Enduro3 is
India's first and only
adventure race
Team Wild Rose setting out on the paddling section at Full Moon in June 2009, Panorama Mountain Village
Adventure racing (also called expedition racing) is typically a multidisciplinary team sport involving navigation over an unmarked wildern ...
. It is organized by an NEF (National Education Foundation) an organization based in
Pune
Pune ( ; , ISO 15919, ISO: ), previously spelled in English as Poona (List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name until 1978), is a city in the state of Maharashtra in the Deccan Plateau, Deccan plateau in Western ...
. ''Enduro3'' is an adventure inspiring ascent of team spirit, creating youthfulness in every age and exposing the participants to the beauty of the
Western Ghats
NECC-NEF Enduro3 has the distinction of being India's first and only adventure race. It has been attracting increasing participation across varied age groups since its inception in 2003.
From an initial registration of 48
team
A team is a group of individuals (human or non-human) working together to achieve their goal.
As defined by Professor Leigh Thompson of the Kellogg School of Management, " team is a group of people who are interdependent with respect to in ...
s the participation has grown to 200 teams of adventure and
nature
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lovers coming together from
Metros and
small towns. In just a decade of the event, NEF Enduro3 has left an indelible footprint and created an incomparable experience for adventure lovers.
The team receives support from the National Egg Coordination Committee (NECC) and Vencobb.
Each team must have at least one female member.
Categories
The race is conducted once a year and is held in different categories. Some of the categories are
* Open
* IT (
Information Technology
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) (All members need to be employed in the
IT industry
Information technology (IT) is a set of related fields within information and communications technology (ICT), that encompass computer systems, software, programming languages, data and information processing, and storage. Information technolo ...
)
* Corporate (All members need to be employed in the
corporate world)
*
Amateur
An amateur () is generally considered a person who pursues an avocation independent from their source of income. Amateurs and their pursuits are also described as popular, informal, autodidacticism, self-taught, user-generated, do it yourself, DI ...
* Collegian (All members need to be
College
A college (Latin: ''collegium'') may be a tertiary educational institution (sometimes awarding degrees), part of a collegiate university, an institution offering vocational education, a further education institution, or a secondary sc ...
going)
* Junior (All members need to be
School
A school is the educational institution (and, in the case of in-person learning, the Educational architecture, building) designed to provide learning environments for the teaching of students, usually under the direction of teachers. Most co ...
going)
* 40+ (All members need to be of the
age 40 and above)
* Doctors (All members need to be a
doctor
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Titles and occupations
* Physician, a medical practitioner
* Doctor (title), an academic title for the holder of a doctoral-level degree
** Doctorate
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)
* Media (All members need to be working with the
media industry
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Broadcast media transmit information electronically via media such as films, radio, recorded music, or television. Digital media comprises bot ...
)
* Teachers (All members need to be a
Teacher
A teacher, also called a schoolteacher or formally an educator, is a person who helps students to acquire knowledge, competence, or virtue, via the practice of teaching.
''Informally'' the role of teacher may be taken on by anyone (e.g. w ...
)
* Family (All members should belong to the same
family
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)
Each of the above categories is further divided into the following two categories:
* Mixed: team has
Male
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and Female members
* All female: team has only female members
Each team has three members, of which one must be female.
Activities
The race comprises a mix of the following activities:
*
Trekking
Backpacking is the outdoor recreation of carrying gear on one's back while hiking for more than a day. It is often an extended journey and may involve camping outdoors. In North America, tenting is common, where simple shelters and mountain hu ...
: The distance and route varies as per the category.
*
Cycling
Cycling, also known as bicycling or biking, is the activity of riding a bicycle or other types of pedal-driven human-powered vehicles such as balance bikes, unicycles, tricycles, and quadricycles. Cycling is practised around the world fo ...
: The distance and route varies as per the category.
*
River crossing: This is usually done at night and at the end of it there are usually a few hours of resting time.
*
Rappelling
Abseiling ( ; ), also known as rappelling ( ; ), is the controlled descent of a steep slope, such as a rock face, by moving down a rope. When abseiling, the person descending controls their own movement down a static or fixed rope, in cont ...
: This activity is only for
OPEN
Open or OPEN may refer to:
Music
* Open (band), Australian pop/rock band
* The Open (band), English indie rock band
* ''Open'' (Blues Image album), 1969
* ''Open'' (Gerd Dudek, Buschi Niebergall, and Edward Vesala album), 1979
* ''Open'' (Go ...
and
Amateur
An amateur () is generally considered a person who pursues an avocation independent from their source of income. Amateurs and their pursuits are also described as popular, informal, autodidacticism, self-taught, user-generated, do it yourself, DI ...
category.
*
Paddling
Paddling, in regard to waterborne transport, is the act of propelling a human-powered watercraft using at least one hand-held paddle. The paddle, which consists of one or two blades joined to a shaft, is also used to steer the vessel via generatin ...
: This activity should be done by all the three members of the team.
*
Navigation
Navigation is a field of study that focuses on the process of monitoring and controlling the motion, movement of a craft or vehicle from one place to another.Bowditch, 2003:799. The field of navigation includes four general categories: land navig ...
*
Kayaking
Kayaking is the use of a kayak for moving over water. It is distinguished from canoeing by the sitting position of the paddler and the number of blades on the paddle. A kayak is a low-to-the-water, canoe-like boat in which the paddler sits fac ...
References
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External links
Official Website
Adventure racing