The speedygeese Calendar of Events

Monday & Thursday training venue: see "About Parliament House".
**=I plan to attend.

Mon 21/08	4:15pm	**speedygeese  early run @ Parliament House.
	5:30pm	**speedygeese hills @ Parliament House.
Tue 22/08	12:25pm	Lake Tuggeranong 6k.
Wed 23/08	12:10pm	BBQ Stakes 6k @ Woden.
Thu 24/08	4:15pm	**speedygeese  early run @ Parliament House.
	5:30pm	**speedygeese intervals @ Parliament House.
Fri 25/08	12:15pm	Customs 5k @ Commonwealth Park.
Sat 26/08	8:00am	5k parkruns many venues. **Ginninderra
	12:45pm	YCRC Hackett 6k
Sun 27/08	7:30am	**speedygeese on grass @ Stromlo Forest Park
	8:00am	speedygeese long trail run venue TBA.
	9:00am	ACTMA Handicap @ Goorooyarroo

Speedygeese training summary

A small group met at Parliament House on Thursday to run some longer intervals... and on Sunday I ran at Stromlo Forest Park... I am not sure why numbers are down this year? Back at Parliament House, Monday’s training saw Bronwyn, Pieta, Kim and Isaac run some killer hills …. We may move away from the hills next week as there is more daylight now and we will be able to use some of the trails away from the road.

Sunday’s report from the long trail run group follows! Written by Jen.
I'm writing up a rather brief speedygeese long run report for Sundays run. David Clarke appears to be worn out from writing the last one that involved three individual reports to cover the run.
Plus watching his family doing most of the packing for his recent move was most exhausting for him!!!
Last Sundays speedy geese long run involved practicing leg 1 of the sri chinmoy 104 relay. (Minus the first boring flat part).
After a few logistic hiccups around car transport (created by Dave's last minute decision to meet at the end of the run rather the beginning which destroyed Mhairi's hours and hours of planning as we then didn't account for enough car space for all our bottoms) ...we sorted everything out again and all was going smoothly until - Dave arrived late!!... this however is a regular occurrence...
Mhairi ("Vari" for those struggling with this Scottish name) had accounted for this high probability occurrence and so we still got to Red Hill on time 😊 (and Isaac got a free hot chocolate for Dave's penance)
The run itself went amazingly smoothly. Not one single wrong turn!
Adrian reminded up to stop and enjoy the views (I don't need to be asked twice to stop and rest 😂)
Lots of lovely views too - top of Red Hill, Isaacs ridge and finally Mount Taylor.
Most of us ran around 19k (Kerron, Adrian, Sandeep, Mhairi) ... Narelle rounded up to 20k (potentially Adrian did the same) and Thach ran a huge 36k after running to the start from home and then ran back to home from mount taylor.
Isaac ran approximately 12k - one will never know exactly how far he runs - he rarely uploads to Strava. Apparently put off by some Strava nutters he knows (not sure who this could be - perhaps some school friends ???)
Finally Dave ran 10k - mainly by himself. Supposedly due to sore legs (personally I think he is petrified by the tunnel we had to crawl through to get to Isaacs from Red hill)
Well my run report wasn't so brief after all.
##Special thanks to Dave for his 5 star uber collection of Isaac (Dave maybe a good opportunity to provide your mobile now to potential clients while you have this 5 ⭐️ rating -just in case it doesn't last... when a few disgruntled clients get a lovely tour of Canberra rather than the 10 minute trip they envisioned due to a small amount of "exploring" from you)
And for Tim Craig who provided us with a lovely big smile at the end of the run and gave anyone who needed a lift back to Red hill and super big thank you!!

All the recent speedygeese race results

AMRA Black Mountain Run-up 2.6k 15 August
9 finishers

Lake Tuggeranong Stakes 6k 15 August
5. Warrick Howieson 33:33
6. Sandeep Chandra 30:11
7. Peter Thomson 29:11
8. Roger Pilkington 33:33
10. Ewen Thompson 38:16
11 finishers

Customs 5k 18 August
1 Ewen Thompson 26:59
10 Peter Thomson 24:03
14 Craig Wurtz 24:49
17 Caroline Campbell 46:10
17 finishers

Burley Griffin 5k parkrun #63 19 August
26 Amanda Cook 21:21 W35 **New PB**
34 Craig Wurtz 21:51 M50
99 Elizabeth Bennett 28:34 W50
149 Caroline Campbell 36:40 W75
169 finishers

Ginninderra 5k parkrun #276 19 August
31 Geoff Moore 24:03 M65
43 Jill Pearson 25:31 W55
126 Bron Sparkes 38:56 W40
158 finishers

Tuggeranong 5k parkrun #235 19 August
27 David Clarke 22:35 M55
34 Bronwyn Calver 23:26 W45
69 Kerron Clare 27:07 W50
122 Terrie Paul 33:21 W45
123 Andrew Smith 33:22 M45
193 Peter Thomson 58:56 M55
194 finishers

Gungahlin 5k parkrun #201 19 August
8 Giles Lamb 19:51 M40
63 Brendan Belcher 25:45 M35
183 finishers

Queanbeyan 5k parkrun #17 19 August
3 Jacob Miller 22:01 M11
7 Kevin Miller 24:33 M35
11 Chloe Miller 25:04 W10
16 Celina Miller 26:07 W35
50 finishers

Batemans Bay 5k parkrun #68 19 August
31 finishers

Same Overall Theme

Song of the Week: "Same Overall Theme", by Hungry. At https://youtu.be/STfaP6DBzWw

My daughter Mon is on keys and backing vocals.
Both can be heard clearly on this track from "White Water Emotions".

