Running A2ZACT With Brent Ford
With the A2ZACT Canberra’s Brent Ford has set himself a challenge for 2021, to run in each suburb of the ACT, in alphabetical order.
I haven’t met Brent before but I started following him on Twitter after he posted about walking from Gungahlin to Tuggeranong or something similar. I was thinking I do ridiculous things like that, we might get along. He’s done a huge amount of running and other exercise this year and is a bit of inspiration for many around. He’s also raised a bunch of money in the process too.
I did it! 818km in the last 85 days to get my 2,000km running for the year. 317 runs, more than 257 hours, climbed two and a bit Everest Mountains. PBs for 1km, mile, 5km, 10km and Half Marathon. What a year!!!! https://t.co/B4pDVugfJA pic.twitter.com/0U9HqLMpUI
— Brent Ford (@BrentFord26) December 31, 2020
115 suburbs on this archive list for my running challenge of ACT suburbs I’ll run alphabetically. That’s missing Coombs, Wright, Denman Prospect, Strathairn, and Whitlam. So 120 suburbs all up. 600km to get 5km in each suburb. Starting January 4. pic.twitter.com/rwextU9hze
— Brent Ford (@BrentFord26) December 3, 2020
He is planning on running multiple suburbs per day for the A2ZACT project, so it shouldn’t be too long until the whole list is complete. Not sure if this has been done before, particularly not with running and also not in alphabetical order. I’d like to create a bit of a resource with recommendations around each suburb. There has been a project to visit all suburbs of Canberra, with these cool photographical essays.
I will put a link to each suburb once they are complete.
A2ZACT Suburbs List
A
B
C
- Calwell, Australian Capital Territory
- Campbell, Australian Capital Territory
- Capital Hill, Australian Capital Territory
- Casey, Australian Capital Territory
- Chapman, Australian Capital Territory
- Charnwood, Australian Capital Territory
- Chifley, Australian Capital Territory
- Chisholm, Australian Capital Territory
- Civic, Australian Capital Territory
- Conder, Australian Capital Territory
- Cook, Australian Capital Territory
- Coombs, Australian Capital Territory
- Crace, Australian Capital Territory
- Curtin, Australian Capital Territory
D
E
- Evatt, Australian Capital Territory
F
- Fadden, Australian Capital Territory
- Farrer, Australian Capital Territory
- Fisher, Australian Capital Territory
- Florey, Australian Capital Territory
- Flynn, Australian Capital Territory
- Forde, Australian Capital Territory
- Forrest, Australian Capital Territory
- Franklin, Australian Capital Territory
- Fraser, Australian Capital Territory
- Fyshwick, Australian Capital Territory
G
- Garran, Australian Capital Territory
- Gilmore, Australian Capital Territory
- Giralang, Australian Capital Territory
- Gordon, Australian Capital Territory
- Gowrie, Australian Capital Territory
- Greenway, Australian Capital Territory
- Griffith, Australian Capital Territory
- Gungahlin, Australian Capital Territory
H
- Hackett, Australian Capital Territory
- Harrison, Australian Capital Territory
- Hawker, Australian Capital Territory
- Higgins, Australian Capital Territory
- Holder, Australian Capital Territory
- Holt, Australian Capital Territory
- Hughes, Australian Capital Territory
- Hume, Australian Capital Territory
I
- Isaacs, Australian Capital Territory
- Isabella Plains, Australian Capital Territory
J
- Jacka, Australian Capital Territory
K
- Kaleen, Australian Capital Territory
- Kambah, Australian Capital Territory
- Kenny, Australian Capital Territory
- Kingston, Australian Capital Territory
- Kinlyside, Australian Capital Territory
L
- Latham, Australian Capital Territory
- Lawson, Australian Capital Territory
- Lyneham, Australian Capital Territory
- Lyons, Australian Capital Territory
M
- Macarthur, Australian Capital Territory
- Macgregor, Australian Capital Territory
- McKellar, Australian Capital Territory
- Macquarie, Australian Capital Territory
- Mawson, Australian Capital Territory
- Melba, Australian Capital Territory
- Mitchell, Australian Capital Territory
- Monash, Australian Capital Territory
- Moncrieff, Australian Capital Territory
N
- Narrabundah, Australian Capital Territory
- Ngunnawal, Australian Capital Territory
- Nicholls, Australian Capital Territory
O
- Oaks Estate, Australian Capital Territory
- O’Connor, Australian Capital Territory
- O’Malley, Australian Capital Territory
- Oxley, Australian Capital Territory
P
- Page, Australian Capital Territory
- Palmerston, Australian Capital Territory
- Parkes, Australian Capital Territory
- Pearce, Australian Capital Territory
- Phillip, Australian Capital Territory
- Pialligo, Australian Capital Territory
R
- Red Hill, Australian Capital Territory
- Reid, Australian Capital Territory
- Richardson, Australian Capital Territory
- Rivett, Australian Capital Territory
- Russell, Australian Capital Territory
S
- Scullin, Australian Capital Territory
- Spence, Australian Capital Territory
- Stirling, Australian Capital Territory
- Strathnairn, Australian Capital Territory
- Swinger Hill, Australian Capital Territory
- Symonston, Australian Capital Territory
T
- Taylor, Australian Capital Territory
- Theodore, Australian Capital Territory
- Throsby, Australian Capital Territory
- Torrens, Australian Capital Territory
- Turner, Australian Capital Territory
W
- Wanniassa, Australian Capital Territory
- Waramanga, Australian Capital Territory
- Watson, Australian Capital Territory
- Weetangera, Australian Capital Territory
- Weston, Australian Capital Territory
- Whitlam, Australian Capital Territory
- Wright, Australian Capital Territory
Y
- Yarralumla, Australian Capital Territory
You can follow along with the hashtag #A2ZACT. The action begins from January 4, with plans for all the “A” suburbs to be checked off that day. I look forward to the A2ZACT project progressing.
About the Author
Daniel Boyle Founder of @sportslashlife. Australian living in Chile. Freestyle footbag player and passionate sports fan.
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