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ORIENTEERING & NAVIGATION

Adventure Racing / Navigation Clinic:  Bonk Hard Racing will be partnering with Dynamic Earth Equipment and will be offering TWO Adventure Racing and Navigation clinics to all interested racers. The clinics will take place on Saturday, April 23rd. The first clinic will be from 8:00AM until 10:00AM and the second clinic will run directly after the first clinic, from 10:00AM until 12:00PM. Both clinics will be held at the Dynamic Earth store in Overland Park. Advanced registration is required. The cost of the clinic will be $10 per person and will be open to the first 30 people to register for each clinic. The clinic from 8:00AM until 10:00AM has been added due to such high demand. The 10:00AM - 12:00PM clinic is already full, and the only open spots remaining are in the 8:00AM - 10:00AM clinic. Registration for the clinic is NOW OPEN! Participants will possibly receive some swag, discounts and possibly some really nice prizes from Dynamic Earth, in addition to some great information about adventure racing and map reading.

REGISTER FOR THE ADVENTURE RACING CLINIC (You will be taken to Dynamic Earth's website.)

The following topics will be covered at the Adventure Racing and Navigation Clinic:

- What is Adventure Racing?
- Adventure Racing Basics
- Training Schedules and Programs
- Race Food
- Finding Teammates
- Transition Areas
- Plotting UTM coordinates
- Orienting the map
- Taking bearings
- Reading the terrain
- Route choices
- Gear
- Other adventure racing tips and tricks
- Q&A Session

There will also be an optional field exercise immediately following the clinic. All interested participants will go to the Possum Trot Orienteering Club meet immediately after the 10:00AM - 12:00PM classroom portion of the second clinic to put their newly learned map reading skills to work. Participants in the 8:00AM - 10:00AM clinic are also more than welcome to join us at the Possum Trot meet around 12:15PM. The Possum Trot Meet will be held at Johnson County Community College and Stoll Park, a location VERY close to the Overland Park Dynamic Earth store. The cost of the Orienteering meet is $6 and will be paid at the Orienteering meet. For more information about the orienteering meet that follows the classroom training, please visit the Possum Trot Orienteering Club website at http://www.ptoc.org and look for the Orienteering meet on April 23rd.

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