The Queanbeyan connection

... at RunWithTheWind last Sunday.


Includes Vanessa and Bernardo.

Latest speedygeese race results

Lake Tuggeranong Stakes 6k 22 October
1. Sandeep Chandra 30:25
2. Kylie Wood 40:55
6. Peter Daly 33:00
8. Ricky Somerville 34:26
13. Rajeev Bajania 36:37
17. Ewen Thompson 39:36
18. James O'Neill 30:09
19. Peter Thomson 47:36
23 finishers

ACTMA Track 24 October
400m
M50 Michael Thompson 1:25.38

3000m Pennington
M50 Michael Thompson 20:25.79
W65 Kathy Sims 16:17.91

3000m
M50 Michael Thompson 15.17.47

Customs 5k handicap 25 October
7 Bill Arthur 33:46
10 Caroline Campbell 36:15
12 Yili Zhu 23:49
13 Craig Wurtz 24:38
14 Colin Farlow 19:54
15 James O'Neill 23:12
20 Ewen Thompson 29:28
21 Kerron Clare 26:44
25 Giles Lamb 22:39
26 Peter Thomson 33:42
30 Natty Beck 40:30
33 Carolyne Kramar 40:40
34 Mike l'Pirate 30:00
36 finishers

Parkruns http://www.parkrun.com/consolidatedclub/?clubNum=23606
If you wish to appear in the speedygeese parkrun report linked above, it is very easy to set your home club to speedygeese.
Highlights 26 October:
- Jacob Miller PB at Ginninderra, 5th in 19:33
- 349 finishers at Wagi Bridge parkrun #1
- Bronwyn Calver takes the W50 record at Riverbank #2

Run with the Wind 5k 27 October
57 Jenny Budd 31:37
75 Vanessa Palmer 2:12
136 Rae Palmer 37:43
298 finishers

Run with the Wind 10k 27 October
28 Adrian Cengia 46:15
41 Bernado Palma 49:18
59 Shiree Yap 52:14
70 Peter Daly 54:02
126 Jossie Maree Seisun 1:00:18
134 Nei-Kiewa Close 1:01:09
138 Victoria Hennig 1:01:22
277 finishers

ACTMA Ainslie Woodlands 7k 27 October
5 David Webster M65 34:00
14 Caroline Campbell W75 49:48
17 Ruth Baussmann W65 47:48
19 David Baussmann M65 39:06
26 Nadine Morrison W50 37:22
27 Cathy Newman W55 53:22
29 finishers

ACTMA Ainslie Woodlands 3.5k 27 October
4 Mick Charlton M65 24:45
11 finishers

A picture from the past - summer water running.


It's Allie and Peach at Parliament House Monday training.

Running on Monday night at Parliament House

For once good weather - not too hot, not too cold, and no wind. We trotted down to Reconciliation Place for our "ramp runs"; 15 x 150m uphill sprints on 2 minutes. Running were Lee (new), Peach, Allie, Paul Q, Trevor, Ruth, Jennie, Michael, Deborah D, James, Sév, and me. Christopher's ghost may have been seen as we passed by that billabong. But no-one came waltzing matilda with him.

Ruth was back, so we have pictures:

Song of the Week

This year I am right into Irish folk music. This song gets me all emotional.
At https://youtu.be/onI__4xkcc8

runners at Ginninderra parkrun yesterday

Jacob new PB, 5th in 19:33



Brendan 14th



Andrew 18th

this one is doing the rounds, currently

Thursday training

Last week cold, this week hot, today impossible so my running streak ends after 25 days - which is a good number of days. Doing 500m hill sprint circuits were Andrew, Rohan, Colin, Jacob, Kevin, Jennie, Ann (new), Chloe, Yelena, and me jogging, and Dave in the vicinity. And yes, Handlebar was open.

because parkrunners are getting fitter and faster - and i am getting slower.

Race results

YCRC Women’s 6k Jogalong 06 October
2. Nadine Morrison W50
16. Cathy Montalto W65
26. Caroline Campbell W75
41 finishers

Lake Tuggeranong Stakes 6k 15 October
1. Sandeep Chandra 29:47
2. Peter Daly 35:43
3. James O'Neill 35:47
10. Peter Brown 25:32
12. Kylie Wood 36:18
14. Jerry Markovic 29:59
15. Rajeev Bajania 25:48
17. Peter Thomson 52:50
20. Ricky Somerville 37:13
22. Ewen Thompson 40:00
26 finishers

