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ISSN 1449-8006 Vol. 41 Issue 2 — August 2019 Patron: Dick Telford

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Anne Young W80 300 handicaps

Anne Young W80, receiving her 300th run/walk handicap tee shirt.

Anne currently holds many records including four Australian and two

world relay records. Anne has a clean slate of Veterans/masters half

marathons. 26 wins from 26 starts (photo: John Kennedy)

Reporter: Bryan Thomas

Anne becomes just the sixth person and the second wom-

an to complete 300 monthly handicaps.

She ran her first at Weston Park in April 1986. For

the first sixteen years almost all were in the long course

then for four years she ran in the Frylink Series before re-

turning to the long run in 2012. Since then most have been

in the Frylink and some in the Waddell walk handicap. To

date she has won fifteen medals – five gold, four silver and

six bronze.

“Little Anne” may well claim to have the highest per-

centage of wins from races entered than any other local run-

ner as she has been virtually unbeatable in her age group in

local events since joining in 1985. One such example of her

achievements and longevity is that Anne has participated in

twenty-seven consecutive club cross-country championships

winning her age group on every occasion.

Anne has enjoyed success in cross-country and longer

track races at many Australian and Oceania Championships

and Masters Games and won medals at all three World

Championships in which she has participated. In Melbourne

1987 she won team gold medals for both the W50 cross-

country and marathon. In Brisbane 2001 she won a team

silver in the W65 cross-country then as a W80 in Perth in

2016 she was runner-up in the cross-country as well as being

part of the Australian gold medal winning team.

Anne is also a regular at track and field. At various stag-

es in her athletics career she has held every long distance

running record in each five year age group from W50 to W80

only to see them go one by one to younger women moving up

into older categories. In more than three decades of competi-

tion Anne set more than one hundred individual ACT rec-

ords as well as being a member of many record breaking

relay teams. She currently holds eight ACT records – for the

W55 and W65 10,000m, W65 and W80 one hour run, W75

and W80 3000m and the W80 1500m and one mile as well as

sharing in four Australian and two World Records as a mem-

ber of our W70 relay teams.

Her outstanding track performances have been recog-

nised by winning the Fristad Award in 1989, after being

third two years earlier and runner-up in 1988. She was also

third in two other seasons – in 1991 and 1996. In 2005 Anne

was awarded the Heart Foundation Trophy and for three

consecutive seasons (from 2008 to 2010) she was best female

runner in the Moore Series.

Anne has not run a marathon recently but her effort of

3:38.39 in the 1988 Canberra Marathon is still seventh best

on our W50 ranking list.

Perhaps Anne’s most remarkable achievements have

been in the ACT Vets’ Half Marathon in which she has had

twenty-six starts for twenty-six wins (as a W50 from 1986 to

‘89, W55 from 1991 to ‘94, W60 from 1995 to ‘99, W65 from

2000 to ‘02 and 2004, W70 from 2005 to ‘07 and 2009 and as

a W75 from 2010 to ‘14). For seven of those wins she had the

best performance by a woman as determined by WMA age

graded percentages.

In December 2001 Anne was presented with a Com-

monwealth Recognition Award for Senior Australians for the

Canberra Electorate.

TERRY GIESECKE: 150

Terry’s debut monthly handicap was at Lake Ginninderra

in November 1986. But for a long time his participation was

irregular and in some years he only managed to run on two or

three occasions. Almost all of his runs have been in the long

course although he has a sprinkling in the Frylink Series. To

date Terry has won seven medals consisting of four gold, two

silver and a bronze.

Prior to becoming involved with our club Terry had

been an enthusiastic participant with the informal social run-

ning groups including the Forest Fleet Feet and Hash House

Harriers. Nowadays he is a regular at the Tuesday Group

which is another casual assemblage of joggers and walkers.

Although Terry considered himself an inexperienced

long distance runner at the time he entered his first Vets’

Half Marathon in 1984 he was pleasantly surprised to main-

tain a 4.5minute/km pace for the distance. Terry went on to

continued p.4

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President’s Report

ACT MASTERS ATHLETICS “Fitness Through Fellowship”

The Vetrunner is the official Newsletter of ACTMA, ISSN 1449-8006

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Patron:

Dr Dick Telford AO

President:

Shane Hutchison 0419 009 403

[email protected]

Vice President:

Nicole Phelps 0497 269 935

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Secretary:

Suzie Gaynor 0429 812 878

[email protected]

Treasurer:

Leigh Harlow 0421 564 135

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Registrar:

Nigel England 0477 341 333

[email protected]

Public Officer:

Robbie Costmeyer

Main Committee:

[email protected]

Robbie Costmeyer 0448 087 054

Frank Kresse 0424 148 319

Kathy Sims 62547284

Ken Smith

Sub-Committee and other Contacts:

Annual Awards, Trophies and historian:

Bryan Thomas 6161 3635 (h)

[email protected]

Half Marathon:

Shane Hutchison 0419 009 403

[email protected]

Competition (Track &Field):

Roger Pilkington 0409 543 826

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Marketing and Membership:

TBA

Run/Walk Handicaps Chair:

Rod Lynch 02 6242 7071

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Handicap Rosters:

Rosemary Parker 0427 160 129

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Throws Coordinator, T&F Equipment:

Jayne Hardy 0421 610 053

[email protected]

Member Protection Information Officers:

Sue Bourke 0408 266 183

Richard Scutter 0415 738 848

Social Events:

Sherryl Greathead 0419 013 025

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Lost Property: (Run/Walk Handicaps)

Is placed in chuck wagon.

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Chris White 6161 4481

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The highlight of my winter training was the Sri

Chinmoy Half Marathon Relay, ACTMA cross country

championships, the throwing handicap and the run/walk at

Mount Ainslie. The weather certainly lived up to

expectations being very cold for pretty much everything I

turned up for. It was great to see so many of our members

enjoying these events, in particular, the cross country

championships at Mt Stromlo Forest Park, as this was a

joint AACT and LAACT hosted event. This is an example of

OneSport working well:

each organisation focusing

on what they do well but

teaming up to offer

something for everyone in

a better atmosphere and

pooling volunteer resources

for a better supported

event.

As OneSport develops, we

find ourselves in the

unique position of being

the main representative

body for masters aged

athletes in the ACT, as

well as a fully independent

and operating club, with

summer athletics and

weekend throws and run/

walk events. It’s becoming

clear that independence for

our operating club is front

and centre for our future.

The message we need to highlight is that this makes it even

more vital that we decide what we are going to provide as a

club and do it well. While being mindful of those that want

more, we can leverage off what our partner organisations

can provide, that is, mixed age events, elite competitions,

winter track sessions etc. There is also the OneSport

strategy between the Australian Masters Athletics (AMA)

and Athletics Australia (AA) to consider. Part of the scene

where “those that want more from us” or if you like

“interested stakeholders” are of course the AMA, AA and

the ACT Government. Crucially, if we are to find a place in

this mix of ACT sport, the independent and qualified Sports

Consultant was required to give us the advice we needed to

set the club up for the future.

It could have meant some form of consolidation within

the sporting organisations within the ACT, and of course for

the future, nothing can be ruled out. Nevertheless, the

general theme is coalescing around an independent

operating club focusing on what we do well, while assisting,

promoting and collaborating services with AACT and

LAACT.

I hope our members understand that a future

independent and financially secure ACTMA depends on

working more closely with our partner organisations in the

ACT. This may take the form of annual joint events, co-

marketing and advertising efforts, shared services, co-

volunteering efforts or simply us participating in events like

the winter “High-Noons” at the AIS. It also may mean

focusing on what we can realistically achieve within our

membership numbers, our financial position, and our

volunteering capacity and qualifications.

continued p.4

Men’s 4th place in the Sri

Chinmoy Half-Marathon

mailto:[email protected]


President’s report (cont.) TERRY GIESECKE: 150

Continued from p.3

The summer track and field program will come out short-

ly, and we are considering a new “rest week” towards the end

of the month generally around the monthly throws and run/

walks. This is an effort to focus on what we do well and give

our athletes a break from over competing at the end of the

month.

We are less than 24 months from hosting the national

track and field championships in April 2021. The Local Or-

ganising Committee is being organised by Chris White and

needs your help. It is now expected that much of the prepa-

rations will need to start now so that marketing materials

are available at the Queensland nationals in 2020.

Finally, all the very best to the ACTMA athletes going to

the Oceania Masters Championships in Mackay in late Au-

gust, and to the winter throws competition in

Wollongong in October. Registrations for these

events are closing soon. In the meantime, see

you at our winter run/walks and throws handi-

caps!

Regards

President: Shane Hutchison

[email protected]

www.actmastersathletics.org.au

Saturday 29th June 2019 at Stromlo Forest Park

W35 1 Helen Morewood 8000m 37:18

M35 1 Ken Gibson 8000m 27:39

M35 2 Liam Ryan 8000m 29:33

W40 1 Jodie Barker 8000m 36:27

M40 1 Kane Fillingham 8000m 28:29

W45 1 Leanne Laajoki 8000m 33:52

M45 1 Aston Duncan 8000m 29:19

M45 2 Shane Hutchison 8000m 31:56

M50 1 Steve Rohan-Jones 8000m 30:19

W55 1 Gabrielle Brown 8000m 43:59

M55 1 Peter Brown 8000m 33:39

M60 1 David Clarke 8000m 34:31

M65 1 Robyn McClelland 8000m 44:38

M65 1 Trevor Jacobs 8000m 37:10

M65 2 Ian Bowden 8000m 45:36

M70 1 Geoff Moore 6000m 29:36

M70 2 Jim White 6000m 35:53

M70 3 Charlie Modrak 6000m 37:55

W75 1 Caroline Campbell 6000m 37:06

FOR THE RECORD

ACTMA Records W85 Mary Wahren has set more than her share of records

in the last month. At the Throws Pentathlon in June she set

5 records. Hammer 14.68m, Shot 4.51m, Discus 9.58m,

Weight 3.85m and a Throws Pentathlon total score of 2471

points.

