May, 2003 - ACT Veterans Athletics Club

V E T R U N N EREditorial Email address: jimod@optusnet.com.au Volume 23 Issue 12— May, 2003Some people will do anything for money. Especially when it is in the aid of good cause with $1700 going to theCancer Foundation.Top from the left, Jayne Hardy, Ray Green and Raylea Rudov relaxing in the sunshine waiting to be cropped.Above from the left, Jayne Hardy, Ray Green and Raylea Rudov all at least a kilo lighter as they show off their new style.

Page 2 — VetrunnerThe Audun Fristad Awards for Athletic ExcellenceThe top three men and women attrack and field. The Audun FristadAwards are presented to the topthree men and women for athleticexcellence throughout the track andfield season.Left: Robert Barbaro, with AudunFristad, won the gold award in themen’s division.Right: Jayne Hardy won the goldaward in the women’s division.Jayne also won the ThrowersAward.Left: Bob Banens took out the silveraward in the men’s division.Right: Fran Harris was the winner ofthe silver award in the women’sdivision.Left: Kevin Chamberlain was thewinner of the bronze award in themen’s division. Kevin also won thePennington Award in the MiddleDistance Handicap Series.Right: Maureen Rossiter won thebronze in this season’s FristadAwards. Maureen was also awardedsecond place in the Adler SpiralHandicap Series.

You will see in this Vetrunner(Page 22) advice that the Club willhold two general meetings onThursday, May 22 at the West DeakinHellenic Bowling Club.You may ask – why two generalmeetings?The explanation lies in theproceedings at our 2002 AnnualGeneral Meeting. A Motion on Noticehad previously been forwarded to allmembers to the effect that changes tothe Club Constitution be made as setout in an attached single Motion. ThatMotion contained a number ofelements, some with very minorchanges of wording, others containingimportant changes relating to votingprocedures and the duration ofconsecutive terms for which apresident could be re-elected.When the matter came to debate,it was pointed out that the framing ofall these proposed changes as a singlemotion meant that members werefaced with an “all or nothing’ choice.The opportunity to debate theimportant implications of theelements of the Motion, making adistinction between minor and majorchanges in the Constitution, was lost.As a result, the members directedthe 2002-2003 Committee to resubmitthe proposed changes as separatemotions to be put to members at aFROM YOURPRESIDENTSpecial General Meeting prior to the2003 AGM and for those changes to bedebated and voted upon individually.Accordingly, a Notice of Motionhas been prepared, the proposedchanges have been separated, andmembers will have the opportunity todiscuss the changes and vote on themas separate motions.This will be done in a SpecialGeneral Meeting commencing at6.30pm on May 22. A three quartersmajority is required for approval ofconstitutional changes. This is set outin the ACT Associations IncorporationAct.At 7.30pm I will open the 2003Annual General Meeting. Reports byoffice-bearers and sub-committees willMay Vetrunner — Page 3provide the opportunity for membersto ask about all aspects of ouroperations. A draft budget for 2003-2004 will be presented.The final item is the election ofoffice-bearers for 2003-2004. JackPennington has agreed to benominated as Club Patron once more.Election of a new ACTVACCommittee for 2003-2004 will follow.This is an opportunity for newmembers to step forward to seekelection. Indeed, all positions fallvacant at the conclusion of OtherBusiness. At the time of writing,personal commitments have led acouple of current Committee membersto inform me that they will not renominate.Indications are that, as inprevious years, a good balance of newand continuing members ofCommittee will eventuate. But that isfor you, the members, to decide.JOHNTHANKS TO ALL THE MEMBERS OF ACTVACOn behalf of Margaret and myself I would like to thank the ACT VeteransClub for their card and kind thoughts following Marg’s recent heart attack.Marg is now on the mend and making a full recovery at home and is gettingback to walking and regaining her confidence.It just goes to show that no matter how well you look after your health youcan never be sure that things these won’t happen to you. Thanks again.Keith Johnson, WanniassaPatron: Jack PenningtonPresident: John Hunt 62419392(h) 62748035 (w)Email: John.Hunt@dotrs.gov.auVice President: Ray Green62316712 (h), MembershipServices Sub-Committee.Secretary: Sharon Gibbins62910047 (h). Email:sharon.gibbins@ telstra.comTreasurer: Nev Madden0413044899. Assets register,Insurance. Email:nev.madden@ defence.gov.auCommittee:Bob Banens 62623405 (h)4145844902 (m)Athletic Events Sub-Committee.Prue Bradford 62815636 (h)62778216 (w) Run/WalkingHandicap Sub-Committee.Email: bradfam@tpg.com.auACT VETERANS ATHLETIC CLUB “Fitness Through Fellowship”The Vetrunner is the official Newsletter of ACTVACPostal Address: GPO Box 2356, Canberra, ACT 2601. Internet at: actvac.comDisclaimer: The views expressed in this newsletter are not necessarily the views of ACTVACJayne Hardy 62271443 (h)0412262257 (m) Coaching andTraining Sub-Committee.Stuart J Reid 62942368 (h)Run/Walking Handicap Sub-Committee.Email: reidsj@primus.com.auRoger Stewart 62882798 (h)62838329 (w) Administration andClub Structure Sub-Committee.Pam Weiss 62928056 (h) Email:pweiss@austarmetro.com.auOther Contacts:Athletic Events Sub-Committee:Neil Boden 62414023 (h) 62499428(w) Email: Nboden@austarmetro.com.auAwards Sub-Committee, HalfMarathon: Bryan Thomas62963278 (h) Email:brytrish@eisa.net.auCatering/Lost Property: JohnSuiter (Track) 62959524 (h). Kentand Lynn Williams (Monthly Hcps)62474127 (h).Course Measurement: TerryLevings 62824190 (h).Equipment Officer: Ken Gowans62881651 (h) 62656751 (w).Membership ServicesSub- Committee: DaveMackenzie 62885891 (h).Health and Safety Officer: RoyJones 62510148 (h).Relays and Cross Country: JimWhite 62314168 (h).Registrar: Mick Corlis 62963969(h) 62750753 (w)Email:Mickc@wizardis.com.auSocial Sub-Committee: ValChesterton 62928994 (h) JennyGalvin 69925294 (h) Monika Short62958625 (h).Statistican and Club Records:Quentin Anthony 62863885 Email:janandquentin@ozemail.com.auThrowing Handicapper, WeightPentathlon: Trish Thomas(62963278)Email: brytrish@eisa.net.auUniform and Badges Sales:Rosemary/Bob Parker 62882508(h).Vetrunner Editor: Jim O’Donnell62513016 (h)Email: jimod@optusnet.com.auVetrunner Distribution: RogerAbbott 62514051 and JennyGalvin 62925294.Run/Walking Handicap Sub-Committee, Vetrunner Team:Doug Fry 62886439 (h)Email:doug.fru@pcug.org.auMarquee: Clive Glover 61613068(h).First Aid Officers: Roy Jones,Vince Craig, John Ison, AllanMorris, Gai Webster, MichelleGranville and Marlene Reid.

Page 4— May VetrunnerTHE RECORDS STILL KEEP COMING AS AGREAT SEASON COMES TO AN ENDMarch 20One of the big items coming from ourtrack and field this week was yetanother of Jayne Hardy's amazing feats.Most club athletes would be veryhappy to break an Australian recordwhile competing, but Jayne didn’t just goone step more but took a second step andbroke the record for a third time.All this happened down on the lowerfield during the hammer competition.Jayne’s record breaking throw was aheave of 44.98m beating her ownAustralian record of 44.20, and then acouple of throws later she broke it again,this time by a “tiny wee centimetre”.Then for the third time in the matter ofsix throws Jayne got in a 45.03 andthat’s where her Australian HammerRecord is at the present.The second record of the meet camein the penultimate race of the nightwhen a quartet of young and goodlookingladies took part in the 4x400mrelay. This is a great achievement asalready this season we have had relayteams in the M70 age group and now it’sthe turn of the W65s with Terri Jones.Cory Collins, Gwen Gleeson and AnneYoung establishing a new record of7:12.5. It gets even better when one ofthat quartet was over seventy. The rulesfor breaking relay records allow onerunner from a higher age group.And that wasn’t the end of it for oneof the quartet, Terri Jones. No soonerhad she got her breath back she wasback in action in the spiral handicap inthe first group that goes off on go. Eventhough she had a fair lead, Terri went onto win the 8-lap event. I went off in acouple of groups behind her and by thefourth lap seemed to be making someinroads to her 80m that she had at thestart. However, the longer the race wenton the stronger she became and I ran outof puff, but did manage to stage a prettygood last 80m at full pelt knowing thatMick Corlis was right behind me. Terrigot the 50 points, Mick 49 and JohnMorton 48, I of course didn’t qualify forpoints. There were 27 runners in therace.For my mind the spiral handicapsare a big attraction and maybe nextseason the organisers of the track andfield program will include more of thispopular kind of event. I recall when thespirals started we had 12 races, six ineach half of the season that ranged 5, 6,7, 8, 5, 6 before the New Year and then a7, 8, 5, 6, 7, 8 in the second half withrunners taking their ten best pointscoresof the 12. Something to think about nextseason, especially when there is such adrop off in numbers that have attendedtrack on Thursday evening. I am awarethat the program has got better over thelast two seasons, offering sprinters atleast two events, sometimes three, andboth the jumpers and the throwers ableto take part in at least three events.With the distance runners, by far themajority of the clubs members, weshould strive to make inroads to attractthem to come along to our Thursdayevening track program. The Parlauf over5000m is definitely not by a long shot adistance runners event. At first it was 10sprints over 100m for each of the fivememberteams. Now each of the fivememberteams have to run twice over100m and 200m and once over 400m.Not many distance runners will getdown to the shorter events, rememberhow the “slow twitchers” are well suitedto the longer distances and those withthe “fast twitch” muscles are definitelysprinters. Anyway we have at least sixmonths to fix that, though thecompetition sub-committee should reallyfind out how the distance runners reallyfeel about track. And by the time youread this that competition sub -committee will have already put out asurvey of the members in relation totrack. It will be an interesting survey aseach of the questions will have anmultiple answers.Getting back to the night of March 20ACT VETERANSATHLETIC CLUBSupported byKINGSTON PHYSIOTHERAPYSPORTS INJURY CENTREKENNEDY ST., KINGSTONAlso Supporting ACTVAC are:THE WEST DEAKIN HELLENIC BOWLING CLUBINSTANT COLOUR PRESS IN BELCONNEN

