Coming speedygeese events

Thu 26/04	5:30pm	Interval training @ Parliament House.
Sun 29/04	8:00am	10.5k or 17.5k, from Hall, One Tree Hill++
		https://www.strava.com/routes/12820420
Mon 30/04	5:30pm	Interval training @ Parliament House.
Thu 03/05	5:30pm	Interval training @ Parliament House.
Sun 06/05	8:00am	Trail run TBA
Mon 07/05		"Special Event", training cancelled!
Thu 10/05	5:30pm	Interval training @ Parliament House.

YCRC News

First up we have the Kingston Physio West Basin 10 mile (16.1 km) event at 7.30 am on Saturday 28 April. This is a great lead up race for those aiming for the YCRC Half Marathon, as well as a good opportunity to run an iconic distance along a scenic course. In addition, Craig Wisdom from Kingston Physio provides a great range of prizes for this event, including barrel draws. So make sure you come along to have a run for a chance to win, and to get your first points in the winter pointscore series.

Our winter series events need volunteers to help with jobs like timing, marshaling and recording. These roles are not complicated or arduous, but our events can't happen without them. If you can help out at any of our winter series races, please contact Dave Osmond at davo.osmond@gmail.com.

Early bird entries for the Half Marathon close on 30 April, so get in now to save yourself $20! Registration is at https://www.registernow.com.au/secure/Register.aspx?E=28434

We also need volunteers for the Half Marathon weekend (26 and 27 May). A variety of roles are available, including setup, pack up, drink stations and marshaling. Experienced runners of any speed can volunteer to be a pacer and get free entry.

Timeslots are:

• Saturday set-up - from 10am for a couple of hours
• Saturday races- from 1pm for a couple of hours
• Sunday half- from 7.30 onwards until the race finishes

We will have free snacks and free coffee for volunteers on the Sunday, and there are some gift vouchers just for volunteers who work on either day that will be drawn on the Sunday.

If you can help out, please contact the volunteer co-ordinator, Kat Knope (kat.knope@gmail.com) and mention what time/day you are available, and what you would like to do, if you have a preference. If you’re volunteering as pacer, mention know what time you’re interested in doing.

The Women and Girls’ Jogalong will continue on Sunday 6 May starting at 9.00am.There will be a slight change of check in procedures, to ensure all runners are registered correctly before the event. All members running in the 3k and 6k events will need to get their names checked off the lists at the registration tables. Then 3k runners, and new or returning runners who need a handicap will then go to the respective tables for these activities. If you think you are a member and your name is not on the list we will ask you to complete a one-day registration form, but not charge you the registration fee (we have had a few cases where names have been incorrectly recorded on the membership system).

A reminder that we are still looking for someone to take on the role of preparing the Jogalong Jottings. If we can’t fill this position, we may have to move to an electronic only version. If you are able to help out, contact Lucy Jones at Lucy.Jones@abs.gov.au or Annemarie Calnan at annemariecalnan@icloud.com. 

And finally, please take the time to register your vote for the YCRC’s Dave Osmond in the ACT Volunteer of the Year awards. Dave is the quiet achiever behind most of our Club events (and has been for many years) as well as being our Treasurer and taking on several other roles. A lot of Club operations wouldn’t happen without his many hours of effort. So say thank you to Dave and go to http://vc-act.org.au/ before voting closes on 29 April (click on the ‘Vote Here’ button at the top of the page).

Upcoming events

• 7.30 am Saturday 28 April – Kingston Physio West Basin 10 mile at Black Mountain Peninsula
• 12.45 pm Saturday 5 May – North Lyneham 2/3.1/6.2 km at Salkaukus Cr, North Lyneham
• 9.00 am Sunday 6 May – Jogalong 1.6/3/6km at Weston Park
• 12.45 pm Saturday 19 May - Stromlo Forest Park 2/4/6 km
• 2.00 pm Saturday 26 May - YMCA Canberra Half Marathon Eve 2/5 km, Lennox Gardens, Flynn Drive, Yarralumla
• 8.00 am Sunday 27 May - YMCA Canberra Half Marathon, Lennox Gardens, Flynn Drive, Yarralumla

All the recent speedygeese race results

YCRC Women's 6k Jogalong 1 April
20. Kathy Sims W65 30:04
29. Caroline Campbell W75 36:54
43. Nadine Morrison W45 30:14
55 finishers

Lake Tuggeranong Stakes 6k 17 April
3. Ewen Thompson 37:33
5. Carolyne Kramar 48:12
6. Roger Pilkington 41:16
10. Ricky Somerville 33:07
11. Michael Thomson 31:43
12. Peter Thomson 31:14
13 finishers

AMRA Black Mountain Run-up 2.6k 17 April
11 Craig Wurtz 18.28
11 finishers

Customs Joggers 5k 20 April
1 James O'Neill 24:37
2 Peter Thomson 23:49
3 Roger Pilkington 29:24
11 Craig Wurtz 24:34
12 Ewen Thompson 33:24
14 Giles Lamb 21:49
16 Yili Zhu 23:48
17 Bill Arthur 30:25
20 Carolyne Kramar 53:03
20 finishers

Ginninderra 5k parkrun #310 21 April
19 Gavin Mongan 21:18 M35
27 William Barlow 21:56 M35
54 Kevin Miller 24:39 M40
55 Chloe Miller 24:40 W11
65 Jacob Miller 25:13 M11
66 Celina Miller 25:14 W35
68 David Baussmann 25:20 M65
84 Brendan Belcher 26:36 M35
88 Geoff Moore 27:00 M65
107 Roger Pilkington 28:11 M55
109 Jack Simpson 28:19 M10 **New PB**
110 Andrew Simpson 28:19 M45
204 Yelena Pearson 36:02 W35
214 Alyssa Quarmby 37:42 W11 **First Timer**
215 Jennie Blake 37:42 W60
269 Cathy Newman 50:34 W55
297 finishers

