Legend XPD AR 2024 - Mountain Designs Wild Women are the first ever all female team to win an ARWS Expedition event, not just in Australia but around the world.
1. Each
member of the team has been racing for many years and have many years of
experience in the sport, in fact we worked out more than 78 years.
2. Each
member of the team has completed in, and finished, expedition length adventure
races before in both mixed teams and women teams.
3. Our
youngest member of the team is over 40 and has at least 10 years of AR
experience and our oldest is 56 – age is no barrier!
4. All
of the team members can navigate, and we share the role throughout the race.
5. Three
of the four team members are mums with children ranging from 14 down to 3 years
of age so they have excellent juggling skills, and the other is not a mum but a
teacher, so we all just understand each other!
6. There
are no egos out there, we just dig deep and get the job done when faced with
challenging situations.
7. Our
team captain is a quiet achiever who leads the team with diplomacy and the
utmost integrity, so we have this super safe and supportive bubble to lift and
carry us from the start to the finish.
8. We
have women in the team with different personalities, so without even thinking,
we have managed to implement the 6 thinking hats process and we can jump
from one to the other seamlessly! White
– facts; Yellow – positives; Black – risks & difficulties: red – feelings
& intuition; green – possibilities & alternatives; blue – keeps the
group under control.
9. The
fun factor is a huge part of what we take out on the course with us – we know
we are going to have to suffer at times, so being able to do sing a little
song, or do a little dance and name a new day….’Wild Wednesday’ keeps those
spirits running high.
10. We love
and respect nature and the environment - so we are out there searching for
really cool stuff that without being in this sport, we would never get to see.
This is an insight into the
Mountain Designs Wild Women and how we as a team became the first ever all
women’s team in the world to win an ARWS expedition length adventure race!
‘Anything is possible in this
world’ – Icehouse – Code Blue Album 1990
Mountain Designs Wild
Women
Kim Beckinsale – Queensland - 56
Alina Mc Master – New South Wales - 55
Del Lloyd – Victoria - 44
Cass Kimlin – Queensland - 42
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