Adventure Sport NQ

Up for a bout of rainforest running? Keen for cool clear creeks, smoothly flowing or challenging single track and social but competitive trail running? Entries have opened for events in the 2012 Dirty Northern Trail Running Series.

The track has beautiful scenery, is mostly in shade and has plenty of challenging hills to test your hamstrings and everything else attached to them. The Spiny Cray Ultra is a race that will keep me coming back and hopefully encourage some others to take on those extra kilometres.

SPINY CRAY – ENTRIES ONLINE ONLY Trail runners keen to get high (altitudinally) at the 2nd running of the Spiny Cray have until Friday, 23rd September (5:00pm) to enter. No entries will be accepted on the day (Sunday, 25th September) but entering now is cheap, quick and painless – start by clicking here! Important Participant [...]

Yes no cups, none, nought, nada, zilch, zero, zip, who would have thought? It makes sense really.

While 2 billion people watched a commoner become a British Princess on Friday night, Sue Crowe prepared to become the Queen – The Dirty Northern Trail Running Queen.

….. a 42.2km course with over 800m of vertical ascent and descent, 32 creek crossings, multiple crossings of the East Mulgrave River, extended sections of loose unstable rocks and kilometres of moss covered dirt trail made precariously slippery by a light shower.

Like any good Gold Rush, the feverish migration has begun. Californians, Kiwis and from the deep southern fields of Townsville the diggers are coming. Yes, the Gold Rush 2011 is here.   Competitor list is currently as follows:

The Gold Rush Trail Marathon Course and shorter options have been rerouted due to a landslide and the indefinite closure of the southern section of the Goldfield Trail.

Sue Crowe led home a quality field of female runners in the 2011 Speewah Legend. All three female placegetters went under the previous record, but it will be Sue’s time of 1:48:42 that will be the time to chase in future Speewah Legends. Here’s her version of events.

From Mossman to Mowbray, Craiglie to Cape Trib, Whyanbeel to Wonga you get the picture, the word on the trail is Spiny Cray Ultra! This article is from last weeks Port Douglas & Mossman Gazette. Thanks Simon for your Support, thanks to all the guys in the Mossman Port Douglas area for you continued support. [...]

I’m now hooked on the idea of trail running and would like to bid farewell to concrete and bitumen.

4 Hour Day Night Pony Express Smithfield MTB Park, McGregor Rd [below Bungy] 4 Hour Pony Express, Ride N Stride Trail Run and Club AGM Teams of 2 or 3 riders All Male, All Female and Mixed categories DH bike class [7" min] Ride and Stride trail run [ two riders/runners one bike] Random draws [...]

Entries are now open for the 2009 QUOLL. An exciting and challenging course has been designed with extreme adventure racers and new comers to this style of racing catered for. Take-off will be September 12 & 13th. Click here for race info & entry