Saturday 3 October 2009

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Posted by speedygeoff on Saturday, October 03, 2009 with
Thursday night track performances.
Craig Davis ran his first ever track 3000m. Bronwyn Calver ran her first track races in the W40 age group.

Injury free at last
I was pleased with what was essentially a tempo run in the 3000m, just over 4 minutes for each km running easy. And I declare myself injury free at last! It was good to see many of the speedygeese competing on what was a surprisingly good night considering the time of year. Well done John Lamb for arranging such pleasant weather.

In the 3000m, excellent performances by Caroline Campbell in the W60 age group, and Maria O’Reilly in the W50s.

3000m
M35 Troy Steinman 11:34.8 65.5%
W40 Katie Forestier 11:47.9 76.3
M55 Ken White 11:55.1 73.3
M60 Geoff Moore 12:10.5 75.6
M50 Roger Pilkington 12:17.4 68.2
W40 Nadine Thomlinson 12:18.7 71.1
M40 Brett Morrison 12:49.2 61.0
W40 Amanda Walker 12:55.9 68.2
M50 Ewen Thompson 13:03.8 65.2
M40 Craig Davis 13:14.5 58.6
W50 Maria O'Reilly 13:18.8 77.6
W40 Bronwyn Calver 13:26.6 65.1
M70 Tony Booth 13:57.3 72.7
W30 Jodie Sims 14:09.0 59.3
W55 Cathy Montalto 14:10.8 75.9
W65 Caroline Campbell 15:22.4 81.4
W60 Margaret McSpadden 16:36.0 69.7

In the 1500m, an excellent performance by Kathy Sims in the W55 age group

1500m
M55 2293 Ken White 5:27.69 76.8%
W40 4263 Katie Forestier 5:37.03 75.4
M50 2167 Roger Pilkington 5:47.17 69.4
W40 4084 Amanda Walker 5:48.43 71.3
W40 5288 Nadine Thomlinson 5:54.4 69.3
M40 5290 Brett Morrison 5:55.3 62.4
W55 3603 Kathy Sims 6:04.5 84.5
W40 4383 Bronwyn Calver 6:17.2 65.2
M70 1044 Tony Booth 6:17.2 76.7

No speedygeese ran in the 400m. Some common sense is prevailing!

Training at Stromlo Forest Park
I turned up this morning in the very light rain and so did Janene and Heidi. See "Happy Speedygeese not at Vets track" below. It was their first visit to Stromlo and were rather impressed by the fact that an Australian cycling championship was in progress there while we were training. We ran our 3 x 1k on the grass circuit, Janene using the session as tempo training before her Melbourne marathon just one week away, running about 4:30s, I averaged 4:02, and Heidi 4:08.  We will continue meeting there 9am every Saturday morning and hope a few more start coming along.

Maps of training venues, including the Stromlo one, appear in the "venues" link in the sub-heading at the top of this page.

So, good luck Janene in the Melbourne marathon, you will tweet us at 25k, won't you? And say hello to Ewen who is running the half.

Daughter and mother

Three generations actually. Jodie and Kathy in the foreground both competed on the track, and that's Alex running away in the background

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Hurrah! Stromlo speedwork is back in the program.