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Are you up for the Challenge?

23rd October 2010, Lake Macquarie - Entries Now Open!

Has your team got what it takes for a challenging adventure in the great outdoors?

Is your team ready to push the limits and spend some time out of their comfort zone?

Can your team earn the bragging rights of bringing home the Great Adventure Challenge Cup and taking it off the reigning champs, Austar?

Great Adventure Challenge on Facebook

If you can train with your team for a multi-disciplinary event, raise vital funds to bring happiness to seriously ill children, and compete against 20 teams from sun up to sun down, through some of Australia's most beautiful landscapes on the NSW Central Coast – this is the ultimate challenge for you!

This fun event has been specially designed for work colleagues and friends who love both a challenge and the outdoors. The challenging race course will cover a range of terrain, from the bushland to the sea, including:

• Mountain biking
• Trail running
• Kayaking
• Coasteering

All sponsorship funds raised will go directly to the Starlight Children's Foundation, who brighten the lives of seriously ill children, and their families, across Australia.

In 2009, over $140,000 was raised for Starlight Children's Foundation, almost tripling the 2008 total of over $50,000, an awesome effort!

Starlight programs are delivered both in and out of hospital, providing positive distraction to children in their time of need. Each year there are over 600,000 child admissions made to hospitals across Australia. Sadly, Starlight reaches only '1 in 3' of these children. Starlight's ultimate goal is to reach each and every child.

"We take these risks not to escape life, but to stop life from escaping us"
The path we choose by James Freeman

Quick links

• What is The Great Adventure Challenge?
• More about Starlight Children's Foundation
• About the course
• How to train for the challenge
• Entry details

"It really helped us develop a team spirit and compete as a team"
Peter, OAMPS