Sunday 22 October Speedygeese long run report [Dave]:
"If you blinked this weekend you would have missed them. Flashes of feathers were reportedly sighted throughout our beautiful city as Speedy Geese flew past various finish lines. The gaggle was dispersed from the far northern reaches of Gungahlin and Ginninderra parkruns, through to the Bush Capital running festival at Campbell and Burley Griffin parkrun, down to the deep south of Mt Tennent. With another sunny, but not too hot, Spring weekend what else would you want to do? CANBERRA WAS HONKING!! 😁
The weekend kicked off with the 5k parkruns as usual, with a record 344 (not all Speedygeese, just to clarify) at Gungahlin for their birthday run. Numbers were also boosted by the two-week closure of Tuggers parkrun due to path works. I noticed in the Gunners results someone called “SG” came second – might be a good omen. I got 19:49 in my first Gunners parkrun and Ewen did 24:35. No incidents worth mentioning, although I did manage a 2k warmdown while running around looking for my car at the end. 🤣 The show was stolen, though, by the parkrun cake – a masterpiece to say the least.
At Burley Griffin parkrun Shane did 21:50 (dog assisted?) while at Gindy Andrew got 21.29, Speedy Geoff 24:15, Bronwyn 24:46 and Jason 28:37.
There were some outstanding runs in day 1 of the hilly Bush Capital festival (420m vert per 21k lap). Laura did a fantastic 63.3k (3 lap) ultra in 7:28:03. Jen, after putting in a solid few months of half marathon training, did the marathon in 4:17:04 and was second female overall – very impressive considering her long training runs were about half that distance (you can tell from the after-photo). There were rumours that it was her quietest run this year. Thommo did the marathon in a very respectable 4:14:07 and was spotted afterwards bouncing around helping pack up, as he does. 😯
It was a close call between the first three Speedygeese finishers in the half marathon, Monika (1:39:01 – 2nd female overall), Adrian (1:40:14) and Narelle (1:40:41 – 3rd female overall). Others who did the half were Amanda (1:48:01), Sammy (1:54:40) and Kerron (2:05:41). Mhairi paced Jen for the second half of the marathon. Looks like the women, with 3 gongs, outdid the men with 1. 😉
A few other scattered geese did their own thing on Saturday. Brownie did a 600m vert half marathon by himself – looks like Bush Capital didn’t have enough elevation.
Sunday saw the slightly more sane SGs turn up for the shorter Bush Capital events. Times for the 16k were Lisa (who chicked all the SG men with 1:28:24), Warrick (1:30:37), Sandeep (1:31:58), Susan (1:32:20), Ewen (1:41:00), Jennie (1:46:27) and Carolyne 2:03:25. In the 10k Isaac was second overall in 45:48. 😯
Meanwhile Shiree knocked over Mt Tennent with a 20k and 1,000m elevation trot and Ruth did the Yarrawonga 10k fun run in 58:56. Pieta suffered through a couple of hours on the stationary bike while her foot heals, in preparation for the New York marathon in two weeks. Bron did her own thing and I’m planning a slow run at Lake Tuggers (resting my heel) followed by a McRiviera (code for Maccas on the lake, for the uninitiated) rendezvous with Ewen for the Strava leaderboard review. Looking forward to possibly joining everyone next Sunday.
Thanks to those who unwittingly supplied all the pics.
Signing out, in awe of those who raced over the weekend. 🏃♂️
Monday 23 October at Parliament House we ran a 30 minute continuous relay in teams of 3, Rose Garden version. Jen arrived but did not run, Narelle said hi and did not run, I jogged around and only subbed for Ruth for one short loop. Participating in the relay were Paul who was a one-person team, and Bronwyn, Ewen, Vanessa, Ruth, Jennie, Jinny, Isaac, Chris and Pieta.
On Thursday 26 October, meeting at Woden Athletic track, with no ACTMA events on tonight, in pouring rain, and lightning, Brownie and I ran easy, Bronwyn turned up too but we didn’t see her.
