With five months until teams gather in British Columbia at the start line of Raid the North Extreme 2011, organisers say the event will soon be sold out! Due to the rugged wilderness nature of the course, registration is capped at 50 teams.

Team Red Ants placed 4th at Terra Viva in Argentina last week; and they’ll be speaking about their race at AR Club in Jo’burg on Thursday, 17 March 2011 – with photos and video footage.

The Queenstown-based Southern Traverse adventure company, which created the Adventure Racing World Series and Championship (ARWS and ARWC) ten years ago, has passed the high profile international event on to Geocentric Outdoors of Australia.

Last night, at the inaugural star-studded Virgin Active Sport Industry Awards 2011 in Johannesburg, Hi-Tec won ‘Best Use of Digital Communications in Sport’ for their creative ‘Liquid Mountaineering’ viral video. It’s a documentary-type film that features three guys who succeed in running on water thanks to Hi-Tec’s ion mask™ technology, which gives the footwear water-repellent properties.

Patagonia is on our radar as Team Red Ants are en route to Argentine Patagonia for Terra Viva AR. Red Ants departed this morning. Yesterday, Team adidasTERREX/Prunesco took their third consecutive win at the Patagonia Expedition Race in southern Chile. The latter part of the race has been plagued by bad weather, which I do hope The Red Ants will miss; their race starts on Monday.