Two weeks later she further improved her Shot and Dis-

cus distances to 5.04m and 10.25m respectively.

Also thanks to Don Fraser for pointing out that the club

website lists performances from 2001, when he was aged 62,

as M65 records. These inconsistencies in the club’s online

records have been corrected.

NICK MELHUISH

[email protected]

Records Officer and Statistician

Continued from p.1

run the next seven consecutive Vets’ Halves before complet-

ing his ninth in 1997 then for several years thereafter the

event organizer had a special ‘Survivor’ T shirt ready for

whenever he felt fit enough to complete number ten. But

sadly he never did!

Terry has also completed a couple of marathons with a

PB of 3:44.

Bryan Thomas

Terry Giesecke M70 with his 150 tee shirt and Anne

Young. Photo: John Kennedy

2021 Australian Masters Athletics Track and Field

Championships

We need to fill the following

sub committee manager roles:

• Venues

• Sponsorship/Grants

• Program

• Technical

• Officials/Volunteers

• Meet manager results /

photo finish

• Registration / athletes

packages/race numbers

• Athlete support

• Awards

• Publications

• Finance

• Media

ChrisWhite

[email protected]

ACT Cross Country Championships


http://www.actmastersathletics.org.au/



The President’s Pin

By Shane Hutchison

Many of us initially joined the ACT Masters Athletics

Club, and for some, the ACT Vets, to run, jump or throw. But

so many of our members have found themselves running

events, jumping up to volunteer or officiate, or throwing

themselves into the club administration.

As I reflected on our 40 years of ‘Fitness through

Fellowship’ and read through the club’s history, including the

first set of notes from that initial gathering of Peter Frylink,

Terry Munro, Ken Daniels, Nigel Crew and others on the

night of 22 February 1979, it struck me that the club would

not be celebrating 40 years of successful operation without its

volunteers.

Historically, extraordinary contributions to the club are

acknowledged with the Life Membership Award. We are

blessed to have four active life members who continue to

support the club with extraordinary volunteering efforts. I

again thank and acknowledge Geoff Moore, Rosemary

Parker, Bryan Thomas and Jayne Hardy.

However, I wanted to acknowledge the ‘middle distance’

volunteer…as very few people are around long enough to hit

the life membership mark, despite making significant

contributions over and above the expected volunteering

duties. Their efforts often go unnoticed and are usually at a

personal cost, like not being able to compete. I wanted to

change that.

So as part of the 40th anniversary celebrations, I am

introduced the ‘President’s Pin’ for outstanding service. The

criteria for this award is at least five years of outstanding

volunteer service over and above regulation volunteering.

The President’s Pin will be ongoing and awarded annually by

the outgoing president at the AGM and the awardee list will

be published in the annual report for perpetuity.

At the AGM, I was delighted to award pins to the

inaugural recipients who were present (see photo). The

inaugural list was extensive but not exhaustive despite our

efforts to identify everyone with

outstanding volunteer service. It was by no

means a final list and I apologise to those

who felt they should have been on it. I

appreciated being reminded of the many

deserving volunteers who missed out on the

pin this year.

I have started my list for next year and welcome

recommendations at any time during the year in readiness

for the ceremonial ‘pinning’ next AGM.

For those on the list who missed out on their pin on the

night, we would love to hear from you to coordinate delivery

of their President’s Pin. If that’s you, please drop me a line or

give me a call to organise pick up.

I hope the recipients wear their President’s Pin proudly as

club ambassadors, whenever and wherever they may be

volunteering in athletics.

Thank you all for your commitment and tireless efforts to

support the club. May we still be going strong in another 40

years

Shane Hutchison (President (2018-2020)

For a list of the inaugural recipients of the President’s

Pin, please see page 6.

The President’s Pin; the group photo of awardees present at

the AGM. Photo Suzie Gaynor)


President’s Pin

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Reporter; John Kennedy

Eighty percent cloud cover and 4oC great for storing

dairy products but for a handicap! Well, actually, new-comers

might be retrospectively warmed to know that the Mt.Ainslie

course has a well deserved reputation for foggy and sub-zero

starts. On this occasion then conditions were teetering on

balmy – who said there were no upsides to climate change.

Light overnight rain served to freshen the bush with only

limited effect on the track surface. Activity around the start

line did stir things up a bit creating a mud pool that required

a cautious start but otherwise all was pedal to the metal ter-

ritory. Forty minutes after the starters gun the sun had got

the better of the cloud cover treating those still out on the

course to a perfect winter’s day in the bush capital.

The course might best be described as undulating with a

couple of rises to test the resolve of the determined. The long

course climb over the Ainslie-Majura saddle pushes the diffi-

culty factor (DF) out to 1.09 making this one of the more

challenging handicaps. Not to be short-changed short course

and walk contestants also faced their own mini breath catch-

er, an uphill sweeper a little short of the turn around (a fea-

ture familiar to Ainslie parkrun participants). So even with

its lesser DF of 1.06 there was still plenty to get your teeth

into.

This is the second handicap course, the other being Cur-

tin, to have had its distance stretched by technology viz. elec-

tronic timing. For reasons never entirely clear to me the lega-

cy Thomas series course finished 50 metres shy of the micro-

wave tower leaving a gap between the start and finish. This

required the clock and timers to move shop whilst the run-

ners were out on course. Clearly an impracticality for the

new timing mat set-up. What puzzles me though is that de-

spite the new incorporation of this gap between start and

finish the official distance, 9.3km, hasn’t changed. I assume

this apparent conundrum is somehow also tied up with cli-

mate change too but the mechanics are too tricky for me. For

the mathematically pedantic my GPS measured the course

as 9.37km.

Numbers were again down (80 starters) on the club’s

halcyon days but I sensed the enthusiasm is still in evidence

as were some outstanding age corrected performances, noted

below, from our longer term members.

Thomas Series:

The long course attracted the biggest following with 43

finishers or 54% of the total participants on the day. Honours

went to 5th over the line W55 Prue Bradford in a time of

64:32, silver to M60 George Quarmby in 63:33 and bronze to

M75 Bryan Thomas in 69:16. Fastest time for the course and

the day belonged to club president Shane Hutchison at 4:20/

km whilst Nadine Morrison took female honours with 5:12/

km. Age percentage winners were M70 Kent Williams

(85.8%) and W70 Sue Archer (88.5%). Sue and Kent are no

slouches in absolute rates either at 5:26 and 4:57 respective-

ly. In their own words here’s our podium finishers thoughts

on the day:

Prue Bradford (Gold): Mt Ainslie is probably

my favourite course - and it helps that I've won a couple of

medals there (according to the shield, I won the gold in

2015!) It's such a challenging course. I still hate the "up"

bits, but that downhill finish is one of the best pieces of

course that we use. The mud in the last 20 metres was a

challenge - I didn't want to slow down as I thought I was

about to be caught, but wasn't sure if the recording system

would appreciate me skidding across the line on my backside!

It was timely to have a good result, as next month (July) will

mark 20 years of running with the Club. Our first event was

at Mulligans Flat in July 1999 - club membership had been a

joint birthday present for some significant-ish birthdays Ste-

ve and I were having around that time. Mt Ainslie is num-

ber one (Kowen Forest a very close second - hmm, and I've

won there, too!)

George Quarmby (Silver): I ran my first ACT

Masters handicap run in November 2001 and have completed

124 runs to date. I have not run well for a number of years

due to a combination of poor fitness and injury averaging 7-8

minutes per km. Since I retired in November 2018 I have

been able to get a lot fitter and have begun interval training

weekly with the SpeedyGeese running group. I feel that my

running is getting back to what it once was, I ran Mt Ainslie

once in under 5 minutes per km, not so long ago. I particular-

ly like Mt Ainslie for running and mountain biking though

my other favourite run with the Masters is Goorooyarroo. I

aim to run 8 half marathons this year, I have already com-

pleted 4; Snowy half, UTA 22, Canberra half and Vets half .

I also want to finish the Fitz 105km road bike ride in Octo-

ber. I try each week to run a couple of times, ride about 80km

over two separate days, swim and complete a light weights

session. I’m not sure how I ever had the time to work. I’m not

competitive, I did that as a young lad playing AFL. I have

only won a few medals, none at Mt Ainslie. (cont. p.8)

Run walk Handicap Mt Ainslie 30 June 2019

Thomas: Prue Bradford W55 Taking her sixth gold medal from George

Quarmby M60 (middle) & Bryan Thomas M75. (photo: John Kennedy)


Run walk Handicap Mt Ainslie 30 June 2019 (continued)

(Continued from p.7)

Bryan Thomas (Bronze): I was fortunate in that I was

given my most generous handicap start of my career. So I was

always travelling along near the front runners. I found the

course to be quite slippery until we got to Mt Ainslie Rd.

where because of less running and walking traffic the track

on the far side was better. I was passed by the other two med-

allists a couple of hundred metres before the start of the long

climb. But I could always see them ahead until the down hill

run to the finish when both Prue and George pulled a long,

long way in front. This is the only handicap course that has

stood the test of time since the earliest days of our club. Over

the years it has always proved popular probably due to its

attractive looping course, its length and difficulty caused by

that very long uphill near the end. As such I have raced it

many times - and in fact in the past I have enjoyed some suc-

cess (even winning medals) as this course suits back markers.

