Event Name: Raid The Hammer
Date: Nov 10th, 2024
Location: Hamilton, ON

Website: https://www.dontgetlost.org/raid-the-hammer

Disciplines: Navigation, Running On-Trail and Off-Trail
Duration: A point-to-point format with 2 options: Full-Raid covering 20-25km and Half-Raid of approximately half the distance of the full raid with 10-15km
Categories: Teams of 2 or 3: Open, Female, Coed, Masters. Junior category available in the Half-Raid
Description: The Hamilton (aka the Hammer) region has a rich long distance running history as the home of North America’s oldest road running race and the hometown of many past winners of the Boston marathon and Canadian Olympian runners. The Raid the Hammer Adventure Run builds on this running history by combining road running, trail running, navigation, and trekking together into Ontario’s gnarliest running race. Teams of three can expect lots of mud, rock and calf killing climbs as they Raid the Hammer.

Event Name: Snowshoe Raid
Date: Jan 25th, 2025
Location: Oro-Mendonte Community Arena
Website: https://www.dontgetlost.org/snowshoe-raid
Disciplines: Navigation, Snowshoeing
Duration: 3-Hour Time Limit
Categories: Teams of 2: Male, Female, Coed, Masters, Super Masters, Family, Junior
Description: A 3-hour snowshoe race for teams of two with navigation by map and compass. Competitors travel on and off-trail to checkpoints located throughout escarpment studded forests and parklands. Go as hard or as easy as you like! Checkpoints (CPs) are rated on their difficulty and are assigned different point values. The more CP's and points collected the higher you'll rank!

Event Name: STARS Winter Adventure Race
Date: Feb 9th, 2025
Location: Klondike Sports Park
Website: https://stars.whyjustrun.ca/events/view/5610
Disciplines: Navigation, Snowshoeing
Duration: 2.5-Hour Time Limit
Categories: A single race category for teams of 2. Depending on the number of participants race organizers may create race categories at their discretion
Description: Prepare to attack the tracks and hills by snowshoe with plenty of race strategy and choices

Event Name: Raid The Rib
Date: April 13, 2025
Location: Niagara, ON
Website: https://www.dontgetlost.org/raidtherib
Disciplines: Navigation, Running On-Trail and Off-Trail
Duration: 4 hours
Categories: Teams of 2 or 3: Male, Female, Coed, Masters, Super Masters, Junior
Description: The Niagara Escarpment (aka the Giant's Rib) was a formidable physical barrier to early explorers in Ontario. Steep cliffs, rocky ground, and large creeks also made navigation difficult for these adventurers. The Raid the Rib Adventure Run takes place on the Niagara Escarpment so participants can expect lots of technical running and some interesting navigational challenges.

Event Name: Challenge The Shield Adventure Run
Date: May 4th, 2025
Location: Georgian Nordic Outdoor Activity Centre
Website: http://www.challengetheshield.ca/adventure-run.html
Disciplines: Navigation, Running On-Trail and Off-Trail
Duration: 3-Hour and 6-Hour Time Limits
Categories: Teams of 2: Male, Female, Coed, Masters. 3-hour offers Open & Junior category
Description: The Challenge the Shield Adventure Run is an awe-inspiring wilderness endurance challenge on the rugged Canadian Shield. Teams of two have up to 6 hours to tackle as many of the 30-40 checkpoint challenges amongst the iconic windswept pines, pristine lakes and granite rock barrens as they choose. The "choose-your-own-adventure" points-based course design is both beginner-friendly and an epic challenge of strategy and adventure for even the most experienced teams. Top teams will need to trek and run over a marathon in distance to get all the checkpoints. Each of the checkpoints or segments is assigned both a difficulty rating and teams decide what difficulty and as many checkpoints as they want to tackle. You decide the adventure!
Challenge your friends. Challenge the Shield!

Event Name: Storm Adventure Race
Date: May 24th & 25th, 2025
Location: Tiffin Conservation Area
Website: https://www.stormrace.ca
Disciplines: Navigation, Running Off-Trail and On-Trail, Mountain Biking, Paddling
Duration: 3 Options: 3-5 hour, 4-7 hour, 5-9 hour
Categories: Team of 2, Team of 4: Male, Female, Coed, Family
Description: Through a unique blending of adventure racing and traditional multi-sport components, Storm offers beginners the opportunity to test the waters of off-road adventure, while also providing experienced racers with challenging and creative racecourse designs. Three separate events are staged over the course of race weekend, each featuring progressive levels of distance and degree of difficulty.

