Date: Fri, 31 July 2020

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Following on from the TRSA V4 Series, TRSA brings you the July Vert Challenge.  Challenge yourself or challenge others and make friends with your favourite hill!

The aim of the TRSA July Vert Challenge is to clock as many vertical meters as possible during July.  As an additional challenge, make your way through all of your favourite races in Australia (virtually) as an additional challenge.

Although this is a virtual individual challenge, people are welcome to run/walk with others (social distance style) to get that vert up.  We are hoping that you’ll get a new appreciation of vert and find new hills to conquer!  We encourage you to share your hill experiences and photos in the Facebook group.

This series will run from Wednesday 1 July through to the Friday 31 July. We have set up a Strava Club called TRSA Vert Challenge to allow a bit of friendly competition (and motivation) via the club leader board as well as allowing members a forum to actively encourage others.

Entries

To be part of the challenge simply fill out this form and request to join the TRSA Vert Challenge Strava Club
The sooner you do this, the easier life is for the wonderful volunteers pulling this together.

Series Rules

All runs logged through Strava count towards your vertical metres.  You can walk, however you’ll need to set these as a run in Strava.  All runs must be logged as public in order for these to be viewed.

We have a Strava query set up to track elevation, however if for some reason your vert isn’t getting counted (and your run is set to public) you’ll need to complete the attached form to log your vertical meters.  Random audits will be conducted by the TRSA Committee to verify vertical meters claimed.

Results

Progressive results will be published online. Results as at Saturday 4 July midnight can be found here.

Cost and Prizes

• The July Virtual Challenge is completely free of charge.
• Several prizes (currently being finalised) are up for grabs for the following:
  • Most vert gained over a month.
  • Fastest time to complete all of the virtual Australian races (i.e. all 13,318m).
  • Most vert gained in a day
  • Random prizes for participation.
• Prizes are limited to 1 per person and allocated based on the order above.  The 2nd or 3rd place person will be allocated the next prize if the winner of the category has already received a prize.

Strava Process

• You must join the TRSA Vert Challenge Strava Club
• The run must be public

Strava Runs

Date: Sat, 24 October 2020

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the TRSA committee has decided to cancel The Five Peaks SA Trail Running Festival 2020 and is instead encouraging you all to put your training into practice and participate in a virtual Five Peaks event, which includes all four distances; 8km, 12km, 23km and 58km. We encourage appropriately sized and socially distant groups to head out and run the courses together and support each other.

Rules

1. In recognition of the runners who have already run any of the Five Peaks courses following the decision to postpone it originally, the committee has determined that the virtual event began on Sunday 5th April 2020 and all runs completed from this date forward will be recognised. The virtual event concludes on 24 October 2020, which is the date of the final SA Five 50’s Series Event, Heysen 105.
2. Any run recorded during this time is valid and you must provide evidence that you have completed the race distance (58, 22, 12, or 8km). The run must be completed in one go and elapsed time will be the official time. If you set the run to ‘race’ on Strava, this will show elapsed time. A link to a public Strava or similar run logging website is recommended.
3. Submit your time via this form to be recognised as a finisher and appear on the leaderboard. You may submit as many efforts as you like for each distance and we’ll take the fastest at the time of sharing efforts and at the end.
4. Inclusion on the leaderboard is at the Race Directors’ discretion. Please provide an email address so we can follow up any anomalies.
5. All valid completions of the 58km course are eligible for a 2020 finishers medal to be posted by TRSA.

Download and customise your own race bib

Our designer, Mel has modified the Five Peaks bib design so you can print your own and add your favourite number and name to run with and/or keep as a souvenir of your efforts.

Click here to download the template

Parking at Belair Country Club

You can park for free in the former Belair Country Club/golf course car park, which is right near the finish point at Main Oval and the toilets adjacent. The entrance is a little further south along Upper St Rd from the main Belair NP entrance.

Courses

You can download the GPX files for all four courses from this page. Here is some updated advice about downloading GPX files and how to transfer them to your phone for navigation.

How to download the gpx file on your phone and send to your watch or mapping app on your phone:
1. On the course route embedded map click on “View Full Version” in the top left hand corner the map.  This will take you to the Ride with GPS website.
2. Select the “More” menu and choose “Export as File”.
3. Select “GPX Track (gpx)”and click the orange “Download .gpx file” button.
4. Click Download when it asks “do you want to download route x?”.
5. Click on the download arrow/option when it pops up.
6. This will then download what looks like a lot of code. Click the upload button on your phone.
7. Select the app you want it downloaded to (i.e. Garmin Connect, Strava, Guru) and follow your app instructions to open and download.

Alternatively, if you have downloaded the Ride with GPS mapping app you can download directly to your phone by:
1. On the course route embedded map click on “Send to” in the top left hand corner of the map.
2. This should open it direct in the Ride with GPS app on you phone.

Results

Progressive results will be published online and will include submitted runs for each course. You can access the latest results here.

