{"id":1740,"date":"2013-10-03T01:33:53","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T01:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=1740"},"modified":"2013-10-03T12:54:13","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T12:54:13","slug":"grant-killian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/grant-killian\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 81: World-class endurance race organizer & Founder of Untamed Adventure Racing Grant Killian"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show Information<\/h5>\n

Show:<\/strong>\u00a081
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday,\u00a0September 28
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Grant Killian
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Mark Gould (Sharky)
\nAssistant Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Founder of Untamed Adventure\u00a0Racing<\/a>, Grant Killian grew up in Colorado and attended college in Florida.\u00a0 Killian told Stevoe about his first adventure race and how after spending 18 hours in a Florida swamp, he was hooked.\u00a0 As an avid adventure racer, Killian turned his attention to organizing adventure racing (AR) events 10 years ago and has run endurance races through areas as varied as the Virginia barrier islands, the Swiss Alps, the Andes of Ecuador, and right here in New England.\u00a0 Adventure racing is an endurance sport which involves wilderness navigation with no set course.\u00a0 The participants, in teams of 2-4, must navigate with the use of maps, compasses and common sense.\u00a0 They will travel on foot (trekking or running), by mountain bike and by water (canoe, kayak, raft, occasionally swimming).\u00a0 The races last from several hours to many days and racers are unsupported, meaning they must carry their necessities in backpacks for the duration of the race.<\/p>\n

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Steve Woods (left) host of TideSmart Talk with Stevoe in the studio with founder of Untamed Adventure Racing\u00a0Grant Killian (right).<\/p><\/div>\n

Founded in 2004, Killian’s organization, Untamed Adventure Racing (located in New Hampshire), has developed a capacity for successful operations in remote territory.\u00a0 Killian developed what is now the biggest expedition race in North America: the Untamed New England Expedition Race<\/a>.\u00a0 In June of 2014, this event, \u201c100 Mile Wilderness\u201d will be held in the North Woods of Maine near Mount Katahdin.<\/p>\n

The Untamed New England Expedition Race, spans four days and attracts top adventure athletes from around the world.\u00a0 The race sells out at 50 teams and approximately 150 racers (every edition since 2009 has sold out).\u00a0 Previous editions have taken place in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.\u00a0 Killian told Stevoe that the location of the race remains secret untill the night before and that only 10% of teams finish the whole course.<\/p>\n

Killian is part of a new venture, Pinnacle Tracking, which combines made-in-Maine technology with our custom software for managing remote events and operations.\u00a0 Pinnacle Tracking rents tracking beacons and integrates technology for high profile events. \u00a0This technology provides a network of safety for these kinds of activities, as well as a compelling spectator element as audiences can visit the race website to monitor the progress of their teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steve Woods, host of TideSmart Talk with Stevoe, was recently joined by world-class endurance race organizer and founder of Untamed Adventure Racing Grant Killian. The two discussed the world of adventure racing and how teams must work and travel together (never being more than 100 meters distance from each other) in order to complete these multi-day races. Killian also explained the added benefits of these races to the communites they are held in and how the partnership between private and public land work well together. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}