Name: Bruce Peninsula Multisport Race - by Bruce Power
Date: Aug 9th, 2025
Location: Wiarton, ON
Website: www.brucepeninsulamultisportrace.ca
Disciplines: Running On-Trail (No Navigation), MTB, Paddling
Duration: 31km Suntrail, 17.5km Subaru Sprint Course or 30.5 Dun Duathlon
Categories: Solo, Relay and Teams of 2 as well as a 4km Kids Race
Description: The Bruce Peninsula Multisport Race sees soloists and teams tackle the Bruce Peninsula’s cliff-strewn shorelines, forests and waterways by paddling, mountain biking and trail running the area’s hidden gems. Courses are fully-marked and all gear logistics are taken care of by organizers.

Event Name: Challenge The Shield Adventure Race
Date: Sept 7th, 2025
Location: Parry Sound, ON - Nine Mile Lake Beach
Website: http://www.challengetheshield.ca/adventure-race.html
Disciplines: Navigation, Running On-Trail and Off-Trail, Mountain Biking, Paddling
Duration: 6-Hours
Categories: Teams of 2: Male, Female, Coed, Masters, Junior
Description: The Challenge the Shield Adventure Race is an awe-inspiring wilderness endurance challenge on the rugged Canadian Shield. Teams of two have up to 6 hours to tackle as many of the 2,500 points up for grabs. The race begins with a three-part mandatory segment challenge on a marked route. After completing the segment challenge, there are trek, paddle and bike sections which can be taken in any order. The more checkpoints you get the more points you score! The race ends with an optional 125 point marked route swim-run segment. Teams can focus on their endurance sport strengths while also trying new challenges. Shred some wicked advanced black diamond MTB single track. Navigate to as many of the beginner and intermediate checkpoints as possible. Paddle and portage to a backcountry lake. You decide the adventure!
Challenge your friends. Challenge the Shield!

Event Name: Cataraqui Adventure Trek
Date: Sept 14th, 2025
Location: Glenburnie, ON
Website: https://mtadventures.ca/adventure-trek-series/
Disciplines: Trail Running, Mountain Biking, Paddling
Duration: 4-Hour Time Limit
Categories: Solo, Team of 2: Male, Female, Coed
Description: This 7-9km course is an Adventure Race crossed with a Triathlon consisting of fast flowy single track mountain biking, a challenging and scenic trail run with hills, roots, rocks and lots of twists and turns and a paddle where the wind conditions will determine its difficulty. Racers have 4 hours to complete the course as many times as they can.

Event Name: Muskoka River X
Date: Sept 12-14, 2025
Location: Couples Resort, Galeairy Lake, Whitney, ON
Website: http://www.muskokariverx.com
Disciplines: Paddling, Navigation
Duration: 90km
Categories: Solo or Tandem, in canoe, kayak or on SUP
Description:  Considered by some the most demanding single-day paddling race in the world, River X returns to the fundamentals of Adventure Racing. Starting at dawn teams and finishing at an undisclosed location no other aspect of the route will be revealed until race weekend. Only then will teams decipher the hidden route using the provided course instructions and topographic maps. Paddling and navigating their way through a 90km +/- maze of lakes, rivers, marshes and portages, under the setting sun, they will find their way home.

Event Name: Wilderness Traverse
Date: July 26-27, 2025

Location: Sudbury, Ontario
Website: http://wildernesstraverse.com/
Disciplines: Navigation, Running Off-Trail and On-Trail, Mountain Biking, Paddling
Duration: 150km 24-30-hour
Categories: Teams of 3, or 4: Male, Female, Coed
Description: Wilderness Traverse is a 24 Hour Adventure Race hosted annually in Ontario, Canada. Teams of 3 or 4 navigate using map and compass over 150 kilometers of rugged Canadian Shield back-country on foot, mountain bike and canoe. It is one of the toughest team-based endurance challenges around and simply reaching the finish line is a massive achievement.