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 | John Jacoby, Race Director
Event Description
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Tugun, Gold Coast, QLD |
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August 10th, 2008, 8:00am |
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Zoot Ocean Swim (1.9km)
Ocean / River Kayak (13km)
Keen Adventure Run (12.5km)
Mountain Bike (18km)
Team Board Paddle (1km)*
Team Beach Run (2km)* | * For team categories, all team members will be required to complete these legs together. We will provide you with boards.
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 Race & Course Overview
The Anaconda Adventure Race at the Gold Coast will take competitors on a off road adventure through the lush hinterland wilderness and rural retreats bordering the Pacific coast, showcasing a side of the Gold Coast few ever knew existed!
Competitors follow an off road course with more variety than a box of chocolates as they make their way along flowing trails of single track in beautiful eucalypt forest, over lung busting hills with extensive views to the city, through stunning rainforest thick with strangler figs and tree ferns and along golden beaches flanked by curling waves and palm trees.
Starting and finishing at the Tugun Surf Club, sections of the course have been redesigned for 2008 to provide a challenging yet uniquely rewarding off road escapade for everyone. So if you wand a bit more adventure in your life – you’ve just found it. Lets get it on!
Choose your style and get involved - the Anaconda Adventure Race can be completed in a range of categories to get anyone and everyone to onto the start then over the finish line:
- Individuals – do every leg as a non stop race around the track. Designed for heros and want-to-bes
- Pairs – do every leg but in the company of your mate who’s by your side the whole way round
- Relay teams – with up to 4 people where you do one (or more) legs each. A great way to get involved without being a super hero – build up a team of friends and work colleagues and join all the fun
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Scott 24hr champion Jessica Douglas is the first to enter our NEW Bike Buller MTB Festival.(Posted 14/11/2008)
No more than 12hrs after we activated the online entry system for our NEW Bike Buller MTB Festival and we saw that our first entrant was the solo female winner of the Scott 24hr - Jessica Douglas. We were keen to hear just why she entered the event and to learn more about this new dynamo on the MTB Enduro scene so we gave her a call to find out more. Click here for full story ... Keen Adventure Race preview and competitors support(Posted 5/11/2008)
Towering granite domes, secret white sandy beaches, tropical rainforests, soaring sea cliffs, sheltered inlets and long forgotten islands… an incredible range of simply spectacular terrain will be unearthed as part of the 2009 Keen Adventure Race to take place in Victoria, Australia between April 28th and May 2nd. Click here for full story ... Records tumble as Geographe Bay turns it on for the Anaconda Adventure Race(Posted 2/11/2008)
It was a magnificent day at Geographe Bay today south of Perth in the Busselton region. A World Record was created with a field of over 1550 competitors in an adventure race where most of the competitors described the course as “perfect" and “like paradise". The sell-out field registered at Dunsborough Centenary Park yesterday and filled the local accommodation to capacity. With all the ski’s and mountain bikes in the cars around town there was no doubt there was an adventure race about to Click here for full story ... “… if there is one race you should put in the diary with a big black permanent marker pen, it’s the Anaconda MTB Enduro in Alice Springs…” James Williamson(Posted 31/10/2008)
When the reigning Solo 24hr Mountain Bike World Champion and editor of leading mountain bike magazine Enduro talks about a race as, “…truly one of the best events I’ve ever been part of…" then this is surely an event worth looking out for. Hmm, what else did James have to say: Click here for full story ... Dunsborough, WA prepares for World Record!(Posted 31/10/2008)
The roads into Dunsborough this afternoon were clogged with cars filled to the brim with sporting equipment. Surf skis and mountain bikes are evidence that it isn’t time for Ironman but that a force far more popular with Western Australians is in town – the Anaconda Adventure Race. With a world record sell out field, the weekend is shaping up to be a cracker.
Click here for full story ... Dunsborough Anaconda Adventure Race set to be the BIGGEST IN THE WORLD. C'mon Victorians, rise to the challenge!(Posted 24/10/2008)
With a sell out field of competitors, the Dunsborough Anaconda Adventure Race is set to be a massive weekend with accommodation in the region booked out as well.
In fact, as far as our research can determine, the 2008 Anaconda Adventure Race at Dunsborough will set a number of records with the following monumental facts:
Click here for full story ...Anaconda Adventure Race – National Series Points Score Update(Posted 13/10/2008)
For the first time in 2008, Rapid Ascent – with thanks to Anaconda – are putting up a $2,000 cash bonus to both the male and female series winners. The rankings are determined by a points score system whereby the top 10 individual finishers are awarded 12, 10, 8, 7 ... 3, 2, 1 for each event. The top 3 results only count towards your total and ties are broken with number of wins, followed by finish placing at the Anaconda Adventure Race Forster and then finally placing at Lorne. Click here for full story ...The inaugural Bike Buller MTB Festival is set to race at Mt Buller in March 2009 - A NEW RAPID ASCENT EVENT(Posted 10/10/2008)
Rapid Ascent has teamed up with Mt Buller, Victoria’s premier alpine resort, and mountain sports specialist Altitude, to launch the Bike Buller MTB Festival. The inaugural Bike Buller MTB Festival will take place on 21 – 22 March 2009, combing the resort’s world-class mountain biking facilities with sensational views and great Village atmosphere to deliver a dynamic and unique weekend of competition. Click here for full story ... Anaconda Adventure Race National Series, Gold Coast – Largest QLD field and stars aplenty(Posted 10/08/2008)
Olympians, World Champions and National Surf Ironman champions lined up with nearly 500 other athletes at the first leg of the Anaconda Adventure Race National Series on the Gold Coast today. The region’s famous beaches, coastline and hinterland were the focus of the endurance world as individuals and teams competed for a share of the $30,000 in cash and prizes during the 50km off-road challenge. Click here for full story ...Anaconda Junior Survivor a big success!(Posted 9/08/2008)
This afternoon over 430 kids ran, jumped, crawled and slid their way over a 4km obstacle course in the Anaconda Junior Survivor. A mass of yellow t-shirts fled from Tugan surf club completing a looped course through a series of fun activities including abseiling, rope climbing, hurdles, a spiders web, sand jumps, hoola hoops and wading. The hit of the day was the slippery slide, hosed down and foamed up with detergent it was 20m of fast and furious excitement. Click here for full story ...
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Course FamiliarisationOur famously popular familiarisation session is set to take place on Sunday July 20th kicking off at 9:00 am from the Tugun Surf Club. This is a really great way to get fit, meet some poeple and go over the course all at one so mark it in your diary and get ready for action. Full details can be found here.
Paddling3 time Uncle Toby's Ironman series champion and converted adventure racer Guy Andrews runs regular paddling lessons in his "GA's Ski School" program. These sessions allow paddlers of all levels to get out and be a part of a regular training group. Sessions include both a fitness / training component as well as a skill / technique component. Surf ski's can be hired from Guy's personal stash if you don't have one of your own to bring along so there's no excuse for those of you who think the paddling part is the barrier between you and an individual Anaconda Adventure Race finish.
Click here for more details on GA's ski school.
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Merchandise
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