Crossing in 2005 in Chile and the Gobi March in China in 2006, Mark placed 2nd in the Sahara race in Egypt in late 2007. The 4th race in the series is in Antarctica, which Mark and Joany decided not to enter, preferring instead to run in the Carolinian splendour of their home turf in the Dundas Valley. We are looking forward to his inspirational stories and stunning photography in our first ever Adventure Speaker night!

Kate MacNamara burst onto the Hamilton running scene in 2005 as a surprise winner of North America's oldest road race, Around the Bay. After winning the race again the next year, Kate turned to Adventure Running for new challenges. She joined a 5-day Adventure Science running expedition to search for Steve Fossett in California and raced in Blaze: The Niagara Escarpment Race as her team completed the 900km trail in under 4 days.

Dr. Mark Tarnopolsky is a McMaster professor, physician and medical researcher and also a dad and coach with Adventure Running Kids. Mark has enormous experience as an elite endurance athlete through trail racing, skiing and adventure racing.