But sadly those days are long gone as I am more of a plodder

nowadays. I am probably a better race-walker than a runner

now. I still recall many years ago battling it out "head to

head" with Chris Higgins along that long back straight and I

clearly remember 2 years ago our local politician Andrew

Leigh racing past me up the back hill.

Frylink Series:

The short course proved the least popular attracting only

15 starters or 19% of the day’s participants. First across the

line and taking gold was M65 Ian Bowden who completed the

course in 39:10 from group 23. Silver was secured by new

comer M40 Toby Bellwood in 24:04 with M70 Richard Scutter

bringing home a bronze with 39:56 over the 4.5km. Ken Gor-

don, M55, was the gazelle of the group clocking an average of

4:58/km. Honours must however go to W85 Joan Mallory who

scored a phenomenal age adjusted percentage of 91.9; the

outright best such ranking of the day. Here’s what the podium

finishers had to say:

Ian Bowden (Gold): I’ve been with the club since late

1995, so only a “newish” running member. I also play a bit of

lawn bowls. I felt all month that it was probably my turn as I

had finished in 4th Place in the past two events. Bob Parker

picked me as a winner at a Tuesday group run, said the hand-

icapper had his eye on me. I therefore expected a good result.

So I did something I had never done in my life, actually ran

two days in a row. In the past a number of runners get on the

line and say they won’t do any good, because “did the Cotter

yesterday”, “ran a half marathon last week” etc. so I thought

if I run the cross country championships on Saturday, it

might slow me down a bit for Sunday, and I can finish 4th

again and not get re-handicapped. Alas, only 15 ran the

Frylink, so there wasn’t a lot to beat, quantity wise, not re-

garding quality! I like the Ainslie course, cold weather helps

too. But now it is someone else’s turn, I will go back a heap of

groups and can have a sleep-in before starting the next few

months. Will be overseas for the July run, will come back

grossly overweight, so can look forward to another medal in

2021, maybe.

Toby Bellwood (Silver): This is only my third Masters

Handicap run - so it looks like I got my timing right! I only

took up running 2 1/2 years ago, and have been a regular at

Gungahlin Parkrun since then - recently chalking up my

milestone 100th run. I'm really enjoying the Masters Handi-

cap series - it's a great opportunity to get off the "sealed"

paths and into some of our city's glorious bushland. One of

the things I love about the out and back courses is trying to

work out who you've got a reasonable chance of catching up to

(but for the second event in a row, I just couldn't get close

enough to catch Ian!). I'm looking forward to many more Sun-

day morning outings - and now that I know medals are hand-

ed out at the end of the events - I'll make sure to hang around

next time should I be fortunate enough to ascend the podium -

the weekly shop can wait!

Richard Scutter (Bronze): My very first run with the

club was in September 1988 at Mount Ainslie. Today my body

was a little different from that occasion! The main problem is

with my left knee so I have not been running but mainly

walking. However, with careful management I can break out

into a jog and this is the reason for choosing the Frylink ra-

ther than the Waddell.

I continue to participate in Parkrun in this fashion and feel-

ing very casual I just wanted to enjoy the Sunday excursion in

the company of others. I had no thought of being competitive

and it was a great surprise when the back end runners did

not stream pass me towards the finish! Obviously the small

number participating was a factor. I am putting more effort

into swimming and cycling so I am keeping fit. There is al-

ways an alternative no matter the dictates of a contrary body!

Continued page 9.

Frylink: Ian Bowden M65 (left), taking his seventh gold

(18th medal) from Toby Bellwood M40 (absent) and club poet

Richard Scutter M70 third. (photo: John Kennedy)

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Run walk Handicap Mt Ainslie 30 June 2019 (continued)

(Continued from p.8)

Waddell Series

The series drew 22 walkers or 27% of the starters to its

ranks. Another cracking age adjusted percentage was

achieved, this time for the men, with M85 John Suiter cover-

ing the course in a fleet footed 8:09/km for an impressive

90.2%. Chris Lang, M65, was fastest on the course at 7:27/

km whilst W70 Rosemary Parker just pipped Michelle Hil-

lard by 1 second to take the female speedster slot in 7:58/km.

Finishing 3rd across the line John Hunt took gold in 42:22

from “youngster” M30 Robbie Newman in 35:04 and veteran

M85 Jack Thackray 42:19 with bronze. Here’s our winners

thoughts:

John Hunt (Gold): I have been a very happy member

of ACT Vets/Masters since season 1990-91 and I have en-

joyed every minute of it. My earliest major experiences were

in track and field, especially high jumping, where I won my

age group in Nationals and the World Championship in

M55/59 in Durban, South Africa in 1997. After I turned 60 I

concentrated on Monthly Handicap walks and throws

events. I was privileged to be elected President of our club

for the two years 2001 to 2003. At age 78 I do not participate

in any other sports, although I am an active member of my

local little athletics centre (Corroboree/North Canberra)

where I hope my two grandsons will have the same good

experiences that their father had. I am a Life Member of

Corroboree and of ACT Little Athletics where my major con-

tribution these days is in coaching. I am happy to participate

in the monthly handicaps, which I would recommend to any-

body. I like the undulating Ainslie course, which along with

Majura is my favourite. I think I won the Ainslie event a

few years ago but this time I was just keen to maintain a

good speed and rhythm and to finish ahead of Jack Thackray

and the back markers.

Robbie Newman (Silver): I joined the club at the start

of last year as a walker, a pastime that I enjoy. I do parkrun

most Saturday mornings, but other than that don’t partici-

pate in sports. I like this course, its a challenge due to that

nasty hill but was nonetheless enjoyable.. This was my first

medal.

Jack Thackray (Bronze): I enjoy the Mount Ainslie

Run/Walk. It is a trying course and I find it a challenge

each time having won a medal on four occasions. I like the

June nip in the air which keeps one on their toes, pardon the

pun. I maintain my aerobic fitness with the ACT Race walk-

ing and fitness club on Saturday afternoons and I find it

helpful for the monthly handicaps too. I am already sprint

training three times a week at AIS in preparation for the

Nationals next April.

John Kennedy

(Editor’s note; John Kennedy, our reporter and photographer finished

third over the line from group 15 in the Thomas. Unfortunately hav-

ing been in Melbourne for some weeks he was ineligible to take his

own picture winning a medal! Thank you John)

▼ A day member in front of Kevin Rowe M65 in the Thomas

▼ Rae Palmer W70 & Will Foster M75 10th and 11th in the Thomas

Waddell: John Hunt M75, taking his fifth handicap gold from Robbie

Newman M30 and jumping Jack Thackray M85 took the bronze, but

was absent for picture by John Kennedy. ▼ Below muddy in parts.


August Run/Walk Handicap - Coombs Molonglo 9.00am start 25 August 2019

Club Sponsors

Members are entitled to discounts on prices for goods

purchased from The Runners Shop and for services from

Kingston Physiotherapy and Sports Injury Centre

and the Walking Clinic. The Walking clinic is currently celebrating its 40th birthday. Congratulations. Please

inform The Runners Shop that you are a Club member when you make a purchase, and inform the Kingston

Physiotherapy and Sports Injury Centre and The

Walking Clinic that you are a Club member when you

book a session.

As part of their sponsorship arrangements with the

Club, The Runners Shop and Kingston Physiotherapy

and Sports Injury Centre each remit to the Club a

payment equivalent to a percentage of their sales to

members. Nick Walshe of The Runners Shop and Craig

Wisdom of the Kingston Physiotherapy and Sports

Injury Centre are Club members.

Course Description – Coombs Molonglo

How to get there: Turn at the lights on the Cotter

Road into Kirkpatrick Street, Weston, then proceed

past the RSPCA and park on either side of Kirkpatrick

Street or in the car park further down overlooking the

pond.

Thomas Series (long course) = 10km

Frylink/Waddell Series (short course) = 5km

Both courses start and finish on the gravel road behind

the RSPCA (same as the Coombs Parkrun) and go north

initially, then follow the road around the pond, turn

right at the end to cross Weston Creek and head north

again past Stromlo Cottage. Continue on the dirt road

across the Bicentennial Trail and turn left on the road

which runs between Coombs and the Molonglo River.

Short course: Turn right at 1.93km and take the road

across the river for 0.57km, then turn around and re-

trace your steps to the start.

Long course: Instead of turning right to cross the river,

continue along the road behind Coombs, then turn at

3.0km and come back to turn left on the road across the

river. Follow that road, veering left to follow the river,

then turn right up the hill to begin the anticlockwise

circuit of Barrer Hill. On completing the circuit, contin-

ue straight ahead back to the river crossing, then turn

left back onto the road behind Coombs and retrace your

steps to the start.

Below left: John Hunt M75 winning Waddell; Below mid-

dle: Linda Bone shading Prue Bradford W55 winning Thomas;

and below right: Mr. Ed, on Debut, winning the Frylink in

1:36:18!


What is the focus of the New Committee

R/W program 2019

DATE VENUE DIST

January 27th Central Curtin 6.3/3km

February 24th Isaacs Ridge 8/4km

March 31st Stromlo Forest Park 8/4km

April 28th Majura 10/5km

May 19th Molonglo Forest 8/4.3km

June 30th Mt Ainslie 9.3/4.5km

July 28th Little Black Mt 9/4.5km

August 25th Coombs Molonglo 10/5km

September 29th O'Connor Ridge 8/4km

October 27th Ainslie Woodlands 7/3.5km

November 24th Weston Park 6/3km

Reporters Suzie Gaynor and Shane Hutchison

The new committee set its priorities for 2019 at its first meeting on

17 June at the Belconnen Soccer Club.

Welcoming new committee member Leigh Harlow as Treasurer, and applauding the return of the full committee from 2018-2019, Shane

Hutchison led the charge into his second year as president by calling on

the team to roll their sleeves up again and focus on the big issues.