and with only one more meet before theThursday nights are our own again,here is more about what went on in thatpenultimate meet.At the hammer, besides JayneHardy’s superb throws, Bob Banens wasgetting in an over 40m throw as wasSharon Gibbins. Jan Davies, TrishThomas and Ray Green were all onlyjust below that 40m mark with the nextbest Jenny Bourke’s 27 plus metres,Ewen Drummond’s over 25m, PeterNeill’s 24 plus and Mary Wahren’s 23plus efforts. The other two in thecompetition were Steve Wallace andRobert Kennelly both breaking the 20mmark.Later back up at the main stadiumthese hardy (not Jayne Hardy) throwerswere back in action in the discus andshot.First in the discus and going throughthe age groups, M30 Steve Wallace got asecond win of the night as did M50 BobBanens, M55 Ray Green, M65 PeterNeill and M75 Ewen Drummond. AttilaSpaits M60 and Rad Leovic M70 joinedthe winner’s list. In the runners-uppositions, Roger Stewart and LloydDonnelly were second and third in theM50s and Robin Whyte second in theM60s. And that wrapped up the men’sdiscus.For the women in the W40s JayneHardy was followed by Sharon Gibbinsand Margaret Mesher. In the W50sMargaret Taylor had a win over CarmenCarlon and in the W55s Trish Thomasfinished ahead of Raine Thompson.Going up an age group Jen Bourke wasahead of Jan Davies after their allowedsix throws. Mary Wahren took out theW65s.Going over to the shot the patternwas almost a blue print of the other twothrows, indeed as it has been all season.Three wins in three competitions camefrom M30 Steve Wallace, M50 BobBanens, and M75 Ewen Drummondwith Rad Leovic making it two out oftwo. The only runner-up was RobertKennelly in the M50s.For the ladies Penny Paabo was inher first and only throw of the nightwinning the W30s. Then came W40Jayne Hardy’s third win as well as W55Trish Thomas with W60 Jan Daviesmaking it two out of three. MargaretTaylor also had a second win in theW50s. This time the placegetters in theW40s were Sharon Gibbins andMargaret Mesher and Carmen Carlon inthe W50s and last but not least JenBourke in the W60s. That was all forthe throwers and now they have onlythree more competitions before some ofthem cross over to Perth for thenationals.In the jumps the pole, the high andthe triple were on this week’s card.John Donovan was the onlycompetitor in the pole vault and his bestheight of the night was a 2.05. In thehigh it was that man again John thistime putting in a solid 1.40, the best ofthe seven competitors. Second and thirdin the M30s were Dion Devow and CraigEdwards respectively. M65 RayBramwell, M70 Rad Leovic, W30 PennyPaabo and W50 Margaret Taylor all hadwins.Only Ray and Penny went on to takepart in the triple winning the M65s andthe W30s.Because of lack of competitors in the2000 and 3000m steeplechases it wasdecided to put on a one only 3000m runand even they only managed ninerunners. The best of them was MickCorlis and John Morton winner andrunner-up in the M40 age group withNick Mesher third. Graham Burke ledthe M50s over the line from MichaelGardner, and Bob Parker. Roger Abbottwas the lone M65 in the event as wasW35 Lisa Wilson and W55 MargaretMcSpadden.Seven race-walkers and one fitnesswalkerwent off on Mike Adler’s gun todo five laps of the track. In the M40sLachlan Wilkinson was just under aminute ahead of Mark Worrall at thefinish. M50s Geoff Sims led RickHatcher home, this was Rick’s firstouting at track this year, indeed forseveral years. In the M60s Robin Whytewarmed-up for his throwing events withan easy win from Nigel Crew. RaineThompson was the only female and shementioned that she did a PB of a fewseconds. I was the only fitness walkerand I kept Raine company for the fivelaps, keeping in mind that I hadintentions of running in the 8-LapSpiral that was down for an 8.20pmstart.The first of the two sprints, notincluding the 4x400m relay, was over60m this week. We had the usual goodspread of heats with Mike Adler doing agood job getting them sorted out ingroups of five by their approximatetimes. In the end it was pretty close forthe best time of the night with bothMichael Rutter and Dion Devowstopping the clock at 7.5 seconds withAndrew Malone just a tick off that at 7.6and Kevin Matthews on eight secondseven. In the M30s besides Dion andAndrew, Craig Edwards was thirdahead of John Donovan. Then looking atthe rest of the age groups, RogerMay Vetrunner — Page 5Stewart won the M50s, Col Burns theM55s, Michael Roche the M60s and RayBramwell the M65s.For the ladies one of the throwerspopped over to show the others how itwas done. Sharon Gibbins put in asmart 8.6 to stay ahead of JenniferKrevatin’s even nine seconds. MaureenRossiter won the battle of the W50sahead of Jill Brown and Janice Bains,and the diminutive Gwen Gleeson wonthe W70s.The second sprint was over 200mand it was the final event in the DanielsSprint Handicap. The runners weresplit into four heats, two of fivecompetitors and one each of four andthree. In that first heat Alan Nordenhung on to win in 21.60, and as itturned out later, posted the best time ofthe event. Others to finish in order inthat first heat, in order, Ray Bramwell,Jim White, Michael Roche and KevinMatthews. Heat two was probably thebest contested heat of the event withRichard Faulks edging out CraigEdwards by a tenth, then came JohnDonovan two tenths in third leavingDion Devow and Craig Edwards fourthand fifth respectively. Heat 3 was an allfemale affair with Sharon againshowing her competitors a ‘clean pair ofheels’, Jill Brown was second, MaureenRossiter third and Carmen Carlonfourth. In the final heat it was PennyPaabo and Jennifer Krevatin to take onthe wily Roger Stewart. In the end itwas ‘all over red rover’ for Roger as hewas relegated to third spot with Pennygetting in a 22.10 over the line andJennifer a 22.40.Surprisingly there weren’t all thatmany runners interested in the 1500mand it’s usually one of the mostcontested races at track. Maybe with thechampionships finished and only onemore meet to go maybe runners wish toput their spikes away till next spring. Inthat faster heat it looked like ColinFarlow and John Morton were going tofight it out right down to the line asJohn stuck onto Colin’s shoulder likeglue. But it must have been a prettypoor quality of glue as going into thethird lap Colin picked up the pace andsoon established a handy 20m lead. Inthe end he cruised home with a 4:32.7with John second ahead of Ken White.Nick Mesher was third in that M40 agegroup. For the rest the M30s went toAndrew Malone, Andrew is one of thetop sprinters in the club and does notnormally go anything more than 400m.In the M45s George Kubitzky wassecond to Ken with Neil Boden winningthe M50s. Going up to the M55s Geoff

Page 6—May VetrunnerBarker was the winner ahead of AlanNorden.For the ladies Maria O’Reilly was toogood for Kathy Sims with Lisa Wilsonthird, all three winning their respectiveage groups. Others to finish wereAmanda Walker second in the W35s andMargaret McSpadden winning theW55s.In the 4x400m relays I have alreadymentioned that record breaking run byfour of our W65s. However, in the M30sthe quartet of Andrew Malone, CraigEdwards, Dion Devow and JohnDonovan fancied their chances ofbeating the age group record of 4:21.1.However, although they all ran well andhad good baton changes it was all alittle too much for them and theyfinished some five seconds outside thatM30 record.Then there was only the final 8-lapspiral to go. I have mentioned TerriJones and myself along with Mick Corlisgetting the top points from JohnMorton. Well looking at the resultsagain it seems that Trevor Jacobs ranan 11.46 to post the best net time for themen and Kathy Sims was home in 14.37the fastest of the women.HammerM45 Steve Wallace 21.76M50 Bob Banens 40.82, Robert Kennelly 20.90M55 Ray Green 38.43M65 Peter Neill 24.45M75 Ewen Drummond 25.30W40 Jayne Hardy 45.03 (Australian record), SharonGibbins 42.11W55 Trish Thomas 28.51W60 Jan Davies 39.40, Jenny Bourke 27.59W65 Mary Wahren 23.24.Pole VaultM30 John Donovan 2.05.High JumpM30 John Donovan 1.40, Dion Devow 1.35, CraigEdwards 1.25M65 Ray Bramwell 1.20M70 Rad Leovic 1.20W30 Penny Paabo 1.35W50 Margaret Taylor 1.30.Triple JumpM65 Ray Bramwell 8.10W30 Penny Paabo 8.30.ShotM45 Steve Wallace 8.73M50 Bob Banens 11.82, Robert Kennelly 8.64M55 Ray Green 11.46M70 Rad Leov ic 6.93M75 Ewen Drummond 7.84W30 Penny Paabo 8.92W40 Jayne Hardy 10.85, Sharon Gibbins 9.09,Margaret Mesher 7.22W50 Margaret Taylor 7.09, Carmen Carlon 4.21W55 Trish Thomas 8.25W60 Jan Davies 8.44, Jenny Bourke 8.22.DiscusM30 John Donovan 21.81M45 Steve Wallace 24.35M50 Bob Banens 38.18, Roger Stewart 20.34, LloydDonnelly 15.78M55 Ray Green 39.96M60 Attila Spaits 36.61, Robin Whyte 23.28M65 Peter Neill 23.17M70 Rad Leovic 16.33M75 Ewen Drummond 19.28W40 Jayne Hardy 37.11, Sharon Gibbins 31.44,Margaret Mesher 16.94W50 Margaret Taylor 19.18, Carmen Carlon 11.20W55 Trish Thomas 19.17, Raine Thompson 12.04W60 Jenny Bourke 22.72, Jan Davies 20.47W65 Mary Wahren 14.49.3000mM40 Mick Corlis 10:12, John Morton 10:30, NickMesher 11:3M55 Graham Burke, 11:18, Mike Gardner 12:55, BobParker 14:19M65 Roger Abbott 13:43W35 Lisa Wilson 12:40W55 Margaret McSpadden 15:01.2000m WalkM40 Lachlan Wilkinson 10:38, Mark Worrall 11:16M50 Geoff Sims 11:24, Rick Hatcher 12:10M60 Robin Whyte 10:51, Nigel Crew 21:43W55 Raine Thompson 16:01.Fitness WalkM65 Jim O'Donnell 16:01.60mM30 Dion Devow 7.5, Andrew Malone 7.6, CraigEdwards 8.0, John Donovan 8.9M40 Michael Rutter 7.5, Kevin Matthews 7.9M50 Roger Stewart 8.5M55 Colin Burns 8.3, Alan Norden 9.5M60 Michael Roche 8.6M65 Ray Bramwell 9.2W35 Jennifer Krevatin 9.0W40 Sharon Gibbins 8.6W50 Maureen Rossiter 9.2, Jill Brown 10.0, JaniceBaines 11.0W70 Gwen Gleeson 11.7.1500mM30 Andrew Malone 7:08.4M40 Colin Farlow 4:32.7, John Morton 4:44.8, NickMesher 5:26.8M45 Ken White 5:05.3, George Kubitzky 5:46.5M50 Neil Boden 5:46.8M55 Geoff Barker 6:40.3, Alan Norden 7:14.5W35 Lisa Wilson 5:59.5, Amanda Walker 6:07.8.W45 Maria O'Reilly 5:26.9W50 Kathy Sims 5:51.3W55 Margaret McSpadden 7:11.1.4x400 Relay:M30 Andrew Malone, M30 Craig Edwards, M30 DionDevow, M30 John Donovan 4:26.5, 2.M50 Roger Stewart, M50 Neil Boden, M45 GeorgeKubitzky, M50 Pat Stakelum 4:29.2, 3.W65 Terri Jones, W65 Cory Collins, W70 GwenGleeson, W65 Anne Young 7:12.5 (Est W65 ACT rec).Adler Spiral Handicap over 8-LapsAge Name GrpSt Gross Net PtsW65 Terri Jones 0.20 22:17 21:57 50M65 Jim O'Donnell 0.35 22:58 22:23 0M40 Mick Corlis 11.05 23:00 11:55 49M40 John Morton 11.25 24:00 12:35 48M60 Robin Whyte 5.15 24:06 18:51 47M50 Roger Stewart 5.00 24:10 19:10 46W50 Maureen Rossiter 9.05 24:22 15:17 45M50 Terry Levings 8.30 24:26 15:56 44M65 Roger Abbott 8.30 24:28 15:58 43M40 Colin Farlow 12.35 24:33 11:58 42M50 Trevor Jacobs 12.50 24:36 11:46 41M55 Bob Parker 8.10 24:38 16:28 40M55 Graham Burke 12.00 24:40 12:40 39M45 Mike Breen 5.50 24:44 18:54 38M55 Geoff Barker 8.45 24:46 16:01 37M50 Jim White 11.05 24:48 13:43 36M50 Neil Boden 10.30 24:49 14:19 35W55 Marg McSpadden 7.15 24:50 17:35 34M70 John Suiter 6.10 24:51 18:41 33W50 Kathy Sims 10.15 24:52 14:37 32M45 Mike Leahey 13.10 24:56 11:46 31M55 Mike Gardner 7.00 24:58 17:58 30M60 Mike Roche 6.45 25:13 18:28 29M60 Graeme Small 8.30 25:18 16:48 28M55 Will Foster 8.45 25:35 16:50 27M30 Craig Edwards 10.50 26:37 15:47 26W50 Carmen Carlon 0.00 28:50 28:50 25200m Daniels Sprint HandicapAge Name Perf PtsM55 Alan Norden 21.60 30M50 Roger Stewart 22.50 28M40 Richard Faulks 22.90 26M30 Craig Edwards 23.00 25M30 John Donovan 23.20 22M50 Jim White 23.20 22M60 Michael Roche 23.20 20M30 Dion Devow 23.50 0M40 Kevin Matthews 23.80 18M40 Mick Horan 26.60 0W30 Penny Paabo 22.10 0W35 Jennifer Krevatin 22.40 29W40 Sharon Gibbins 22.80 27W50 Jill Brown 23.10 23W50 Maureen Rossiter 23.30 19MARCH 27Sadly this was the last track andfield meet of the year, though many, inparticular, Neil Boden and his crew willnow be able to relax after they had heldyet another top year of competition.It is unfortunate that although thecompetition sub-committee has tried togive everyone in all disciplines of trackand field a fair go, some of the eveningscould have been better supported.However, it was good to see that thefinal night, which also acts as thepresentation of the annual awards waswell supported.As most of the regular track andfield people know the club offers a widerange of handicap events giving thechance for everyone to get to the top inthe Daniels Sprint races, thePennington middle distances events, theBoag Awards for sprinters and hurdlers,the Throwers Track Series and last butnot least the Adler Series Handicaps forthe distance runners.End of season performancesAlthough this meet was the finallyfor the season there were still some topperformances as well, including yetanother two records be written to ourlong list of record- breakingperformances that we have seen thisseason.First to the race walks where ouroldest athlete this season, M80 AudunFristad, set about establishing a newM80 record over 800m. Audun comes upfrom the South Coast regularly, usuallyto compete in the throwing handicaps.This year he has combined the two andwas at the track to present the annualFristad Awards for Excellence inPerformance for our male and femaleathletes. He also took the chance toparticipate in the walking event andwith a 6:45.3 established an M80 record.Other performances in the walk sawtwo females “scoop the pool”, firstly LisaWilson recording the best time of eightwalkers in a remarkable time of 3:50.1and in second position, more than aminute adrift, was Monika Short with a4:54.6 and although technically a‘Fitness Walker’ I was third with a5:06.5.

