2025 Waddling Warriors Adventure Race

Team LadyPenguins Fundraising is proud to host our first event in 2025 - Adventure racing near Platteville, WI

Adventure racing is an off-road multidisciplinary sport that involves biking, paddling, running/trekking, and other special challenges, all while navigating with a map and compass (GPS is not allowed). It is a team sport in which groups of 2-4 racers must stick together for the duration of the entire event and cross the finish line together. Soloists as well will be allowed for both our planned race durations!

Every race course is different. Teams might do each discipline multiple times throughout a race and the order in which they are required to do them varies from race to race. Most often the official race course is kept a secret until the morning of the race, when racers arrive and are given maps detailing the locations (check points) they must navigate to, which order they must find them in, and which disciplines they will need to do during the event.

Races are measured in hours instead of miles, as the exact route each team takes will be different depending on their navigation. In order to win, a team must reach the most check points in the shortest amount of time.  This event will feature course lengths of 7 & 14 hours.  Both lengths will be designed with the middle of the pack racer in mind and will aim to give racers a course clear experience.  By the same token, seasoned racers could very well post personal bests on these courses!

Adventure racing is unique in that racers must be proficient in may different disciplines, and strength and speed are not the only factors determining the race outcome. Elements of strategy, navigation, route choice, outdoor survival skills, knowledge of local terrain, and teamwork are equally important. Adventure racers are a unique group of people in that the fiercest competitors are often very close friends. The adventure racing community is both welcoming and supportive, and you’ll often find more experienced racers helping new teams out both on and off the race course.

Team LadyPenguins Fundraising was founded in 2016 and every finish line crossed benefits a Chicagoland charity.  Past charity partners have included the American Cancer Society, Metastatic Breast Cancer Research, The National Multiple Sclerosis Society, The American Heart Association, The Epilepsy Foundation, & Alzheimer's Association.  2025 partners are in development, but will include new for 2025 the Morton Arboretum!