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Pearl Beach
Glee Club
Friends
present
A Variety Concert
7.30pm Friday 22nd August
2.30pm Saturday 23rd August
MEMORIAL HALL
9 Diamond Road, Pearl Beach
Featuring local talent - young old
amateur professional
musical and dramatic items, vocal,
instrumental and mini-drama
Everyone welcome!
Proceeds toward the hall upkeep
Adults $20, Child (under 15) $10
Includes welcome drink programme
Bookings: 4343 1455
Adrenathon consists
of a blend of challenges
designed to stretch the
boundaries of individuals
and groups alike.
Founder Briel Uriel said
he was proud of how far
the event had come from
its modest beginnings
four years ago.
He said the idea for
Adrenathon came from
wanting to share his and
his wife’s experiences of
life and travel.
This transformed into
the idea of a race that
would “let people get
away from their everyday
lives and experience
some true adventure”.
Despite the growth of
the event thus far, Briel
said he was adamant that it
was the sense of intimacy
that differentiated
Adrenathon from larger,
more commercialised
adventure races.
“The vision of
Adrenathon is to keep the
races quite small in the
size of participants, but
really reaching the correct
crowd,” said Briel.
The overnight camping
and the opportunity to
meet people around the
campfire was one factor
which Briel said set
Adrenathon apart from
other adventure races.
“It really makes it
different from going to
a race for two hours,
sticking with who you
know, and then going
home,” he explained.
Another key feature
of Adrenathon is its
longstanding association
with charity.
After previously
aligning itself with
larger national charities,
Adrenathon 2014 will be
supporting Central Coast
charity Homeless No
More.
Briel praised the
work of the local charity
and said that in larger
organisations “a lot
of money tends to fall
between the cracks”.
With Homeless No
More, “I know that every
dollar that is given is
going to somebody’s
home, somebody’s rent,
somebody’s food”.
He cites a “100%
success rate” as another
reason the race has thrown
its weight behind the
small charity, specifically
mentioning Homeless
No More founder Elissa
Scott.
“Whoever calls her
office and says ‘I don’t
have a home or food’,
she finds them that,” said
Briel.
With such positive
traditions already evident
in the event’s short history,
it’s no surprise that Briel
has trouble choosing just
one special memory from
over the years.
He nominates a
moment last year after
the event when he and
volunteers had finished
packing up and were
enjoying a rest, sitting and
eating leftovers from the
dinner the night before.
“I was staring around
at about 15 people and I
was saying to myself, ‘I’m
the luckiest person in the
world to have these 15
people helping me out’,”
he said.
He praised the work of
all the volunteers that help
out with the event, calling
the amount of effort that
goes in to setting up the
two-day race “crazy”.
Another feature of the
race that changes yearly
is the theme, with this
year being the ‘battle of
the tribes’.
Briel said his inspiration
for this year’s theme
was from seeing videos
of tribes in the Amazon
rainforest.
“It made me think,
what would a tribe need
to survive?
“What would make a
strong tribe?
“What are the morals
and ethics we have?
“It really suits the
type of race we run, the
working as a team,” he
said.
Adrenathon itself
consists of three different
races, each containing
different events to suit a
variety of competitors.
The Day Adventure,
held on Saturday, August
30, includes a navigation
race, lunch and a
photograph.
The Ultimate Adventure
is over both days and
includes a night camping
in the valley, as well as an
orienteering trek, a kayak
race, and a mystery event.
This year will also
see the introduction of
a trail run at 7am on
the Saturday with 5km,
10km and 21.1km lengths
offered.
Various obstacles are
scattered through the
races, promising to test
the strength of individuals
and teams.
“We want it to be a get
together where people sit
around the campfire and
have a drink, a good feed,
get to know each other,
and then say ‘I’ll see you
next year at Adrenathon,”
said Briel.
Lachlan Leeming,
5 Aug 2014
Interviewee: Briel Uriel
Website, 9 Aug 2014
Adrenathon
Adrenalin junkies to assist
Homeless No More
Adrenalin junkies and fi tness novices alike will convene at
Glenworth Valley over the weekend of August 30 and 31 to
compete in a test of mental and physical toughness, skill and
adaptability, all in the name of charity.
Participants in previous Adrenathon events
Photos Gordon Millar