The other record of the meet camefrom W35 Jenny Pluck in the 400mwhere she ran a 60.07 to take a secondoff her own record set only a couple ofweeks ago. Jenny took the chance andran in the fastest heat that includedguns of the likes of Ken Telfer, CraigEdwards, Colin Farlow and RichardFaulks. Craig was having a bit of awhinge before they got the gun abouthis drawing of the outside lane again.However, it must have been a goodomen for him has he produced a PB in56.1 only beaten by Ken’s 53.5. Colinwas third and Richard fourth. It was awelcome return to the track for TonyBooth who has been out all season witha problem achilles, he still managed totake the M60s with what is for him aslow run of 1:21.7. Other age groupwinners were M45 Nick Blackaby, M50Pat Stakelum and M55 Alan Norden.For the “fair sex” besides Jenny’s PB,Vicki Matthews, Maureen Rossiter (yesfor once Maureen didn’t break a recordin the 400m like she has been doingrepeatedly), but her 65.9 was prettyclose to her record breaking mark of65.26 set in the Club Championships acouple of weeks earlier), Val Chesterton,Cory Collins and Gwen Gleeson had agegroup winsUnlike the last couple of weeks therewas quite a good roll-up for the3000/5000m races that we have beenopening the program with each week.As they got underway it was a fourpersonrace for the first couple of lapswith Andrew Bishop, Mick Corlis, SteveAppleby and Michael Leahey in theleading bunch. First to drop off, as thepace heated-up was Steve, then Mickleaving Andrew and Michael to fight itout between them. It wasn’t till partway through the final lap that Michaelmade his move and never looked back.He eventually won the 3000m in 10.01with Andrew 10.06, Mick 10.27 withSteve managing to hold onto fourthposition with an 11.17 from the fastfinishing Ken White who was also timedat 11.17. Other age group winnersincluded M50 Terry Levings, M55 KenEynon and M60 Graeme Small.For the women Kathy Sims,although far from her best, finished on12.14 well ahead of Amanda Walker’s12.56. Others to take out age group winswere W40 Pam Faulks, W55 MargaretMcSpadden and W65 Terri Jones.Of the five that went on to completethe 5000m, three of them were M40sand they filled the top three positions.Nick Mesher in what was his best effortof the season ran a 19.32, RogerPilkington 19.47 and Don Smith rightsmack bang on 20 minutes. The othertwo were M60 Mike Worsley and M65Peter Trotter.In the 100m the first three in each ofthe heats were Michael Roche from AlanNorden and Nick Blackaby then VickiMatthews was too good for RogerStewart and Sharon Gibbins and finallyKen Telfer had too much speed for DionDevow and Kevin Matthews.We had for the first time theunusual race distance of 1000m that is abit too much for the sprinters and tooshort for our distance experts, but manyof them had a go anyway.The third heat was a beauty thatincluded the all conquering ColinFarlow against John Morton, John hasbeen playing ‘second fiddle’ to Colin thisseason and the only time I canremember Colin not winning a race wasagainst Anthony Perry in a 1500mevent. Colin, as he usually does wentout in front with John right on his tailnot giving an inch, just after going intothe last 400m John came right up onColin’s shoulder and going down theback straight pulled in another gear andsoon established a ten metre gap thatfor some reason Colin wasn’t able to doanything about. Going up the last 100mColin certainly had a go and narrowedthe gap but left it all too late with Johnhome in 2:47.0 to Colin’s 2:47.6, withAnthony Perry third in 2:51.2. In theother age groups wins went to M45Michael Leahey, M50 Neil Boden, M55Kevin Chamberlain, M60 Mike Worsleyand M65 Peter Trotter.For the three girls in the fieldCharmaine Knobel was ahead ofMargaret McSpadden and Terri Jonesat the finish.Only Roger Stewart and ColinRobbie took on the 100m hurdles withRoger posting a 20.2 and Colin a 21.8.The final track race for the seasonwas the parlauf relays in which each ofthe five team members have to run the400, 300, 200 and 100m distance. Rightfrom the beginning, after RogerStewart’s team of Tony Booth, AndrewMalone, Anthony Perry and JennyPluck had completed their 400m it wasobvious that they were the team to beat.But how much and in what time.However, maybe I wasn’t giving theother teams, especially the “RobertBarbaro Five”, any respect as they ateinto that lead and the end were onlybeaten by a matter of less than a minuteby Roger’s team on 14.52. Jim White’steam was third in 15.50 and DionDevow’s mob 15.52.Three throws and two jumps were upfor grabs in the final field events of theMay Vetrunner — Page 7season.In the heavy weight newcomer DavidTow won the M40s as did M45 SteveWallace, M50 Robert Kennelly and M75Ewen Drummond. For the ladies W60Jan Davies with a 15.45 was the best ofthe four that were in the competition,with Nola De Chazal, second in that agegroup, had a PB of 7.28. W40 JayneHardy and W55 Trish Thomas were theother age group winners.In the triple jump Ken Smith andNick Blackaby were first and second inthe M45s as were Colin Robbie and RayBramwell in the M65s. Sharon Gibbinswas the only woman in the field.Then in the last jump of the meet,the long jump, M30 Andrew Malone5.14 and M40 Kevin Matthews 5.29headed the field with Nick Blackablytaking the M45s and Colin Robbie andRay Bramwell again first and second inthe M65. Once more Sharon Gibbinswas the lone female competitor.A bit more action in the discus andthe javelin with a combined total of 42competitors taking part.In the discus the best throw in themen’s division came from M50 BobBanens just ahead of M60 Attila Spaits.Other age group winners were M30John Donovan, M40 Craig Wisdom witha PB of 27.28, M45 Steve Wallace, M55Phil Toomey, M65 Colin Robbie, M70Rad Leovic and M75 Ewen Drummond.For the women Jayne Hardy’s 36.38 wasway ahead of the rest in winning theW40s. Other age group winners wereW50 Margaret Taylor, W55 TrishThomas and W60 Jan Davies.In the javelin Bob Banens and JayneHardy got in top throws to take out theM50s and W40s respectively. In othermen’s groups Craig Edwards won theM30s as did Craig Wisdom M40s, PhilToomey M55s, Robin Whyte M60s, RadLeovic M70s and Ewen DrummondM75s. Margaret Taylor W50, TrishThomas W55 and Jan Davies W60 werethe women’s age group winners.3000mM30 Andrew Bishop 10:06M40 Mick Corlis 10:27M45 Mike Leahey 10:01, Steve Appleby 11:17, KenWhite 11:17, Thomas Lane 11:32, Nick Blackaby15:24M50 Terry Levings 13:45M55 Ken Eynon 11:21, Graham Burke 11:23, DanDawes 12:14, Michael Gardner 13:19, Geoff Barker13:43, Bob Parker 14:15M60 Graeme Small 14:16W35 Amanda Walker 12:56W40 Pam Faulks 15:18W50 Kathy Sims 12:14, Charmaine Knobel 14:41W55 Margaret McSpadden 14:50, Alice Scott 14:58W65 Terri Jones 19:03.5000mM40 Nick Mesher 19:32, Roger Pilkington 19:47, DonSmith 20:00M60 Mike Worsley 22:08