ACTMA Track 17 October
3000m
M50 Craig Wurtz 13:31
M50 Michael Thompson 14:47

Customs 5k handicap 18 October
3 Ewen Thompson 28:37
5 Peter Thomson 31:46
9 Giles Lamb 21:28
12 Colin Farlow 19:32
14 Craig Wurtz 24:22
16 James O'Neill 23:00
18 Peter Daly 23:47
21 Kerron Clare 26:10
23 Caroline Campbell 37:51
26 Carolyne Kramar 41:04
29 finishers

Parkruns http://www.parkrun.com/consolidatedclub/?clubNum=23606
If you wish to appear in the speedygeese parkrun report linked above, it is very easy to set your home club to speedygeese.
Highlights – Riverbank launch, see Saturday’s post
- Mhairi ran a PB and set a W55 record at Tuggeranong, 21:22

Monday's training session

Last evening we ran relays from court 8 - the 400m track with the steep hill. While Dave jogged around, Warrick did laps looking more mobile every week, and I watched, the teams consisted of Trevor (new), Richard, Gwen, Jennie, Deborah D, Sév, Paul Q, Michael, Mick, Brownie, Vanessa and Craig.

speedygeese Sunday run:

It really was a hard day's night

Song of the Week, at https://youtu.be/Yjyj8qnqkYI

Paul Q on the run

Long shorts and all

Riverbank parkrun launch

Speedygeese and some of the friends of the geese, in the Riverbank parkrun #1, in Yass
11 Daniel GREEN 21:23 M30
14 Brendan BELCHER 21:49 M35
15 Scott IMHOFF 22:18 M40
16 Giles LAMB 22:50 M45
21 Sandeep CHANDRA 23:23 M45
22 James O'NEILL 23:24 M50
37 William BARLOW 24:02 M35
38 Bruce PERRY 24:07 M50
46 Geoff MOORE 24:47 M70
52 Lisa MCDONALD 25:06 W45
69 Joanna BELCHER 25:54 W35
80 Robin FIELDHOUSE 26:59 M45
85 Gary BOWEN 27:34 M60
95 Ricky SOMERVILLE 28:28 M50
119 Andrew SMITH 30:38 M45
183 Bob HARLOW 36:52 M70
187 Margaret MCSPADDEN 37:25 W70
210 Carolyne KRAMAR 39:15 W55
240 Jim WHITE 42:59 M70
290 John HARDING 53:18 M65
301 Jo DYNON 55:17 W35
333 finishers

A great day, a great course, 333 finishers, good to see Margaret and Gwen (Gwen mislaid her bar code so isn't in the results), good to see Bob and Carolyne. My time was not very good as I plodded the long uphill x 2, and held myself back on the return downhills. Great work by the organisers and course volunteers.

Some of John (and Carol) Harding's photos:

Thursday at training

A freezing cold change came through while we were on the cross country track training - the temperature dropped by ten degrees, the rain swept through, a gale from the west stopped us in our tracks, and with the wind chill it was probably zero degrees. Up until then we did some kilometre intervals, I totalled a satisfactory 9k. Present were Phil, Don, Lisa, Jennie, Brownie, Celina, Jacob, Jen, Isaac and me. Lisa took photos including a double rainbow.

speedygeese at Stromlo

The speedygeese will be training at the Stromlo Cross Country track today at 5:30pm. Handlebar is advertised as being open - see you there after training as well!

A couple of our distance stars - Mhairi and Shiree:

speedygeese race results

Lake Tuggeranong Stakes 6k 08 October
1. Sandeep Chandra 33:51
4. Rajeev Bajania 29:37
5. Peter Brown 25:11
8. Jennifer Bright 36:46
9. James O'Neill 37:01
10. Cameron Curry 31:32
11. Ewen Thompson 45:53
17 finishers

Customs 5k handicap 11 October
1 Michael Thompson 26:51
3 Peter Thomson 33:46
4 Ewen Thompson 30:32
5 James O'Neill 22:52
9 Colin Farlow 19:38
14 Giles Lamb 24:45
15 Craig Wurtz 24:45
18 Caroline Campbell 38:07
19 finishers

Parkruns http://www.parkrun.com/consolidatedclub/?clubNum=23606
If you wish to appear in the speedygeese parkrun report linked above, it is very easy to set your home club to speedygeese.

