Do you often find yourself trying to explain this thing we call expedition adventure racing? Show your family and friends (and potential sponsors) what Primal Quest is all about with a DVD from a past race. The just opened PQ online store has DVDs available from the 2002 Telluride race, the 2003 Lake Tahoe edition, and last year’s Primal Quest Utah. Keep checking our site as more Primal Quest products will be available soon! Visit the store today!

With volunteers from five continents and nineteen countries, Primal Quest 2008 will truly have an international flavour. In less than one month’s time more than 200 people have applied to help support the World’s Most Challenging Human Endurance Competition. Meanwhile, applications continue to pour into race headquarters.

The nineteen countries represented so far include Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, Ecuador, Hong Kong, Israel, Lithuania, Mexico, The Netherlands, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Scotland, Spain, Sweden as well as from all across the United States.

What are you doing next June? Volunteering is a great way to get a first hand, up close look at real expedition racing. Sign up today!

Photo: Volunteer Coordinator Christina Moon shows off her swag at PQ Utah.

Want to see AR box scores in your local paper? Then move to Colorado where papers such as the Summit Daily News have some of the broadest coverage of adventure racing in print. Or, skip the hassles of moving and enjoy writing from the likes of Devon O’Neil online.

Saturday’s edition of the Summit Daily has two articles about Primal Quest 2008. The first story recaps our exciting opening week of registration where, in case you haven’t heard, we sold out in twelve hours. In the second article the reader gets a few more details about Danelle Ballengee’s role in the 2008 edition of PQ.

Does your local paper have good AR coverage too? Let us know in the comments!

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For the second year in a row, registration for Primal Quest came and went in the blink of an eye. One of the big stories to emerge is the number of people from around the world who are excited to race or volunteer in Primal Quest 2008.

Primal Quest Director Don Mann noted, “The enthusiasm for PQ from around the world is overwhelming. As of this morning over 130 teams from eleven different countries have sent in applications. I believe this is unprecedented in the history of expedition level adventure racing.”

In addition to the slew of teams from all across the United States, applications were also received from Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela .

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Primal Quest is excited to announce that the 2008 race sold out in less than 12 hours! Registration opened at midnight and within 30 minutes more than half the applications were filled by teams from 5 different countries.

Think you missed your chance to participate in this epic race? For a limited time you may sign up for the reserve list! We anticipate accepting teams from this list and highly encourage you to submit your application soon.

We are also happy to announce that since volunteer registration opened on Monday over 100 people from around the planet have signed on to help support the race. Join our team and add your name to the list!

The PQ team is very pleased to be an integral part of the adventure racing community and a leader in the continuation of expedition-level racing!

In this feature we take some time to learn about those racing in PQ 2008.

In addition to his numerous adventure sport championships, the captain of this team placed first in Eco-Challenge Morocco, Borneo, and New Zealand. He also had wins at the Gorge Games Adventure Race, Raid the North Extreme Adventure Race, British Virgin Island Expedition, National 24-hour Adventure Race, and the Xstream Solo Adventure Race Series. Oh yeah, and his teams are four time Primal Quest winners too!

If you haven’t connected the dots yet, we’re talking about Mike Kloser and Team Nike, back again for another round of adventure.

Registration for the 2008 edition of Primal Quest is now open

Please visit the Race Registration page for all of the important details. The online form will be available at 12:00am, July 1, 2007 now!

While the exact location of the race must remain a secret until the fall of 2007, several states are currently running neck and neck. If you do not have firm summer vacation plans, you may wish to visit places like (in no particular order of significance other than it is an alphabetical list) Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, or Nevada.

Participants can expect as epic a race as Utah and exposure to totally different environments. They will race for five to ten days over 400 – 600 miles of gnarly terrain. In addition to the classic elements of AR: mountain biking, trekking, and paddling, next year racers will face extraordinary sections of whitewater swimming and mountaineering.

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