Lake Ginninderra Handicap 28 th May 2013

A small field of 18 enthusiastic runners were at The Lake Ginninderra Handicap today.

Although it was a cloudy day most of the morning, the sun came out for the run.

Ian Hore was first to start and thus the first to finish, and his name was drawn for the bottle of wine prize, but he had already left at that stage, so there was a redraw for the wine, donated by The Lighthouse Bar.

Winners on the run were Michael Taylor and Mark Loundes.

Andrew Sutcliffe, Doug Fry, Alistair Rogers, Gerard Wildie,  were the officials today.

There is as yet no news on the date for the ABS Fun Run, but rustlings are being made, the previous organiser, Justin O'Dea,  is no longer with the department.

When and if the run is to be held, I will endeavour to inform through this blog.

BBQ Stakes Wednesday 22 nd May 2013

Winner today was John Scheding.

Second was Talwar Singh and Third Kerrie Tanner, closely followed by Roxie Tanner in fourth place, Roxie came back covered in an unmentionable state, after rolling in some offensive matter on the course, needs a good wash now to clean her up.

Helen Larmour started late and still finished while people were around the finish area.

58 finishers today. Gary Bowen again ran the course twice respectively in 29:19, and 28:53.

John Barrett was given his 800 run T-Shirt.

Nick Blackaby's Stroke was mentioned, and it seems like he is recovering slowly, but there is still a long recovery to be made.

Visitors to Nick, should check with Narelle before seeing him.

Finishers were as follows:--
Yili Wang, Gary Bowen, Laura Toyne, Michael Murray, Gabrielle Wright, Andrew Guild, Ben Reay, Matt Henkel, Phil Toomey, Jarrad Moffit, Kathleen Bleakley, Francine Austin, John Scheding, Dwayne Currie, Simon Heinicke, Ian Hore, Takwar Singh, Kerrie Tanner, Roxie Tanner, Raymond Chao, Alex Kachalkov, Simon Tuam. Dolph Page, Hugh Moore, Danny Hansen, Jennifer Bright, John Barrett, Jenny Trudinger, Terry Dixon, Ramsey Jamal, Craig Wurtz, Matthew Murphy, Geoff King, Daniel Buckley, Hamish Armstrong, Andrew Phillips, Bruce Wight, Steven Murphy, Tony Wynd, Leonie Doyle, Leanne Wilkes, Rodd Rundle, Abel Miles, Roger Palazzo, Rhonda Gilbert, Axel Godeck, Andrew Matthews, Paul Baumgarten, Bob Harlow, Caroline Campbell, Roger Pilkington, Helen Larmour, Marc Wilson, Adrian Plunkett, John Busteed, Judy Kuleas, Doug Fry.

And Kerrie Tanner writes:--

Great conditions today no wind not hot no excuses...worthy winner was John Scheding so you are timekeeping next week then came Singh Talwar and I (Kerrie) was third with Roxie close in fourth place

BBQ Stakes Wednesday 15 th May 2013

From Kerrie Tanner

A cool day but still a good turn up of 53 starters.

John Barrett ran his 800th run and finished second to Stephen Wells and Phil Toomey finished third. Good luck to our BBQ stakes runners taking part in this weekend's North Face 100k and 50k runs.

Julie Quinn in the 100k.  It's her turn to win again this year and Leonie Juckes her first 50k run...

Nick Blackaby

From Mike Stracey, Customs Joggers Runner, 15 th July 2013.


Mike posted :- I’ve just heard from a colleague of his at Customs that Nick suffered a stroke yesterday.  It seems to be serious as he’s in and out of consciousness and, apparently, they are contemplating surgery depending on the outcome of scans.

Lake Tuggeranong Stakes 14 th May 2013. Lloyd's 800 th run

Lloyd Edwards completed his 800 th run in the Lake Tuggeranong Stakes today in front of a field of 13 runners in today's cool and windy run.

Those who ran today were Peter Foster, the current organiser, and Rad Leovic, Daniel Buckley,  Peter Foster, Agir Micev, Gary Morris, Lloyd Edwards, Andrew Riley, Tim Craig, Gary Morris, Andrew Riley. Yili Zhu, and Tim Craig.

As well as the win, Lloyd was awarded the runners shop voucher for first place, an 800 run T-Shirt, and an 800 run Mug.

Lloyd has a P.B. on this course of 21:16, so he is a quick runner, as well as participating in the BBQ Stakes, and Customs Joggers run.

Tim Craig has 266 runs, Peter Foster has 155 runs, and  Daniel Buckley has 141 runs as well as regularly  competing in the BBQ Stakes.

Equal Prize money for males and females

Bourne and Belotti winners at Taipei

May 5, 2013

Australian Mark Bourne took the win in the men's Taipei 101 International Run Up this morning ahead of Piotr Lobodzinski of Poland and Christian Riedl of Germany.

Winning the event is Bourne’s second victory on the 2013 Vertical World Circuit, after winning the prestigious Empire State Building Run-Up in New York City earlier this year. The 29-year old Australian scaled the 2,046 steps from the lobby to the outdoor observation deck in a time of 10 minutes and 52 seconds, taking home the winning prize purse of NT$200,000.

In the women’s race, Italy’s Valentina Belotti climbed to her first win of the year, finishing in 12 minutes and 54 seconds, beating Antonella Confortola, also from Italy by 1 minute and 15 seconds. New Zealand’s Melissa Moon finished third with a time of 14 minutes and 11 seconds.
Belotti’s time was her personal best for the event as she also claimed the winning prize purse of NT$200,000.