The 2018-2019 main committee implemented many initiatives that saw the trend of declining membership stemmed and consolidated with

numbers above 300. The committee will continue to have a big focus on

members: their wants, their needs, attracting new members and retain-

ing existing members, The priorities for this year are:

Governance – it is important that we are doing the right things in

terms of our procedures and paperwork. We will review our pro-

cedures and policies on how we do things, from running events

to handling financial matters to be confident we are doing them

right, doing them well and are documented for all members to

access.

Club Performance Improvement – following the valuable feedback and direction we received from the independent review and sur-

vey of members, we want to use the information to improve the

club’s performance and ensure we are offering what members

want.

New Member Management – we are pleased that we didn’t have a net

loss of members in the last year, stopping the 7% annual de-

crease that the club has experienced over the last 10 years. How-

ever, this was achieved by attracting a large number of new

members, meaning that we still lost a lot of existing members.

We plan to focus on retaining members, as well as gaining mem-

bers by looking at new ways of keeping members engaged and

wanting to stay in the club.

2021 National Championships: Chris White is the lead for the Local Organising Committee for the 2021 National Championships. It

will be a major effort for the club if we are able to pull off a suc-

cessful championship and the committee will help Chris to en-

suring he has the support from members to organise, coordinate,

volunteer and host this significant event that caters for up to

1000 Masters athletes competing in Canberra on our local patch.

The committee meets each month, either at the Ainslie Football and

Social Club or the Belconnen Soccer Club. Minutes from the meetings

are posted to the club’s website.

The ACTMA main committee 2019/2020 is:

Club Patron Dick Telford AM

Club President Shane Hutchison

Vice President Nikki Phelps

ecretary Suzie Gaynor

Treasurer Leigh Harlow (new Treasurer, back row far right)

Public Officer Robbie Costmeyer

Registrar Nigel England

Com. Members Frank Kresse, Kathy Sims, Ken Smith

In the May handicap I managed somehow

to win gold (see photo), it was a good run at a rate of

6:44 much better than my previous rate of 7:21 in

April. All of my medals have come from the shorter

runs, so that run at 7.4k suited me. I have been

running the monthly handicaps for some time (this

was was my 150th) so I know the system, or

thought I did. Turning up on June 30 for the Mount

Ainslie run I expected to be moved up from group 8

to something like group 15 or 16. Imagine my sur-

prise to find that I was in group 21! A group for true

athletes, not shufflers like me. The group rate being

5:15, a pace I had not achieved for years, in fact the

best I'd done was 5:53 at an Adelaide park run in

March 2017, on a dead flat surface at almost sea

level over 5k.

Anyway I had a long time to wait for the

start in quite cold weather and as my pace was

down the back markers quickly ran past and disap-

peared in a flash. I was last by a long shot and I

pitied the poor officials who had to wait in the cold

for me to go past and eventually cross the finish

line.

So why am I writing this, to have a

whinge? well maybe. I accept the basic principle of

the handicapping process but I believe it was a bit

of over kill. I hope it will be revised so that partici-

pants are not placed in groups way above their ca-

pacity. At my age (73) it is

unlikely that I would im-

prove by that much. A

perfect handicap would

see every one finishing

together or at least place

all on an equal footing.

Also I have never

"sandbagged" that is de-

liberately run slower to

get a better group. I al-

ways run to the best of

my capacity given the

conditions.

Terry Giesecke 1174

Reflections on my experiences with the handicapping system


Throwing handicap report — Shot and discus 29th June 2019

Reporter John Reynolds

A mild winter day greeted the eighteen competitors for

the June throwing handicap at Masson St. Highlights of the

day were three new ACT records & a victory to our oldest

thrower. Rad Leovic into his third year in the M90 age group

took out the event with a margin of thirty one centimetres to

spare from Raylea Rudov. Sixty three centimetres back in

third position was Tanya Colyer. Rad has had two wins in

his 82 appearances in the handicaps with his last victory

coming back in 2006.

With our previous leader Jan Banens missing in June

Mary Wahren has moved into the lead in the pointscore

competition. With half the year completed she leads by 6

points from Tanya Colyer with Jayne Hardy a further nine

points back in third position.

Mary Wahren continued on her record breaking spree

with new marks in both events that she contested. She

broke her own records in both the shot & discus in the W85

age division. Her shot distance was 5.04 and discus she

threw 10.25. The third record for the day came in the M75

56lb weight throw. John Reynolds added ninety five centi-

metres to the old record with a best distance of 4.23.

Jayne Hardy once again dominated the women’s

events recording the longest throws in all four events con-

tested. She threw 8.79 in the shot put & 26.53 in the discus

to lead the two handicap events. In the 56lb weight throw

she recorded 3.24 & in the standard weight her best was

12.03. Ray Green had similar success among the men, lead-

ing the way in the shot with 9.85 & the discus with

31.48.His best efforts in the 56lb weight was 4.77 & in the

standard weight 12.11.

Everyone showed good form in their events & as a re-

sult no Oscar was awarded for the month. The winner of the

wine was John Reynolds.

The next monthly throwing handicap will be on Au-

gust 24th. Events to be contested are the shot put, discus,

standard weight & the 45lb weight

The August throws handicap will be held one week

prior to the commencement of the Oceania Masters champi-

onships in Mackay in Queensland. At this stage we have

many of our handicap regulars entered for the event. Entries

close on July 21st.

John Reynolds (results p.17)

Left and above: Caroline

Campbell W75

(Photos: Tanya Colyer)

▲ Wendy Freeman W70 ▲ Mary Wahren W85

▲ May Handicap presenta-

tion: Tanya Colyer (1st), Jan

Banens—absent (2nd) and

Mary Wahren (3rd)

▲ Shane Hutchinson M45

(background: Nola de

Chazal )

▲ Kevin Blewitt M70

Caroline Campbell at the June Throws Pentathlon

Photo: Suzie Gaynor


Reporter Craig Wisdom

Hi Masters Athletes,

Below is a part one of a travelogue of my travels in

France with my partner, based on three separate self-guided

cycling tours interspersed with sightseeing and supporting of

our Aussie FIFA Women’s World Cup sporting champs – The

Matildas…..

It is almost three weeks since we left Oz and it feels like

three months+.

Travelling in a foreign country for us requires a fair bit

of effort especially when only part of the trip was organised

in the 2 weeks before we flew out, and the rest is being

planned and booked on the fly!

Our little apartment in Paris for the first 4 days was an

excellent base to tour from with the close proximity of a

couple of metro lines.

Despite some rain on Day 1 we still managed a garden

visit and walk along the River Seine to the sad feature of

Notre Dame. The French have taken to restoring the

cathedral with gusto and it was a hive of activity when we

strolled by.

The next day was a trip out of Paris to the Palace of

Versailles in glorious conditions, and it was in the nearby

town that we had our first (and only to date) decent cup of

coffee, at the appropriately named The Stray Bean. This

may not seem such a big deal but in our subsequent effort to

relive the experience we have had many, many, many

disappointments. On numerous occasions I have suggested

Jo offer to put her barista’s licence to good effect and show

the wait staff how it should be done, however that is not

really her way, and anyway, ‘they just use the wrong blend

of beans!’.

The enormous Palace of Versailles and gardens were an

eye opener for the opulence they reflected of a time when

France was struggling with famine and disease in the late

1700’s. We wandered around a small portion of the

manicured gardens, resplendent with fountains and

sculptures, before going into the palace for the audio tour.

Our knowledge of French history immediately took a steep

rise as we learnt of the demise of the line of Louis’s which

ended with Louis XVI getting the chop in 1793, as a

consequence of the French revolution.

After another day sightseeing and public transport

surfing in Paris, we settled in for a very fast train ride (up

to just over 300km/hr) to Avignon in Provence. Here we had

a day spare to look around this well preserved walled city

which is best known for being the Papal home of seven

‘legitimate’ Popes (including characters like Pope Innocent

VI and Pope Urban V!), in the 14th century, rather than in

Rome. There were also a couple of dodgy ones that ended up

not being officially anointed but that didn’t stop them

enjoying the spoils of Papacy for 20+ years apiece.

So then began our first self-guided bike tour which

started, in Orange on 10th June. Day 1 was a back roads

cycle to Avignon for a second visit, through vineyards,

lavender fields, small to medium sized villages, and part

way along the banks of the Rhone River. It was a 50km day

with rain setting in in the afternoon, although not cold.

The weather since has been warm and dry, up to mid-

30s. Our Day 1 scenery set the scene for the next 4 cycling

days as we covered 55 to 68 km each day, staying at Arles,

Nimes, Uzes and then back to Orange. Highlights were the

hilltop town of Les Baux, Arles arena (~colosseum), and the

Pont du Gard – a massive 50AD Roman aqueduct registered

as a UNESCO World Heritage site.

This cycle tour also conveniently included 2 nights at

Arles which perfectly synched with the Matildas playing

against Brazil in Montpellier. Instead of cycling, we caught

a 1 hour train to this lovely town which was all geared up to

host Women’s World Cup games. We saw the Aussie girls

make a fantastic come back from 2-0 down to win 3-2…

phew! Then back on the train to Arles for the night before

continuing the bike tour.

Once back to Orange we hired a car and headed off to

Grenoble which became our focus due to the final Matildas

group game against Jamaica on 18th June.

