ARWS events require that mandatory equipment be carried, for safety or competition purposes. This list provides a definition of common required items for ARWS adventure races or sections of those races. Each event will specify which of these items of equipment will be required for the event. Additional items may be added by race organizers where they are specific to their location, conditions or laws of the host country. Competitors will want to carry additional items of their own choice.

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PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY AND ASSUMPTIONS

You and your team together are responsible for carrying suitable and appropriate equipment, clothing and sustenance for the climate, conditions and activities in the event. This Mandatory Equipment List is NOT a list of the only items you should take. It contains the mandatory items that you and your team must carry with you, at specified times, to meet minimum safety requirements by law, prevent and/or treat SOME potential injuries, and short-term survival purposes (for example a seriously injured team member, in a stationary position, overnight in bad weather). It assumes your team members will NOT separate during the race and that you may share between members the mandatory equipment that must be carried. You will certainly need additional equipment, clothing, food and drink for your participation in the event.

 

RECOMMENDED AND INFERRED ITEMS

The following items, categories of equipment or related items, are either strongly recommended by organisers, or assumed to be an inferred requirement as competitors must understand adventure racing, the activities they will be participating in, and general outdoor adventure knowledge and experience.

• Backpacks and water carrying containers/ bladders/ bottles.

• Foods and sustenance, sufficient until the next re-supply, including quantity for unexpected circumstances.

• Personal race clothing and footwear suitable for extreme conditions (including accessories such as hats/ gloves, eye protection, watch/altimeter as required and clothing for water activities such as wetsuits).

• Paddles for kayak, canoe or packraft

• Cycle repair kit (including pump, tubes, tools and spare parts).

• Waterproofing/ dry bags to keep personal and team equipment as dry as necessary.

• Water purification device or chemicals - to avoid illness from drinking contaminated water.

• Personal medications (not in contravention of anti-doping rules) permitted analgesics, therapeutic medicines, medical insurance certificates, allergy or illness identification tags, sun protection creams.

• Money/ Credit card, personal identification card/ Passport, immigration or visa certificates.

• Pens and instruments for marking maps,

• Zip ties.

• Trash bag

Additional and back up Mandatory/ Recommended and Inferred items in re-supply boxes as permitted.

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RULES

 As a competitor in the AR World Series event using this list, you and your team are required to carry the

mandatory equipment items with you at the specified times. Checks of mandatory equipment may occur during the race and missing equipment may result in penalties or disqualification as per the race rules. If any items are used/ consumed/lost during a leg, they must be replaced at the next transition point. The mandatory equipment is divided into two categories, equipment you and your team must carry at ALL times,

 

and equipment you and your team must carry during a specific DISCIPLINE.

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PROHIBITED ITEMS

Prohibited items are outlined in the ARWS Rules of Competition.

rules on items containing GPS, communications/ internet capabilities and items that could potentially assist with

navigation.