{"id":259676,"date":"2020-06-15T18:53:55","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T08:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=259676"},"modified":"2020-07-01T11:50:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T01:50:53","slug":"runners-test-marathon-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2020\/06\/15\/runners-test-marathon-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Runners Test Marathon Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_259686\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-259686\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-259686\" src=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200615deadcow2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200615deadcow2.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200615deadcow2-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200615deadcow2-263x163.jpg 263w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200615deadcow2-285x177.jpg 285w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-259686\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keen runners Kayleen Freeman and Ros Heit spent Sunday morning trialling the Dead Cow Gully ultra marathon course near Nanango, then rounded things off with a coffee back in Kingaroy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>June 15, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Almost 40 runners visited Nanango on Sunday morning to try out the track that will be used for a new running festival.<\/p>\n<p>They came to test the Dead Cow Gully circuit at Runnymede, a winding course that passes through gently undulating cattle pastures and a gully.<\/p>\n<p>On April 3 next year, the course will be hosting up to 100 runners who&#8217;ll be covering the circuit once each hour until just one runner is left on their feet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Dead Cow Gully Backyard Ultra Marathon is the brainchild of South Burnett running enthusiast Tim Walsh.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It will be the first backyard ultra-marathon held in the region and is already attracting interest from both local runners and visitors from outside the region.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday&#8217;s get-together included members of Wondai&#8217;s parkrun group and the Kingaroy Nutters running club as well as visitors from Brisbane, Hervey Bay and the Sunshine Coast.<\/p>\n<p>The group ran the circuit on the hour, starting at 6:00am.<\/p>\n<p>To comply with COVID-19 restriction.s the runners split into two groups that tackled the course in opposite directions &#8211; a precaution that will hopefully be a distant memory by next year.<\/p>\n<p>One of the runners was Wondai parkrun co-ordinator Ros Heit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I did two laps to get a feel for the course but I know some of the runners on Sunday did up to 50km,&#8221; Ros said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think this event is going to be great.\u00a0It will also be a really good addition to what our region has to offer running enthusiasts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Photos: Tania Field and Ros Heit]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related article:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2020\/05\/26\/famous-face-to-greet-runners\/\">Famous Face To Greet Runners<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_259687\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-259687\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-259687\" src=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200615deadcow4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200615deadcow4.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200615deadcow4-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-259687\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Runners gathered at Runnymede in the pre-dawn on Sunday morning &#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_259689\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-259689\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-259689\" src=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200615deadcow1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200615deadcow1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200615deadcow1-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-259689\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8230; then prepared for an early-morning trip around the Dead Cow Gully course<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"3\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_259691\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-259691\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-259691\" src=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200615deadcow5p.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200615deadcow5p.jpg 290w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200615deadcow5p-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-259691\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">How the course got its name: a dead cow waits to greet runners &#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<td>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_259692\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-259692\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-259692\" src=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200615deadcow6p.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200615deadcow6p.jpg 290w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200615deadcow6p-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-259692\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8230; as they descend from undulating grazing land into the more challenging section<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<figure id=\"attachment_259690\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-259690\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-259690\" src=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200615deadcow3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200615deadcow3.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200615deadcow3-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-259690\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">And they&#8217;re off again! Keen runners took to the course more than once during Sunday&#8217;s trial, and a couple of the keenest participants covered close to 50km during the morning<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 40 runners visited Nanango on Sunday morning to try out the track that will be used for a new running festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":259686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1503,6],"tags":[1254],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Runners Test Marathon Course - southburnett.com.au<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Almost 40 runners visited Nanango on Sunday morning to try out the track that will be used for a new running festival.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2020\/06\/15\/runners-test-marathon-course\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Runners Test Marathon Course - 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