Lake Ginninderra Handicap Tuesday 31 August 2010

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23 runners competed today, the report (by Andrew Sutcliffe) is as follows:- :-

Ginninderra Handicap No 324 on Tue 31/08/2010

Although the conditions looked tough with a cold wind the results did not show this!. The winner Phillip Hennig not only won but set the pace in the Ron Sidnell award with a handicap finish of 44.06. Several other runners got PB's but Alistair Rogers did it again running the fastest time for five years with a 23.23. This moves Alistair to 15th on the all time list of fastest runs, that is only 14 other individuals have run faster in the past 27 years. Those in front of Alistair include Paul Sutcliffe a former 3min 51secs 1500 runner, Tony Murray who once held the world record for the M40 mile in 4min 12 secs, Rob Walter an Australian Orienteering representative and Danny O'Dea who once just missed selection for the world cross country championships by 1 meter. With Alistairs great run this month we put the challenge out yet again to the best runners in Australia or the world to come out to the Ginninderra Handicap one month an beat the record which is now nearly 23 years old. The high numbers runners were out in force as well with Jim Robers (183 runs), Philip Carruthers (170 runs) and Rad Leovic (127 runs).Officials Philip Carruthers, Andrew Sutcliffe, Doug Fry

While the handicap was being run, there were a few "runners" riding around the lake, including Ruth Baussmann, Margaret McSpadden and Roy Jones. They all stopped to say hello. And in the future the ladies may join in the run.