rescuing the runners

"I thought to myself - 'the 1996 race record was safe for another year'."
Even in mid summer: [click on link] what happens when the weather closes in during a mountain ultra!

Radio operators during the ultra: all the runners withdrew or were rescued after the weather set in. Many were suffering from early signs of exposure.

Surfboard or toboggan?

speedygeese track results 12 January
400m
Geoff S 60.66
Emma 67.99

3000m
Andrew 10:56.66
Heidi 11:26.07
Katie 11:35.71
Maria 12:08.18
Mick H 12:08.50
Lucia 12:14.67
Helen 12:18.89
Roger 12:26.77
Bronwyn 12:33.25
Bob 12:57.52
Amanda 13:02.84
Ewen 13:34.93
Ruth 15:35.47