Leaving from Walkabout Creek, this run takes you on a tour of the back of Enoggera Reservoir, with a few km’s of rolling singletrack before climbing 69 Break (not part of The Guzzler) to wake you up. A short stretch back along South Boundary Rd will bring your back on course for our 50km and 100km races, before making your way back to Walkabout Creek in race direction for The Guzzler and Glass Half Full.

This is a great twist on the classic Enoggera Reservoir loop and a good way to see a little bit of the Big Sipper, Glass Half Full, and The Guzzler Ultra courses before race day.

Starting from the Boombana day use area, this loop takes you on a visit to the infamous Township Break. Township Break is 70km into The Guzzler and will wake your tired quads right up!

Running this track in the specified direction will give you the accurate Township experience for those running The Guzzler, and is also, we think, the friendliest way to visit the tributary of Cabbage Tree Creek. Quick short steps are the best way to get down this little gem and poles may help you on the way up. Enjoy!

Optional addition: Why not squeeze a BS Break out-and-back into your run?

On The Guzzler course for 10% of the loop (but its a BIG 10%).

This loop will take you from Gap Creek out into the D’Aguilar National Park on the same route as the runners in both The Guzzler and The Glass Half Full will cover. You’ll head out on trails that are relatively early on in the race and come back on sections that are also near the end on event day. So it’s kind of like a mini-Guzzler… except really not!

On The Guzzler course for 80% of the loop.
On The Glass Half Full course for 80% of the loop.

Run this sneaky little loop in the suggested direction to get a crash course in both the very start and the very end of The Guzzler.

Your run starts by heading up Mahongany which is a great way to make sure your legs are warm! You’ll head over the hill and down the back of Mt Coot-tha and our towards Gap Creek before turning around and joining up the course route at what will be the ‘home stretch’ for runners on race day. There’s just one ‘little’ hurdle that stands in your way – Kokoda!

Once you’ve successfully climbed Kokoda, you’re rewarded with beautiful winding singletrack and a nice descent where you can picture all your friends and family waiting to celebrate, or scrape you off the floor – depending how hard you went…

This loop of Lake Manchester, with sneaky out and back looks a little like a… tadpole. It will give those doing The Guzzler 100km a preview of the exclusive third reservoir which the Glass Half Full 50km runners miss out on.

Local Knowledge

Phone reception: Very, very patchy. Expect to not have use of your phone outside of the Lake Manchester Day Use area or on the ‘tail’.

This simple loop of the first reservoir on our course requires you to take a right at most intersections. While the loop skirts the Reservoir, it isn’t nearly as flat as you might imagine.

There is a trick to starting this course correctly. After leaving Walkabout Creek, you will come to a large bus stop (1km). Past this you will find an access road and a 2 panel gate on your right with some ‘No access’ signs. Skirt through the small pedestrian gap in the fence and follow the concrete path around to the dam wall. Once there, you will see a gravel track on your left; let the trails begin.

On The Guzzler course for 60% of the loop. On The Glass Half Full course for 60% of the loop.