BOB MILLER
Bob has excelled in multiple endurance sports including marathons, triathlons and mountain bike events. Since devoting himself full time to Adventure Racing in 1999, Bob has become one of the world’s top competitors. He is Captain, Navigator and Chief Strategist of Team Supplierpipeline, Canada’s top adventure racing squad. In 2006, Bob led the team to a fourth place finish at Primal Quest 2006. Since 2001, Bob has coached hundreds of athletes on the specific skills and techniques required to become successful, and regularly provides Adventure Race Training Programs throughout Ontario. Since 2003, Bob has designed and co-directed over 30 adventure races of all lengths for Frontier and others, and helped grow the sport of off-road triathlon in Canada by co-directing Ontario’s first Xterra race.
LAWRENCE FOSTER
Since 1999, Lawrence has lead his Canadian teams to unmatched success in races around the world. His team has several wins nationally and internationally including 1st place in two Eco Challenge NAC’s, 1st place at Africa Quest 2005, and 3rd place in Primal Quest 2004. In addition to being a very strong and accomplished athlete (former elite level mountain biker) Lawrence was also the Captain of the Rope Rescue Team for Sault Search and Rescue, the largest volunteer Ops in North America and an instructor in the Canadian Forces Reserves. He also ran a sea kayak and rock/ice climbing company and is an accomplished mountaineer.
Lawrence has designed and managed over 100 adventure races including the 2004 Adventure Racing World Championship and the High School Adventure Challenge for which he has developed instructional and inspirational courses to get competitors to the top of their game. As a videographer Lawrence designs and films OLN’s hit reality show Mantracker where he challenges both man and beast while capturing every second on film. Lawrence is ushering in the new generation of adventurers while teaching Outdoor Edcuation to his students and his son in Sault Ste. Marie.
TRISH WESTMAN
Starting racing at the age of 12, Trish quickly
developed as a natural athlete skiing, running and mountain
biking in the boundless outdoor playground of Sault
Ste. Marie, ON. While at University she raced as a pro/elite
mountain biker where she was a top provincial rider
and was a medalist at the University Games in Nordic
Skiing. She began adventure racing in 1999 and quickly
proved herself as one of Canada’s best while racing
with Teams Supplierpipeline and Holofiber.
GEOFF LANGFORD
As an avid adventure racer since 1999, and the owner
and Race Director of
Frontier Adventure Sports & Training (FAST) since 2002, Geoff has seen
adventure racing from all sides. His experience includes
racing nearly everything in Canada, from sprints to
expeditions, and international races including Africa
Quest, Desafio de los Volcanes and the Southern Traverse. He co-created and
directed the Inner Limits Urban Adventure Race in Calgary,
and over the years, he has observed competitors in every high and low,
seen all the tricks and errors, gained an in-depth understanding
of landscape and its affect on competitors, and has seen the effects of
teamwork - good and bad - on teams.
JIM COFFEY
Since 1984, Jim has been leading expeditions, training
guides and teaching canoeing, kayaking, first aid, swiftwater
rescue and ecological awareness throughout Canada,
the United States, Mexico, Costa Rica, India, Asia,
Africa, Australia and New Zealand. He first introduced
the SRT program to Eastern Canada in 1989 and became
the first certified SRT1 and SRT2 instructor east of
the Rockies. In 1992 he founded Esprit Rafting, an Ottawa Valley
adventure travel company which specializes in whitewater
tours and training. Esprit was named the #2 Outfitter in the World by National Geographic in 2007. His accomplishments include being
a Canadian Team member for C2 whitewater slalom racing,
as well as the captain of four Canadian Rafting Championship
teams at the World Rafting Championships. Jim is a registered
Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) and an active Fellow
of the Royal Geographical Society.
Camp Frontier: Mexico 2010