Ewen - Bush Capital
"If you blinked this weekend you would have missed them. Flashes of feathers were reportedly sighted throughout our beautiful city as Speedy Geese flew past various finish lines. The gaggle was dispersed from the far northern reaches of Gungahlin and Ginninderra parkruns, through to the Bush Capital running festival at Campbell and Burley Griffin parkrun, down to the deep south of Mt Tennent. With another sunny, but not too hot, Spring weekend what else would you want to do? CANBERRA WAS HONKING!! 😁
The weekend kicked off with the 5k parkruns as usual, with a record 344 (not all Speedygeese, just to clarify) at Gungahlin for their birthday run. Numbers were also boosted by the two-week closure of Tuggers parkrun due to path works. I noticed in the Gunners results someone called “SG” came second – might be a good omen. I got 19:49 in my first Gunners parkrun and Ewen did 24:35. No incidents worth mentioning, although I did manage a 2k warmdown while running around looking for my car at the end. 🤣 The show was stolen, though, by the parkrun cake – a masterpiece to say the least.
At Burley Griffin parkrun Shane did 21:50 (dog assisted?) while at Gindy Andrew got 21.29, Speedy Geoff 24:15, Bronwyn 24:46 and Jason 28:37.
There were some outstanding runs in day 1 of the hilly Bush Capital festival (420m vert per 21k lap). Laura did a fantastic 63.3k (3 lap) ultra in 7:28:03. Jen, after putting in a solid few months of half marathon training, did the marathon in 4:17:04 and was second female overall – very impressive considering her long training runs were about half that distance (you can tell from the after-photo). There were rumours that it was her quietest run this year. Thommo did the marathon in a very respectable 4:14:07 and was spotted afterwards bouncing around helping pack up, as he does. 😯
It was a close call between the first three Speedygeese finishers in the half marathon, Monika (1:39:01 – 2nd female overall), Adrian (1:40:14) and Narelle (1:40:41 – 3rd female overall). Others who did the half were Amanda (1:48:01), Sammy (1:54:40) and Kerron (2:05:41). Mhairi paced Jen for the second half of the marathon. Looks like the women, with 3 gongs, outdid the men with 1. 😉
A few other scattered geese did their own thing on Saturday. Brownie did a 600m vert half marathon by himself – looks like Bush Capital didn’t have enough elevation.
Sunday saw the slightly more sane SGs turn up for the shorter Bush Capital events. Times for the 16k were Lisa (who chicked all the SG men with 1:28:24), Warrick (1:30:37), Sandeep (1:31:58), Susan (1:32:20), Ewen (1:41:00), Jennie (1:46:27) and Carolyne 2:03:25. In the 10k Isaac was second overall in 45:48. 😯
Meanwhile Shiree knocked over Mt Tennent with a 20k and 1,000m elevation trot and Ruth did the Yarrawonga 10k fun run in 58:56. Pieta suffered through a couple of hours on the stationary bike while her foot heals, in preparation for the New York marathon in two weeks. Bron did her own thing and I’m planning a slow run at Lake Tuggers (resting my heel) followed by a McRiviera (code for Maccas on the lake, for the uninitiated) rendezvous with Ewen for the Strava leaderboard review. Looking forward to possibly joining everyone next Sunday.
Thanks to those who unwittingly supplied all the pics.
Signing out, in awe of those who raced over the weekend. 🏃♂️
Monday 23 October at Parliament House we ran a 30 minute continuous relay in teams of 3, Rose Garden version. Jen arrived but did not run, Narelle said hi and did not run, I jogged around and only subbed for Ruth for one short loop. Participating in the relay were Paul who was a one-person team, and Bronwyn, Ewen, Vanessa, Ruth, Jennie, Jinny, Isaac, Chris and Pieta.
On Thursday 26 October, meeting at Woden Athletic track, with no ACTMA events on tonight, in pouring rain, and lightning, Brownie and I ran easy, Bronwyn turned up too but we didn’t see her.
Ewen - Bush Capital
