Calling all adrenaline junkies. Sign up now for the inaugural Ultimate Adventure Triathlon

Fancy yourself as a ‘Wipeout’ survivor, think you can handle a bike race through the woods and a cross country run? The Ultimate Adventure Centre in Abbotsham, Bideford is offering adrenaline junkies the chance to compete in the first ever Ultimate Adventure Triathlon on Sunday 19 May 2013. The Ultimate Adventure Triathlon is a new and exciting adventure experience, bringing together three ultimate activities. The event starts with a lap of The Ultimate Assault – you’ll need a sense of fun as well as plenty of energy and agility to make it through this challenging course inspired by TV’s Total Wipeout! From there will be a transition into an off-road Mountain Bike ride of either 8 or 10km. The final leg of the three is a cross country run of either 5 or 7km. There will also be a junior event which includes The Ultimate Assault, 3k mountain bike and 2km run. This event is ideal for anyone with or without any triathlon experience aged 12 +. There will be an initial limit of 100 places. There will be Junior, Novice and Sprint classifications. The Novice and Sprint classifications will be split into Senior Men and Senior Women. There will also be a team competition for each classification. The inaugural Ultimate Adventure Triathlon is probably the most energetic of events in the B10 programme, celebrating ten years of North Devon’s UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. It’s all about getting out there and enjoying this special area we live in. Russ Johns, owner of the Ultimate Adventure Centre is a dedicated supporter of the Biosphere’s aims, saying “We strive to safeguard the local countryside, and value and endorse the ethos and principles of the North Devon Biosphere.” Stunning North Devon countryside provides the back-drop for the race which will be held in fields adjacent to the Ultimate Adventure Centre and The Big Sheep, just off the A39 on the outskirts of Bideford. The Big Sheep owner Rick Turner says ‘We are pleased to be associated with the first Ultimate Adventure Triathlon, an exciting and challenging new race for Bideford and North Devon’. For more details and to book a place visit the website: http://theultimatehigh.com/Triathlon.html Or call 01237 880028 Email: info@theultimatehigh.com

 

Exciting Weekend of Workshops at the Happy Cafe in Westward Ho!

As part of the B10 programme celebrating 10 years of North Devon's Biosphere Reserve Seize the Moment in Westward Ho! are running a weekend of events in their permaculture garden. 

Saturday & Sunday 
20 & 21 April 2013 
Saturday 20th April 2013 2pm
Make a Bug House
Make a Willow Garden Butterfly

Sunday 21 April 2013 2-5 
PERMACULTURE taster workshop
Interested in gardening with nature, living lightly on the earth and improving your quality of life? Try an afternoon taster of Permaculture with the option of a full weekend design course to follow
£5 or barter

Jane Elliott from Seize says "Seize the Moment are proud to support the work of the North Devon Biosphere reserve. The Permaculture training is part of our work to manage the gardens at the Happy Cafe to enable members of the community to produce food and flowers for use in the cafe."
For more details contact Jane Elliott at Seize the Moment 07773 679559 jane@seize-the-moment.net www.seize-the-moment.net

B10 EVENT. RHS ROSEMOOR, TORRINGTON ECO FAIR 2013

RHS Garden Rosemoor in Torrington is holding its second Eco Fair designed to help north Devon residents who want to adopt a greener lifestyle. Diana Gilding, Events Manager at Rosemoor says “We are really excited about our upcoming ECO Fair here at RHS Garden Rosemoor, especially as it is the first event this year which forms part of B10, the North Devon Biosphere’s 10 year anniversary celebrations. Their inflatable classroom the Bio-Dome will be on site to engage our visitors with what the Biosphere is all about and we feel that strengthening the connections between the public and their natural surroundings is such an important factor, especially when you apply that to ecological gardening.” Rosemoor’s Eco Fair is a fun and informative event with lots of hands-on activities for both adults and children to enjoy including basket weaving, cob plastering a pig, thatching a roof, making willow fairy wands and there will even be a solar-powered Nellie the elephant to ride. To help you make your house and garden as ECO friendly as possible there will be local providers and installers of solar panels, wind turbines, natural insulation, rainwater harvesters and examples of electric bikes, vehicles and car ports, there will even be eco friendly paper made out of pony poo! Rosemoor has amazing green credentials too. As much of its waste as possible is recycled: cardboard and plastics are compacted and sold to fund other initiatives; all the food waste from the kitchens are placed in their Rocket Composter and the Peter Buckley Learning Centre (PBLC) was designed and built to be as environmentally friendly as possible. There will be talks, demonstrations and displays and visitors will be introduced the Rocket Composter and shown round the PBLC. Normal garden admission applies but for the green traveller there will be a special £2 discount on the entry fee if you travel to the Eco Fair by Stagecoach Bus number 315 which runs between Barnstaple - Bideford - Crediton - Exeter and stops right outside Rosemoor.

Fun for the family at Rosemoor Eco Fair: Solar powered Nellie the Elephant, Electric Car, Cob Plastering - All photos copyright B10
RHS ROSEMOOR, TORRINGTON ECO FAIR 2013 SATURDAY 6 APRIL 2013 10am to 4pm
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