Wattle Ridge at its best for SL
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- Last Updated: Wednesday, 03 March 2021 10:16
March means it's State League time, and do we have a sensational weekend to kick off 2021!
Sat Mar 20 is the NSW Sprint Champs on the complex campus of WSU Campbelltown. Expect lots of changes of direction, stairs, dead ends and uncrossable garden beds.
That's merely an entree to the Long Distance event the following morning (Sun Mar 21) at Wattle Ridge - which was obliterated by bushfires 15 months ago.
Course setter Greg Barbour - a multiple world championship rep for Australia and New Zealand - says: "This is the best sandstone map in Australia and not to be missed."
"Everything is at its peak, the runnability is still there after the fires, but the visibility is decreasing month by month. It's now at the sweet spot between too hard and unpleasant, and too open and easy.
"Expect some of the hardest technical challenges of your life. Expect some iconic rock controls on knolls, chasms and cliffs. It is not too steep and there are few paths. If you want to do well in the complexities of Easter this event is essential."
The map is one of Alex Tarr’s best and this allows the hard courses to be set on all features large and small. Courses have been set to the maximum difficulty the map allows. The dirt road through the middle of the map allows an easy and safe bailout if it all gets too much and has allowed for the Easy and Moderate courses.
Entries close on March 11 and numbers are limited by National Parks. Make sure you don't miss out.
