The Long Course starts and finishes with a 4 km run - one full loop of the delightful Yerrabi Pond. Start and finish at the compound in Yerrabi Pond District Park. Head south west on the cycle path and continue in a clockwise direction. Do not cross on the pedestrian bridge over the little island, but continue all the way to the far eastern end of the pond, and back to the start/finish compound. After the first leg, transition to the paddle leg.
The second leg of the Long Course is two loops of the route shown above. Starting from the left hand side of the wooden pontoon, head out to the first buoy and turn left towards the dam wall, then follow the course in a clockwise direction, passing to the left hand side of the little island heading out, then to the right hand side on the return. Continue for two laps of the same course. Upon exiting the water, bring your paddle craft to the paddle compound and transition to the mountain bike.
The third leg of the Short Course is a cruisy 28 kms on the mountain bike. From the compound, first head south west and follow the cycle path around the pond. Turn left (north) off the cycle path to pass under Horse Park Dr next to the storm water channel. Continue on this bitumen cycle path through the new suburb of Forde, until you come to a gate leading into Mulligans Flat Nature Reserve. Climb this gate and continue over grassland to another larger gate. Enter through this gate into the reserve proper, and turn left onto the main trail which you follow with a fenceline on your left. Ignore the first potential right hand turn but then turn almost immediately right onto a main dirt road. Follow this mostly flat and fast track in a large arc.
Continue on this track until you reach the first hill, which brings you up into Goorooyarroo Nature Reserve.
Follow the dirt road through Goorooyarroo Nature Reserve all the way until you reach a dead end, near the intersection of Horse Park Dr and the Federal Highway. Here you simply do a U-turn and head back the same way you came. The riding is flat and fast. Depending on whether there are sheep grazing in the Nature Reserve, you may have to climb a gate or two.
When you re-enter Mulligans Flat, turn left at the first fork.
Follow this track back in a westerly direction, then take the next fork to the left. After a few hundred metres, continue straight ahead to follow the "Bird Walk" signs. Continue on this track until you return to the gate through which you originally entered the Reserve. Climb the gate once more and return to Yerrabi Pond by the same route, heading to your left around beside Yerrabi Pond to the finish. Transition to the final run (see above).