BBQ Stakes 9th May 2013

Kerrie Tanner reports:-

 

Another great turn out today weather was perfect for running...Winner today was Tony Wynd followed by Matthew Murphy and Craig Wurtz was third again all finished under the 50 min time mark so new handicaps next week .

 

In the vicinity of 62 runners today.

 

Two runners crossed the line and confused the timekeepers.  However they were not in the stakes, so  quick action by Kerrie, sorted the placings of those who followed.

 

 

Nail Can Hill Results 2013

Michael Hosking   38:23
Jilly Hosking         49:23
Rad Leovic         1:28:23
Diana Schneider 1:06:03,  2nd W60+

Above Results from Website.
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The following story from "The Border Mail"

IT’S 30 years since Virginia Hughes became the youngest women to win Nail Can Hill.
Now 43, she’s back.
In 1983, the 13-year-old Miss Klemke ran the “hill” in 50 minutes and 43 seconds, unaware she was leading the women’s race until swamped by well-wishers at the finish line.
The time remains the record for under-16 girls.
A year earlier, at her first attempt at the gruelling course, she set the mark for 12-year-olds that also still stands today.
Fast forward three decades and the now mother of three teenage children at Albury High decided it was time for one last hurrah, tomorrow’s 11.3 kilometres across the hill.
“I work at The Grange at Thurgoona and I look at some of these people in their 80s and 90s — still active, still full of life,” Hughes said.
“About 12 months ago I was telling them about my Nail Can Hill days and they said why don’t you do it again.
“I really had no answer, no good reason why not.
“I guess they were my inspiration.”
It meant time in the gym for the 150-centimetre pocket rocket, former cross-country and aquathon star.
“I had to lose some weight before I started running again, dropped eight kilos and then started on the treadmill,” Hughes said.
“There was a month where my feet were just a mass of blisters but now I’m starting to feel good — hoping to go better than the time I did in that first win in 1983.”
Hughes’ win in 1983 was a shock, the following year she was running in the national cross country championships and a year later she again took the title on Nail Can Hill.
It was the same year Pat Scammell, fresh from being run out of the 1500-metre semi-final at the Los Angeles Olympics, won the first of his six Nail Can Hill titles.
“Running came naturally to me and I never had any training,” Hughes said.
“It was always easy and to some extent it still is but it is such a gruelling and challenging sport — it’s not like you are having a lot of fun out there.
“I think after this I’ll hang the running shoes up for good.”
The race starts at Lavington Panthers Club at 10am and finishes at Bonnie Doon Park.

This year her time was 53:41.
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Ginninderra Handicap No 356 on Tue 30/04/2013   21.8C  

A relatively humid and still mid-Autumn day greeted 22 runners for the 356 th handicap.

 This included a pleasing turnout of 3 new runners, and a returning stalwart

of the Canberra running scene in Geoff Monro 

whose last handicap was around 5 years ago.

It was difficult to predict who might take out the trophy this month,

no one stood out as having done a lot of training in recent times,

indeed most qualified themselves as not expecting much on the day.

Kay Blemings was one of these, noting that she was also recovering

 from a car accident in recent times.

 Initial betting was on last month's winner Michael Taylor in retaining the trophy,

 the theory being he'd be able to maintain a time close to his pb.

 Not suprisingly Kay Blemings ended up winning,

with a reasonable chunk taken out of her PB too.

 John Curnow finished a respectable 2nd and Michael ended up 3rd.

The reliable sampling method of throwing cards at a tree was again used to award the new starter's prize which went to (? forget his name..)

A number of runners enquired about the ABS fun run this year –

 given the retirement of past handicap runner and ABS fun run organiser Justin O'Dea the run won't be organised by the usual mid-May date,

 but we understand there is still intent to have one. Just need an organiser! Stay tuned....

Lighthouse Wines: Antara-Prabhat Kalajian, Geoff Monro

Cancer Council Donations : $27

Officials: Alistair Rogers, Andrew Sutcliffe, Jim Roberts.

BBQ Stakes 1 st May 2013

A good field of 63 today, saw the teams trophy taken out by "The Others".

The Teams trophy day, when the course was run in reverse. Reasonably mild temperature and a dry course saw a good effort by many.

The individual winner today was Maria Donohue at 49:46 across the line, she has been in good form and has been finishing close to the front of the field for the past several weeks.
She has a P.B. of 29:33 in March this year.

Gordon Calcino was second, near the front of the field yet again, and Stephen Wells was third.

John Barrett, did not run today, but has 98 runs to his credit, .Carolyne Kramar ran a recent P.B. last week,  and Caroline Campbell has a year since her last win.

A person well known in Canberra Athletics, Brian Gleeson was seen having a lunchtime run, said hello, and indicated he may join the Stakes event, he looked very fit.

Missing today was Roger Pilkington, he is one of the very regular participants notable by his absence.

An event in Albury this weekend, the Nail Can Hill Run, will attract some BBQ Stakes runners, namely Rad Leovic, who explained the run to Jen who showed an interest for next year.

Gary Bowen ran the course twice today, firstly in 29:58, the second time in 32:27.

During his run, he came across Nick Walshe who is from the runners Shop that provides prizes and vouchers for this event.  Nick was a little faster than Gary, but they said hello to each other.