Little children are the only ones with the enthusiasm to run.
Their parents and compatriots scuff along slowly, some carrying cups hundreds of metres for water, or sitting in small groups chatting. Mostly it's women with women and men with men. In a few huts men are watching television. Outside there is a soccer pitch - gravel on a hard dirt base. Named for an Aboriginal word for spearthrower, Woomera was chosen as a rocket launching site before finding new life as home to Americans working at nearby, but now defunct, Nurrungar space-tracking station.