Biography:

• Director of Primal Quest Expedition Adventure Race - “The World’s Most Challenging Human Endurance Competition”
• Founder of Odyssey Adventure Racing, Inc.
• Author of The Complete Guide to Adventure Racing
• Author of The Modern Day Gunslinger
• Consultant for the Adventure Racing Handbook, Holland Press
• Consultant for The Thrill of Victory, the Agony of My Feet: Tales from the World of Adventure Racing
• Advisor and Primary Trainer for the USN Sea Cadet- SEAL Corps, SEAL Adventure Challenge and SEAL Training Academy, Icelandic SEAL Adventure Challenge
• Named Virginia Beach Ambassador Extraordinaire
• Executive Board Member United States Adventure Racing Association (USARA)
• Product tester/developer for New Balance footwear, Lava Gear, Master Foods, Mile High Muscle, SEDA kayaks
• Masters, Management, Troy State University, Troy, AL
• B.S., International Relations & Criminal Justice, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
• B.S., Liberal Science, State University of New York
  
  

• Navy SEAL/Chief Warrant Officer Retired
• SEAL Team One, CA
• SEAL Team Six, VA
• SBU-26, Republic of Panama
• SEAL Team Two, VA
• Navy Special Warfare Development Group, VA

Decorated Combat Veteran, Navy SEAL Warrant Officer; Corpsman, EMT, paramedic; SEAL Special Operations Technician; Special Forces Medical Laboratory graduate; static line, high altitude free-fall and advance free-fall parachutist; open circuit, closed circuit oxygen and air scuba diver, diving supervisor; jungle survival, desert survival and arctic survival instructor; Military Operations in Urban Terrain instructor; small boat operator for craft up to 65 feet; technical rock climbing, mountaineering; small arms weapons instructor, foreign weapons instructor, armed and unarmed defense tactics;  photo intelligence; Survival, Evade, Resistance and Escape Instructor.

Athletic Biography:

• Navy Men's Senior Athlete of the Year Award
  
• Completed over 1000 endurance competitions over the last 30 years to include.
  
• Odyssey Double IRON (16 mile paddle, 224 mile bike and 52.4 mile run) Triathlete Finisher  – and current Double IRON paddling record holder.
  
• Captain, Trans-Himalayan (Nepal, Tibet and across India)
  RAID Gauloises - (10 days, 500 miles).
  
• Captain, First All-American Team RAID ' Ecuador
  (9 days, 400 miles).
  
• Captain, RAID South Africa – (11 days, 500 miles, 200km trek, 250 km, class 4 and 5 raft/canoe, 160 km mtb, 90km horse, ).
  
• Captain, RAID  Patagonia – (9 days, 350 miles).
  
• Captain ESPN Xtreme Adventure Race – (4 days, 250 miles).
  
• Captain Great Nor'Easter – (3 days, 200 miles).
  
• Professional mountain bike racer (mid-late 80s).
  
• Cat 3 and 4 road cyclist (70s-90s).
  
• Numerous 100+ mile Bike Races and Centuries
  
• Iditasport 100-mile bike race, Alaska.
  
• Around the Island of Okinawa, Japan 231-mile bike race (Course Record).
  
• Florida to Texas 300+ miles/day - 1500 in 5 days (Guinness World Record pace).
  
• 24 hrs of Canaan Mt. Bike Race - 4th place/7th place SOLO; 16th team event.
  
• 18-Hours of Ivor Mt.Bike Race SOLO; 12-Hours of Ivor Mt. Bike Race, team/SOLO.
  
• Assault on Mt. Mitchell 100+ mile Bike Race
  
• Fat Tire Duathlon - 2nd place
  
• Sea Shore State Park 50K trail run, 4hrs 30 min, 2nd place.
  
• 60-mile Umstead, ultra distance run.
  
• 75-mile Knotts Island road ride (first finisher).
  
• Mountains of Misery Challenge Century - 100 mile road ride.
  
• Tour de Virginias, 5-day stage ride, 300 miles, 1750 riders (first finisher in every stage).
  
• Shenandoah 100-mile Back-Country Mountain Bike Race
  
• Paddle for the Bay Kayak Race 1998, 1st place, three 2nd place finishes
  
• Former PRO Triathlete - 100s of Triathlons including the Hawaiian Iron Man - 57th in 1980 and 38th in 1981.
  
• 75+ marathons and ultras including Mt Mitchell Marathon (America's Toughest Marathon), Black Mountain 40-mile challenge, JFK 50-miler.
  
• Ran 30 marathons in 36 months.
  
• 24-hour running events in Guam and Panama.
  
• Qualified for the Western Pacific Cross-Country Championship Race

Climbing:

• Summits: Denalli, Kilimanjaro, Longs Peak, Mount Whitney, Cotopaxi, Grand Teton, and numerous other mountains over 14,000 feet.
• First Ascends: Devils Tower, Wyoming - “a Reach Too Far” 5.10, Red Rock, Nevada – “Jolly Roger”, 5.10.