MEDIA RELEASE: The weekend of 8-9 November 2008 sees the 4th running of the Highland Fling Mountain Bike Marathon. The race, which again doubles as the Australian MTB Marathon Championships, takes place in the beautiful Southern Highlands of NSW with the event centre in the town of Bundanoon, 2 hours south of Sydney.
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Registration for Oxfam TRAILWALKER Sydney 2008 will open on Tuesday 22 April 2008.
NSW’s Senior Week jump off to a flying start with a group of plucky over 60s throwing themselves out of an aeroplane over Wollongong today. In doing so they achieved a skydiving record at the same time.
Rogaining is a team pursuit sport that involves freestyle navigation, on foot only, across large distances of cross-country terrain. Rogaining is designed to test the participants level of fitness, teamwork, endurance, map-reading and strategy-forming. There are no set routes to follow, and competitors compete in teams of two to five, rather than alone.
The Mark Webber Pure Tasmania Challenge (MWPTC) is a gruelling physical and mental adventure race in aid of charity, held in Tasmania - Australia’s adventure capital.
Competitors will kayak, trek and ride their way through some of Tasmania’s most beautiful and remote wilderness areas. Follow some of the world’s toughest athletes as they battle it out with corporate teams in this test of endurance, commitment and grit determination.
They have done it! James Castrission, 25, and Justin Jones, 24, have cross the Tasman Sea and reached New Plymouth on NZ’s West Coast at 12:20 local time (10:20 AEDT).
In doing so they are the first to kayak across the Tasman Sea. They have also just completed the longest trans-oceanic expedition ever attempted in a double kayak with two expeditioners. This is also the second longest trans- oceanic expedition relying solely on paddle power for propulsion and the fourth longest open water paddle attempted in a kayak.
Exciting news! Sydneysiders James Castrission, 25, and Justin Jones, 24 two Australian kayakers who have been paddling across the Tasman made up time last night and are expected to arrive in New Zealand tomorrow. The is great news for two guys who have given their all to their dreams of crossing the ditch from Foster on the New South Wales north coast to New Plymouth New Zealand.
Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb the world’s highest mountain Mount Everest, died early this morning at the age of 88, New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark said.
Hillary, who with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of the 8,848-metre Himalayan mountain on May 29 1953, had been in increasingly frail health in recent years.
With just 10 days to go and paddling for up to 12 hours a day for the last 56 days, James Castrission and Justin Jones are now really doing it tough. Both young adventurers are really feeling the effects of fatigue and illness as they kayak from Australia to New Zealand.
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