Adventure Sport NQ

Stories of square dancing, marriage proposals, shameless trail nudity and Vegemite covered buttocks

Fearless trail runners awoke predawn on the wettest morning of the year, got out of bed, waded to the nearest window to stare into the dark yet somehow still visibly wet scene before them, smiled and said “stuff it, monsoonal downpours don’t scare me – I’m going to run Speewah” (Or at least splash / paddle / wade / slip or slide it!). Legends – Speewah Legends – the lot of ‘em!

Fancy a Taste of Trail Running? If you developed a taste for single trail in the Dirty 30 or Sweaty 60, or if your feet are itchy ‘cause you missed it, upcoming weekends should well and truly satisfy your appetite. March 18th will be the 3rd, and quite possibly the quickest, running of the Speewah Legend [...]

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.

Winners report 2011 Spiny Cray Ultra, by Chris White I’m not sure what it is about the Spiny Cray Ultra, but despite it being the longest run event I’ve had a go at it is without doubt the most enjoyable. Maybe the altitude affected air pressure stimulates early endorphin release, or the biodiversity of highland [...]

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

Saturday, July 30th, 2011 marks the date from which the number of kilometres to run exceeds the days remaining to prepare for the 2011 Spiny Cray Ultra. The course is as speccy (and as challenging) as ever, the creeks are perhaps colder than ever and with entries open there is no better way to get motivated than to sign up!

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.