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Go Multisport: Add Fun, Challenge & Exploration to Your World
The all-in-one resource and first handbook for multisport athletes with an introduction to the field of multisport and a look at how it came to be and what's next for the sport.
Are you ready to Go Multisport? You can run, you can paddle, you can SUP (stand up paddleboard), you can swim, you can ski, you can climb, you can train, and you can bike. But how can you combine them all together? For ultra-like distances and days at a time? How about climbing, hiking, and packrafting all in one day?
Beyond traditional 5Ks and 10Ks and single sport extreme and endurance events, is the newly evolving field of multisport. Multisport events are usually self-designed and determined. These extreme athletes most often create their own events because they are the first to do these human-powered endurance challenges.
Some examples of multisport athletes
Perfect for those who are seeking to do more--more challenge, more fun--this book provides a history, background, and empowering how-to. You will learn how to walk the edge of a radical new discipline. Also includes gear lists, sample race challenges, training secrets and more.
Are you ready to Go Multisport? You can run, you can paddle, you can SUP (stand up paddleboard), you can swim, you can ski, you can climb, you can train, and you can bike. But how can you combine them all together? For ultra-like distances and days at a time? How about climbing, hiking, and packrafting all in one day?
Beyond traditional 5Ks and 10Ks and single sport extreme and endurance events, is the newly evolving field of multisport. Multisport events are usually self-designed and determined. These extreme athletes most often create their own events because they are the first to do these human-powered endurance challenges.
Some examples of multisport athletes
Perfect for those who are seeking to do more--more challenge, more fun--this book provides a history, background, and empowering how-to. You will learn how to walk the edge of a radical new discipline. Also includes gear lists, sample race challenges, training secrets and more.
176 pages, Paperback
Published January 30, 2024
About the author
Jennifer McConachie
2 books7 followersUltrarunner, mountaineer, marathon swimmer, distance paddler, and multisport athlete Jennifer Strong McConachie writes about global adventure and the endurance lifestyle. An Outward Bound graduate, she is also a Fellow in the Royal Geographical Society and member of The Explorers Club.
Additionally, Jennifer writes commercially as an award-winning marketing, advertising and public relations executive in her hometown of Wichita, Kansas, in the heart of the plains.
Additionally, Jennifer writes commercially as an award-winning marketing, advertising and public relations executive in her hometown of Wichita, Kansas, in the heart of the plains.
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February 1, 2024
Hot off the release of her best-selling book, Go Far, endurance and adventure athlete Jennifer Strong McConachie has brought into book form the next phase of her life-altering fitness and endurance philosophy: Multisport.
This book isn’t for the squeamish; it’s for athletes who want to expand their endurance horizons. Multisport as an event is just that: a sport or event that involves more than one sport. And McConachie takes it farther.
In this book, McConachie explains how amateur athletes can focus on one or two core sports and then add on auxiliary sports to transform an ordinary workout into an all-day adventure. McConachie, who grew up competing in triathlons and adventure racing, has evolved the three-sport competition into a quest to sharpen mental acuity, push the envelope of fitness, and, by varying muscle group usage, extend the performance life of the athlete.
First, the book examines the history of the -athon, from the heptathlons of Ancient Greece to the triathlons of modern day. Then, it provides a step-by-step guide on how to develop multisport combinations to suit your adventure and endurance needs. And, finally, the book shares personal stories about pushing and reaching the upper boundaries of human endurance.
Like McConachie’s first book, Go Multisport challenges what we think when we think about the performance of the human body. What we find through McConachie’s riveting tales is a category of athlete who has discovered the ultimate limit of the human body is the human mind. To conquer that is to reach the pinnacle of performance.
Multisport is only now starting to take shape as a category of sport by some of the world’s greatest adventure athletes and world-record setters. If you’ve reached a stage in your athletic career where monitored races designed by others no longer pique your interest, or you’re hungry to pair your adventure skills with local geography, buy this book today!
This book isn’t for the squeamish; it’s for athletes who want to expand their endurance horizons. Multisport as an event is just that: a sport or event that involves more than one sport. And McConachie takes it farther.
In this book, McConachie explains how amateur athletes can focus on one or two core sports and then add on auxiliary sports to transform an ordinary workout into an all-day adventure. McConachie, who grew up competing in triathlons and adventure racing, has evolved the three-sport competition into a quest to sharpen mental acuity, push the envelope of fitness, and, by varying muscle group usage, extend the performance life of the athlete.
First, the book examines the history of the -athon, from the heptathlons of Ancient Greece to the triathlons of modern day. Then, it provides a step-by-step guide on how to develop multisport combinations to suit your adventure and endurance needs. And, finally, the book shares personal stories about pushing and reaching the upper boundaries of human endurance.
Like McConachie’s first book, Go Multisport challenges what we think when we think about the performance of the human body. What we find through McConachie’s riveting tales is a category of athlete who has discovered the ultimate limit of the human body is the human mind. To conquer that is to reach the pinnacle of performance.
Multisport is only now starting to take shape as a category of sport by some of the world’s greatest adventure athletes and world-record setters. If you’ve reached a stage in your athletic career where monitored races designed by others no longer pique your interest, or you’re hungry to pair your adventure skills with local geography, buy this book today!
March 8, 2024
Jennifer McConachie's book is a must-read for adventure enthusiasts and athletes seeking more challenge (and fun) in their fitness journey. The idea behind multisport is that you blend various activities like running, paddling, swimming, skiing, climbing, and biking.
Jen is thorough! In this book you'll learn how multisport has evolved (if you consider things like the duathlon and heptathlon, multisport has been around for decades!), as well as how to create your own multisport events, from climbing and hiking to packrafting! She also offers *practical advice* on the equipment you’ll need for multisport adventures and training secrets.
Jen is thorough! In this book you'll learn how multisport has evolved (if you consider things like the duathlon and heptathlon, multisport has been around for decades!), as well as how to create your own multisport events, from climbing and hiking to packrafting! She also offers *practical advice* on the equipment you’ll need for multisport adventures and training secrets.
February 6, 2024
Jennifer gives us a way to have extreme adventures close to home in our own backyards. With Go Multisport readers can combine human-powered sports in ways that work for them. Think beyond triathlons. Think beyond adventure races. Think about all the worldwide adventures you see that you dream of having the time to go on. With Go Multisport, you are empowered to dream up and do your own, as far away or as long as your time and imagination allow.
February 1, 2024
Inspired by adventurers who take years off to travel the world by human power? Or by world record holders battling extreme environments? Well, now with Go Multisport you can create your own human powered multisport adventures at home. Jennifer shows us how and provides so many examples of where, why and how to start. I can't wait to come up with some of my own!
February 7, 2024
Marvelously Daring
The author does a great job describing how to
Take our favorite human powered sports and shows how connecting them together in creative ways we can build our own Multisport adventure. This book is practical and inspirational and before you are done reading you will be ready to get out the door and organize your own Multisport program. I know I am
The author does a great job describing how to
Take our favorite human powered sports and shows how connecting them together in creative ways we can build our own Multisport adventure. This book is practical and inspirational and before you are done reading you will be ready to get out the door and organize your own Multisport program. I know I am
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