Page 8—May VetrunnerM65 Peter Trotter 23:09.800m WalkM65 Terry Munro 5:20.2M70 Dave Mackenzie 5:24.7M80 Audun Fristad 6:45.3 (Established an M80 ACTrec)W35 Lisa Wilson 3:50.1W55 Monika Short 4:54.6, Alice Scott 5:41.5, RaineThompson 6:21.3Margaret McSpadden 6:21.6.800m Fitness WalkM65 Jim O'Donnell 5:06.5W40 Margaret Mesher 7:09.6.100mM30 Dion Devow 11.9, Craig Edwards 12.2M35 Ken Telfer 11.4M40 Kevin Matthews 12.0, Michael Rutter 12.4, GeoffDavis 12.5M45 Ken Smith 12.6, Nick Blackaby 17.6M50 Robert Barbaro 12.3, Roger Stewart 13.9M55 Alan Norden 15.6, Garry Maher 16.4M60 Michael Roche 14.4M65 Ray Bramwell 14.9W40 Vicki Matthews 13.8, Sharon Gibbins 14.3W50 Maureen Rossiter 15.4W70 Gwen Gleeson 20.0.1000mM30 Andrew Malone 3:59.8M35 Anthony Perry 2:51.2M40 John Morton 2:47.0, Colin Farlow 2:47.6, CraigWisdom 3:01.4, Nick Mesher 3:17.7, Roger Pilkington3:31.5, John Maguire 3:47.2M45 Mike Leahey 3:02.8, Ken White 3:15.1, SteveAppleby 3:15.9, Thomas Lane 3:22.5, Nick Blackaby4:19.1M50 Neil Boden 3:23.2, Jim White 3:35.2, TerryLevings 3:59.1M55 Kevin Chamberlain 3:03.7, Will Foster 3:52.6,Geoff Barker 4:13.2, Alan Norden 4:34.5M60 Mike Worsley 3:55.5M65 Peter Trotter 4:02.5W50 Charmaine Knobel 4:17.5W55 Margaret McSpadden 4:38.4W65 Terri Jones 5:59.8.400mM30 Craig Edwards 56.1, John Donovan 1:15.4M35 Ken Telfer 53.5, Anthony Perry 58.3M40 Colin Farlow 57.6, Richard Faulks 58.0M45 Nick Blackaby 1:26.0M50 Patrick Stakelum 58.8, Tony Wain 1:08.4M55 Alan Norden 1:22.3M60 Tony Booth 1:21.7W35 Jenny Pluck 1:00.7 (ACT rec)W40 Vicki Matthews 1:06.7W50 Maureen Rossiter 1:05.9W60 Val Chesterton 1:58.9W65 Cory Collins 1:20.3W70 Gwen Gleeson 2:10.1.100m HurdlesM50 Roger Stewart 20.2M65 Colin Robbie 21.8.Parlauf 5000m Relay(Each runner runs a 400, 300, 200 and 400m leg)M60 Tony Booth, M50 Roger Stewart, M35 AnthonyPerry, M30 Andrew Malone, W35 Jenny Pluck 14:52.W50 Charmaine Knobel, M50 Robert Barbaro, M40John Morton, W55 Margaret McSpadden, M50 NeilBoden 15:34.W65 Cory Collins, M50 Jim White, M55 Geoff Barker,M40 Colin Farlow, M45 Steve Appleby 15:50.W65 Terri Jones, M30 Dion Devow, M60 MikeWorsley, M40 Craig Wisdom, 40 John Maguire 15:52.Mar-03Heavy WeightM40 David Tow 6.50M45 Steve Wallace 7.71M50 Robert Kennelly 9.52M75 Ewen Drummond 9.72W40 Jayne Hardy 14.51W55 Trish Thomas 9.44 PBW60 Jan Davies 15.45, Nola De Chazal 7.28 PB.Triple JumpM45 Ken Smith 9.91, Nick Blackaby 7.12M65 Colin Robbie 8.57, Ray Bramwell 8.10W40 Sharon Gibbins 8.45.Long JumpM30 Andrew Malone 5.14M40 Kevin Matthews 5.29M45 Nick Blackaby 3.20M65 Colin Robbie 3.77,Ray Bramwell 3.37W40 Sharon Gibbins 4.06.DiscusM30 John Donovan 19.24M40 Craig Wisdom 27.28 PB, David Tow 21.24M45 Steve Wallace 22.83M50 Bob Banens 39.76, Robert Kennelly 21.43M55 Phillip Toomey 23.42M60 Attila Spaits 37.99, Robin Whyte 25.54M65 Colin Robbie 35.15M70 Rad Leovic 16.83M75 Ewen Drummond 18.52M80 Audun Fristad 14.64W40 Jayne Hardy 36.38, Margaret Mesher 17.82W50 Margaret Taylor 21.17W55 Trish Thomas 20.72, Raine Thompson 13.58W60 Jan Davies 20.58, Nola De Chazal 13.21.JavelinM30 Craig Edwards 23.36, John Donovan 21.18M40 Craig Wisdom 35.62, Kevin Matthews 35.08,David Tow 28.59M45 Steve Wallace 22.54M50 Bob Banens 43.14, Robert Barbaro 25.21, RogerStewart 21.99, Robert Kennelly 18.85M55 Phillip Toomey 21.8M60 Robin Whyte 27.11M70 Rad Leovic 18.15M75 Ewen Drummond 18.50M80 Audun Fristad 16.02W40 Jayne Hardy 36.77, Vicki Matthews 23.08,Margaret Mesher 11.01W50 Margaret Taylor 17.17W55 Trish Thomas 17.54W60 Jan Davies 19.64, .Nola De Chazal 9.69.Adler Spiral Handicap Final PointscoreAge Name Evts Gross NetM50 Roger Stewart 7 286 268W50 Maureen Rossiter 8 300 257M55 Graham Burke 8 289 235M50 Jim White 8 292 234M40 Mick Corlis 7 253 231M45 Michael Leahey 6 226 226M70 John Suiter 8 285 226M40 Colin Farlow 6 216 216W50 Kathy Sims 7 241 214M70 Otmar Dorfer 7 236 211M55 Bob Parker 6 203 203M55 Will Foster 7 221 202M50 Neil Boden 7 226 202M45 Nick Blackaby 6 190 190M50 Terry Levings 6 188 188M55 Ken Eynon 5 188 188M60 Bryan Thomas 5 186 186M45 Steve Dawes 6 186 186M60 Michael Roche 6 184 184M50 Kevin O'Keeffe 5 178 178M50 Geoff Moore 5 178 178M55 Michael Gardner 6 169 169W55 Marg McSpadden 5 167 167M55 GeoffBarker 5 165 165W35 Lisa Wilson 5 159 159W50 Jill Brown 5 157 157M60 Robin Whyte 4 156 156M40 John Morton 5 156 156M45 Steve Appleby 4 155 155M65 Terry Munro 4 135 135M50 Geoff Sims 4 132 132M50 Mario Larocca 4 132 132M65 Roger Abbott 4 128 128M45 Mike Breen 4 127 127M30 Craig Edwards 3 119 119M65 Ray Bramwell 4 118 118W55 Alice Scott 4 116 116M60 Mike Worsley 3 109 109M40 Roger Pilkington 3 106 106W40 Kerry Boden 4 104 104W50 Charmain Knobel 4 101 101W45 Bev Breen 3 93 93M40 Nigel Coldrick 3 91 91W65 Cory Collins 3 88 88W35 Amanda Walker 2 68 68W55 Rosemary Parker 2 68 68M65 Jim O'Donnell 4 67 67M55 Alan Norden 2 63 63M60 Roy Jones 2 63 63M45 George Kubitzky 3 59 59M55 Kevin Chamberlain1 50 50W65 Terri Jones 2 50 50W50 Carmen Carlon 2 46 46M45 Ken White 2 43 43M50 Trevor Jacobs 2 41 41W40 Pam Faulks 2 37 37W60 Nola De Chazal 3 34 34M45 Thomas Lane 2 33 33W60 Francis Harris 2 32 32M60 Graeme Small 2 28 28M35 Phil Coggins 2 23 23M45 Craig Freeman 1 22 22Daniels Sprint HandicapFinal PointscoreMenAge NameGross NetM40 Kevin Matthews 166 158(Declared the winner as SHERPA had difficulty incalculating the points scored, which, in the end weredone manually by Garry Maner).M55 Alan Norden 163 149M45 Stephen Dawes 133 133M50 Roger Stewart 143 132M50 Jim White 143 127M70 John Burns 122 122M30 John Donovan 114 114M30 Craig Edwards 103 103M65 Ray Bramwell 99 99M50 Robert Barbaro 97 97M60 Michael Roche 91 91M35 Ken Telfer 70 70M30 Andrew Malone 59 59M35 Stephen Jones 48 48M40 Michael Rutter 43 43M40 Dale Moore 35 35M70 Otmar Dorfer 30 30M50 Patrick Stakelum 29 29M45 Nick Blackaby 29 29M50 Bob Banens 28 28M55 Garry Maher 28 28M45 Ken Smith 28 28M40 Richard Faulks 26 26M55 Colin Burns 25 25M40 Dave McClelland 24 24M50 Chris Vincent 24 24M45 Stephen Knight 22 22M65 Ken Daniels 20 20M40 John Morton 18 18M55 Peter P Davies 16 16M50 Tom Geraghty 12 12WomenW35 Jennifer Krevatin 163 149W50 Jill Brown 167 146W50 Maureen Rossiter 144 129W45 Bev Breen 109 109W40 Vicki Matthews 95 95W40 Sharon Gibbins 89 89W60 Francis Harris 69 69W45 Jill Pearson 48 48W65 Cory Collins 43 43W40 Kerry Boden 23 23W30 Ellen Lloyd 19 19W30 Jenny Langton 17 17W40 Sue Bourke 16 16W30 Cecilia Shlegel 15 15W50 Janis Baines 12 12Pennington Final PointsAge NamePtsM55 Kevin Chamberlain 145M40 Colin Farlow 145M45 Mike Leahey 141M40 Dale Moore 136W50 Kathy Sims 133M50 Geoff Moore 123M45 Ken White 113M50 Neil Boden 100W50 Jill Brown 81

M50 Kevin O'Keeffe 77M40 Bryce Anderson 71M55 Rod Gilchrist 70M50 Greg Stretton 68M50 Jim White 66W65 Anne Young 63M55 Peter P Davies 62M60 Mike Worsley 60M40 Nigel Coldrick 56M70 Otmar Dorfer 56M40 Nick Mesher 56M40 Roger Pilkington 54W50 Charmaine Knobel 53M40 John Morton 49M55 Graham Burke 49M55 Will Foster 47M55 Ken Eynon 46W45 Maria O'Reilly 45W50 Maureen Rossiter 45M40 Mick Corlis 45M45 Neville Madden 44W30 Jenny Langton 43M30 Phillip McGilvray 42W35 Jenny Pluck 42M40 Dave McClelland 40M40 Craig Wisdom 39M45 Nick Blackaby 39M60 Bryan Thomas 38M40 Richard Faulks 38M40 Kevin Matthews 36W65 Cory Collins 35W50 Cathy Montalto 35M45 Thomas Lane 34M45 Ian Colquhoun 33M65 Bob Chapman 33M40 Don Smith 32M40 Michael Rutter 31M45 George Kubitzky 30M70 Rad Leovic 28M50 Mario Larocca 26M50 Gunnar Bursell 26W35 Amanda Walker 24M55 Geoff Barker 23M50 Jim Tucker 23M55 Michael Gardner 22W60 Pamela Weiss 22W35 Claire Perry 21W40 Kerry Boden 20W40 Pam Faulks 19Boag Final PercentagesAge Name Evts %ASTM50 Robert Barbaro 5 89.16M55 Colin Burns 1 85.79M35 Ken Telfer 1 85.77M50 Bob Banens 1 85.58M70 Jack Thackray 1 84.28M40 Michael Rutter 4 84.19W50 Maureen Rossiter 6 83.32M50 Patrick Stakelum 2 83.00M40 John Morton 1 82.23M55 Garry Maher 7 81.77(Declared the winner as he competed inboth the short and long hurdles.)M45 Neville Madden 1 81.02W50 Margaret Taylor 8 80.62(Declared the winner as she competed inboth the short and long hurdles.)W65 Cory Collins 1 80.59M30 Andrew Malone 1 80.16W45 Jill Pearson 4 79.93M40 Ian Bradfield 1 79.67M50 Ian Lavering 1 79.53W40 Sally Hamilton 1 79.22M40 Kevin Matthews 6 78.71M40 Colin Farlow 1 78.32W60 Francis Harris 4 78.28M65 Ray Bramwell 2 78.06W40 Sharon Gibbins 1 77.95M60 Michael Roche 2 77.90M40 Richard Faulks 2 77.86M55 Peter P Davies 5 77.82M65 Ken Daniels 2 77.81W40 Vicki Matthews 7 76.96W40 Sue Bourke 2 76.52M45 Stephen Knight 1 76.29M30 Craig Edwards 3 75.99M45 Ken Smith 5 75.89W40 Kerry Boden 1 75.84W45 Maria O'Reilly 1 75.68M40 Dale Moore 4 75.06M70 John Burns 3 74.95M40 Mick Horan 1 74.89M70 Otmar Dorfer 4 74.53W30 Jenny Langton 1 74.26M35 Stephen Jones 1 74.19M30 Laurie Cullen 1 74.14M40 Dave McClelland 2 73.97M70 Rad Leovic 2 73.92May Vetrunner — Page 9M50 Geoff Sims 2 73.87M40 Bryce Anderson 1 73.34W35 Jennifer Krevatin 2 73.06M70 Jack Perry 1 72.49M50 Tony Wain 1 72.43W35 Allison Bell 1 72.19W50 Jill Brown 5 72.18M45 George Kubitzky 1 71.87M60 Bryan Thomas 1 71.78M50 Roger Stewart 7 71.63M50 Jim White 3 71.19W30 Ellen Lloyd 2 71.10M30 David Simpson 1 70.93M30 Dion Devow 2 70.31M50 Chris Vincent 1 69.50M35 Peter Cullen 1 68.97M40 Mike Aylott 2 68.88W45 Bev Breen 2 68.61M55 Alan Norden 6 68.09M40 Nigel Coldrick 1 67.84W50 Charmaine Knobel 3 67.02M40 Craig Wisdom 2 66.41M60 Mike Worsley 1 66.03W35 Amanda Walker 1 65.38M45 Stephen Dawes 4 64.39M40 Peter Manley 2 62.53W30 Cecilia Shlegel 2 62.35M30 John Donovan 3 61.73W35 Claire Perry 1 57.03W40 Pam Faulks 1 56.01M55 Will Foster 1 54.75M45 Nick Blackaby 5 54.19M65 Terry Munro 1 53.14THE MAJOR TRACK AND FIELD AWARDS FOR 2002-2003THE ADLER SPIRAL SERIESThis is a handicap a series of eightevents, two of five, six, seven and eightlap races that started way back inOctober. Runners are awarded pointsfrom 1 to 50 according to where theywere placed in each race. Also in eachrace the placegetters and all that finishin the top 50% are re-handicappedallocates them to more difficult groups.This season’s winner was RogerStewart, however it was extremely tightand it was only after the final race thatthe winner was finally confirmed andRoger took the top prize by a matter of acouple of points from Maureen Rossiterwith Graham Burke third.There is an old-age saying that “thewinners are grinners”, the losers willhave to try again next season. Thatoften comes to the fore in some of theawards in particular the Throwers, theBoag and the Daniels events.THE THROWERS TROPHYOnce again Ray Green and JayneHardy dominated the Throwers TrackSeries, indeed they have won everymen’s and women’s trophies every yearsince it started five years ago. The waythe winners of the Throwers Trophy isworked out is by a percentage of all thefive discipline’s results against theWorld Masters Athletic (WMA) agegroup best performances, thatpercentage is then averaged out over theseason. So the congratulations go to Rayand Jayne for their efforts, andespecially to Jayne for her tremendousseason, after she moved up to the W40sand broke record after record.THE DANIELS SPRINT SERIESThe Daniels Sprint Series is yetanother of our popular handicap racesthat give athletes of all abilities thechance to get the top of the pointscoretable. Each athlete is given a handicapAward winners: From the left: Roger Stewart Adler winner with Graham Burke third. Ray Green took out the Throwers Trophy.

