Monday night training

Last night "we few" (that's a palindrome) went to the Rose Gardens for our longer version of relays in teams of three, then our shorter version in teams of two. Worked well. Running the relays were Bernardo, James, Shane, Jacob, Allie, Peach, Kevin, me, Chloe, Celina, Paul Q, Deborah D, and Clare. Also seen were Warrick, Dave, and Christopher.

Not all of us are in the pic.

Pyramids

Song of the Week: Radiohead: Pyramid song.
People like running pyramid sessions, though we will probably run relays tonight at speedygeese training.

At https://youtu.be/3M_Gg1xAHE4

Pics - some of the speedygeese at Ginninderra parkrun yesterday

I couldn't see their photos, but others who ran included Clare (yet another PB) and Rachel.
I was pleased to get close to 24 mins again, hopefully I will be back to sub-24 next week.

Pics part 3

Thursday night training

At Parliament House for the third-last Thursday this year, our "Rose Garden 200s" resumed, with Yelena running 9 on 3:30, Jennie 10 on 3:00, Clare, Lisa, Celina and me 11 on 2:50, Paul, Brownie and Isaac 12 on 2:30, Kevin 11 running some on 2:30 and the rest on 2:50, Colin 13 on 2:20, and Jacob G many on 1:45! Jen was stretching nearby. A great night for training.

More Canberra/Running pics:

Pics part 1

recent speedygeese race results

YCRC Women’s 6k Jogalong 01 September
20. Nadine Morrison W50 28:08
41 finishers

Lake Tuggeranong Stakes 6k 10 September
1. Sandeep Chandra 30:26
3. Peter Daly 32:50
5. James O'Neill 37:53
6. Peter Thomson 43:55
7. Kylie Wood 34:05
9. Cameron Curry 27:35
10. Ricky Somerville 33:55
11. Peter Brown 25:42
13. Rajeev Bajania 30:54
17. Ewen Thompson 53:34
21 finishers

Customs 5k handicap 13 September
3 Peter Thomson 34:58
7 Yili Zhu 23:13
9 Michael Thompson 27:35
10 Peter Daly 23:15
11 Colin Farlow 19:31
12 Ewen Thompson 36:56
16 James O'Neill 25:58
17 Caroline Campbell 35:27
20 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 – 14 September. A rare run by Miranda at Coombs; I pip Ruth at Ginninderra as we celebrate Clare’s 50th run (and her new PB 23:25), Lorna’s first run as a W90 after storms caused cancellation of last week’s Bowral parkrun.

Canberra 100 14 September
From Jacob Grooby:
"Great running by the SpeedyGeese at Saturday's Sri Chinmoy 100km relay.
"A big thank-you (from everyone, I'm sure) to Jen Bright for the huge amount of work that went in to organising all the teams and for supporting each of us on the day. I'm sure only half of us would have made it to the start line without your efforts!

"Soloists
Justin Hiatt 5th in 12:24:55
Sean Chan 7th in 12:50:43
Thomas Allen 8th in 13:05:50
Adrian Cengia DNF

"Female Teams
Kool Galz 1st in 9:37:45 🏆
The Silly Chickens 6th in 11:58:06

"Mixed Teams
Moore Geese than Ganders 7th in 10:18:19
Duck Duck Duck Goose 9th in 10:31:19
Giansubrawan 14th in 10:54:03

"Male Teams
SpeedyGeese #100 2nd in 7:19:18
Speedy Goats 5th in 9:16:48
A Rose Before Thorns 11th in 11:11:48
Moore Flocking Geese 13th in 11:30:03"

Also, Richard was a DNF soloist, Bernardo powered home to run a Queanbeyan team into third place, and I thought Cookie’s first leg run was a blinder. Just one of many fabulous performances.
See my earlier post (below) for team composition.



DuckDuckDuckGoose

Relays in the rain - south-east side

We had three person teams running the short loop south of the Rose Gardens: teams were Jennie, Ruth, Yelena; Paul, James, me; Bernardo, Colin, Shane. George jogged around and filled in for me on one of the loops, and Dave was somewhere nearby, I thought I saw Christopher once, and I didn't see Joel but Joel arrived to collect his two daughters from Yelena while we were out warming up. Light spring drizzle was no problem.

Song of the Week: Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer (from The Concert in Central Park)

At https://youtu.be/6JUbFj0BIc4

Our Bron...

... looks pretty cool, on her Fiji work trip.

Clare's 50th parkrun, and a new PB

Clare was 32nd at Ginninderra parkrun today, in the time of 23:25.

A mostly quiet Thursday night training session

Under a full moon, running 10 x Rose Garden 200s on 3 minutes, were Don, Lisa, Ruth, Clare, and me also.
At times in the distance could be heard Jen and Dave.
Ruth: "A smaller turnout tonight for rose garden intervals on a sultry spring evening."

Sri Chinmoy Canberra Trail 100

Only two days to go before the 100k:



List of entrants, including entrants in relay teams, are here: https://www.registernow.com.au/secure/ParticipantList.aspx?E=32973. Click on "Category" if you wish to see team members listed together.

