baarbd was created to promote the sport of Adventure Racing (AR) in the Bay area primarily through online forums and a web portal.
Local athletes, from experienced racers to those looking for a new sport can easily communicate through the forum and help grow the community. The portal provides a central point for athletes to find information about races and resources, as well as a means for vendors to advertise in order to keep their businesses as healthy as we are!
The primary goals of baarbd are to retain and attract athletes to the AR community, and to make serving the AR community a rewarding investment for race directors and vendors.
Founders
Jennifer Klafin
Jen was inspired to create baarbd when she moved from Boston to San Francisco.
As an experienced racer, she was fortunate to sub on a few teams where she met the 'usual suspects' of the Bay Area AR scene.
In hindsight, she realized that an AR forum and portal would bring racers, race directors, vendors and 'newbies' together.
Galen Pewtherer
Galen's background is in road-riding, long-distance trail-running, rock-climbing, and most recently, mountain biking (which means that he still crashes a lot).
He wanted to get into adventure racing, but was dissatisfied with the available options for finding teammates and training partners, so when Jen came up with the idea for baarbd, he jumped on the bandwagon.
Jennifer Klafin
Galen Pewtherer
