Wallaby Track parkrun

How good were our junior volunteers this morning!! Future event team in the making for sure.

Thanks to:

Megan, Bertie, Lucy, Harold, Luke, Tom, Gus, Angus, Michael, Sophie, Andrew, Lauren, Matilda, Rachael, Katrina, Frances, Abby, Katie, Gavin

Good Morning Friends,

While the water has started to recede the course is not in a fit state for us to go back to our full track this week. Therefore, we are alternate again this week. Don't be dismayed though, come along and support our Junior Vollabies who are taking over volunteering this week.

Hoping to be back to full course next week.

See you tomorrow.

Congratulations to Sadie who ran her 50th parkrun on the weekend! Great effort Sadie!

Well done to everyone who came out this morning to run/walk or volunteer. A great turnout for the second last parkrun of winter!

A huge thanks to our team of volunteers this morning who made the event possible for everyone. Kate, Jo, Sarah, Ray, Jennny, Stella, Sienna, Mark, Joo, Aaron, Ian, Mardi

The rain has continued and the creek is still quite high so our full track is still closed unfortunately. However, the good news is that City of Ballarat have been working with us to get us up and running again and have closed the track closer to the flooded section. They have placed some "footpath closed ahead" signs along the path to warn regular users, but this still allows us to run our alternative course.

So, we are going ahead this weekend! If you are planning on visiting, please note that our alternative does not include our tunnel, so if you were hoping to belt out some tunes in the there, you might need to wait until next time.

Hope to see you on Saturday!

Unfortunately part of our track remains closed and we will have to cancel our event tomorrow. The track closure includes part of the alternative as well and so we are unable to use either.

We will continue to work with council on solutions for when/if this happens again.

There are some other wonderful events nearby so take the opportunity to go and say hello to one of these parkruns:

Prince of Wales parkrun
De Soza parkrun
Beaufort Lake parkrun
Calembeen parkrun

Remember when our course looked like this? Well unfortunately it looks much more damp at the moment. We've had a call from the City of Ballarat who have advised us that the track is going to remain closed for the weekend as the water hasn't subsided as hoped.

Does this mean we are cancelling? Whilst the track is closed because of the flooding at the bridge before the tunnel, we are hoping council will open it up enough for us to run our alternate course.

Keep an eye on here tomorrow for an update. We will confirm if we are going ahead on our alternate course or we have to cancel.

Thanks to City Of Ballarat who have been in contact with us at Wallaby Track since the recent large rainfall. They have got crews working on the track to clean it up, but it has held up well and we should be ready to go on Saturday. Stay tuned to our page for more updates.

Thanks to our amazing crew of vollabies who helped create a fantastic event today for 118 participants. Aaron, Angus, Henry, Margaret, Noah, Richard, Laurie, Kylie, Max, Kate and Laurinda.

Extra thanks to those who put their name down in the folder to volunteer for future weeks. We really appreciate it!!

Only one more sleep and one more marshall until parkrun. Can you help us out and volunteer tomorrow? Please comment or message us if you can.