There are nine speedy geese teams, and I will have to cheer loudest of all for two of them, "Moore Flocking Geese" and "Moore Geese than Ganders". Geese and Goats feature in several other team names.

Good luck everyone.

Jen Bright did an awesome job organising the entrants.
Here's a quick summary:

Soloists:
Thomas Allen
Adrian Cengia
Sean Chan
Justin Hiatt
Richard Dunley

Relay teams:

Speedy Goats:
Scotty Imhoff leg 1
James Swann leg 2
Peter Brown leg 3
Raj Rajeev leg 4

Kool Galz:
Allie Corripio leg 1
Ellie Barrett leg 2
Narelle Smyth leg 3
Gwen Mccormack leg 4

Duck Duck Duck Goose:
Sue Bowden leg 1
Paul Quinn leg 2
Matt Robbie leg 3
Robin Fieldhouse leg 4

Speedygeese 100#:
Rohan Lewis leg 1
Matt Robbie leg 2
Jacob Grooby leg 3
Sam Burridge leg 4

Moore Geese than Ganders:
Amanda Cook leg 1
Zoe Cameron leg 2
Emily Hill leg 3
David Clarke leg 4

The Silly Chickens
Josie Seisun leg 1
Lauren Evans leg 2
Allison Chambers leg 3
Kerron Clare leg 4

Moore Flocking Geese
James O'Neil leg 1
Sandeep Chandra leg 2
Cameron Curry leg 3
Yin Shan leg 4

Giansubrawan
Susan Sturgeon leg 1
Giancarlo Del Miglio leg 2
Andrew Chapman leg 3
Brad Malone leg 4

A rose before the thorns
Bryce Wilson leg 1
Angus Lamb leg 2
Shane Wright leg 3
Giles Lamb leg 4

Recent Race Results

Lake Tuggeranong Stakes 6k 03 September
2. Peter Daly 42:17
3. James O'Neill 37:50
4. Sandeep Chandra 37:51
9. Jerry Markovic 26:46
10. Jasen Higuchi 21:50
11. Cameron Curry 29:29
17. Ewen Thompson 40:30
18 finishers

Customs 5k handicap 06 September
1 Peter Daly 23:34
3 Giles Lamb 21:25
6 Kerron Clare 25:25
7 Colin Farlow 19:50
9 Yili Zhu 23:59
11 James O'Neill 24:14
13 Peter Thomson 38:10
14 Ewen Thompson 45:24
16 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 07 September – on a windy day, a big win to Bernardo at Queanbeyan, in a good time.

There he goes...

Monday's speedgeese training session

It was back to relays last night - "square" relays, 3 person 3-sides fast with 2-side recovery; then 2-person 3 sides again with 1-side (jogging back) recovery. Participating were Bernardo, Shane, Jacob, Richard, James, Jodie, Gwen, Allie, Mick, Deborah D, Kevin, Chloe, Celina, Vanessa, Kahlia, Ruth, Jenny, Jennie, Susan with Maya, Warrick, me, and Dave early on, plus I saw Deborah P cycling.

The happy crew once the session was over:

Let’s Stick Together

Song of the Week Bryan Ferry – Let’s Stick Together
At https://youtu.be/lj0XD1NFa1I
This video of a recent live performance is better than the old original video, I reckon.

Words of Wisdom

Repost of scary pictures from 1964

Adelaide Oval. Under 16 800m. Ouch.

Thursday evening speedygeese training

From Ruth: "A balmy evening for Speedygeese Rose Garden intervals tonight and a good turnout for a Thursday. Celina and Kev had to leave before the photo but the lovely Bron called in to see us just in time! ❤️"



The second lot of Rose Garden 200s this week, to be continued on the next few Thursdays weather permitting.
Colin, Shane: 13 on 2:20
Paul Q, Brownie, Jen: 12 on 2:30
Kevin: started on 2:30 and after a while joined the 3:00 group
Jennie, Ruth, Celina: 10 on 3:00
Jenny M: 9 on 3:30

I supervised, and Bron turned up at the end to see how we all were. We were fine.

speedygeese t-shirts orders are being taken.

From Jen:
"You too could be jumping for joy like Dave here about getting your speedygeese T-shirt.
I have enough people to put an order in for T-shirt’s. I will aim to put the order through on Monday 16 September.
Anyone who hasn’t already let me know they are interested please let me know and I will contact those interested about sizing and payment. 😁 "

Recent speedygeese race results

Lake Tuggeranong Stakes 6k 20 August
1. James O'Neill 36:53
2. Peter Daly 30:25
3. Sandeep Chandra 31:45
4. Cameron Curry 31:13
6. Peter Thomson 42:47
7. Peter Brown 25:44
13. Rajeev Bajania 35:58
16. Ricky Somerville 37:41
17. Ewen Thompson 39:59
18 finishers

Customs 5k handicap 23 August
2 James O'Neill 22:45
3 Giles Lamb 21:11
5 Peter Daly 23:04
7 Caroline Campbell 31:16
8 Kerron Clare 25:02
12 Colin Farlow 19:30
14 Yili Zhu 23:27
20 Ewen Thompson 41:08
24 finishers

Parkruns http://www.parkrun.com/consolidatedclub/?clubNum=23606
Highlights – 24 August – Lisa first female at Queanbeyan in a Queanbeyan PB.
Highlights – 31 August – William Barlow 18:51, a 38 second PB “with a freight train of pacers”.
If you wish to appear in the speedygeese parkrun report linked above, it is very easy to set your home club to speedygeese.

