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The time was chosen, as the startpoint, Berowra, is at the far northern reaches of what most people consider to still be in Sydney. It makes sense that people from the south can get up to the start with only an "early" start, as opposed to a "crazily early" start. In any case, most runners will be out for the best part of the morning/day and so an hour earlier start will not give you much respite from the heat. August is the start of the warm season.

Note for overseas runners - all races in Australia start very early, and 7am is considered to be a "late" start.

The date was chosen, at the micro level, as basically a last minute long training run for the Glasshouse 50 or 100 mile runs, so this was mainly Sean's idea as I am still recovering from injury and unlikely to run. Sean was keener on putting the on a Saturday instead of a Sunday, and as I am a member of a club (Sydney Striders) that runs every Sunday I am not keen to pick a Sunday. Note this assumes that all Striders running will front up for 30km the next day !!

The following weekend, the 2nd Sept has the 10km series and on the following weekend, the 10th Sept is the Berowra Bush Run the only public event in Berowra for the whole year, so will not go against that. Any later than the 10th is too close to the Glasshouse event.

The previous weekend, the 19th August, has the Mt Wilson to Bilpin 35km bush run, a new Sydney Classic, and earlier than that seems like a long time before the October Glasshouse, and too close to now (June) to publicise.