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The Vale's sports superwoman, Maria Leijerstam, is the only female in a UK team for the Adventure Racing World Championship which is taking place in Portugal.

It's a ludicrous challenge, especially as we'll be competing against international adventure racing teams," Karen says, "but it sounded like a good idea earlier this year, when we agreed to have a go.

This is my first ever experience of adventure racing and the after-dark event called The Mighty Deerstalker gives me the best buzz I've had for years.

Although it does involve previously determined high risk sports such as mountaineering (Breivik, 1996), and canoeing (Boga, 1988) adventure racing has not been, despite its growing popularity, given significant attention by sport studies scholars (Easter, Hardin, & Stenger, 2003; Laberge & Kay, 2002) More recently, Kay and Laberge (2002) drew from postmodern theorist Pierre Bourdieu's concept of the "field" to qualitatively investigate adventure racing.

php United States Adventure Racing Association: http://www.

Environmental engineer and main speaker Westman delivered 10 powerful points and a motivating workshop on the energy and sport of adventure racing and its applications to the business world.

But with the increased popularity of adventure racing in the last five years, more and more people are taking paddle sports to new levels.

Byline: Bill Becher Special to the Daily News With adventure racing coming to Southern California in April, competitors are in full training mode.