Join Us For Kokoda Challenge Training!
YAY! We’ve got our boots, camelbacks, hats, band aids, rain slickers and men who can read maps and we’re ready to go! Gold Coast Kokoda Challenge are you ready? Looooooong walks, lots of green and magnificent fresh air are ours for the taking (I’m purposefully not mentioning the mosquitoes, chafing, muddy mishaps, ticks, blisters, fatigue, sore knees, sweat, blood and tears that will no doubt be thrust upon us at some point – having a positive outlook is essential to success they tell me!).
To complete the 96 kms of the track in under 39 hours we must train so training we are! Join us on any or all of our weekly training walks between now and the Challenge in July. If you want to lose a bit of weight and need some motivation, if you want to do some brilliant and exhilarating exercise, if you want to have a few laughs over some utterly profoundly philosophical conversational meanderings or if you’re just looking for an excuse to press the pause button… come for a walk with us!
Please note though – the training bush walks we will be doing are TOUGH – you must have moderate fitness level. Lots of the walks include extremely steep climbs or rocky and slippery tracks and so are not for those new to bush walking. These tracks are also not for young kids. We’re starting with about 12 – 15 kms each week, with 22 kms per day over Easter then increasing from there. The walks will take between 3 and 8 hours.
If it all sounds like a bit too much hard work (you’re right) we’d LOVE a donation – simply to go Kokoka Challenge Donations - where it says “Select Team” click on Epic Journeyers (that’s us!) and make your contribution via credit card. We need to raise $1000 dollars and it’s all for the great cause of taking groups of local teenagers from SE Queensland, putting them through some tough and character building training for 9 months, then taking them to walk the real Kokoda Track in PNG.
If you’re still keen, have a squiz at the training guidelines from The Kokoda Challenge folk too.
Below is our schedule of Sunday walks with meeting places and times. for the next couple of months. I’ll be publishing more walks as we schedule them in the future. The walks below are not circuits so we will need to do a bit of car pooling to get each other back to our cars after our adventures. I’ve also included a zipped file for you to download detailed descriptions of each training route with precise GPS coordinates, distances and UBD references.
Our normal monthly bush walks (usually from 6 – 10 kms) through the Gold Coast Hinterland will be resuming after the Challenge in August 2010.
Our Kokoda Training Schedule.pdf
Kokoda Training Routes & Maps.zip
With love, sweat and leeches,
The Epic Journeyers
Charles, Susan, Shirley and Jerry
