TonyFriday April 14. A highlight was Tony Booth's bronze medal in the 800m. The guy who ran fourth passed Tony with 300m to go but Tony didn't let him get away. We who were watching knew what was going to happen, but the margin confounded all predictions. Tony passed him again with 100m to go and finished 11 seconds ahead! Talk about demoralising your opponents!
10000m
W30 1 Jeni Greenland 46:02.27 gold
W55 1 Margaret McSpadden 56:58.70 gold
M55 2 Geoff Moore 44:16.57 silver
800m
W40 4 Katie Forestier 2:45.89 pb
W45 1 Kathy Southgate 2:34.59 gold
W50 1 Maria O'Reilly 2:48.55 gold
W50 2 Kathy Sims 2:56.35 silver
W55 2 Maureen Rossiter 2:47.03 silver ACT record
M40 4 Colin Farlow 2:09.31
M55 6 Kevin Chamberlain 2:27.28
M65 3 Tony Booth 2:49.16 bronze
Long Jump
W45 4 Vicki Matthews 4.10m
M45 3 Kev Matthews 5.26m bronze
Fantastic Results. Well done everybody. Still three more days of competition to go!
I rounded off the day by giving a talk (which I will publish here later) at the coaches forum, and then attended the Easter Service which followed. All good! A special thanks to Kathy Southgate for being my support at the forum; one friendly face was better than none. Although of course Christopher was there but in an official capacity, and it was good to catch up with Dana whom we have known from when she was very little! Last night I didn't realise Dana was engaged; the notice is in today's Canberra Times newspaper. I will congratulate Dana's parents Kent and Lynn when I see them next.
