Event Program
The carnival event program includes four Australian Championship events, two Australian Schools Championship events, 4 National League races and two IOF World Ranking events, all within 45 to 90 minutes of the Adelaided CBD. For locations see the map.
A variety of terrains is offered, from spur gully with some mining features (Middle and SA Champs), complex rock map (Australian Long Champs) to incised mallee covered terrain with complex water courses (Australian Relays). For more event area photos - see the Photo Gallery.
Note that Embargoes apply to all these areas until the relevant event has been held as detailed in the attached 2010CarnivalEmbargoes.pdf.
Saturday September 25th - PM
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Australian Middle Distance Championships
Planner: Bob Smith
Organiser: Vern Hembrow and John Such
Controller: Phil Hazell
Lady Alice Goldfields, Para Wirra National Park
Remnants of an old gold mining settlement around the Lady Edith and Lady Alice Mines. Generally open eucalypt forest with some slower areas of yackas and acacia.
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Sunday September 26th
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South Australian Long Distance Championships - SILVA NOL Race 14
Planner: Andrew McComb
Organiser: Vern Hembrow and John Such
Controller: Gerry Velaitis
Mack Creek, South of Para Wirra National Park. Similar terrain to Para Wirra, open eucalypt forest, with some slow run areas of yackas and acacias. Scattered rock detail and occasional relics of former mining areas.
Spur-gully terrain with seasonal watercourses and wildflowers in spring
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Monday September 27th
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Rest Day |
Tuesday September 28th
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Australian Schools Individual Championships and Public Event (same courses as schools event)
Planner: Kay Haarsma
Organiser: Mike Hicks
Controller: Peter MayerVixen Gully, Mount Crawford Forest, near Kersbrook
Pine plantation and native forest, subtle to steep contours.
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Wednesday September 29th
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Australian Schools Relay Championhips and Public Team Event
Planner: Paul Hoopman
Organiser: Fi Pahor
Controller: Peter Clark
Rocky Paddock, Mount Crawford Forest, near Wiiliamstown
Pine plantation and farmland with rock detail, fast runable terrain
Social BBQ and night event to follow
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Thursday September 30th
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Rest Day |
Friday October 1st (late AM)
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Australian Sprint Championships - SILVA NOL Race 15, IOF World Ranking Event
Planner: Robin Uppill
Organiser: Jennie Bourne
Controller: Peter Cutten
IOF Event Advisor: Chris Brown
Trinity College, Gawler. Large school campus with buildings and ovals.
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Friday October 1st (PM)
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Model event for Australian Long Championships
Mengler's Hill, 10 minutes from Tanunda
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Saturday October 2nd
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Australian Long Championships - SILVA NOL Race 16, IOF World Ranking Event
Planner: Vince Loye
Organiser: Jeffa Lyon
Controller: Jenny Casanova
Tanunda Creek, 10 minutes from Tanunda.
Previously mapped as "Gravel Pit", Terrain ranges from rolling farmland with scattered rock, to steep gorges with huge boulders and tumbling waterfalls. Fast running in the more open farmland, slower in the rockier more intricate areas.
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Sunday October 3rd
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Australian Relay Championships - SILVA NOL Race 17.
Planner: Gil Hollamby
Organiser: Barry Wheeler
Controller: John Lyon
Rock Oyster, near Mannum. (50 km east of the Barossa Valley).
Undualting mallee to open spur gully terrain with incised intricate creek network, fossilised oysters shells underfoot. Fast to very fast terrain
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