Are you ready for LIVE coverage of the USARA National Championship?

The USARA National Championship in Bishop, CA is no doubt looking like an epic race through the Eastern Sierras. With a large media team, we’ll be bringing our updated vision of adventure racing coverage, including several course photographers, athlete interviews, and live streaming video coverage of dot-watching analysis. We hope that we can bring you closer than ever to the amazing stories that this sport produces, so that you can ride along with your favorite athletes on what may well be the adventure of a lifetime.

START HERE: The Dashboard

Use the dashboard to access all the most up to date information about the race. We’ll be adding more detailed posts with photos and videos as the race goes on, and once finished, you’ll be able to relive the whole race from start to finish, right here.

Main Broadcast Schedule (Facebook Live)

THURSDAY 9-15

2:00PM PDT / 5:00PM EDT: Pre-race show @ Registration with Bill Donohue

FRIDAY 9-16

7:30AM PDT / 10:30AM EDT: Live from race start

7:00PM PDT / 10:00PM EDT: Evening recap show with Bill Donohue

SATURDAY 9-17

7:00AM PDT / 10:00AM EDT: Morning show from finish location with Bill Donohue

1:00PM PDT / 4:00PM EDT: Race recap show

Our coverage is interactive:

New to adventure racing? Check out this video by Mark Harris of Adventure Enablers on how to “dot-watch”

Is there a team you want an update from? Curious to see why certain navigation decisions were made? Just have questions about the sport? Ask us on Facebook, and we’ll do our best to bring you the information you want.

A Beast of a Course:

USARA Executive Director Michael Garrison said he’s excited to see how the battle to become the 2022 USARA National Champion adventure racing team will shake out on a course that’s much different than racers have experienced in recent USARA nationals events, which have mostly been held in the U.S. South and Midwest. This year’s race organizer, All Out Events, has planned a point-to-point course that will take racers above 12,000 feet in elevation, including a transition area at the top of the Mammoth Mountain ski area. Early forecasts are calling for a hot, sunny day and cooler temperatures overnight.

“The course is big, it's physical, and it's beautiful,” Garrison said. “The elevation is real, both in how high you will get on the course and how much climbing you will do. There's less focus on ‘orienteering-style’ navigation and more on route-finding and moving consistently and efficiently. It's a true point-to-point course. There are no loops! This will make for a truly spectacular journey through some gorgeous landscapes.”

Besides the glory of being crowned the 2022 USARA National Champions, the top teams will have the chance to win a free entry into the 2023 Adventure Racing World Championship, hosted by Expedition Africa and taking place in the Eastern Cape region of South Africa in October 2023. The prize is being offered as part of USARA’s partnership with the Adventure Racing World Series.

Real-time satellite tracking of the teams participating in the event, provided by Adventure Enablers, will be available at USARA.com beginning at 8 a.m. Pacific time on Friday, September 16 and ending at 2 p.m. on Saturday, September 17, the 30-hour cutoff for teams to arrive at the finish line in downtown Bishop.

More from the Race Director’s POV

Want to learn more about the course from the director himself? Check out episode 41 of The Dark Zone: An Adventure Racing Podcast. Host Brian Gatens interviews Yishai Horowitz of All Out Events, host organization of the 2022 USARA National Championship.