Grenoble is nestled in a valley surrounded by

spectacular mountains and high plateaus on the edge of the

French Alps, central east of France. In our 3 days here we

did some excellent drive touring to precipitous villages

through spectacular gorges with cliffs overhanging the road,

in addition to a couple of mountain walks.

This area also allowed a little self-indulgence for me as I

had decided to have a go at cycling up Alpe d’Huez (40 min

drive from Grenoble), which is a famous climb often

included in the Tour de France. It is a ~13km climb from

the little town of Bourg d’Oisans at the base, and averages

about 8% from bottom to top for a ~1000m vertical ascent. I

hired a bike from a well-reviewed shop in B d’O which must

have written most of their own reviews! Nevertheless, after

a change of pedals which actually allowed me to release,

and deciding I didn’t need to use the large chain ring

anyway, I headed off on what was the longest continuous

climb I have ever done. About 1 ½ hours later I crested at

the summit pretty pleased with myself. On the way back

down I stopped for a few pics and was back to Jo feeding

ducks in a park by the river in B d’O within 30’.

Matildas played that same evening, and again the city

was making the most of the opportunity to host some

Women’s World Cup games. Most of the crowd support

seemed to be for Jamaica who were definitely the underdogs

but it was soon apparent there was not going to be an upset

in this match as the Aussies went on to win 4-1. The most

excitement for the night however went to the Jamaicans

who scored their first ever World Cup goal in the history of

mankind. They went nuts!

Yesterday we drove back to drop off the car in Orange

and I am writing this while traveling on 3 connecting, not-

so-fast-trains to Souillac, which is the start of our next 7

day bike tour in the Dordogne valley in the central western

area of France. Pre-historic cave paintings, cliff-side

villages, ancient buildings and more vineyards await us.

The distances each day are not quite as long as for the first

tour but I am sure will be just as interesting.

In all we are managing very well and have had few

problems with bookings, transport and accommodation. Our

accommodation for the 1st bike tour varied from spacious

and extravagant (for our meagre standards), to pretty

crappy – Jo’s providing some targeted feedback in this

instance!

The French people we have interacted with have

overwhelmingly been courteous and hospitable, and

extremely tolerant of the way we regularly butcher their

language. Jo

does a great

Marcel Marceau

whenever she is

in line for asking

directions or

ordering tartes

from the

patisserie!

Google

Translate is

earning its value

many fold!

Palais of Versailles

Gardens

(Cont. p. 19)

Travelogue from France — Part 1

Date: Tuesday 6 August 2019

Venue: Canberra Labor Club Stirling

Location: Teesdale Close Stirling

Time: 7.00pm

Food: A wide variety of food inc. V & GF

Drinks: Available for Purchase at the Bar

You are all invited to meet with fellow members of the Club

for an informal social dinner. For a fun night out, please

contact one of the following members of the Social Team by

12 noon on Monday 5 August so that we can finalise the numbers. We look forward to seeing you there.

Rosemary: 0427 160 129 [email protected]

Sherryl: 0419 013 025 [email protected]

Robyn: 0403 808 299 [email protected]

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What a month for Masters Athletics; Anne Young’s 300

handicap, sixth on the all time list with Suzanne Counsel

the only woman in front of her. A great cross country event

with ACTMA winning their age division. See page 4 for

results.

Nadine and I wish to thank all our contributors espe-

cially Bryan Thomas, Suzie Gaynor and Shane Hutchison

for the President’s Pin report (pp. 5 and 6), the committee

report and many fabulous photos. Also John Kennedy’s

photos at the run/walk handicap and Tanya Colyer at the

throws handicap. Also thanks to our ever reliable proof

readers, Dave Mackenzie and Cory Collins. We appreciate

our regular Throws reporters; John Reynolds and Jayne

Hardy and the Geoff Barker inspired team of run/walk

handicap reporters, on this occasion, John Kennedy.

As a general rule I will publish material that is pub-licly acknowledged. Articles submitted to Vetrunner but

not published are usually the result of page limitations, and may be included in the following edition of Vetrunner.

Constructive comment is welcome and should be addressed

to the editor at: [email protected]

Thanks very much to Nadine for stepping in and tak-

ing the lion’s share of the load for this edition of Vetrunner.

(Nadine had the fastest women’s time in the Thomas)

We are rather blessed in this club to be enriched with

so many willing volunteers. Clare Wall, (our anniver-

sary guest editor) has agreed to take the reins for the

September Vetrunner. Thanks again Clare. Clare will

officially take over Monday 29th July with a handover from

Robert. Both Lauren Watt (April guest editor) and Nadine

will be supporting Clare. We hope Clare that this timely

editorial work will not interfere with your preparations for

the Chicago Marathon.

If you feel you have missed out on this rewarding

post we are pleased to say that we still have two guest edi-

tor spots available in 2020; May (work done in first half of

April) and September (work done in first half of August).

Feel free to contact us below.

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Run/Walk Handicap Mt. Ainslie Results

THOMAS SERIES 9.3km - 30/06/19 - Mt. Ainslie—(Difficulty factor 1.09)

Place Name Age Gp St Gp N Time Rate WR% Pts Medals

1 Robyn McClelland W65 10 0:57:35 6:12 73.0 0

2 Kerri Vaughan W55 9 0:59:19 6:23 64.1 0

3 John Kennedy M65 15 0:53:44 5:47 70.2 0

4 Mick Charlton M65 3 1:12:24 7:47 50.2 0

5 Prue Bradford W55 9 1:04:32 6:56 60.3 150 Gold

6 George Quarmby M60 10 1:03:33 6:50 54.8 149 Silver

7 Bryan Thomas M75 7 1:09:16 7:27 60.3 148 Bronze

8 Ken Smith M60 23 0:52:43 5:40 65.8 147

9 Rod Lynch M55 5 1:14:18 7:59 45.5 0

10 Rae Palmer W70 14 1:01:05 6:34 76.9 0

11 Will Foster M75 21 0:55:12 5:56 72.1 146

12 Kent Williams M70 32 0:46:04 4:57 85.8 145

13 Susan Archer W70 27 0:50:31 5:26 88.5 144

14 Nadine Morrison W45 30 0:48:19 5:12 72.1 143

15 David Webster M65 32 0:46:57 5:03 77.4 142

16 Alan Newton M75 10 1:07:15 7:14 61.2 141

17 Shane Hutchison M45 41 0:40:16 4:20 75.1 140

18 Desma Butler W75 5 1:16:56 8:16 67.0 139

19 Jennie Blake W60 15 1:02:47 6:45 64.4 138

20 Hugh Moore M70 20 0:58:36 6:18 65.5 0

21 Judi Edwards W70 14 1:03:59 6:53 71.6 137

22 Ruth Baussmann W65 14 1:04:14 6:54 68.7 136

23 Cathy Newman W55 22 0:57:36 6:12 66.8 0

24 Mary Ann Busteed W70 13 1:06:04 7:06 67.7 135

25 Allison Duncan W50 8 1:13:54 7:57 49.8 134

26 Bob Parker M70 5 1:19:04 8:30 49.3 133

27 Margaret McSpadden W70 7 1:15:56 8:10 61.9 132

28 Peter Clarke M65 41 0:43:03 4:38 86.0 131

29 Alan Mallory M60 33 0:49:51 5:22 69.9 130

30 Craig Wurtz M50 27 0:55:46 6:00 57.3 129

31 Kevin Rowe M65 29 0:54:59 5:55 63.7 128

32 Val Chesterton W75 1 1:28:08 9:29 58.9 127

33 Bernie Millett M75 11 1:11:16 7:40 57.7 0

34 Sherryl Greathead W65 10 1:13:00 7:51 59.0 126

35 Jenny May W60 1 1:28:17 9:30 47.0 0

36 Ewan Brown M70 10 1:13:20 7:53 52.7 125

37 Robin Whyte M75 13 1:10:04 7:32 58.7 124

38 Hugh Crawley M75 7 1:19:53 8:35 50.7 123

39 Roger Pilkington M60 26 1:01:57 6:40 55.3 122

40 Maria White W65 7 1:25:35 9:12 49.7 121

41 Jim White M70 22 1:08:41 7:23 55.9 120

42 Steve Bradford M60 42 0:53:15 5:44 65.4 119

43 Terry Giesecke M70 21 1:12:51 7:50 53.9 118

Hugh Crawley and Margaret McSpadden feeling the weather

differently (Photo: John Kennedy)

Mick Charlton in the Thomas Series at Mt Ainslie.

