Adventure Sport NQ

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 [...]

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.

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.

….. 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.

We were able to crouch low and waddle under it while the muddy
water from the net ran down our back, providing the twin benefits of
cooling and applying a layer of muddy protection from mossies.

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. [...]

Regional Papers are great – check out this article from a recent edition of  Mareeba Advertiser giving the Speewah Legend Footrace a plug.  

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 [...]

Yes that’s right it has been coming for a while. You might have already seen the new Rogaining Logo on the Rogaining email Mike sent out. Adventure Sport NQ encompasses the following sports. The logo’s again with a button style background. I hope you love them, comments are below. Muz!