The second running of the B&E Hobart Run The Bridge

Lee Troop And Anna Thompson - 2011 Champions 06 Feb 2011 The second running of the B&E Hobart Run The Bridge was another great success with over 1700 athletes crossing over the Tasman Bridge in the 10km or the all new 5km event. Amongst those athletes was now two times winner Lee Troop. Troop led the field out from the start and put the hammer down in the lead up to the bridge, hitting his rivals hard and breaking the chain as he crossed over the bridge in the run down into Hobart. Troop now holds both male B&E Hobart Run The Bridge titles and will hopefully be back in 2012, an Olympic year to go for his hat trick. Troop was slightly slower this year, which was quite understandable considering he is recovering from a blood clot on the lung, yet still managed a very slick 30min 13 secs. Runner up was Ethiopian runner and recent winner of the Cadbury Marathon Geleta Wondwosen closely followed by age group local David Thomas. In the female event we saw a new champion with Anna Thompson triumphing in a great time of 34 mins 43 secs to take the female course record and 7th overall. Anna was followed by Melanie Daniels who snuck up and pipped Clare Geraghty on the line. Geraghty was in a nice rhythm and didn't see the challenge from Daniels coming in the finish shute and payed the price with the loss of second place. There were some wonderful efforts amongst the 1700+ B&E Run The Bridge locals including B&E CEO Paul Ranson who ran the course in a very slick 37 mins 47 secs taking out the 45-49 year age group and 33rd place overall.....raising the question is Paul the quickest CEO in Australia? Also out on course enjoying the 5km was the inspirational team from St Vincents Institute with 15 team members participating in the 5km event and finishing in style with huge smiles on their faces knowing that they had accomplished something special. Congratulations go to Jaclyn Godfrey who was the highest fundraiser, raising $440 for Variety The Children’s Charity. Jaclyn is the recipient of a fantastic Brooks pack. With over $5,000 raised for Variety we encourage our participants to keep it going and continue raising funds for a very worthy cause....children in need! To everyone involved, the Premier Lara Giddings who presented the winner cheque, our volunteers from the Clarence Football Club, the B&E staff at the finish line and all the sponsors and participants....thank you for a wonderful 2011 and bring on 2012, an Olympic year!