Team Format
The Hebridean Challengehill running, sea kayaking, road biking, mountain biking and swimming. |
The Hebridean Adventure |
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     The main event - "The Heb" is for teams of five including a kayaker. |
Teams of four – essentially the same route and format as the "The Heb" but without the kayaking. |
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The Pairs Challengehill running, sea kayaking, road biking, mountain biking and swimming. |
The Pairs Adventure |
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Teams of two - Essentially "The Heb" route adapted to cater for the logistics of a two-person team. |
Teams of two - Essentially "The Heb" route to cater for the logistics of a two person team, without the kayaking or the swimming. |
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Four or Five Person Teams
(The Hebridean Challenge and The Hebridean Adventure)
Team composition varies greatly and part of the challenge of the event will be for each team to make decisions that play to its strengths.
Generally teams have one or two stronger hill runners who concentrate on that, with other team members doing a mix of biking and running. It is logistically possible for one team member to do all of the swimming, though with an extra person prepared to swim, teams have more options open to them.
The Hebridean Challenge teams usually employ one specialist kayaker to do all of the kayaking sections, though there are usually a few teams who split the kayaking between two or more team members. For those teams that are unable to find a kayaker (or don't want to) choose The Hebridean Adventure.
The more team members who can drive the team vehicle the better as this opens up more choice about how to deploy people.
Often teams are made up of groups of friends, but it is quite common for a core group of two or three to form a team and then advertise for others to come and join. In particular teams often need to find a paddler, which they usually do and often these scratch teams seem to have the most fun.
Pairs
(The Pairs Challenge and The Pairs Adventure)
Pairs will be completely self sufficient so no support crews are allowed; the partner not racing on the course must drive the team vehicle and be prepared to have food/drinks/equipment/clothing etc ready for the other member. Pairs will need their own vehicle, most suitable is probably an estate car/people carrier or small van.