PADDY PALLIN ADVENTURE SERIES RNP RACE REPORT

More glorious sunshine greeted competitors over both days of the Paddy Pallin Adventure Series at the Royal National Park just south of Sydney.

This year the race enjoyed perfect weather in the week leading up to the race allowing the full Mountain Bike leg to be used.

The trail running leg to Karloo Pools proved to be a tough challenge but the beautiful scenery more than made up for the hill in & climb out.

Will we see a Stand Up Paddle Boarding leg next year after being inspired by this teams take on the kayak leg!?!

Both days had a high standard of close competition with a number of the leading teams coming across the line in-time to head out for a “bonus” running leg pushing the finishing time to around 3 hours for the Classic Course.

Sundays Novice Course again proved amazingly popular with a large amount of families & 1st time racers (both young and old).

After receiving some great racing tips from Gary at Maximum Adventures they hit the course and from all the smiling faces looked like they had a great time enjoying the sunshine and Royal National Park putting their fitness and navigation skills to test.

Special thanks to our cosupporters Marmot Australia & Icebreaker.

Full results can be found here and more inspiring photos are available from Outer Image Collective.

Winners

Saturday Classic Course

Female

Mad Mums – Jodie Mielke & Neroli Sullivan
Shooting Startlets – Jane Senior & Anna Rodgers
The Two Pink Ladies – Vicki Humpherson & Phoebe Savage

Male

Toucan – Brad White & Paul Argaragias
Belrose Bicycles – Chad & Ryan Armstrong
More Than Hype – Llew Scott & David Corbett

Mixed

Team THULE-Magellan-Norco Bikes-Cheeky Bike Store – Jenny Enderby &Damien Enderby
Jog On… – Pippa Lyon & Joe Lyon
Lifestyle – Luke Parkes & Lisa Krummer