Page 10—May Vetrunnerof metres according to how fast they canrun over the set distances of 100 and200m, i.e. the slowest runner in the100m is given say a 40m start and thequickest may be given only a couple ofmetres. The best times of both the men’sand women’s race are given points foreach event from 20 downwards to theslowest runner. This year it was verytight at the top of the results table andalthough we usually rely on computersto give a fair and correct result, thisseason it had to be done manually. Thewinners of the Daniels Sprint Awardsthis year were Kevin Matthews for themen, and Jennifer Krevatin for thewomen.THE BOAG AWARDSThe Boag Awards are another eventthat is worked out by percentage.Competitors have to compete inspecified events from a short sprint tothe 400m and the short hurdles over 80,100 and 110m as well as the longerhurdles over 300 and 400m. Eachathlete is given a percentage that iscalculated from their performanceagainst WMA age group records, thatpercentage is then averaged over alltheir races and the winner of the men’sBoag Awards this year was GarryMaher with the women’s trophy going toMargaret Taylor. It should be noted thatalthough not at the top in thepercentage tables, both Garry andMargaret were the only runners thathad taken part in the hurdles.THE PENNINGTON SERIESThe Pennington Middle Distanceraces were over 800 and 1500m. Thisevent, although a handicap, has agebased starts once again according toWMA rankings. The older womenstarting first followed by the older menand then going right down through allthe five-year age groups with the M30ssometimes giving the front runnersmore than a minute start in a 1500mrace. These races are very exciting towatch as it is usually comes down tothat final lap, indeed the final 50 to100m of the race, when the fittestrunners in a particular age groupgetting to the front. This year tworunners finished on equal points and itused to be, in the case of a tie, that theolder competitor took out the award.However, in the Pennington, in theevent of a tie, the calculations are a bitdifferent. In this race, in the event of atie, the winner is calculated by how fareach runner is into his or her particularfive-year age group. In this case bothKevin Chamberlain and Colin FowlerThe Daniels Sprint Handicap. Kevin Matthews left took out the men’s award andJennifer Krevatin the women’s award.were three years into their respectiveage groups, then it went down tomonths and if necessary days. However,Kevin is three years and three monthsinto his age group of M55 and Colin isthree years and one month into theM40s. This made Kevin the winner andColin the runner up, both collectingtrophies.THE AUDUN FRISTAD AWARDSThese awards go to the athletes thathave performed up to the level of elite intheir own particular age group and alsofor their own particular types of events.These awards are not done on a pointsor percentage system but on theobservations of Bryan Thomas’ AwardsSub-Committee. I have been on thiscommittee many times over the yearsand normally there are always at least acouple of standout athletes in the men’sand women’s competition in theirchosen discipline. Sometimes chosingthe winners of these awards is veryclose with many athletes in with achance, although when an athletebreaks an Australia-record that recordis observed as higher than an ACTrecord. There are awards for first,second and third in both the men andwomen’s competition.For the men, the Gold Medal went toRobert Barbaro, arguably the Club’sbest age-graded sprinter. He has brokenACT records over 60, 200, and 400m aswell as being a member of the team thatbroke the M50 4x200m. He also won forthe fourth time the Gift, an age-gradedsprint that is held on the Thursdaybefore the Christmas break.The Silver Medal for the 2002-2003track season went to KevinChamberlain. Kevin is a consistentmiddle distance performer, breaking themile record. He won the Higgins 800mage-graded handicap in December, alsotaking out the Pennington Series thisseason for the second time. He alsocompetes in relays and the longerhurdle events. Like Robert he oftencompetes with athletes many years hisjunior. He has also won the Gold MedalAward in this category twice.The Bronze Medal went to BobBanens. He is an athlete that isconsidered as an all-rounder, competingin sprints as well as jumps, multi-eventsand throwing, although he has at timeshad to take care of his “undercarriage”,and only takes part in the five throwingdisciplines. His expertise in javelinthrow is world class and he performs atthe national level in the other fourthrowing events. In the past FristadAwards Bob has taken out the GoldMedal three times, the Silver once andthe Bronze twice.In the women’s competition theoutstanding performance of JayneHardy resulted in several Australianrecords, especially since moving up theto W40 age group. Indeed, it was in thepenultimate track and field meet onMarch 20 that Jayne broke the heavyweight record three times in oneevening. Jayne has already taken outthe Gold Medal in this category as wellas two Silver and Bronze Medals. Thisseason alone Jayne has taken out a totalof 15 Australian or ACT records. Thisyear she won the Throwers Award forthe fifth consecutive year; indeed Jayneand Ray Green have taken out everyaward since its inception.Fran Harris took out the SilverMedal and is one of the club’s more

consistent performers. She has alreadyscored the silver medal in the FristadAwards, and this one makes it two. Sheis world class in the 300m hurdles andin the 2000m Steeplechase. Fran has setseven records, ACT and Australian, thisseason, and without doubt is one of theoutstanding female all rounder for theyear.The Bronze Medal in the FristadAwards this year went to MaureenRossiter, who by any standards has hada magnificent second half of the trackseason. She has consistently betteredher own ACT marks over 400 and 800mseveral times. In the final two weeks ofFebruary and the first two of MarchMaureen had a run of four records in asmany weeks. She has won the “Gift” forthe second year and was the firstwomen home in the Higgins MemorialHandicap.HEART FOUNDATION AWARDThis year’s winner, Trish Thomas, isa very long time member of theACTVAC, having joined in 1984 andbeen honoured with Life Membership in2001.Many have expressed the view thatshe would have been a worthy recipientof this award some years ago. However,throughout this season severalindividuals approached our AwardsSub-committee suggesting that as Trishhas been (and continues to be) awonderful role model for othersconsidering a return to activeparticipation following a lay-off causedby either injury or illness that the timewas right for her to be this year’swinner of the prestigious NationalHeart Foundation Trophy.In seasons past, Trish was an eliteperformer in the throwing events;having set several ACT Records, wonnumerous medals at nationalchampionships, won a gold medal andtwo silver medals at worldchampionships, set a World Record forthe W40 hammer and won the FristadAward for athletics excellence in 1990.Trish has undergone eightoperations over the past 9 years. Theseops include surgery to the face,shoulder, chest, legs and feet; the latestbeing a tendon transfer and realignmentof the right foot in June 2000, a bilateralmastectomy for breast cancer in August2001 and then the left foot realignmentin April last year.She has made a determinedcomeback to athletics competition viafrequent intensive workouts in the gym,a weekly session of deepwater exerciseand has recently commenced a tentativewomen’s.return to specific throwing eventtraining.As in the previous 18 summers,Trish was a regular participantthroughout the current track and fieldseason, competing in all three throwingevents held each evening as well as anoccasional race walk and spiralhandicap race. Trish readily volunteersto help as an official at her event andeven found time to organise a group ofmore senior veteran women throwers topractise relay baton changes inanticipation of entering a relay team atthe nationals in Perth.In past seasons Trish has playedsignificant roles in helping to organiseand conduct major events, activelypromote members’ participation innational and world championships aswell as being very involved in designingand producing club uniforms.Congratulations to Trish Thomas onbeing our 21st recipient of the NationalHeart Foundation Trophy.JOHNSTON TROPHY AWARDSThis year’s recipients, Mike Adler,Doug Fry, Jim O’Donnell and JohnSuiter (our “Magnificent Foursome”)have been vital to the success of ourtrack and field program for manyseasons and are worthy and popularrecipients of this prestigious club-persontrophy.They are always some of the earliestto arrive and last to leave each trackand field night. They often arrive evenbefore the Meet Director and go aboutefficiently unpacking the kit and settingup ready for the evening’s program. Notask is too difficult or too mundane forthis knowledgeable and conscientiousteam.May Vetrunner — Page 11The Boag Awards. Garry Maher, left got the men’s award and Margaret Taylor theThe Pennington Series. Colin Farlow,although equal on points with the winnerof the middle distance handicap KevinChamberlain, took second place on anage group count back using the oldereach athlete is in their particular agegroup. This year’s win is unique. We havenever had an M284 win the JohnsonTrophy before, but on 5 previousoccasions it has been presented to ateam and so it is once again, but neverbefore to a foursome!This year’s winners are an excellentteam, at times seemingly running thewhole program themselves. But theyalso contribute so much as individuals.For example Mike Adler (M77) startsall our races but is also involved inmeasuring and marking the differenthandicap start positions on the track.Mike previously won the JohnsonTrophy in 1996.Doug Fry (M64) is chief recorder who

