Thursday night training

It was the final Thursday at Parliament House for the year, and we ran some 200m Rose Garden loops again also for the last time for a while. Participating were Allie, Dave a bit, Isaac, Jennie, Nadine, Clare, Dennis, Yelena and me. We also said hello to Joel, Vianne, and Maya. And there were strawberries and chocolate and bubbly!

I may have missed one... name, that is. I missed about 4 of the loops.

In the interim, chicken jokes.

About Sunday, but first...

A man was driving down a country road when he spotted a three legged chicken racing across a field. He clocked the chicken at 45 MPH. Of course he was curious so he stopped at the farm house at the end of the field and knocked on the door, which the farmer answered.
"Excuse me," the man said. "I was just coming down the road and I saw this three legged chicken running across your field at 45 miles an hour. Can you tell me more about this?"
The farmer replied, "Wa'll sure, son. Back in school I studied gee-netics. Around here we love chicken and we're rather partial to the drumstick so I thought I'd see if I could use gee-netics to create a three legged chicken, and there it is."
"Wow, that's fantastic" the man replied. " I'll bet it tastes great!"
The farmer replied, "Don't know. We've never been able to catch one."

...and...



And now... I am planning to start with the speedygeese at Stromlo this Sunday morning 8am daylight saving time - 10k will be my upper limit. There is a 30k option.

latest speedygeese race results

Lake Tuggeranong Stakes 6k 24 September
1. Sandeep Chandra 35:06
4. Cameron Curry 32:38
5. Peter Thomson 42:16
10. Peter Brown 25:45
12. Kylie Wood 33:05
13. James O'Neill 27:59
15. Rajeev Bajania 25:12
18. Ewen Thompson 54:16
20. Ricky Somerville 38:04
25 finishers

Ginninderra 7k Handicap 24 September
11 finishers

Customs 5k handicap 27 September
9 Colin Farlow 19:52
12 Craig Wurtz 24:27
15 James O'Neill 28:21
16 Giles Lamb 26:38
17 Jen Bright 28:26
18 Ewen Thompson 42:05
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.
Highlights – 28 September Margaret #250 at Gungahlin; Andrew Smith #100 at Coombs;
Norma (W90) sets Australian record of 110.12% at Bowral, running 35:55. Not bad for a 90 year old!

YCRC Goorooyarroo Mulligans Flat Half Marathon 28 September
1. Matthew Robbie M30 1:18:20
42. Rohan Pitchford M55 1:47:32
44. James O'Neil 1:47:48
53. Sandeep Chandra M45 1:53:27
55. Kelley Horan W55 1:53:34
73. Michael Thompson M50 1:59:36
76. Gabrielle Brown W55 2:01:35
78. Maria O'Reilly W60 2:02:13
106. Jennie Blake W60 2:33:23
111 finishers

YCRC Goorooyarroo Mulligans Flat 14k 28 September
10. Mick Horan M60 1:30:01
24 finishers

ACTMA O’Connor Ridge 8k 29 September
4 Rod Lynch M55 1:00:35
5 Nadine Morrison W50 40:55
16 David Webster M65 41:57
18 Cathy Newman W55 48:13
19 Gabrielle Brown W55 48:17
24 George Quarmby M60 55:25
25 Caroline Campbell W75 59:21
29 Margaret McSpadden W70 1:08:01
33 Jennie Blake W60 58:10
37 Craig Wurtz M50 52:39
40 finishers

ACTMA O’Connor Ridge 4k 29 September
15 finishers

AMRA Mount Ainslie 2.2k run-up 01 October
3. Giles Lamb 16.13
10. Michael Thompson 21.11
13. Caroline Campbell 28.13
15 finishers

Andrew's parkrun #100, at Coombs:

And how Monday training went

At training were... Megan, Michael, Allie with Peach, Jennie, George, Bernardo, Deborah D, Yelena, Richard, Jodie, Vanessa, and Lisa running 30 minutes continuous relays from the Rose Gardens. Additionally Dave, Warrick, and I were in attendance, and when Deb brought goodies afterwards, Joel, Vianne, and Maya appeared as well. Next Monday - both daylight saving and a public holiday - Monday Parliament House training will continue as usual, 5:30pm.

Mumford & Sons - "Woman"

Monday is "Song of the Week" day.
At https://youtu.be/6iWYdkcJBo4

Bronwyn racing

At Tuggeranong parkrun. Looking fit, and improving most weeks.

Margaret - parkrun #250

How Thursday training went.

It was another session of Rose Garden - or possibly Flower Garden, not many roses to be seen - 200s, with Colin running 13 on 2:20; Paul Q, Jen, Isaac, and Kevin running 12 on 2:30; Jennie and Celina running 10 on 3:00; and Denis 9 on 3:30. I supervised, having jogged earlier, and Dave ran laps, 14 in all, probably.

The cold weather has gone, viva spring!

Planning the next complicated relay training session?

Sleeping on it does work - if you can sleep!



Planning ahead is, however, essential.
What relays shall we do next Monday?
[The last Monday before daylight saving begins.]
There will be relays. More in October on Mondays, too.
But from Thursday 10th we start Thursday training at Stromlo Forest Park - longer intervals.

Latest speedygeese at the races.

Lake Tuggeranong Stakes 6k 17 September
1. Sandeep Chandra 38:24
4. Cameron Curry 34:29
8. Kylie Wood 33:51
11. Ricky Somerville 36:07
13. Ewen Thompson 53:40
13 finishers

AMRA Black Mountain 2.6k run-up 17 September
1. Louise Sharp 14.15
6. Vanessa Haverd 17.18
11 finishers

Customs 5k handicap 20 September
1 Sandeep Chandra 24:14
3 James O'Neill 22:32
3 Craig Wurtz 24:12
9 Michael Thompson 27:56
10 Colin Farlow 19:46
14 Giles Lamb 21:51
17 Peter Thomson 34:37
20 Caroline Campbell 49:55
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 – 21 September. Thach a new PB at Tuggeranong, 21:05. A few speedygeese at Queanbeyan and Coombs this week, running good times.

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.