(Photo: John Kennedy)


FRYLINK SERIES 4.5km - 30/06/19 - (Difficulty factor 1.06)

Place Name Age Gp St Gp N Time Rate WR% Pts Medals 1 Ian Bowden M65 23 0:25:45 5:43 66.1 75 Gold 2 Toby Bellwood M40 28 0:24:04 5:21 51.7 74 Silver 3 Richard Scutter M70 1 0:39:56 8:52 44.2 73 Bronze 4 Cathy Montalto W65 24 0:26:35 5:54 72.3 72 5 Linda Mallory W55 16 0:30:22 6:45 57.8 71 6 Graeme Patrick M65 26 0:26:41 5:56 60.3 0

7 Charlie Modrak M70 21 0:29:07 6:28 59.5 70 8 Jill Pearson W60 26 0:27:36 6:08 65.4 69 9 Deb Gordon W50 31 0:25:59 5:46 62.3 68 10 Ken Gordon M55 41 0:22:20 4:58 66.9 67 11 Consie Larmour W80 3 0:42:34 9:28 69.9 66 12 Anne Young W80 1 0:45:08 10:02 66.0 65

13 Suzie Gaynor W50 12 0:36:53 8:12 43.2 0 14 Cory Collins W80 10 0:39:05 8:41 69.0 64 15 Joan Mallory W85 1 0:47:21 10:31 91.9 63

WADDELL SERIES 4.5km - 30/06/19 - (Difficulty factor 1.06)

Place Name Age Gp St Gp N Time Rate WR% Pts Medals

1 Monika Short W70 1 0:44:17 9:50 64.6 0 2 Jennie Gilchrist W65 10 0:38:25 8:32 69.8 0 3 John Hunt M75 7 0:42:22 9:25 64.3 75 Gold 4 Robbie Newman M30 23 0:35:04 7:48 50.0 74 Silver 5 Jack Thackray M85 9 0:42:19 9:24 77.2 73 Bronze 6 Christopher Lang M65 30 0:33:30 7:27 71.1 72 7 Colin Simpson M75 21 0:37:20 8:18 70.2 71

8 John Suiter M85 23 0:36:39 8:09 90.2 70 9 Michelle Hillard W55 25 0:35:54 7:59 63.5 69 10 Paul Van Belkom M65 25 0:35:55 7:59 65.6 0 11 Graeme Small M75 11 0:41:51 9:18 64.3 68 12 Shé Hawke W55 1 0:50:37 11:15 46.3 0 13 Keith Johnson M75 17 0:40:03 8:54 66.3 67

14 Rosemary Parker W70 29 0:35:52 7:58 81.5 66 15 Linda Bone W60 23 0:38:28 8:33 64.3 65 16 Warren Butler M75 13 0:42:43 9:30 64.6 64 17 Marian Simpson W65 31 0:36:01 8:00 75.5 63 18 Maureen Scutter W70 18 0:41:54 9:19 72.8 62 19 Peter Kallio M80 22 0:42:17 9:24 69.4 61 20 Merv Collins M90 6 0:52:36 11:41 68.2 60

21 Suzanne Counsel W75 1 1:01:33 13:41 53.3 59

22 Peter Freeman M70 1 1:14:26 16:32 34.2 0

Run/Walk Handicap Mt. Ainslie Results (cont.)

Setting off in the short courses. At the back, in red beanie, is

Anne Young commencing her 300th run/walk

Three athletes negotiating tricky conditions. George Quarmby,

Robyn McClelland and a day member (photos: J. Kennedy)


Throwing handicap results — Shot and Discus 29 June 2019

Name Age Gp S Hcp S Dst S Tot S Pl D Hcp D Dst D Tot D Pl T Dst Pts

Rad Leovic M90 16.32 4.86 21.18 3 47.31 10.02 57.33 1 78.51 50

Raylea Rudov W75 15.25 5.81 21.06 5 43.26 13.88 57.14 2 78.20 49

Tanya Colyer W55 16.26 4.68 20.94 6 44.17 12.46 56.63 3 77.57 48

Wendy O'Brien W70 17.8 3.09 20.89 7 49.75 6.77 56.52 5 77.41 47

John Hunt M75 15.34 5.41 20.75 10 39.60 16.95 56.55 4 77.30 46

Caroline Campbell W75 15.22 6.13 21.35 1 44.70 11.12 55.82 7 77.17 45

Duncan Macnicol M65 11.43 8.96 20.39 12 25.84 30.60 56.44 6 76.83 44

Mary Wahren W85 16.08 5.04 21.12 4 45.33 10.25 55.58 9 76.70 43

Nola de Chazal W80 17.61 3.70 21.31 2 46.37 8.88 55.25 10 76.56 42

Bryan Thomas M75 14.51 6.34 20.85 8 40.91 14.73 55.64 8 76.49 41

Ray Green M70 10.30 9.85 20.15 13 23.69 31.48 55.17 11 75.32 40

Warwick Budd M75 13.85 6.91 20.76 9 38.55 15.45 54.00 13 74.76 39

John Reynolds M75 12.85 7.87 20.72 11 26.76 26.25 53.01 15 73.73 38

Jayne Hardy W55 11.24 8.79 20.03 14 26.56 26.53 53.09 14 73.12 37

Kevin Blewitt M80 8.15 9.46 17.61 15 31.36 23.20 54.56 12 72.17 36

Jeanette Williamson W75 7.96 0 20.95 0 0 1

Shane Hutchison M45 6.46 0 20.18 0 0 1

Peter Freeman M70 6.21 0 15.16 0 0 1

Name Age Gp Weight Dist

Ray Green M70 7.258kg 12.11

John Reynolds M75 7.258kg 11.53

Jayne Hardy W55 7.258kg 12.03

Jeanette Williamson W75 5.449kg 10.58

Raylea Rudov W75 5.449kg 7.48

Caroline Campbell W75 5.449kg 6.53

Standard Weight and Heavy weight Throws 29 June 2019

Name Age Gp Weight Dist

Ray Green M70 56lb 4.77

Peter Freeman M70 56lb 2.18

John Reynolds M75 56lb 4.23

Jayne Hardy W55 56lb 3.24

Jeanette Williamson W75 56lb 2.80

Name A Gp H Dst H Pts S Dst S Pts D Dst D Pts J Dst J Pts W Dst W Pts T Pts Shane Hutchison M45 17.08 211 6.3 341 18.87 324 27.08 323 5.92 282 1481

Steve Jordan M50 28.23 407 9.13 528 27.24 422 28.53 370 10.7 520 2247

Bob Banens M70 35.62 705 10.65 706 33.47 721 30.08 596 14.22 805 3533

Ray Green M70 32.3 626 9.93 650 30.84 653 18.75 320 12.07 664 2913

John Reynolds M75 26.78 580 7.78 539 26.52 624 16.07 305 11.22 665 2713

Suzie Gaynor W50 19.06 374 6.55 416 13.73 242 16.03 309 6.70 367 1708

Jayne Hardy W55 35.39 921 8.53 641 25.56 593 20.56 472 10.81 736 3363

Jan Banens W75 29.46 1060 7.64 793 13.94 463 9.99 341 10.69 796 3453

Caroline Campbell W75 14.14 423 5.41 524 8.64 253 8.98 297 5.86 382 1879

Monthly throws pentathlon and report 14 July 2019

I am not sure that the word ‘cold’ really covers the weather we had to throw in on Sunday 14th July. The weather was

supposed to be around 6 during the day but even though we started at 10am, the temperature was a chilly 3 degrees with

the wind chill factor taking it below 0 degrees! If we all could have thrown with our 4 - 5 layers

of clothing on, we would have, but it was not that easy. Our dearly beloved President attempted

the Discus with a blanket tied around his neck but as the wind was blowing the blanket across

his face, it was just rather funny to watch!

Nine members braved the weather conditions (4 women and 5 men) – it was good to see Steve

Jordan (M50) back at it, as he has been busy with his motorcycle racing. Ray Green (M70) trav-

elled down from Lake Macquarie to get some practice in before heading to the Oceania Champi-

onships in Mackay in September. Bob Banens (M70) is setting his sights on the Throws Pentath-

lon state record and he just missed it by 30 points today. He had the best throws in all the events

although Jan Banens (W75) scored the most points in an event with her Hammer Throw of

29.46m – 1060 points!

The weather really did impede us all at some point, but we finished with smiles on our faces

and ready to go places much warmer!! Full results are on the website.

Jayne Hardy Right: Shane Hutchison (Photo: Jayne Hardy)

Very Cold Day for Throwers in Canberra — 14 July 2019


KEN EYNON OAM: TALENTED DISTANCE RUNNER

AND ADMINISTRATOR

KEN EYNON, a member since 1984, was awarded an OAM “for services to athletics” in the recent Queen’s Birthday

Honours List. He is a talented long distance runner and ad-

ministrator but because of health issues within his family Ken

has not been around the Masters Athletics scene as much as

previously.

Until 2017 he was a regular participant at both our track

and field and monthly running handicap programs. Although

Ken made his debut in the monthly handicaps at the Long

Gully course in April 1985 it took him more than twenty-seven

years to complete his fiftieth which he did in August 2012. His

seventy-fourth and last handicap was at Goorooyarroo in Au-

gust 2017. This relatively low total is due to the many occa-

sions Ken was involved on Sunday mornings helping novice

runners achieve their goals to run either a half or a full mara-

thon.

Ken has enjoyed many excellent marathons and half mara-

thons as well as 10,000m and 5000m races on the track. Per-

haps his best marathon performance was a 2:37 in the 1986

Adelaide Festival City Marathon as an M40 but his most

memorable was the 1999 London Marathon. He is currently

ranked 12th and 17th on our all-time best M45 and M55 mar-

athon lists. Ken is a ‘Griffin’ having now run fourteen Can-

berra Marathons and in 2010 he became a ‘Bakker’ by com-

pleting his twenty-fifth ACT Veterans’ Half Marathon. His

run in the 2015 Vets’ Half was number thirty and only Bernie

Millett with thirty-four and Jim White with thirty completions

have run as many or more. In the 2001 event Ken was the

M55 champion.

Ken was race director of the first twenty Weston Creek

Half Marathons, several ACT Cross Country Club (CCC)

halves and both the 1997 and 2003 Australian Masters Games

Half Marathons. In 2015 he volunteered to organize the 34th

ACT Vets’ Half on a new course at Lake Ginninderra on the

proviso he could also participate as it would be his thirtieth

and thus would become the second ‘Millett’.

Ken has also been involved in organising many of the pop-

ular annual community fun runs; such as all the Terry Fox –

Canada Day events, several Women and Girls Fun Runs and

the Canberra Times Fun Run. In 1991 Ken was honoured with

Life Membership of the Weston Creek Athletics Club then

seven years later received the same distinction with the CCC.

