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Weekend Runner Australia: Easy, Breathtaking and Challenging Tracks for Every Ability
Weekend Runner Australia is your guide to the best running tracks and events around the country. Featuring more than 40 running routes and unmissable events, this book will take you – and your runners – over tropical islands, snowy mountains and the red dirt of the outback, before winding through famous wine regions and across the Sydney Harbour Bridge, across some of the most varied landscapes in the world.
Whether you’re after a 5km route in a nearby city, a challenging trail run in the bush, or a one-of-a-kind race event, this is a book about enjoying the process, exploring new places, and finding empowerment through the simple act of putting one foot in front of the other. From the circumference of Uluru and the famed Larapinta Trail to the Blue Mountains and the tip of Tasmania, encounter vast views and native flora and fauna, all on your own two legs.
This holistic guide is part travel, part personal account and part tips and tricks from the experts, complete with maps, logistics and photos that will get you over the figurative start line. Get ready to fill your calendar with some of Australia's most rewarding routes, races and fun runs.
Whether you’re after a 5km route in a nearby city, a challenging trail run in the bush, or a one-of-a-kind race event, this is a book about enjoying the process, exploring new places, and finding empowerment through the simple act of putting one foot in front of the other. From the circumference of Uluru and the famed Larapinta Trail to the Blue Mountains and the tip of Tasmania, encounter vast views and native flora and fauna, all on your own two legs.
This holistic guide is part travel, part personal account and part tips and tricks from the experts, complete with maps, logistics and photos that will get you over the figurative start line. Get ready to fill your calendar with some of Australia's most rewarding routes, races and fun runs.
216 pages, Paperback
Published April 17, 2024
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August 10, 2024
This book is about the author’s experiences with running locations around Australia. She shares tips on where to stay and where to eat; very useful content.
There are often descriptions on how to get around the course or the town. It would have been useful if a small map were included alongside these descriptions. There’s lots of information to help you decide on your next destination. I especially enjoyed the interviews with famous runners.
Cons: The book is bound in such a way that it doesn’t lie flat - you really need to hold it down in order to read it.
Also, as a keen parkrunner, I was miffed to find every mention of this running establishment to be written as “Parkrun”. It’s always “parkrun”; a minor point but it’s deliberately stated that way by parkrun HQ.
There are often descriptions on how to get around the course or the town. It would have been useful if a small map were included alongside these descriptions. There’s lots of information to help you decide on your next destination. I especially enjoyed the interviews with famous runners.
Cons: The book is bound in such a way that it doesn’t lie flat - you really need to hold it down in order to read it.
Also, as a keen parkrunner, I was miffed to find every mention of this running establishment to be written as “Parkrun”. It’s always “parkrun”; a minor point but it’s deliberately stated that way by parkrun HQ.
August 22, 2024
Some good information but would like more stories.
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