Reflecting on the 2024-25 Season + Points Champions
While the 2025 National Championship in Arkansas took place just 3 weeks ago, the 2025-2026 USARA season has now formally kicked off this past weekend with the VentureQuest Adventure Race in Fairfax, VA and a handful of races scheduled for this Fall coming very soon.
The annual National Championship race is not only an event that brings the best teams from around the nation together for some friendly head-to-head competition, it is also the final race in our annual points championship season. While Nationals focuses solely on 3/4-person teams it's important we celebrate this season’s champions across all the different divisions in US adventure racing, so join us in celebrating all of our 2024-25 Season Points Champions:
3/4-Mixed: Rib Mountain Racing
3/4-Female: Women of AR
3/4-Male: Broad Run Off Road
2-Mixed: He Was A Navigator Once
2-Female: Adventure Girls
2-Male: Toporadicals
Solo Female:Olga Huber
Solo Male: Chris Sharp
Also congratulations to Maricel Olaru and Alena Khilko who were our top racers in the Individual Power Rankings.
Congratulations to all racers who competed in a race this last season, this last season we saw 3,834 different racers participating across 47 sanctioned events (most of those with multiple race distance options) in 21 different states. 60% of those racers were “new” to AR (not in our database from a previous season).
Our most active racer this season was Josh Nichols participating in 10 different sanctioned races; and we had 200 racers participate in 5+ races. The fields at races continue to grow with 19 races (individual competed distances at an event) having 100+ racers, and 6 of those having 170+ participants. Our two largest events brought together 400 participants with all distance options combined: Rib Mountain Adventure Challenge (458) and Spring Bloom Adventure Race (381).
Our favorite piece of data from the 2024-25 season continues to be seeing how much of a community adventure racers are. We took all the results data from the season, and made a “racer connections” view showing all the racers that raced together within the season, and its amazing see how big some of these “racer clouds” turn out to be with the biggest one connecting 150 different racers having raced together at some point in the season. We AR Together :)