YCRC Capital to Coast 23-25 August
https://my7.raceresult.com/134406/results?lang=en
Highlight – Raj third solo male.

ACTMA Coombs-Molonglo 10k 25 August
4 Rod Lynch M55 44:48 *silver*
8 Nadine Morrison W50 51:01
13 David Webster M65 49:53
14 Caroline Campbell W75 1:06:48
28 George Quarmby M60 1:07:29
30 Craig Wurtz M50 1:01:20
38 finishers

ACTMA Coombs-Molonglo 5k 25 August
16 finishers

Lake Tuggeranong Stakes 6k 27 August
2. Sandeep Chandra 36:30
3. James O'Neill 36:00
5. Ewen Thompson 44:56
8. Peter Daly 28:48
9. Peter Brown 26:19
13. Scott Imhoff 24:38
16. Kylie Wood 41:37
17. Cameron Curry 30:18
22. Rajeev Bajania 38:06
22 finishers

Ginninderra 7k Handicap 27 August
12 finishers

Customs 5k handicap 30 August
1 Ewen Thompson 28:21
5 Colin Farlow 19:26
6 Giles Lamb 21:31
14 James O'Neill 23:41
16 Peter Daly 26:36
17 Michael Thompson 31:11
20 finishers

Wingello Trail Festival 50k 31 August
70 finishers

Wingello Trail Festival 24k 31 August
92 Kerron Clare 2:42:52
139 Jenni Schofield 3:00:06
143 Sue Bowden 3:01:25
184 Geoff Williams 3:28:09
226 finishers

Wingello Trail Festival 18k 31 August
173 finishers

Wingello Trail Festival 7k 31 August
124 finishers

Wingello Trail Festival 1k 31 August
38 finishers

AMRA Mount Ainslie 2.2k run-up 03 September
7. Giles Lamb 16.14
8. Vanessa Haverd 16.44
14. Helen Way 22.17
18 finishers


WTF photo taken by Geoff Williams.

Monday speedygeese training

From Ruth: "It’s Monday and Spring is here. There was a good turnout at training tonight for Rose Garden intervals but sadly six people (Colin, Mick, Jodie, Warrick, James and Dave) had to leave before the photo shoot missing out on the delicious mini banana cupcakes baked by Mia and mummy Susan. And of course there are always jellybeans!"



My report: Colin and James ran 12 intervals on 2:30; Jodie and Mick 11 on 2:40; Clare and Susan 11 on 2:50; Ruth 10 on 3:00, Jenny M, Kahlia and Yelena did what they could; while Maya and I watched, Dave seemed to do more than his usual, Warrick joined in too, and finally, I think I glimpsed Christopher for 0.5 seconds before the warm-up.

There will certainly be a resetting of start groups before the next Rose Garden interval session.

I wish

Song of the Week:  EURYTHMICS - Here Comes The Rain Again.
Found at https://youtu.be/TzFnYcIqj6I

Back on 22/8 plus while I was away, the speedygeese did play.

We had a speedygeese session at Parliament House. Thursday 22nd. Present were Lisa, Dave, Geoff W, Denis, Jen, Jenny, Jennie, Brownie, Paul Q, Clare, and me just before I left for Norfolk Island. The session was 4x400m then 200m intervals.

And from Jenny M: "SG Intervals..... Not sure how I got elevated to being Ruth’s stand in (hard shoes to fill)but I’m honoured 😲 ... firstly it’s a big congratulations to our leader Geoff who turned up on his 49th wedding anniversary (thanks to his beautiful wife Jenny for giving him permission), but they are off to Norfolk Island tomorrow 🏖🏝
Maybe spring isn’t far away with a warmer than usual evening for Geese enthusiasts leader Geoff, Geoff#2, Dave, Jen#1, Jennie #2, Jenny #3 (so many J’s) Claire, Paul, Lisa, Dennis and Peter and thanks to Paul for providing the jellybeans 🤠" - with pic --



While I was away: Mon 26 August "Well done to this evening's Speedygeese who ran relay intervals at Parliament House. It was hard work but a lot of fun. Vanessa, Sév, Mick, Robin, Warwick, George, James, Shane, and occasional appearances by Dave. 😁"

And Thu 29 August with pic below: "Great challenging fun session tonight running flats and hills in a different way thanks to Jennie Blake and Paul Quinn who organised us in Geoff Moore’s absence. And a big thank you to our Lindt ball queen, Clare - yum!"