What is the major difference between Expedition Category and Adventure Category?
The Expedition route is much harder in terms of terrain and distance, being about 30-40 % longer overall. It also applies some psychological pressure in terms of pacing yourself and pushing yourself to avoid missing a time-cut off. These pre-designated time cut-offs are placed at certain checkpoints on the longest days. This requires many runners to strategize, plan out their days a bit and challenge themselves in interesting ways. These cut-offs are made in the interest of safety and to keep the competitive level very high in the Expedition Category. People who begin to slow down significantly run the risk of missing a cut-off on a long day and being reassigned to Adventure Category. Adventure category also spends time on interesting technical sections but may miss certain course highlights.