Melbourne Marathon Festival 13 October
https://www.multisportaustralia.com.au/races/melbournemarathon-2019

AMRA Two Peaks 20k 13 October
4 Rowan Lewis 35 1:30:13 4:31
17 Adrian Cengia 50 1:45:36 5:17
23 Paul Trumble 33 1:49:31 5:29
24 Martin Pogson 58 1:52:24 5:38
30 Giles Lamb 46 2:01:10 6:04
49 Craig Wurtz 54 2:33:02 7:40
57 male finishers
Female
1 Monika Holmwood 30 1:42:47 5:09
8 Amanda Cook 42 1:56:17 5:49
10 Jodie Barker 43 2:00:25 6:02
41 Sue Bowden 63 2:32:03 7:37
43 Gabrielle Brown 55 2:34:44 7:45
52 female finishers

AMRA One Peak 12k 13 October
Male
20 Jonathan Miller 59 1:21:22 6:47
25 male finishers
Female
5 Mhairi Craig 55 1:12:40 6:04
15 Kerron Clare 52 1:20:25 6:43
22 Kristy Primrose 39 1:24:39 7:04
59 female finishers

Chicago Marathon
Clare Wall 2nd W65 3:41.46

AMRA Black Mountain 2.6k run-up 15 October
7. Giles Lamb 17.17
10. Caroline Campbell 27.56.
11 finishers

The Miller family competing in Tag20 at the Gold Coast last weekend.


Kevin, Chloe, Celina, Jacob

Monday training

We ran short Rose Garden relays - the first set via the steps, the second set our more usual loop. Participating were James, Paul, Colin, Shane, Sév, Nadine, Phil, Jen, Allie, Rae, Deb, Yelena, Peach and me. Dave was nearby, and Christopher was seen in the car-park.


Most of the Monday crowd


Jennie heading for the finish in Melbourne

Against the Wind

Song of the Week: "Against the Wind" – Bob Seger https://youtu.be/PBJRD1VkxmI

self-care

33rd today

...and still carrying a few extra kilos, as you can see. In fact, I weighed in this morning somewhat higher than I have for a while. Today's time: 23:37. Room for improvement: lots. Venue: Ginninderra. My next 4 weeks' venues: hopefully Yass, then Wagi Bridge, then Ginninderra, then Dunedin. If all goes to plan.

Thursday night training

It was back to Stromlo Forest Park on Thursdays. Plenty of other runners and cyclists about, on an evening which turned quite cool. A 1k warmup, then dynamic stretches and drills with speedySusan, then 1k intervals with recovery-of-your choice. Present were Susan with Mya, Brownie, Jen, Paul Q, Michael, Yelena and me. As expected, Handlebar wasn't open yet, I'm guessing next week. I am also guessing that numbers will build up. Anyway, I am back training at Stromlo this Sunday as well, and I will probably join some of the speedygeese there for a jog.

There really is no finish line, sometimes.

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Recent speedygeese race results

Lake Tuggeranong Stakes 6k 01 October
1. Sandeep Chandra 40:28
2. Peter Thomson 40:35
6. Ricky Somerville 35:23
9. James O'Neill 28:48
12. Ewen Thompson 50:16
14. Cameron Curry 31:39
18. Kylie Wood 1:11:00
19 finishers

Customs 5k handicap 04 October
3 Bill Arthur 33:17
9 Michael Thompson 28:26
11 James O'Neill 23:49
12 Ewen Thompson 33:24
15 Natty Beck 30:11
15 Will Brady 30:11
20 Caroline Campbell 44:41
21 finishers

Parkruns http://www.parkrun.com/consolidatedclub/?clubNum=23606
If you wish to appear in the speedygeese parkrun report linked above, it is very easy to set your home club to speedygeese.
Highlights – 05 October
Gungahlin parkrun young Isaac 5th in 17:30
And Bernardo won Merimbula in 17:36.
And young Ryan was 4th at Tuggeranong in a massive PB: 19:15.

Labour Day 10k 07 October
11. David Clarke W60 43:17
28. Paul Quinn M50 46:57
34. Craig Wurtz M50 50:00
37. Debra Kay W50 50:27
38. Clare Wall W60 50:54
79. Caroline Campbell W70 1:12:40
80 finishers
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Labour Day 4k 07 October
49 finishers

Ryan's run:

Monday's training

A Monday and a public holiday and a beautiful day for doing other things brought the usual reduction in numbers, but nine of us fronted at Parliament House for our first daylight saving session, most enjoyable. I ran 10k and Colin and Shane ran 400m intervals, while we ran two teams over 400m relay repeats: Jen, Giles and Mick; Jennie, Yelena and Deborah. A loop on the west side incorporating that hill.

Some dislike Mondays, not me though.



This week, Thursdays relocate to Stromlo Forest Park.

The Runner

Song of the Week: FOALS - The Runner.
When your favourite band will be releasing a new album this month and it has a track called "The Runner" and the video clip is awesome. At https://youtu.be/h8xZje1jbI0

a parkrun pic and a new record.

Sandeep chasing Clare at Ginninderra parkrun. Apparently he had the audacity to pass her towards the end. Clare set a new Ginninderra W65 record, 23:36. Marathon ready.

Bombard a drab mob