Central Ohio Adventure Racining or COAR for short was founded to offer a beginner friendly form of adventure racing. If you have at
least 1 day a month during the summer you can do a COAR race. We have fun events where you can ride, paddle and orienteer for hours.
Most of our races offer suprise "special" events thrown in just for fun. We start every AR season with a BEGINNERS 4 hr race so you
can test the waters to see if you like racing. All races are part of the OASCR series. This series culminates with the state championship.
Racers can compete alone as a solo or on a 2-4 person team. At COAR we believe the more the merrier.
31 rogainers braved the clear but cold 31-40 degree weather for the first running of the Turkey Buster Rogaine. The course was set
for 1 lap of 8 CP's and a second lap of 16 CP's. However the first lap saw rogainers traversing the whole of the park. This was well
to far for most to trek in 6 hours and as a result only a few teams visted a handfull of the lap 2 CP's. Serveral Solos came back
to the race start to get the additional CP's. One team however, Team All Terrain Females had a unique mind meld with the race
director. They as a result never returned but located 4 of lap 2's CP's based on "race director thinking". This odd tactic worked
out and with a last minute finish came in 1st in the team catagory. The top solo, Hunter Gatherer came in with 10 CP's. Everyone seemed
to enjoy the new park which we will use again in 2012 for an AR.
As always COAR looks ahead to getting younger and younger athletes hooked on Adventure Racing!
American Woodcocks
It all started one day boring day at work when I asked Curt if he knew what Adventure Racing was. He didn't, and so began our journey
into the Summer Surge at West Branch in 2010. We finished 8th I believe, under the name Ill Conceived Funk Squirts. We didn't like
the name so we now race as The American Woodcocks. We also did the Attack at Alum. We cleared the course and felt really good until
we saw the results. We finished 15 out of 20. Seems like just about everyone cleared the course. Our next race was The Games at Caesar
Creek. We started off rough having a hard time on the bike course but we finished strong. Our orienteering is definitely the weakest
part of our game.
By far our best finish, 4th place. Paint Creek was also a great park, our second favorite race. We also enjoyed Alum
due to it being in our backyard. Overall we're having a blast racing, and enjoy all the people out on the course. We're going to do
more races next year and try our hand at a 12 hr race. We're finally starting figure out our orienteering strategy. Can't wait until
next season.