Page 12—May Vetrunnerknows almost every athlete by nameand the club identification number ofmany. He also maintains our electronictiming equipment including the bigclock. Then at the end of each night’scompetition he goes home and processesresults. Doug also won the JohnsonTrophy in 1995 and 1999.Jim O’Donnell (M69) is a timer and/or recorder as well as photographer. Healso processes results and writes reportsfor both Vetrunner and the CanberraTimes. This season Jim has been able tojoin in the walks and some of the spiralhandicaps. Jim also won the JohnsonTrophy in 1991 and 1994.John Suiter (M74) works mainly aschief timekeeper and sometimes asrecorder. But he also sets up andoperates the drink station for longertrack events, sets up the tea and coffeesupper facilities and as he is always lastto leave he often goes around collectinglost property. John participates in allspiral handicaps and some of the longerraces. John also won the JohnsonTrophy in 1990 and 1995.Although each of this “MagnificentFoursome” has won the Johnson Trophypreviously it is time that we againacknowledge and recognise their valuedcontribution to the continued success ofour summer track and field program.Congratulations to Mike Adler, DougFry, Jim O’Donnell and John Suiter asjoint recipients of the 21st JohnsonTrophy.Note: The task of identifying therecipients and preparing citations forthese two awards was performed bymembers of the Awards Sub-Committeethat were regular attendees throughoutthe track and field season, (BryanThomas (chair), Cory Collins, WillFoster, Maureen Rossiter and MargaretTaylor).Our other tasks are to determinerecipients of Life Membership, theEncouragement Award (monthlyrunning handicaps) and the ClohessyTrophy (monthly throwing handicaps).Other members of the Awards Sub-Committee are John Alcock and Stuart JReid.We appreciate suggestions from membersof persons they believe worthy ofconsideration for these prestigious “ClubPerson” Awards.Each week during the track andfield season the results arecollated and fed into our database system SHERPA by BOBBANENS for the field results withsome assistance from RAYLEARUDOV, the track results byDOUG FRY with some assistancefrom JIM O’DONNELL. Theseresults are then formatted forboth the Canberra Times and theVetrunner by either JIMO’DONNELL or DOUG FRY. Thereports are written by JIMO’DONNELLA NOTABLE TWO DAYS FOR THE THROWING HANDICAPPERThis March Monthly ThrowingHandicap had five recipients of ourmajor Track and Field Awards backedup two days later to perform well in thismonth’s throwing handicap; they were -Bob Banens (third male Fristad Award),Ray Green (male Throwers’ Trophy),Jayne Hardy (female winner of FristadAward), Kevin Matthews (male DanielsSeries) and Trish Thomas (NationalHeart Foundation Trophy). Trish endedthe afternoon with the gold medal as thewinner of the handicap competition, Bobwon the bronze and Kevin made asuccessful debut in the hammer throwwhile both Ray and Jayne threw welldespite being seriously restricted byinjuries. Then as if emphasize thatveteran athletes certainly enjoy regular(and varied) competition Kevin andTrish turned out for the monthlyrunning handicap the followingmorning.It was wonderful to welcome backJean Heath from her 14 months sojournto Cambodia as a voluntary aid worker.Glad to have you back Jean!We were also pleased to welcomeJane Kuypers to her first monthlythrowing handicap. However, as Jane isan enthusiastic and regular gymdevotee she performed well in her firstever attempts at throwing the hammerand javelin. Hope you enjoyed theexperience Jane and that you become aregular participant in this popular andunique competition.MARCH THROWING HANDICAP IN HAMMER and JAVELINName Age Jhcp Jav Tot Pl Hhcp Ham Tot Pl Total Pl PtsThomas,Trish W55 35.41 17.28 52.69 10 26.60 29.72 56.32 1 109.01 1 50Blewitt,Kevin M60 19.69 33.41 53.10 7 24.71 30.60 55.31 2 108.41 2 49Banens,Bob M50 6.74 45.83 52.57 13 12.26 42.06 54.32 3 106.89 3 48Whyte,Robin M60 28.58 25.38 53.96 1 34.49 18.34 52.83 6 106.79 4 47Gibbins,Sharon W40 30.88 22.55 53.43 5 11.40 41.66 53.06 4 106.49 5 46De Chazal,Nola W60 42.86 10.54 53.40 6 36.36 16.44 52.80 7 106.20 6 45Freeman,Peter M55 25.34 28.15 53.49 4 32.52 19.78 52.30 9 105.79 7 44Robbie,Colin M65 24.38 29.32 53.70 2 28.90 23.07 51.97 12 105.67 8 43Chesterton,Val W60 40.78 12.26 53.04 8 39.53 13.02 52.55 8 105.59 9 42Taylor,Margaret W50 37.20 15.14 52.34 14 30.30 22.66 52.96 5 105.30 10 41Mitchell,Irene W60 40.46 12.36 52.82 9 21.38 30.34 51.72 13 104.54 11 40Davies,Jan W60 31.65 20.68 52.33 15 11.22 40.21 51.43 15 103.76 12 39Burns,John M70 40.03 11.65 51.68 19 31.15 20.90 52.05 10 103.73 13 38Toomey,Phil M50 27.31 24.36 51.67 20 29.44 22.58 52.02 11 103.69 14 37Bourke,Jen W60 28.47 25.18 53.65 3 23.37 26.63 50.00 22 103.65 15 36Fristad,Audun M80 36.49 16.10 52.59 12 34.54 16.44 50.98 16 103.57 16 35Blackaby,N’elle W35 45.77 6.40 52.17 16 34.84 15.94 50.78 19 102.95 17 34Perry,Claire W30 42.59 8.94 51.53 22 38.14 12.79 50.93 18 102.46 18 33O'brien,Wendy W50 44.76 6.45 51.21 23 35.39 15.55 50.94 17 102.15 19 32Thomas,Bryan M60 22.99 28.63 51.62 21 30.41 19.68 50.09 21 101.71 20 31Drummond,E M75 32.26 17.66 49.92 26 26.32 25.26 51.58 14 101.50 21 30Neill,Peter M65 31.59 21.02 52.61 11 24.89 23.90 48.79 26 101.40 22 29Nugent,Frank M40 34.25 17.88 52.13 17 30.29 18.63 48.92 25 101.05 23 28Leovic,Rad M70 31.59 18.87 50.46 25 33.79 16.10 49.89 23 100.35 24 27Green, Ray M55 14.88 35.65 50.53 24 13.05 36.14 49.19 24 99.72 25 26Hardy,Jayne W40 15.86 32.92 48.78 27 7.45 43.04 50.49 20 99.27 26 25Colyer,Tania W40 43.84 7.94 51.78 18 35.31 11.49 46.80 27 98.58 27 24Rudov,Raylea W55 33.23 11.06 44.29 28 20.22 15.55 35.77 28 80.06 28 23Mathews,Kevin M40 32.50 16.23 N/EMathews,Vicki W40 19.90 13.66 N/EKuypers,Jane W40 11.94 13.92 N/EHeath,Jean W60 11.28 13.13 N/EMencik,George M70 39.77 N/ERaylea Rudov limited herself tohaving just one gentle fling of thejavelin and one gentle turn with thehammer as she has been diagnosed ashaving suffered a cruciate ligamenttear. It is hoped that her knee will haveimproved sufficiently over the next fewweeks to allow her to participate in thethrowing events at the AustralianMasters’ Athletics Championships inPerth over Easter. Several of today’scompetitors will accompany Raylea inmaking the long haul across theNullabor to the championships in Perth.Best wishes to Bob Banens, Jan Davies,Sharon Gibbins, Ray Green, JayneHardy, Colin Robbie, Margaret Taylor,Bryan and Trish Thomas.

33 vets participated in this month’shandicap competition in hammer andjavelin with the heavy weight throwbeing an optional extra.Biggest throws in the hammer wereby Jayne Hardy 43.04m, Bob Banens42.06, Sharon Gibbins 41.66, Jan Davies40.21, George Mencik 39.77, Ray Green36.14, Kevin Blewitt 30.60, IreneMitchell 30.34 and Trish Thomas29.72m. Apart from newcomer JaneKuypers, Vicki and Kevin Matthews alsohad their first ever attempts at throwingthe “ball and chain”.Winners of the handicapped hammersection were Trish Thomas from KevinBlewitt and Bob Banens.Longest javelin throws were by Bob45.83m, Ray 35.65, Jayne 32.92, KevinMatthews 35.50, Kevin Blewitt 33.41,Colin Robbie 29.32, Bryan Thomas 28.63and Peter Freeman 28.15m.Winners of the handicapped javelinsection were Robin Whyte from ColinRobbie and Jen Bourke.When the combined distances of boththrows were added to each person’shandicap distances the perpetual trophyand gold medal for this month’scompetition went to Trish Thomas, thesilver medal to Kevin Blewitt and thebronze medal to Bob Banens.This was Trish’s seventh win in themonthly handicap competition. She nowjoins Bob Banens, Frank Nugent andFran Schiller as most prolific winners ofthe monthly trophy, the next best areGreg Laws with six and Raylea Rudovfive. Trish’s previous trophies were inNovember 1990, October 1993, Marchand September 1995 and March andApril 2001. Note that three of her winswere in March.Veteran athletes certainly enjoyregular (and varied) competition!After two months of the 2003monthly throwing handicap season TrishThomas is currently leading theprogressive point score with 95 points,just ahead of Kevin Blewitt 95 and ColinRobbie 93. Making up the top ten are –Sharon Gibbins 82 points, Jan Daviesand Margaret Taylor are tied on 81, thenthere is a group of three Audun Fristad,Jen Bourke and John Burns with 79 andPeter Freeman is 10th on 77 points.The lucky draw for the 128th bottleof port (kindly donated by Joe ofWanniassa IGA Supermarket, was wonby Frank Nugent. Unfortunately thiswill be the last bottle donated by Joe forhe has retired and sold the WanniassaIGA Supermarket.For almost 13 years Joe has kindlysupported the monthly throwinghandicap program by donating a qualityboxed bottle of port every month.On behalf of all who haveparticipated in the handicaps a BIGTHANK YOU to JOE.The second bottle of Margaret Riverred, donated by Bjarne of SouthsidePhysiotherapy and Sports Injury Centrein Tuggeranong, was won by WendyFreeman.Phil Toomey was presented with his“50 monthly handicaps” T-shirt,becoming the 27th member to haveachieved this honour. He is now the 12thperson to have earned the unusualprivilege of being able to wear thecommemorative “50” T-shirt in both themonthly throwing and running handicapprograms. Phil made a tentative start tohis throwing handicap career by comingMay Vetrunner — Page 13The medal winners at Masson Street. Trish Thomas, centre, took out the MarchThrowing Handicap gold medal with the silver going to Kevin Blewitt on the left with BobBanens taking the bronze .More winners at Masson Street. Aboveleft: Frank Nugent and Wendy O’Brienwinners of the Port draw.Above: Phil Toomey qualifies for his 50Throwing Handicap T-shirt. He is one ofthe few that have competed 50 throwinghandicaps and 50 running handicaps.once only in 1994 and once again thefollowing year, then he missed all of1996 but has been a regular since 1997.His only trophy win in the throwinghandicap was in February 1999, andamazingly he also won the gold medal inthe running handicap the next day.Seven participated in the optionalextra heavy weight event. The longest

