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RED CENTRE Dreaming

As a professional triathlete, runner and adventure junkie, Courtney Atkinson has travelled Australia and the planet. The world truly is his playground. Yet, for a long time, Australia’s Red Centre was a mystery to him.

“Most people have no idea about the Red Centre,” the pro Red Bull athlete says from his home on the Gold Coast. “I didn’t. Most people think it’s flat and all desert, but it’s anything but. It’s full of surprises.”

Atkinson got his introduction to the Red Centre in 2016 when he competed in the sixstage Redback mountain

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