In 2005 he was ACT Sport and Recreation Volunteer of the

Year.

AUSTRALIAN RECORD PASSES FROM CANBERRAN

TO CANBERRAN

On a cold, damp Sunday morning Shaun Creighton fin-

ished seventh outright in the Christchurch Marathon in the

excellent time of 2:30.22. More importantly to Shaun was that

he had at last broken the M50 Australian Record that had

been held by Peter Kallio for almost thirty-one and a half

years. In his own words Shaun said - “So pleased to get it done

in those BRUTAL conditions”

PETER KALLIO is one of our “Originals” having joined our club in its formative year 1979 and is one of only five who

have maintained continuous membership. Peter is now an

M80 and injuries have limited his athletics competitions to

participating in our monthly run/walk handicaps but in earli-

er years he was a champion distance runner with a long list of

notable achievements in cross-country, fun run, half marathon

and marathon races in which he won numerous titles and set

many age group records.

Peter is one of only a few members to have won a monthly

handicap long course event from the back mark. He has won

the Mullins Trophy and been ‘King of the Mountains’ as well

as being the year’s best performer with a score of more than

90% WMA age standards on four occasions.

But, it is in the longer road races that Peter really shone.

Peter’s achievements in the ACT Veterans’ Half Marathon are

simply outstanding; they are – twenty finishes for eighteen

age group victories and a second and third ranging from an

M45 in 1982 to an M75 in 2010. He won six best male perfor-

mance trophies (determined by WMA age standards) as well

as currently holding three of the top ten all-time best perfor-

mances and the M45 record.

In the marathon he has the ninth best local M40 perfor-

mance, is top M45 and because of Shaun’s recent effort he is

now runner-up on the M50 list. His most memorable perfor-

mance was winning the M50 gold medal, with an Australian

Record 2:30.52 in the marathon at the 1987 World Veterans’

Championships in Melbourne. This record stood for more than

three decades!

The cover of the September 2002 Vetrunner features a pho-

tograph of Peter and the beginning of his story How I trained

for that Marathon PB. Peter had turned 50 in August 1986

and decided to make the marathon at the 1987 World Veter-

ans’ Championships a realistic target to run 2:30 and be a

medallist. He said – “At the time I was able to regularly run

10km in 35 minutes, so I needed to put four such efforts togeth-

er in one event. …. I would gradually increase training dis-

tances and run every day all at the fastest pace at which I felt

comfortable …. and run two marathons.” (Continued page 19)

MEMBERS HONOURED IN JUNE

Photo courtesy of Tim Gavel and “riot Act” 14th June 2019

Peter Kallio with Carol on Mt. Ainslie at June Handicap


Travelogue from France

Continued from p.13

The big downer here is the number of smokers every-

where. If we do decide to have another go at finding that elu-

sive coffee or have a beer on a terrace we are very careful to

monitor the wind direction and make sure an outside table is

always upwind. Smoking is supposed to be banned inside

however I was served my beer last night by a barman with a

durry hanging from his bottom lip! There have been 100s of

outdoor venues we have passed up for a snack meal or drink

because we would have been sitting in a fog of cigarette or

‘vape’ smoke. Lung cancer rates must be through the roof!

Well that’s it for now. It is currently 4:00pm Thursday 20th

June, and we are 30 minutes away from arriving in Souillac

where we will locate our hotel which has the bikes and tour

guidance information await for us….well, that is what’s sup-

posed to happen anyway.

Until the next instalment, au revoir from France,

Craig & Jo

MEMBERS HONOURED IN JUNE

Alpe d'Huez - I made it! (photos: Craig Wisdom)

July 27th hammer and javelin 1.00pm start + non-handicap weight throw + 100lb

August 24th shot and discus 1.00pm start + non-handicap weight throw + 45lb

Sept 28th hammer and javelin 1.00pm start + non-handicap weight throw + 56lb

October 26th shot and discus 1.00pm start + non-handicap weight throw + 100lb

Nov 23rd hammer and javelin 1.00pm + annual presentations and Christmas function

July 14th 10.00am start

August 18th 10.00am start Heavy Weight Pentathlon

September 15th 10.00am start Oceania Throws Pentathlon Challenge

October 13th 9.00am start

November 17th 9.00am start Heavy Weight Pentathlon

December 15th 9.00am start

IMPORTANT DATES:

2019 Oceania Championships: Mackay QLD 31Aug – 7 Sept;

2019 AMA Winter Throws Championships: 5-7 Oct Wollongong NSW.

Throws Handicap Program Dates for 2019 (Jayne 0421 610 053)

Throws Pentathlon Dates for 2019 (Jayne 0421 610 053)

Continued from page 18

SHAUN CREIGHTON had enjoyed a distinguished ca-reer as a world-class middle distance runner having partici-

pated in two World Championships, four Commonwealth and

two Olympic Games (in Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000) prior

to joining our club.

Having turned 50 in 2017 Shaun immediately set about

smashing several ACT and Australian Records. At an ACT

Athletics meet at Woden in November he set a new M50 ACT

Record in the 3000m then in December set two new M50 Aus-

tralian Records - in the NSW Club Championships at the Syd-

ney Olympic Track where he ran 5000m in 15:34.71 lowering

the existing record by fifteen seconds and two weeks later in

Geelong he ran the 10,000m in 32:19.11 improving the AR by

35 seconds. These magnificent performances were recognized

when Shaun was announced as the recipient of the Distance

Category in the annual AMA Awards. He was runner-up in

the same category the following year.

In April 2018 Shaun finished tenth outright and first male

over 50 in the Canberra Marathon in the time of 2:47.24. In

August he easily won the M50 age group in the ACTMA /

AMA Half Marathon in 1:13.34 with a WMA age standard of

89.3% which is the third best all-time performance in the thir-

ty-eight year history of the event and a new M50 record.

Then on that June morning in Christchurch Shaun took

the Australian Record from Peter. Can Shaun run a quicker

marathon and will he be able to hold his record for as long as

Peter? (photo: Shaun on far right, photographer Tiona Kane)

Bryan Thomas


By Bryan Thomas

40 YEARS AGO (August 1979)

Ken Daniels and Peter Frylink produced a club newsletter that would shortly become Vetrunner.

Jack Pennington was our only representative at the 3rd World Veterans’ Athletics Championships in Hanover, Germany participating in the M55 800m, 1500m, 5000m and 10km cross-country. He won the bronze medal in the 1500m in the excellent time of 4:41.6 but unfortunately had to wait several months before being acknowledged as finishing third and receive his medal because a runner from Puerto Rico who won the race was later proven to be ineligible by being under age. Jack had also participated in the inaugural World Championships in Toronto in 1975.


M40 Geoff Moore, after a break of several years from running marathons, ran an excellent 2:33.40 in the Gold Coast Marathon. In the same race Mary Ann Busteed W40 finally broke the three hour barrier when she ran 2:59.32 to be 7th outright and 1st veteran woman.

The 9.3km Mt. Ainslie course, considered to be the toughest running handicap of the year and therefore the most challenging was won by Monty Momcilovic from a fast finishing Reg Johnson and Hans Kettniss. Geoff Moore and Mary Ann Busteed held their marathon fitness well and were fastest.


Bitterly cold conditions confronted our runners in this year’s Olympic Way Marathon from Junee to Wagga. A healthy contingent of members participated either as individuals and/or as part of one of eight teams of four. Our No.1 team of Mary Ann Busteed, Bob Lowry, Stuart Reid and John Richardson ran well and won the team’s trophy in a time of 3:05. Our other seven teams were chosen so as to be theoretically equal and therefore offer some exciting competition between them along the way. Individual marathon performances were by Peter Clarke 2:44, Mick Corlis 2:50, Chris Gamble 3:10 and Ernie Warner 3:33.

Mary Ann Busteed was 2nd W50 in the Sydney City to Surf while Des Brown M50, Dan Dawes M55, Judi Edwards W50 and Anne Young W60 all finished third in their respective age categories.

Despite having three regular participants in Europe 28 threw the shot and discus in the monthly throwing handicap. M70 newcomer Laurie Nolan was a surprised gold medallist from John Hunt and Peter Freeman.

A large field of 145 ran the 9.3km Mt Ainslie course in this month’s running handicap won by Deslie Kubitzsky from Bill Rendell and Ken White while the short course was won by John Parker from Marlene Reid and Gai Webster. John MacLeod was presented with his ‘150 handicaps’ T shirt and Cory Collins, Alan Duus and Gwen Gleeson earned their ‘50’.

Our 18th annual half marathon enjoyed its new spring date and start-finish at Stage 88. Age group winners – M30 Roy Daniell, M35 Peter James, M40 Neil Hamilton, M45 Trevor Jacobs (best male %), M50 Bob Harlow, M55 Doug Limbrick, M60 Peter Kallio, M65 Bob Chapman, M70 Michael Freer 1:49.45 (R), W30 Tracey Van Hoorn, W35 Carolyn Kramer, W40 Jenny Davies, W45 Annie Van Herck, W50 Mary Ann Busteed (best women’s %), W55 Suzanne Counsel, W60 Anne Young and W70 Gwen Gleeson. John Bakker had now completed all eighteen halves.


As part of our 30th anniversary celebrations a facsimile of the inaugural Canberra Veterans AA Club News Sheet was published in this month’s Vetrunner.