Page 14—May Vetrunnerheaves were by Jan 15.37m, Bob 14.53,Jayne 14.26 and Ray 14.20m.Next month’s handicap (shot put anddiscus) will be Saturday, April 26. It willbe hammer and javelin again on May24; then shot and discus on June 21,July 26, August 30, September 27,October 25 and the final event for theyear will be a 6pm start on Wednesday,November 26.Except for the November event allmonthly throwing handicaps are held ona Saturday afternoon at the MassonStreet Throwing Field (Turner)commencing at 1pm. The cost remainsat $3 and includes afternoon tea andbirthday cake.Because all participants receive ahandicap distance to add to the distancethey throw everybody has a chance to bea medallist. The “regulars” are a veryfriendly and supportive bunch and makeall newcomers feel most welcome.Your throws reporter BRYAN THOMAS2003 THROWING HANDICAPPOINTSCORESAge Name Feb Mar TotW55 Thomas,Trish 47 50 97M60 Blewitt,Kevin 46 49 95M65 Robbie,Colin 50 43 93W40 Gibbins,Sharon 36 46 82W60 Davies,Jan 42 39 81W50 Taylor,Margaret 40 41 81M80 Fristad,Audun 44 35 79W60 Bourke,Jen 43 36 79M70 Burns,John 41 38 79M55 Freeman,Peter 33 44 77M50 Banens,Bob 28 48 76W60 De Chazal,Nola 29 45 74W40 Colyer,Tania 48 24 74M75 Drummond,E 39 30 69W55 Rudov,Raylea 45 23 68W35 Blackaby,N’elle 34 34 68W50 O'brien,Wendy 32 32 64W40 Hardy,Jayne 37 25 62M40 Nugent,Frank 31 28 59M65 Neill,Peter 30 29 59M60 Thomas,Bryan 26 31 57M55 Green, Ray 25 26 51W65 Wahren,Mary 49 0 49M60 Whyte,Robin 0 47 47W60 Chesterton,Val 0 42 42W60 Mitchell,Irene 0 40 40M60 Spaits,Attila 38 0 38M50 Toomey,Phil 0 37 37M70 Mencik,George 35 0 35W35 Perry,Claire 0 33 33W45 Schiller,Fran 27 0 27M70 Leovic,Rad 0 27 27HEAVY WEIGHT THROWAge Name Feb MarM45 Dawes,Steve 8.61 --M50 Banens,Bob 14.60 14.53M55 Freeman,Peter 8.36 --M55 Toomey,Phil 8.74 --M55 Green,Ray 11.83 14.20M60 Blewitt,Kevin 11.86 --M60 Spaits,Attila 11.65 --M70 Burns,John 7.76 --M70 Mencik,George 14.92 --M80 Fristad,Audun 8.79 --W40 Gibbins,Sharon 12.30 --W40 Hardy,Jayne 14.23 14.26W55 Thomas,Trish 8.48 9.31W55 Rudov,Raylea 11.46 --W60 Heath,Jean -- 5.33W60 Davies,Jan 13.66 15.37W60 Dechazal,Nola 6.74 6.45O’CONNOR RIDGE HANDICAP SEEMSA POPULAR EVENT FOR RUNNERSDespite being a quite difficultcourse, runners appear to likecompeting at the O’Connor Ridge races.It was also great to see that thenumbers were back again over 220mark, with the 133 in the Thomas, 60 inthe Frylink and 28 in the Waddellbringing the number of competitors thismonth to 221.The Waddell Series doesn’t seem tohave much luck on the O’Connor Ridgecourse that was used for the walkinghandicaps this month.In 2002, over the same course, someof the walkers went the wrong way andwere subsequently disqualified despitesome protest from those walkers thatcarried on down the recreation pathtoward Dryanda Street in O’Connor.This year there was a marshal onthat particular turning that leads thecompetitors back towards the CanberraStadium and then down the back of thestadium. Then before they got anyfurther, and just into the area of thestadium carpark they were turned backby a marshal after barely going 1500mon the course that was supposed to be4km long. This changed the race toaround 3km long and therefore therewas a need for alterations to the timesthat were in between the startinggroups. This is why the medal winnerscould not be appointed on the day.Now for the record in future eventsthat are held on this course. Thewalkers start on the recreation path asthey normally do. Carry on down thatrecreation path past the CanberraStadium until there is a big left-handerthat indicates that this is the way toKaleen. It’s quite a sharp turn and it isthe only turn on this particularrecreation path. The walkers then makea right-hand turn, still staying on therecreation path that runs behind theAIS, keep going all the way down pastthe soccer fields until reaching the roadthat comes off Ginninderra Driveleading to the AIS. Don’t cross the roadas this is the correct turn around pointfor the normal 4km race. The walkersthen go back the way they came, turnleft after the stadium, you will have toas this is the only way the path goes.Then after about 50m it joins the mainrecreation path that comes up fromO’Connor and goes right up the hill pastthe AIS Athletic Field and behind theBruce Campus of the Technical Collegewhere the start finish area is located.At the stage of writing this reportthe medal winners of the Thomas andFrylink Series’ are listed on theSHERPA website as gold, silver andbronze but on the Waddell Series thereare the full results with the pointscoresindicated but no medals winners arelisted. More on that as it comes tohand.This was my first outing over theO’Connor Ridge short course and I hadbeen told that it is a course devoid ofany flat stretches. It is either up ordown, no matter which direction one isgoing. On the outward journey one doesnot tend to notice that the first 700m orso is easy, but surely can’t escape fromthe up hill sections. There is anotherdown hill stretch where the marshal onthat point indicated that it is easy forthe next 500m but just remember thatyou have to come back up the same wayon the journey back. The hardest hillsare on the next section that is decidedlyup, in fact right up to the halfway pointfor Frylink runners and about 6km forthe Thomas runners. Then both serieshave to make their way back to the startfinish area with two tough climbs tonegotiate before getting there.For myself I have been doing a bit ofuphill work leading up to the runs atO’Connor Ridge but I’m not quite surewhat went wrong as I had a shocker of arun and seem not to be able to get mylegs to react to what my brain wastelling them to do. Subsequently I hadmany walks on both the outward andinward journeys and it was sheerdetermination that kept me going. I feltso that I must conquer that fourkilometers and I was so determined todo so that I went back there thefollowing Wednesday before I left for thenorth coast of NSW for a ten day break.Yes, certainly I did it much betterknocking about six minutes off mySunday time, but it was still terriblyslow. Never mind I will use Plan B thenext time and take my mountain bikealong.It wasn’t until at the Tuesday groupthat I heard about Juani O’Reilly, theolder one, having a bad turn before shegot to the halfway point in the ThomasSeries and struggled with the help ofher daughter to make it back up thestart. This is again a reminder that allrunners and even walkers should in theevent of feeling unwell in the firstinstance stop and even sit down and get

someone to get a message back to thestart and arrangements can then bemade to have you picked up where they,the officials, seek medical attention if itis required. Anyway the good news thatJuani is OK and wisely she didn’t runwith the Tuesday group but had apleasant walk with Al Mallory. Shewent to her doctor the day after thehandicap and now is having tests to seewhat made her feel so bad. More on thatlatter as it comes to hand.Now for the races at O’Connor Ridgestarting with the longer run over 8km.THE THOMAS SERIESStarting in the forest area oppositeto the Bruce TAFE, runners made theirway down towards O’Connor atDryandra Street, keeping on the forestpaths till the reached the turn aroundpoints when they had to make their wayback up the hill to join the runners inthe shorter race where they made a bigright-hand turn, going up a short butsharp uphill climb of about 100m. Therethey were directed by that marshal,mentioned above, who let most of usknow that there was a lovely down hillsection but the bad part that you had tocome back up that hill later. From thebottom of that downhill stretch it wasup hill all the way to where a fairlyhappy marshal, probably because hewasn’t in the race, asked runners toturn around and make their way backthe way they came and join the mainpath that led runners up to the start/finish line.This story is just to indicate that it issometimes wise to hang around afterthe races, even though you have onlycrossed the line in sixth spot, and beable to claim your medal and get theaccolades of your fellow handicaprunners, even have the chance to getyour picture taken for the next editionof Vetrunner.First home in the 8km event wasBrian Austin. Brian is no stranger toour handicap races and this time aroundhe wasn’t eligible for medals or points,his time will come again, though comingfirst will maybe make his task a lotharder as he will no doubt will havecaught the eye of the handicapper.Brian’s best in past handicap was abronze medal, but it has been someyears since that medal winning effort.Next home was Kerry O’Neill,daughter of the club’s well-known jokerand story teller Greg. Kerry has beenwith the Flying Doctor service for thepast couple of years, though on tripshome she has managed to get in someruns with the vets. Like Brian, Kerryhas only had one medal a bronze in theThomas Series.Third over the line was MariaHancock. Don’t know much aboutMaria, but we have a Tony Hancock onour medal winners list.The same would apply to EricCochrane, Simon Duke and Don Smithwho are not previously listed on theclub’s handicap runners. Eric wasfourth, Simon fifth and Don sixth.Now we come to Jon Donovan. Therun here at O’Connor Ridge was specialfor Jon as it would seem that this washis first eligible run and a gold medal toboot. Jon was sent on his way withgroup 19 with the clock ticking over at16 minutes. His net time for the 8kmwas 40.22 that made his km rating arespectable 5.03. He also got the 150points that were on offer. Next homewas Linda Ryan again a runner notlisted on the handicap list of medalwinners.Peter James is well knownthroughout the running community andis up there with the best of them andwas in the third last handicap group tostart at O’Connor Ridge at 41 with onlyRod Lynch 42, Mick Corlis behind himat 44 and Steve Bradford in group 45.Peter’s net for the distance was apretty smart 29.46, which, was by farthe best net for the 130 runners, overhalf a minute ahead of Steve, almostMay Vetrunner — Page 15The Thomas medal winners. Jon Donovan, centre, wins his first handicap event.Peter James, left, got the silver and the bronze medal went to Ruth Baussmann.three ahead of Rod and a ‘mile’ ahead ofMick who has been recuperating fromhis last marathon. Peter’s km ratingwas 3.43 really an excellent run overthis very demanding course. It was hisfirst medal in the handicap races,although I do remember he got hishands on one before but because of anadministration error was only able tohold it briefly, about 30 seconds as Irecall.The bronze medal this month wentto Ruth Baussmann and it was a prettygood run for her as this is considered asa back markers course and here Ruthgot up from group 16 with the clockticking past the 14 minutes mark.Ruth’s net time for the 8km was 43.06that turned out to be 5.23 per kilometer.Ruth has had three previous visits tothe medal podium with a gold and twosilvers.With, as said above, Peter James thequickest of the men, he was followed by,as also mentioned above, Rod Lynch32.15 and Kent Williams 32.20. For thewomen Carol Ey took the honours with37.12 from Cathy Newman andElizabeth Thompson 38.33, newcomerJacquline Shrimpton finishing with a38.56.Will Foster leads the pointscoretable after three runs with 411 thencomes Steve Bradford 402 and KentWilliams 379.