Tuggeranong 5k parkrun #269 21 April
30 James O'Neill 22:55 M50
60 Jason Lewis 24:07 M40
102 Chris Gammon 26:00 M55
120 Bronwyn Calver 27:11 W45
158 Ewen Thompson 29:27 M60
354 finishers

Gungahlin 5k parkrun #238 21 April
13 Giles Lamb 20:30 M40
35 Nadine Morrison 22:37 W45
90 Lisa McDonald 26:44 W40 **New PB**
147 William Arthur 30:10 M65
172 Margaret McSpadden 31:46 W70
330 finishers

Burley Griffin 5k parkrun #98 21 April
30 Craig Wurtz 22:00 M50
56 Kelley Horan 23:49 W55
242 Carolyne Kramar 47:37 W50
251 finishers

Coombs 5k parkrun #6 21 April
35 Pieta Smith 24:52 W40
95 Andrew Smith 31:33 M45
137 finishers

Queanbeyan 5k parkrun #51 21 April
1 Bernardo Palma 19:15 M30
14 Amanda Cook 26:10 W40
15 Helen Northey 27:09 W40 **New PB**
87 finishers

Goulburn 5k parkrun #111 21 April
154 finishers

Batemans Bay 5k parkrun #103 21 April
42 Victoria Hennig 28:20 W55
68 finishers

Cooks River 5k parkrun #171 21 April
7 David Clarke 20:53 M55
123 finishers


I assume this is not part of the new Mount Ainslie parkrun course?!

... then we take Berlin

There is something about this videoclip that I find very haunting.

Song of the Week "First We Take Manhattan" by Leonard Cohen.
From https://youtu.be/JTTC_fD598A

Ginninderra parkrun speedygeese photos

David (25:20) parkrun #100


Me (27:00) first parkrun with a new beard - and last as an M65-69


Chloe (24:40) enjoying an "easy run"


William (21:56) with his new speedygeese singlet - brand new that morning

Bounding out of bed - notes for a longer article

Priorities
Goal setting
All-of-life changes not only physically but also spiritually, mentally, emotionally, relationally.

Establishing priority and organising time are part and parcel of the life of a runner.

The importance of dreaming, planning, committing, and doing.

Dreaming – what do you want to be doing in 5, 10, 20 years’ time?
Set some long term goals.
Be excited about getting up each day and doing something to progress.

Planning - A long “list of things to do” which will never run out, so...
Spend a little time planning to make sure the important things get done.

Committing – consistency, communication, commitment are the three “Cs”, on the path to fulfilling our dreams.
Recently “common sense” was a "C" when I couldn’t remember that “Communication” was one of them.

Doing – Involve other people, act as a group.
Team-work is the secret behind accomplishing our goals.
When it’s not just you but many others participating in your activity, you will bound out of bed in the morning looking forward to your day.

This week’s speedygeese training sessions

Sunday 15 April long run report [Jen] On a miserable windy cold Sunday morning - it was of course the Canberra marathon weekend.
A few of us gathered for an unofficial run at 7am at Cooleman ridge.
(While many geese had already set off in flight in their various races at the Australian running festival)
The night before it had been established that a mysterious person had infiltrated our running discussion message group.
Other than discovering she had been impersonating a well-known runner in Canberra we haven’t yet discovered how she came to be there.
With this mystery still in the air we arrived with a big shock - it was 7am and where was Helen!!
She said she was coming??? So we searched high and low - literally in the bushes, under the car... with no success 😟.
It was becoming more and more like an Agatha Christie novel - eerie weather.... strange people appearing in weird places. And other people disappearing in thin air!
We were just about to set off when someone cried “where is Dave!!!!”
Apparently Thach had just found Dave in his car with his head hunched over the steering wheel. Thach declared that Dave looked like he was dead 😱 😱... oh no now we have a body 😳 😳.
They say runners always find the body 😬 😬.
Luckily for us, it was discovered that Thach just didn’t care enough about Dave to investigate any further and that Dave was just have a rather early nanna nap (wonder if this has anything to do with impending 60th birthday next month?)
Finally to continue the theme of missing or weird behaviour - we set off 5 minutes late after coaxing Dave from his cosy nook in his car to discover that he went AWOL after only one kilometre.
He stated later that 3.8 kilometres was a befitting long run for his poor old, sore, tired, cold body.
Anyhow after that rather long introduction here are the facts and stats:
Sarah, Shiree, Thach did around 30ks around Cooleman and beyond
Warrick, Pieta, Isaac and I did 10k. (With Warrick doing a further 9k, Pieta and I another 12k - supporting people at the run festival)

[Edit: for running festival results see last Tuesday's post]

Monday 16 April at Parliament House: 10 x 100m hills, leg speed emphasised, then followed by 10 x 200m top>bottom>top of hill. Pretty much exhausted by the session were Bernado, Jen, Isaac, Bron, Dom, Pieta, Ricky, Tori, Craig, Warrick, Dave, someone else as I was sure there were 12? I supervised and Christopher was seen in the vicinity. Who lost their parking ticket? What other person rode their bicycle through the entry gates? Did he manage to get a new parking ticket?

Thursday 19 April: Speedygeese at Parliament house tonight doing 5x 600 (300) + 300 were Jen, Isaac, Dave, Brendan, Craig, Ricky and me supervising after an early 5k jog.


Everyone was puffin after Monday night's exhausting hill session.

A Blackadder Special I didn't know existed!

From https://youtu.be/_SXf9-Z3jwk

actual mileage may vary