Adventure Series

These events are sprint distance adventure races involving running legs with a straight-forward navigation challenge, in beautiful native and pine forests close Melbourne.

You can take the race at whatever pace you like – as hard or as easy as you want. We want everyone to be able to have a go, challenge themselves, but above all, have fun!

We’re not charging a fortune to enter to cover the cost of expensive prizes that only a handful of competitors get to take home (there will be some prizes though). That’s because we’re all volunteers doing it for the love of racing and not for profit. When was the last time you did an adventure race for under $50?

The event is for all ages and abilities, Male and Female, solo competitors and most events allow teams of two.

The estimated winning times for the races will be approx. 2 hours for the long courses and 1 hour for the shorter ones.

The race will require you to find checkpoints using a map to navigate (if you’re not sure how to navigate there’ll be someone on hand on the morning of the race to give you a ‘crash course’ – be there early!).

Detailed colour maps will be used for the race with checkpoints pre-marked. You will receive your first map as you start so you’re going to be planning your route as you go!

Coming Adventure Events

2010

 

aMAZEing Ballarat

Monday, 6 December 2010

A beautiful day greeted the 24 teams in Ballarat who gathered at the Macarthur St Primary School for the 4th Annual aMAZEing Ballarat, staged by Eureka Orienteers.

The event has found a place in the calendar for a number of regular competitors who now come fully prepared with lap-tops, i-phones, tourism pamphlets and all manner of material to try to make sense of the cryptic location clues prepared for the event.

This year the event used points in the north central area of the city as well as the CBD.  Participants were faced with some rather unusual challenges including pole-dancing, costume changes, team ten-pin bowling, giant marbles and a gym circuit.  In addition they had to purchase Christmas bon-bons for donation to the homeless for Christmas dinner.  All in all there were 18 points to be found in the four hour time frame allowed for the event.

This year bonus points were gained from the team’s bowling score and it proved to be the difference between the two leading teams, the Bagpies and the Rat Raiders who were separated by a single point at the end, with the all-female team of the Bagpies winning the event and their category outright.

aMAZEing Ballarat raises money for charity or worthy causes and this year over $1200 was raised with funds being used to purchase sports equipment for Macarthur St PS and to support two St Patricks SC students who are heading for Tanzania for their gap year to teach English.  The St Pats boys and their families assisted on the day on some of the activity points as well as running the popular after event BBQ and drinks.

The event will certainly be on again on the first Saturday in December 2011, so if you are looking for a light-hearted way to have some great family fun pencil in this event now.

Results

1.  The Bagpies  1013  1st Competitive Section
2.  The Rat Raiders  1012  2nd Competitive Section
3.  Jade Dragons  1000  1st Newcomers Class
4.  Carmac   997  2nd Newcomers Class
5.  I thought you said left  989  1st Young Children Section
6.  Team Neve   959  3rd Competitive Section
7.  The Interstaters  939  3rd Newcomers Class
8.  Sal and Val   936  1st  Best of the Rest
9.  XAXA   923  
10. Team Tomtine  920
11. Upright & Breathing 905
12.  Yes and No  837  2nd Best of the Rest
13.  D Rangers   810   3rd Best of the Rest
14.  Special K   788
15.  Bingo   776
16.  Mahervellous 12  737  2nd Young Children Section
17. Langibanool Wanderers   665  3rd Young Children Section
18. Piper & Co   581
19. The Sherlocks  549
20. Topps 1   330
21. Scary Fairies  320
22.  Greenslade 1,2,3  300
Adventure Series News
aMAZEing Ballarat Monday, 6 December 2010 4th Annual aMAZEing Ballarat, staged by Eureka Orienteers
aMAZEing Ballarat Sunday, 5 December 2010 aMAZEing Ballarat back for a 4th year
Maxi 3-Hour Results Thursday, 16 September 2010 Maxi Results
Mark Valentine Presents $1000 Cheque to Breezeway from aMAZEing Monday, 4 January 2010
Orienteers Dominate Rat Race Friday, 4 December 2009 Urban Adventure race around Melbourne
Cyclic Navigator Entries Open Wednesday, 4 November 2009 Wombat Forest near Daylesford on Sunday 29th November.
Night Champs and Score Event Entry Monday, 26 October 2009 Pre-enter by November 1 for the events at Bunjil, Mt Egerton
Maxi 3Hr Information Tuesday, 8 September 2009 Information for the 13th Sept 2009 event
Star AR couple lead the way Wednesday, 25 March 2009 SILVA DuO Adventure Race series, race 2, You Yangs, Saturday 14 march 2009
Silva DuO Series Race 2 – POSTPONED DUE TO BUSH FIRES Wednesday, 11 February 2009 Gembrook Sat Feb 21