Routes

Date: Tue, 30 June 2020

Congratulations to the TRSA V4 2020 Series champions:

The TRSA V4 2020 Series Champion Team is: 1 Ply Pros

The TRSA V4 2020 Series Champion is: Daniel Janes

The TRSA V4 (Virtual) Series is a series of 4 short courses (10km each) and 4 long courses (21km each) whereby participants work together in virtual teams (max of 10 people) with the goal of accumulating as many points as you can as a team. Courses have been created and are located in Cleland CP, Morialta CP, Black Hill CP, and Belair NP. Provided below are GPX files and maps, along with rules, point scoring and a few useful tips to help with navigating the actual courses.

Teams are VIRTUAL teams, as opposed to teams of people running together. People will run individually, or in pairs as a maximum with acceptable social distancing, and these runs will contribute to their team total. We hope the team concept will provide a chance for people to share successes, increase motivation and provide a way to give virtual high fives to each others’ hard work. We believe this will be a huge boost to us all individually and as a collective. We will also be monitoring individual points for both males and females.

This series will run from Saturday 28th March 2020 through to the end of June. We have set up a Strava Club called TRSA V4 Series and ask that you join this club individually. Start putting your team together and thinking up a creative name for your team.

Entries

We ask that that each team sends an email to Cherie (crotherytrsa@gmail.com) with:
1. Your team name
2. Your team members and their genders
3. A contact email for each team
The sooner you do this, the easier life is for the wonderful volunteers pulling this together. Remember – just one email per team, please!

Series Rules

Points per Run

Complete any short course = 2 points
Compete any long course = 5 points
You can complete them as many times as you like and get 2 or 5 points each time

Bonus Points

Bonus points can also be gained and are designed to reward both speed and persistence.
This means runners have something to strive for regardless of pace while also still rewarding the fastest times.

Speed Bonus Points

Speed points awarded on a top ten basis for both female and male runners on each of the 8 courses

• 1st = 10 points , 2nd = 9 points, …, 10th = 1 point.
• Note that these points will be fluid, runners will move up and down the list as faster times are recorded.
• If a runners time gets beaten , they can have another go to move back up the order.
• The points will finally stand as they are at the end of the competition.
• So.. it may well be worth recruiting a speedster for your team and cheering them on!

Persistence Bonus Points

Persistence points are awarded for completing all 4 short or all 4 long courses

• Complete all 4 short courses = 20 bonus points
• Complete all 4 long courses = 50 bonus points

Multiple Laps

Please only run 1 lap of a given course each day. Running different courses on the same day is allowed, but only 1 of each.

Results

Progressive results will be published online and will include

• Times for each course by gender
• Individuals points table
• Teams “premiership” ladder with points total

You can access the latest results here

Cost and Prizes

• The V4 Series is completely free of charge.
• There are no medals or prizes for the series.
• The winners will have the prestige of having their team and team members names posted on the TRSA website as reigning V4 Series champions.
• Similarly with the top 3 individual points scorers.

Teams Notes

• Teams can contain as many members as you like up to a maximum of TEN runners.
• Teams are strictly VIRTUAL, please DO NOT actually run as a team on the trails.
• DO NOT run in groups of more than 2
• DO NOT carpool
• Observe the current social distancing rules at all times.
• Teams are not entered into short or long course competitions specifically. All runners can do any course they like to accrue points for their team’s total.
• Team points are simply the sum of the points of all of the individual members of that team.

Team List

You can find the latest Teams List here. We’ll keep this updated frequently.

Strava Process

• You must join the TRSA V4 Series Strava Club
• The run must be set to “race” mode each time you run
• The run must be public

Segments

The segment’s endpoints are 50 to 100 meters after the start and before the finish of the published start and finish locations, this ensures that you will register the segment.

Going Off Course

If you go off course simply backtrack or get back on course at the nearest opportunity.
If in so doing, you have shortened the course, just keep going after the published finish until you have run an equivalent distance.

If the segment doesn’t register and you have run an approximate equivalent distance, we will award you your points.

We don’t want people running a long run and having it not count due to an honest navigation error.

(note: top ten leader board placeholders must have run the correct course)

GPX Files

Don’t have your GPS app (Guru maps or similar) running all the time, it will drain your phone battery.

Use it when necessary and then turn the app off.

When looking at your GPS location on the app, start moving in the direction you think you should be going and check your position as you move.

Carry a charging stick in case your phone battery dies en route

Separate Your Same Day Runs

If you run both course in the same location on the same day, please make them two separate activities. Stop your watch after the first run and start a new run for the second.

Course Notes

Read the course notes before you start and perhaps print them and take them with you if you are not sure. The courses have all been designed as loops with no crossovers so as to make navigation easier.

Courses

Strava segments have been created for all courses and will be used to monitor completions and times.

Provision will be made for submitting runs that may be slightly off course and thereby not registered the segment.

Each course comes with a GPX file showing the route, a PDF of route, and a PDF with detailed course notes.

Belair

Belair Long Course GPX | Strava | Map | Notes

Belair Short Course (v2) GPX | Strava | Map | Notes

Black Hill

Long Course GPX | Strava | Map | Notes

Short Course GPX | Strava | Map | Notes

Cleland

Long Course GPX | Strava | Map | Notes

Short Course GPX | Strava | | Map | Notes

Morialta

Long Course GPX | Strava | Map | Notes

Short Course GPX | Strava | Map | Notes