Our Company
The mountains were the plan all along
Odyssey Adventure Racing has been pulling people off the pavement and into the wild since 1997 — producing trail races, adventure races, and land navigation clinics across the Blue Ridge and beyond.
Our Mission
Bold endurance competition — the way the mountains intended
We produce events that test more than your legs. Odyssey races ask you to navigate, decide, adapt, and keep going when the course stops being comfortable. Rugged, honest, and unforgettable — that is the standard every Odyssey event is built to.
270+
events produced since 1997
What is OAR?
Race-directing pioneers of North American adventure racing
Odyssey Adventure Racing is a race production company based in Roanoke, Virginia — one of the first in North America to organize multi-discipline adventure races for everyday athletes.
Adventure racing combines trail running, navigation, and teamwork over untamed, unmarked courses. Since 1997, Odyssey has produced more than 270 of them — from sprint-length clinic formats to expedition-grade races — along with trail running events like the Odyssey Trail Running Rampage and land navigation clinics that teach compass and map skills from scratch.
Trail races
Timed trail running events from a fast 6 miler to a 50K in the mountains.
Adventure races
Multi-discipline, navigation-based races where the route is yours to find.
Navigation clinics
Land navigation training — compass work, topo maps, GPS, day and night field exercises.
Team building, Odyssey-style
The same navigation and endurance work we build races around makes a remarkable day off-site. Odyssey designs corporate team-building programs around land navigation challenges — groups learn to read a map, divide roles, make decisions under pressure, and cross the finish line together.
- Guided land navigation challenges for groups of any size
- Day or night formats, tailored to your team's fitness
- Led by race directors with 200+ events of experience
Meet the founder
Ronny Angell
Entrepreneur, race director for more than 200 events, holistic coach, and energy healer — Ronny built Odyssey Adventure Racing to get more people out of their comfort zones and into the mountains.
- events race-directed
- 200+
- events race-directed
- founding year of Odyssey
- 1997
- founding year of Odyssey
- Odyssey events produced
- 270+
- Odyssey events produced
Ready to race with us?
See what's on the 2027 calendar, or call Ronny directly and we'll point you at your next starting line.