Paul Ashton
The 2015 Alpine Challenge was one of the luckiest we have experienced weather wise—benign conditions and mildish temperatures allowed a record field of 120 runners to take to the hills and savour the high country. We were lucky because on the Tuesday before the run it was a day of total fire ban, on Wednesday we had winds all day over 100kmph, then on the following Tuesday there was a bushfire on Mt Feathertop and on the Wednesday a couple of inches of snow fell—just goes to show how c hangeable the weather is and how runners have to be prepared for all conditions.
We had an amazing spread of runners from across the country as well as 10% of the field coming from overseas with runners from China, Japan, Singapore, Myanmar, Sweden, Germany and the UK. Records crashed in all distances with Chris Wight slashing over two hours off the 100 mile course record. Check out the full results here.
In addition to a great run the event said farewell to Bogong Village which has hosted the start and finish for the last 3 years. From 2016 the event will move to Falls Creek which means some changes to the course—watch out for details on this.