Today's speedygeese trail running

Many more photos on the Messenger stream.

snow on Canberra's hills

(but we still all went and ran parkrun this morning)


Photo by Bronwyn

Waiting Game

It's a Simon’s Cat; at https://youtu.be/TayIfVa0QPs

Speedygeese training summary

Thursday 10 August: At Parliament House, present were Isaac, Jen, Jennie, Giles, Brownie, Susan, Brendan and I. We ran a 1200m fast, followed by 15 minutes or so of intervals on the grass oval (200m fast/slow)

On Sunday 13 August I managed to run 8k unaccompanied at Stromlo Forest Park.

Also on Sunday 13 August the distance group reported: [Bron] At 8:03 Mhairi spun her wheels into the CISAC carpark. At 8:04 14 of us headed out. The beginning of the run took us up a walking path, with a round about which confused poor Giles, having him think he had taken a wrong turn 300m in to our run. We all reconnected and trudged up to the top of Gossan Hill to the pyramid of rocks.
After that we took an unofficial shortcut along Radford Trails to Heydon Drive. A quick game of frogger across the VERY busy Canberra road took us to the Calvary walking track and beyond.
Running past the AIS track (cause this was a long slow run, not track work) we headed to the perimeter of Bruce ridge and made it to O'Conner Ridge. A long loop on a mix of fire trails and single track, with some hills, took us back to Bruce Ridge. Susan took her leave at this point and made her way back to CISAC, likely to have finished up with 12-13km.
The remaining 13 headed around Bruce Ridge, past the caravan park and onto Belconnen Way for some more Frogger fun.
A couple of loops, hills and cross country bush bashing around Little Black Mountain and we were all on the home stretch.
Aranda, with its hills and power lines made sure those who can run downhill quickly caught up to our speedier geese! 😂
A run over the footbridge over Belconnen Way put us on a path back to CISAC and gave us all 22-23km all up. 500m vert.

Finally on Monday 14 August at Parliament House, Bronwyn and I ran an early 10k, then I supervised a session of 2 x 400m along the western grass followed by about 10 x 200m intervals on the small oval. Participating were Paul, Kim, Pieta, Sandeep and Rae.

Bronwyn and I running early at Monday's speedygeese.
https://video.relive.cc/5556572311_strava_1502701332716.mp4?x-ref=og

Mhairi on the run

Recent speedygeese race results

BBQ Stakes 6k 02 August
15. Jodie Davis 45:20
19. Peter Thomson 27:44
32. Caroline Campbell 39:11
33. Andrew Simpson 28:13
34. Ewen Thompson 41:15
36. Bronwyn Calver 30:26
41. Craig Wurtz 29:12
43. Roger Pilkington 32:21
63 finishers

YCRC Dunrossil Drive 4.2k 05 August
14. Rohan Pitchford M50 17:50
19. Craig Wurtz M50 19:04
25. Ewen Thompson M60 23:27
26. Caroline Campbell W75 25:35
27 finishers

Lake Tuggeranong Stakes 6k 08 August
2. Warrick Howieson 31:32
11. Peter Thomson 29:07
13. Ewen Thompson 40:38
13 finishers

BBQ Stakes 6k 09 August
12. Ewen Thompson 46:08
13. Peter Thomson 27:47
14. Craig Wurtz 28:05
20. Jodie Davis 45:53
26. Bronwyn Calver 29:53
54 finishers

Customs 5k 11 August
6 Peter Thomson 23:04
11 Ewen Thompson 31:21
13 finishers

Burley Griffin 5k parkrun #62 12 August
17 Craig Wurtz 21:43 M50
44 Kelley Horan 24:16 W55
136 finishers

Ginninderra 5k parkrun #275 12 August
35 Bron Sparkes 24:58 W40
44 Roger Pilkington 25:48 M55
75 Brendan Belcher 29:30 M35
79 Ruth Baussmann 30:14 W65
110 Helen Way 37:47 W50
149 finishers

Tuggeranong 5k parkrun #234 12 August
20 Thach Huynh 21:48 M40 **New PB**
33 Shane Wright 23:13 M45
45 Peter Thomson 24:36 M55
62 David Clarke 26:08 M55
195 finishers

Gungahlin 5k parkrun #200 12 August
24 Nadine Morrison 23:15 W45
86 Margaret McSpadden 31:00 W70
158 finishers

Queanbeyan 5k parkrun #16 12 August
3 Giles Lamb 22:37 M40
16 Vanessa Palmer 29:52 W45
18 Rae Palmer 31:04 W70
25 William Arthur 33:33 M65
52 finishers

Batemans Bay 5k parkrun #67 12 August
32 finishers

YCRC Black Mountain Peninsula 8k 12 August
12 finishers

YCRC Black Mountain Peninsula 4k 12 August
3. Rohan Pitchford M50 17:18
13 finishers

Familiar faces at the Queanbeyan parkrun