The path was uneven and every now and then it was blocked completely by boulders that the girls had to scramble over. Sometimes they hit jump mode on their shoes and jumped over them but they were worried they might miss one of the objects if they did it too often. All the same, the trainers were excellent and fun—cross-country running at school was never like this! CC and KM were strong, fast runners and EJ had to work hard to keep up with them. She was also on the look-out for the four objects. She didn’t have far to look for the first one—they had only been on the bush track for a little while when they saw something red in one of the trees. A quick bounce with the turbo-trainers and the girls had found the first object—four red balloons tied to a tree. ‘That has to be the first one,’ said CC, taking out her phone and snapping a photo. ‘This one was easy, everyone would have got it, let’s keep going.’ The track now pushed up the mountain, making the run harder, but using their trainers certainly helped.
