UK ultrarunner emigrating to Oz and in need of some races

[Brian]

I'm emigrating to Brisbane/Gold Coast come the end of October and looking for races to do in 2011. Anything from 50km to over 160km really. Trail and mountain rather than road if possible, but a few road races would be fine.

Can anyone help?

I've had a look around and found this site - http://www.aura.asn.au/events_2011.html
Is it the best ultra race calendar?

Thanks. 

[Paul]

If you haven't already, checkout -  http://www.coolrunning.com.au/calendar/index.shtml

Forums are also quite good for goss on whats happening at each event

[Kent]

I am living on the North Gold Coast region. If you want a training partner, let us know.

[Paul]

Brian,

The calendar you found is about the best that I know of. It does however only cover AURA affiliated races. That covers most of them but there are a few which therefore aren't listed on there.

You might also want to check out the trail running association of Queensland:
http://runtrails.org/articles/

There's the glasshouse trail running series, pretty close to where you'll be living:
http://www.glasshousetrails.com.au/

And also check out the ultramarathon forum on coolrunning:
http://www.coolrunning.com.au/forums/index.php?&showforum=20

[adnan]

GOOD.