Elemenja  [el.em.en.ja]  (L.M.N.J)  is one mans efforts to present itself as a complete source for adventure racing, trail running, mountain biking, and other endurance sports, offering quite an impressive array of related topics including access to some of the top shops that provide the necessary equipment and apparel that you’d need.   The site is effectively one man’s tribute to his love of outdoor sports which allows him to share both his knowledge and experiences and also offer advice on the more important factors of adventure racing.

Going through the site from top to bottom your first invited to a little ‘about‘ the site owner who has quite an impressive skill set in many facets of outdoor sport and activity which pretty much shows within the detail of the site.    With the ambition of creating a site created around the owners own need to find a consolidated and convenient location to find race information, gear, and other sites one would typically use in a year of training and competing it has expanded into an all in one resource for just that.

The site is a mixture of a personal site that offers you an insight to the owners life through a collection of photographs that provide a pictoral biography of his life so far.  Offering a calender of events you can map out what’s going on until at least the end of 2008., and it looks like this site is going nowhere so bookmarking it would be a good move to keep up to date with events.

There’s good level of advice on how to prepare for training for the up-coming event.  Its presented in a simple but comprehensive style with links leading from one page to another in a fashion that will allow you to train specifically for different events.  Good thought has been put into the way the tips and techniques have been presented even down to the implications of preperation such as lactic acid buildup and more.  Constantly referring to external resources the author of this site has not taken it for granted that his way is the only way, he’s supporting his program with independent reference by other qualified sources.

From choosing the correct running shoe to  selecting the right hydration pack this site pretty much covers all angles.  The resources that the site link to are numerous and again cover every conceivable topic your likely to need to know about when reading up on adventure racing and all it involves to gear and equipment reviews, they’re all here in abundance.  So whether its backpacking that your interest is in finding more about, or the more intrepid like kayaking your going to find out all you need.    There are direct links to products the site owner recommends and provides access to these via the outdoor sports and apparel shop Backcountry.com.

A thoroughly informative site and a great resource for all interest in either taking up the more adventurous of sports to the seasoned professional looking for that little extra help and advice from a qualified expert who can direct you to the best tips and, advice and materials, this site is  a definite for the adventurous.

For more information contact the site owner PeakMan@elemenja.com