About Us
William "Wild Bill" Donohue
William “Wild Bill” Donohue has been adventure racing since the turn of the century. He was looking to go beyond the world of marathoning and continue the vagabond lifestyle of eclectic outdoor sports he cultivated through SUOC, the Syracuse University Outing Club.
His college roommate got wind of Eco Challenge and signed them up for the Pittsburgh stop of the Hi-Tec Adventure Race Series. They both had backgrounds in marathon running, mountain biking, paddling, and rock climbing, plus all the gear to go needed--so it was a natural fit. The two were hooked and spent the next few years training and racing across the country, while mostly living out of Bill’s Jeep Wrangler. Since then, Bill’s toned down his outdoors dirtbagging long enough to get married, have kids, buy a house in the Philly suburbs, and do a few races a year from sprint to 48 hours.
He thinks his team placed 22ndoverall at the USARA Nationals in 2012 and has a fourth-place finish at the NCARS Championship Solo Division. He has a bunch of podiums in 12 hour and sprint races in all sorts of divisions— solo, coed, all male. However, he likes to say that he has a whole lot of stories but doesn’t really keep track of the AR finishes. At some point, it stopped being about the race and started being about the adventure