December 2011 Newsletter - West Australian Marathon Club

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Fremantle Fun Run By Bob Braid, Race Director I have been directing events for 29 years and this one would have to be the most challenging to date. Even though I have directed the Fremantle Fun Run since 1990, the gods decided it was time to test us by throwing in a few wobbly ones. First, in the approval stage the City of Fremantle advised that Car Park No.2 would be closed by the time of the event due to the construction of a new access road across the railway to the Fishing Boat Harbour. No problem, a variation to latest year’s course Super speedy Bri Ilarda. Photo credit: Dash Photography was devised, measured and mapped, and marshals’ instructions prepared. Approval consequently obtained from the City of Fremantle. On the Friday morning prior to the event I was doing my final site inspection to ensure everything was hunky dory and discovered a fence across the shared path near the Round House that effectively blocked all access from Fishing Boat Harbour to all points north (including the Round House and South Mole). At this stage the path was still intact but despite pleas to the works supervisor and the City of Fremantle to delay ripping up the path until Monday, the path was ripped up by the afternoon. To aggrevate the situation, the works were being done on behalf of the City of Fremantle. The problem now was that we didn’t have a course. That was not such a problem in itself as I intended to measure a new one; the problem was to get all the approvals through in an afternoon. Normally, the minimum time for the approval process is four weeks. This involves firstly getting the City of Fremantle approval for the event which includes approval of a traffic management plan, then local police approval, then these approvals are sent to the Midland Police Events Section for signing off by the Commissioner. A new course was quickly put together and the traffic management company contacted to prepare a revised traffic management plan. Eldon George, our intrepid admin officer, then went into action to push all steps in the approval process, eventually securing the signed off approval on Saturday morning ... a monumental effort. In the meantime, the course needed to be measured, new maps and marshal instructions drawn up and of course all this whilst attending to Runner’s World business and customers. To top it off, Saturday afternoon was consumed with setting up the start / finish area on the Esplanade. In the rush and with a couple different versions of the course maps, the wrong map was referred to when setting up the 5k turn point on Capo D’Orlando Drive resulting in the 5k course being 350m short. My apologies to those who thought they had run PBs. The few helper “no shows” didn’t make it any easier and on this note, whilst the majority of members do honour their commitment, I implore those who think “they don’t really need me” to reconsider as we do really need you; tasks are allocated on the assumption that you will show up and if you don’t, you place more pressure on others. Despite all this and a couple of other incidents due to haste, we got there. To the race itself: The gods must have decided that we had been tested enough and turned on a near perfect day for running -- clear skies with temperature around 5C during set up, rising to about 10C by start time at 7.30am and a gentle (if not a little chilly) ENE 10kph breeze. David Lazarus was the first to complete the 4.65km course in a time of 15.13 (which equates to 16.22 for a full 5k), followed by a fast finishing David Cane (15.16) and Chris Cummins (15.19). Youngster, Bri Ilarda (16.10 which equates to 17.23 for a full 5k), continued her dominance in the shorter events to be the first female, followed by Mathilda Connell (17.26) and Katrina Geyer (18.00). Gerard Hill (33.25) was first to complete the two lap 10k course, followed by Scott Thomson (33.29) and the perennial Stephen Stockwell (33.52). Jaz Hedgeland (38.29) was the first female, followed by Rachael Smith (38.44) and Katrina Geyer (40.40). My thanks to the 50 or so helpers who pitched in either during the setup on the Saturday or on the day to make it an enjoyable experience for all concerned. Definitely most appreciated and not possible without their help. 24
Results 4.65km Men Place Time Name Age Cat 1 0:15:13 LAZARUS, David M16 2 0:15:16 CANE, David M45 3 0:15:19 CUMMINS, Christopher M16 4 0:15:22 LOVEKIN, Tommy M16 5 0:15:24 CIPRIANO, Gabriel M16 6 0:15:26 MILLER, Chartt M16 7 0:15:31 MEZZATESTA, Michael M20 8 0:15:38 DILETTI, Torren MU16 9 0:15:58 BARNARD, Daniel M16 10 0:15:59 FINNEY, James MU16 10km Men Place Time Name Age Cat 1 0:33:25 HILL, Gerard M25 2 0:33:29 THOMSON, Scott M25 3 0:33:52 STOCKWELL, Stephen M45 4 0:34:16 BAKOWSKI, Thomas M30 5 0:35:04 MARTIN, Ryan M25 6 0:35:28 ELLIOTT, Simon M40 7 0:35:32 PADOVAN, Boris M35 8 0:35:42 DIAMANTOPOULOS, Alex M16 9 0:36:05 BRYANT, David M20 10 0:36:25 DARTNALL, Oliver M35 4.65km Women Place Time Name Age Cat 1 0:16:10 ILARDA, Bri FU16 2 0:17:26 CONNELL, Mathilda FU16 3 0:18:00 HARRIS, Katrina F20 4 0:18:26 CLARKE, Cathy F16 5 0:18:30 GIORGI, Rolenda F40 6 0:18:44 HEDGELAND, Kira FU16 7 0:18:51 TOMLIN, Gabrielle FU16 8 0:19:16 MORRISON, Kirstie FU16 9 0:19:33 LEONARD, Fiona F40 10 0:19:37 LANE, Charlotte F16 10km Women Place Time Name Age Cat 1 0:38:29 HEDGELAND, Jaz F16 2 0:38:44 SMITH, Rachael F35 3 0:40:40 GEYER, Katrina F35 4 0:41:10 MARR, Julia F30 5 0:41:19 ROGERS, Stacey F20 6 0:41:22 BAKER, Renee F25 7 0:41:24 SWANN, Catherine F20 8 0:41:56 FALCONER, Mikala FU16 9 0:42:01 LEFROY, Ann F30 10 0:42:18 FISHER, Joanna F30 The 5km men’s winner, David Lazarus Women’s 10km winner Jaz Hedgeland 10km Men’s winner Gerard Hill Photo credit: Dash Photography 25
Page 1 and 2: December 2011 NEWSLETTER WEST AUSTR
Page 3 and 4: Table of Contents Contents 2011 Com
Page 5 and 6: Letter from the Editor Hello runner
Page 7 and 8: President’s Report November 2011
Page 9 and 10: First time race director nerves By
Page 11 and 12: Breaking down Barriers: Running wit
Page 13: A Commonwealth Story cont... A very
Page 16 and 17: Resurfacing: An Elite Runner’s Jo
Page 18 and 19: Brooks Rottnest Marathon & Fun & Ru
Page 20 and 21: A Tale of Two Brothers By Frank Dym
Page 22 and 23: Lake Gwelup Run 2011 By Paddy Foley
Page 26 and 27: Fremantle Half Marathon - A view fr
Page 28 and 29: One Hour & Half Hour Run Half Hour
Page 30 and 31: Service Directory BICYCLE SUPPLIES
Page 32: Flying around Armstrong Bay, Chris

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