Bob Chapman enjoyed a five week “purple patch”. In late July he easily won the M75 category in the Gold

Coast Half Marathon then he smashed his age group record in the 28th ACT Vets’ Half Marathon. Age group winners in the Vets’ Half were – M30 Alex Miller, M35 Craig Benson, M40 Laurie Cullen 1:17.37 (fastest), M45 Greg Regester, M50 Geoff Hawke, M55 David Webster, M60 Kent Williams 1:27.16 (85.6% best male performance), M65 Bernie Millett, M70 Ray Bramwell, M75 Bob Chapman 1:51.54 (R) and M80 Rad Leovic; W30 Renee Hiskings, W35 Symeko Jochinke 1:29.18 (fastest woman), W40 Claudine Galvin, W45 Andina Faragher, W50 Cathy Crompton 1:37.08 (77.8% best female performance), W55 Cathy Montalto, W60 Rae Palmer, W65 Caroline Campbell, W70 Anne Young and W75 Joan Mallory.

By completing this year’s half marathon Bernie Millett became the leader on the list of most runs with 26. Jim White became the newest member of the ‘Legends’ who have run 20 or more. Ray Bramwell, Ian Kenny, Robyn McClelland and Craig Wisdom earned their ‘Survivors’ T shirts by completing their tenth Vets’ Half.

Mt Ainslie was the venue for the run/walk handicap. The long course was won by George Hanzar from Brian Wenn and Elle Knight (photo bottom right). Cilla Chapman won the Frylink event ahead of Chris Lawrence and Stuart Reid while Narelle Brownette won the Waddell walk handicap from Peter Hogan and Sylvia Mackay. After receiving his ‘150 handicaps’ T shirt Alan Mallory commented that he was now a member of the first family to complete more than 500 handicaps – this was his 150th, mother Joan had run 204 and father Al 150; therefore 150 + 204 + 150 = 504.”

A colourfully clad Claire Perry received her ’50 handicaps’ T shirt at this month’s throwing handicap. Claire joins a select group of members who have completed 50 or more in both monthly handicap programs. This month’s handicap, incorporating shot put and discus, was won by Ray Chambers from Mary Wahren and Chris Yardley. Mary extended her own W75 ACT Record in the optional heavy weight throw while M65 Ray Green and W70 Nola de Chazal also set records by heaving the 56lb ultra heavy weight 4.18m and 1.42m respectively.

Despite the global recession, affecting much of the world at the time, the 18th WMA Championships in Lahti, Finland still attracted 5250 participants from 80 countries. Five members participated in Lahti. The most successful was W60 Margaret Taylor who won gold in both the triple and high jump and silver in the long jump.W65 Caroline Campbell ran all the long distance events including the marathon. Brad Osborn finished sixth in the M35 decathlon, John Morton made the final of the M50 1500m while M40 Ken Telfer made the quarter finals of all three sprints. The WMA General Assembly, held in conjunction with the championships, was an historic occasion for after having made several unsuccessful attempts, an Australian

Stan Perkins (photo below left), had finally been elected president of our international association.

Bryan Thomas

The Way We Were: August 2019


ACTMA events are shown in bold, other events are run by different organisations. Please check with organisers to confirm details, especially for non-ACTMA events.

July 2019 Sat 27 July Throwing Handicap, 1pm

Sun 28 July Run/Walk Handicap, 9am, Little Black Mt. Sat and Sun Bush Capital Marathon Festival

August 2019 Sat 3 Aug YMCA Longstaff/Pennington, Stromlo Forest Park

Sun 4 Women’s and Girls’ Jogalong, Weston Park

Tues 6 ACTMA social dinner Labor Club, Stirling Sat/Sun 10/11 AACT Stromlo 3/5km

Sun 11 City to Surf Sydney 14km

AMA 20k Road walk Championships Adelaide Sat 17 YMCA Ginninderra Diddams Close, Belconnen

Sun 18 Throws Pentathlon, 10am

Sat 24 Throwing Handicap, 1pm

Sun 25 Run/Walk handicap, 9am Coombs Molonglo Sat/Sun 31/8 and 1/09 Oceania Masters T&F, Mackay

September 2019 Sun 1 Women’s and Girls’ Jogalong, Weston Park

Tue 3 ACTMA social dinner; La Piazza Erindale Sun 22 Canberra Times Fun Run

Sat 28 Throwing Handicap, 1pm YMCA, Goorooyaroo Off Road Half Marathon

Sun 29 Run/Walk handicap, 9am O’Connor Ridge

Oct 2019 Fri - Sun 5 to 7 AMA Winter Throws Championship, Wollongong

Sun 6 Women’s and Girls’ Jogalong, Weston Park Sun 13 Throws Pentathlon

Sat 26 Throwing handicap 1.00pm

Sun 27 Run/Walk handicap, 9am Ainslie Woodlands

ACTMA General Committee Meetings monthly on the second

Wednesday of the month at Belconnen Soccer Club, Belconnen

Way, Hawker at 7.00pm. Contact Secretary Nigel England:

[email protected]

ACTMA Monthly Weight Pentathlons at 9am at Masson Street, Turner Contact Jayne Hardy 0421 610 053.

Customs Joggers meet every Friday at Stage 88 in Commonwealth Park at 12.15pm. Mike Stracey 6258 8756

Lake Tuggeranong Stakes every Tuesday on the lake edge near KFC at 12.20pm. Peter Thomson 0407 702 683

BBQ Stakes Handicap every Wednesday from the Senior Citizens Club in Woden at 12.10pm. Adrian Plunkett 6283 2388.

YCRC Women’s and Girls Jogalong at Weston Park on the first Sunday of the month at 9am (8am in summer).

Lake Ginninderra Handicap, last Tuesday of the month, from

outside the Lighthouse Bar at 12.20pm. Simon Wall 0404 859 404.

Mount Ainslie Run Up, first Tuesday from Treloar Crescent

behind the War Memorial at 12.45pm. John Harding 6244 1153.

Black Mountain Run Up, held on the third Tuesday at 12.45pm, Clunies

Ross St, 100m south of Botanic Gardens Entrance. John Harding 6248 6905.

Parkrun 5k run or walk held at various locations around Canberra

including Weston Park, Lake Ginninderra, Tuggeranong, Coombs, Ainslie & Queanbeyan every Saturday at 8 AM.

Calendars

Join a Training Group: Improve Your Fitness Coaching and Training groups

Groups of Masters athletes conduct training sessions around

Canberra. To train with any one of the groups you should contact

the group coordinator listed. It’s always fun to train with others, to

share skills and knowledge. Runners, throwers, jumpers and

walkers of all levels are welcome. As a member of our club

participating in events out of normal hours the level of

public liability insurance varies, see below for details.

Accredited Coaches Training Groups

These groups are led by an Athletics Australia accredited coach. All

ACTMA member athletes and accredited coaches are covered by our

club’s public liability insurance.

Val Chesterton: Strength, speed & general fitness for

runners, jumpers & walkers, Calwell Playing Fields, Fridays 9am,

8.30am in summer. 6292 8994.

Non - Accredited Coaches and Training Groups

These groups are led by a group coordinator (trainer) who will train with you

but is not an Athletics Australia accredited coach. All ACTMA member

athletes are covered by our club’s public liability insurance but not

the trainer.

Fran Harris: Strength, sprints and hurdles training at the AIS track.

6230 2341 (h)

John Hunt: Jumps. Sundays, 11:00am at the AIS track. 6241 9392 (h)

Geoff Moore: Distance interval training. Mondays 5:30pm, Parliament

House underground carpark.

Greg Stretton: Middle distance training. Sundays except long weekends,

9.00am, Grammar School, corner of Mugga Way / Flinders Way. 6295 8474

(h), 6257 6127 (w) .

‘Tuesday group’: long distance running and walking. Tuesdays

9:00am at Black Mountain Peninsula.

Upcoming Athletics Competitions

• AMA 20km Roadwalk Championships 11 Aug 2019.

• OMA Championships 31 Aug to 7 Sep, Mackay QLD .

• AMA Winter Throws Championships 5 to 7 Oct 2019,

Wollongong.

• AMA T & F Championships Brisbane 10 to 13 April, 2020

• Games of the XXXII Olympiad 24 July to 9 Aug 2020,

Tokyo.

• WMA Outdoor Championships 20 July to 1 Aug 2020,

Toronto, Canada.

• OMA Championships - Provisional dates: 17-23 Jan,

2021 Norfolk Island.

• AMA Track and Field Championships in Canberra in 2021.

• WMA Indoor Championships 6-13 April, 2021 Edmonton,

Canada.

• Birmingham Commonwealth Games 27 July to 7 Aug 2022.

• WMA Outdoor Championships - 17 to 27 Aug, 2022.

John Reynolds at the Monthly Throwing Handicap

(Photo; Jayne Hardy)

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WANTED

New sub-committee members

The Run-Walk Sub-Committee needs you!

The Run/Walk Handicap Sub-Committee is looking for new members. Do you like organising things? Having a say and setting a course for the future – then the Run/Walk Sub-Committee needs you!

The sub-committee leads and makes the decisions for the run/walk handicap events which include the Waddell, Frylink and Thomas series.

At the end of the year, six sub-committee members are stepping down after more than ten years of service setting the courses for the popular end-of- month events.

Sub-Committee activities include:

• planning the courses • gaining approval from ACT Parks for the course • arranging for keys to access the course/toilets • coordinating/managing volunteers for each event • preparing the member start lists • timing each event with the new electronic timing equipment • determining place getters and awarding medals • finalising results and managing handicaps • publishing results to the website, Vetrunner and The Canberra Times.

The sub-committee meets once a month after each handicap to calibrate results and plan for the next month’s event. Without this sub-committee there would not be run/walk handicap events.

If you would like to know more about this pivotal sub-committee, please contact

Robbie Costmeyer to discuss: [email protected]

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