Craig Mottram and Benita Johnson headlined the 22-member team competing at the 36th IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Edinburgh, Scotland on 30 March 2008.  You can read a good summary here . TV Replay is on April 20th on SBS from 12:00pm-1:00pm.

We say, add trail runnnig to the Beijing Olympics! It must be clean air way up there.

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Just finished last weekend, an epic adventure involving sailing to islands and running to the top of three peaks, often in the dark.  Sounds crazy? Well 2008 sees its 20th running. Latest news at 3peaks.prism9.com

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From David, Rach and friends, another quality newsletter to inspire you can be downloaded from www.byos.com.au/

You need good bandwidth and 10 minutes for this awesome video  - many thanks to Will of Coolrunning. And the book - well slight poetic license there, really the short story. And the history

TRAQ is presenting a paper today as part of our advocacy for better access to trails. Below is a link to our draft policy covering adventure event permits:
Adventure_sports_trails_in_qpws_managed_areas.rtf

The Wild Horse Mountain run is essentially a night training event. There are no awards and no entry forms, but there is a limit of about 50 entrants. Sign on is at Mobil Service Station on eastern side of Bruce Highway near Johnston Rd between 6.00 and 6.50pm. See Events page for details.

On a cool day Barry Keem was first down the hill to Jenolan Caves in 3:23:13, with Matthew Robbie second and  Queensland’s Neil Labinsky and Don Wallace third and fourth. First woman home was Vanessa Haverd in 4:00:30, followed by Suzanne Kelly then Dearne Fulcher. 760 runners finished inside the 7 hour cutoff, with 56 making the trip from Queensland. Well done all for keeping up the hard training through summer, and thanks to Digger for organising group transport and accommodation for many of us.

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Trail running, Utah style!  Event website  & race report with more classic pics of the course

Best wishes to all those tackling the 45km of Australia’s largest and most competitive trail run this Saturday in NSW’s Blue Mountains. Here’s the story of it’s humble start