The Lamington Classic - Border Track trail run, Lamington National Park

Photos from the Lamington Classic 26-27 October 2013.
Green Mountains - Binna Burra Border Track, Lamington National Park.

Winners

more winners

and more winners.

Somewhere across the border.

Gibraltar range waratah trail run 2013

Just photos.

Mulligans hut.

About 150 runners took part in the 9km, 25km and 50km events on 20 October 2013.

Oh that's 150 runners and one plodder.

Top runners in the 25km run.

That must be the rock of Gibraltar range.

Surveyors creek.

Waratah (Burragorang word meaning beautiful) is the floral emblem of New South Wales.

This rare wild flower may be seen on the trails up in the Washpool-Gibraltar range.

A story from the Burragorang dreamtime tells of Krubi, a beautiful young woman who wove her cloak from the bright red hide of the rock wallaby and the crimson crests of the ganggang cockatoo. Dressed in her scarlet cloak, Krubi took up a post high on a sandstone ridge to wait for her love who went off to war. One day Krubi’s young man went with other Burragorang men to battle enemy invaders.  The young man never returned again. Grief-stricken Krubi spent her days waiting on the lonesome ridge where her life ebbed away. Her body blended into the weathered sandstone where she used to wait for her man. From the spot where Krubi died bloomed the first waratah, the most beautiful radiant red flower that you see here.

Toowoomba marathon

Notes from the Toowoomba marathon 6 October 2013.

travel out from Brisbane at 3am
still dark at registration
hundreds of runners, usq grounds
35 marathon, 16 3/4 marathon, 99 half-marathon, 125 10km
shivering cold but forecast temps to nudge 30degrees

at 3km in, runner says 'this is better than mowing'. 'I concur' said I.
but in the middle of third lap, I was conquered and thinking 'I'd rather be mowing'.
many first-time marathoners
one runner ran the Penrith marathon in nsw the day before. amazingly awesome!
consumed 32 cups of water and fluids all up from the four water stops
towards end of race- heat shimmer looking like pools of water
runner in distress from heat(?) at finish

No run is perfect, but everybody won.

the top females

many older runners doing great times
top 50 finish

other events in toowoomba that same day
cycling and vintage car show
runners win, feet down

after race, to picnic point for 20min nap under spreading gum trees
scenery and landscape looking brown
glamorgan vale
old fernvale bakery
mt glorious
home.