Page 16—May VetrunnerTHOMAS SERIES AT O’CONNOR RIDGE — 8kmPlace ID Age Name Grp GrpSt Gross Net Rate Pts % El Re-Group New Group1 1019 M65 Brian Austin 8 8.40 49:51 41:11 5.09 0 1 G 1 Events Above Percentile 20% 262 3651 W40 Kerry O'Neill 14 12.40 53:18 40:38 5.05 0 2 F 1 Events Above Percentile 20% 263 3518 W40 Maria Hancock 14 12.40 53:19 40:39 5.05 0 3 F 1 Events Above Percentile 20% 264 4123 M50 Eric Cochrane 10 10.00 54:56 44:56 5.37 0 4 F 1 Events Above Percentile 20% 205 4121 M35 Simon Duke 16 14.00 55:09 41:09 5.09 0 4 F 1 Events Above Percentile 20% 256 4103 M40 Don Smith 26 20.40 55:52 35:12 4.24 0 5 G 1 Events Abov e Percentile 20% 377 4034 M40 Jon Donovan 19 16.00 56:22 40:22 5.03 150 6 Y Gold Medal 288 5043 W35 Linda Ryan 1 0.00 57:00 57:00 7.07 0 7 F 1 Events Above Percentile 20% 59 3353 M40 Peter James 41 27.20 57:06 29:46 3.43 149 7 Y Silver Medal 5310 3478 W50 Ruth Baussmann 16 14.00 57:06 43:06 5.23 148 8 Y Bronze medal 2311 2712 M40 Steve Smith 23 18.40 57:10 38:30 4.49 0 9 2 1 Events Above Percentile 20% 2912 2872 M40 Paul Macgowan 19 16.00 57:12 41:12 5.09 0 10 F 1 Events Above Percentile 20% 2513 1951 M50 John McMillan 18 15.20 57:13 41:53 5.14 147 10 Y 1 Events Above Percentile 20% 2414 4127 W45 Jacqueline Shrimpton 23 18.40 57:36 38:56 4.52 0 11 F 1 Events Above Percentile 20% 2915 3454 W40 Cathy Newman 24 19.20 57:41 38:21 4.48 146 12 Y 1 Events Above Percentile 20% 2916 3894 M50 Dave Southgate 17 14.40 57:46 43:06 5.23 0 13 1 1 Events Above Percentile 20% 2317 1326 M60 Bernie Millett 32 24.20 58:00 33:40 4.12 145 13 Y 1 Events Above Percentile 20% 4118 1993 M45 Mike Leahey 35 25.20 58:18 32:58 4.07 0 14 2 1 Events Above Percentile 20% 4419 4875 M55 Geoff Barker 21 17.20 58:23 41:03 5.08 144 15 Y 1 Events Above Percentile 20% 2520 2149 M40 Robert Ey 17 14.40 58:37 43:57 5.3 143 16 Y 1 Events Above Percentile 20% 2121 3658 W45 Robyn Mcclelland 12 11.20 58:38 47:18 5.55 142 16 Y 1 Events Above Percentile 20% 1622 4126 M30 Michael Nelson 25 20.00 58:45 38:45 4.51 0 17 F 1 Events Above Percentile 20% 2923 4059 M55 Mick Saunders 21 17.20 58:47 41:27 5.11 141 18 Y 1 Events Above Percentile 20% 2424 2684 M40 Ross Gregg 32 24.20 58:51 34:31 4.19 140 19 Y 1 Events Above Percentile 20% 3825 4954 M45 George Quarmby 18 15.20 58:54 43:34 5.27 139 19 Y 1 Events Above Percentile 20% 2126 1057 M55 Colin Bridge 34 25.00 58:57 33:57 4.15 138 20 Y 1 Events Above Percentile 20% 4027 1195 M60 George Hanzar 25 20.00 59:06 39:06 4.53 137 21 Y28 4051 W60 Caroline Campbell 17 14.40 59:10 44:30 5.34 136 22 Y29 2135 M50 Kevin O'Keeffe 34 25.00 59:12 34:12 4.16 135 22 Y30 4106 M35 Glenn Carter 16 14.00 59:17 45:17 5.4 0 23 G Handicap Review 1931 1573 M55 Will Foster 24 19.20 59:19 39:59 4.6 134 24 Y 2 Events Above Percentile 40% 2732 1984 M50 Peter Clarke 39 26.40 59:21 32:41 4.05 133 25 Y 2 Events Above Percentile 40% 4433 3773 M45 Geoff Gardner 22 18.00 59:28 41:28 5.11 0 25 1 Handicap Review 2534 1329 M50 Charlie Modrak 32 24.20 59:34 35:14 4.24 132 26 Y35 4704 M45 Steve Bradford 45 28.40 59:38 30:58 3.52 131 27 Y 2 Events Above Percentile 40% 4936 2163 M45 Alan Mallory 22 18.00 59:39 41:39 5.12 130 28 Y37 2023 M55 Kent Williams 41 27.20 59:40 32:20 4.02 129 28 Y 2 Events Above Percentile 40% 4538 2770 M50 Lloyd Donnelly 24 19.20 59:44 40:24 5.03 128 29 Y 2 Events Above Percentile 40% 2639 3911 M50 John Kennedy 30 23.20 59:45 36:25 4.33 127 30 Y40 2071 M60 Wayne Berry 24 19.20 59:48 40:28 5.03 126 31 Y 2 Events Above Percentile 40% 2641 2560 M45 Steve Appleby 36 25.40 59:51 34:11 4.16 125 31 Y 2 Events Above Percentile 40% 3942 2083 W40 Carol Ey 29 22.40 59:52 37:12 4.39 124 32 Y43 3912 W55 Diana Schneider 11 10.40 59:54 49:14 6.09 123 33 Y44 3456 M40 Rod Lynch 42 27.40 59:55 32:15 4.02 122 34 Y 2 Events Above Percentile 40% 4545 3224 M50 Geoff Herring 22 18.00 59:58 41:58 5.15 0 34 F 2 Events Above Percentile 40% 2446 2006 M45 John Carmody 16 14.00 00:01 46:01 5.45 121 35 Y 2 Events Above Percentile 40% 1847 5001 W35 Anne Deegan 5 5.20 00:02 54:42 6.5 0 36 1 2 Events Above Percentile 40% 648 2043 W55 Lynn Williams 13 12.00 00:02 48:02 6 120 37 Y49 2032 M55 Kevin Chapman 17 14.40 00:03 45:23 5.4 119 37 Y50 3904 M55 Chris Lathbury 11 10.40 00:06 49:26 6.11 118 38 Y 2 Events Above Percentile 40% 1251 2400 M70 Barry Seedsman 11 10.40 00:08 49:28 6.11 117 39 Y52 3962 M50 Colin Adrian 17 14.40 00:13 45:33 5.42 116 40 Y 2 Events Above Percentile 40% 1853 4703 W40 Prue Bradford 15 13.20 00:17 46:57 5.52 115 40 Y54 1423 M60 Graeme Small 20 16.40 00:19 43:39 5.27 114 41 Y55 2478 M40 Craig Wisdom 37 26.00 00:19 34:19 4.17 0 42 1 Handicap Review 4056 1242 M65 Peter Kallio 32 24.20 00:27 36:07 4.31 113 43 Y57 5008 W50 Dawn Casey 6 6.40 00:29 53:49 6.44 112 43 Y58 3622 M35 Peter Cullen 36 25.40 00:30 34:50 4.21 111 44 Y59 2426 W50 Sherryl Greathead 6 6.40 00:30 53:50 6.44 0 45 1 Handicap Review 760 1888 M55 Jeff Day 19 16.00 00:31 44:31 5.34 110 46 Y61 2077 W45 Elizabeth Thompson 28 22.00 00:33 38:33 4.49 109 46 Y62 2167 M40 Roger Pilkington 32 24.20 00:37 36:17 4.32 108 47 Y63 1871 W45 Lorraine Stevens 4 4.00 00:42 56:42 7.05 0 48 F Handicap Review 464 1872 M55 Frank Stevens 4 4.00 00:43 56:43 7.05 0 49 F Handicap Review 465 1172 M55 Michael Gardner 16 14.00 00:44 46:44 5.51 107 49 Y66 2196 M40 Nigel Coldrick 24 19.20 00:45 41:25 5.11 106 50 Y67 1945 M50 Stuart N Reid 30 23.20 00:50 37:30 4.41 105 51 Y68 1221 M55 John Ison 24 19.20 00:52 41:32 5.11 104 52 Y69 4108 W40 Janine McNamara 6 6.40 00:52 54:12 6.46 0 52 F70 2517 M55 Alan Duus 26 20.40 01:00 40:20 5.03 103 53 Y71 1109 W60 Sue Counsel 16 14.00 01:03 47:03 5.53 102 54 Y72 4500 M50 John Revesz 5 5.20 01:05 55:45 6.58 101 55 Y73 2117 M65 Marco Falzarano 21 17.20 01:06 43:46 5.28 100 55 Y74 4065 M35 Bruce Wight 33 24.40 01:09 36:29 4.34 99 56 Y75 2309 W65 Cory Collins 8 8.40 01:13 52:33 6.34 98 57 Y76 4759 M50 David Webster 32 24.20 01:17 36:57 4.37 97 58 Y77 4122 W50 Lesley Donohoe 12 11.20 01:19 49:59 6.15 0 58 F Handicap Review 1278 3883 W40 Jane Halton 22 18.00 01:23 43:23 5.25 96 59 Y79 2420 W45 Jenny Davies 5 5.20 01:32 56:12 7.01 0 60 F80 1444 M70 John Suiter 11 10.40 01:39 50:59 6.22 95 61 Y81 1169 M60 Doug Fry 13 12.00 01:49 49:49 6.14 94 61 Y82 4981 M60 Richard Hilhorst 25 20.00 01:51 41:51 5.14 93 62 Y83 1386 M65 Stuart J Reid 24 19.20 01:55 42:35 5.19 92 63 Y

THOMAS SERIES AT O’CONNOR RIDGE — 8km (cont.)Place ID Age Name Grp GrpSt Gross Net Rate Pts % El Re-Group New Group85 2525 M55 Peter P Davies 16 14.00 02:00 48:00 6 0 64 186 2631 M60 Clive Glover 27 21.20 02:06 40:46 5.06 91 65 Y87 2685 M40 Hugh Ford 32 24.20 02:13 37:53 4.44 0 66 G Handicap Review 3288 4808 W35 Allison Duncan 17 14.40 02:16 47:36 5.57 90 67 Y89 3936 M45 Ralph Marshall 23 18.40 02:18 43:38 5.27 89 67 Y90 1069 M55 Graham Burke 35 25.20 02:23 37:03 4.38 88 68 Y91 2435 W40 Maree Coldrick 21 17.20 02:26 45:06 5.38 87 69 Y92 1355 M55 Bob Parker 19 16.00 02:33 46:33 5.49 86 70 Y93 4934 W45 Jennie Blake 19 16.00 02:35 46:35 5.49 85 70 Y94 2586 W40 Anna Farnham 14 12.40 02:38 49:58 6.15 84 71 Y95 2672 M50 Neil Matters 5 5.20 02:39 57:19 7.1 83 72 Y96 3805 W50 Charmaine Knobel 21 17.20 02:40 45:20 5.4 82 73 Y97 3961 M65 Neil Gentle 6 6.40 02:53 56:13 7.02 81 73 Y98 2762 M45 Nick Blackaby 16 14.00 02:56 48:56 6.07 80 74 Y99 1294 W70 Joan Mallory 2 1.20 03:07 01:47 7.43 79 75 Y100 3888 M55 Tony Kingdon 13 12.00 03:13 51:13 6.24 0 76 1101 2086 M50 Jim White 30 23.20 03:29 40:09 5.01 78 76 Y102 1167 M70 Michael Freer 22 18.00 03:41 45:41 5.43 77 77 Y103 4726 W40 Amanda Ruffin 21 17.20 03:43 46:23 5.48 76 78 Y104 1270 M50 Terry Levings 25 20.00 03:43 43:43 5.28 0 79 1105 2174 M60 Neil Harrigan 6 6.40 03:52 57:12 7.09 75 79 Y106 4991 M55 Peter Davis 8 8.40 03:57 55:17 6.55 0 80 F107 1145 W55 Judi Edwards 27 21.20 03:58 42:38 5.2 74 81 Y108 1064 M50 Ewan Brown 16 14.00 04:08 50:08 6.16 73 82 Y109 2472 W65 Dorothy Seedsman 8 8.40 04:10 55:30 6.56 0 82 1110 3855 M45 Dave Watson 30 23.20 04:12 40:52 5.06 72 83 Y111 5023 W50 Carmel Lynch 6 6.40 04:18 57:38 7.12 71 84 Y112 2759 M40 Mick Corlis 44 28.20 04:22 36:02 4.3 70 85 Y113 3809 W50 Janet Mann 8 8.40 04:25 55:45 6.58 0 85 F114 1289 M65 John Macleod 14 12.40 04:27 51:47 6.28 69 86 Y115 1458 M60 Bryan Thomas 29 22.40 04:52 42:12 5.16 68 87 Y116 2168 M40 Mick Horan 29 22.40 04:53 42:13 5.17 0 88 1117 2532 W50 Jill Brown 16 14.00 05:13 51:13 6.24 67 88 Y118 4124 W45 Marian Blake 12 11.20 05:40 54:20 6.47 0 89 F Handicap Review 12119 2037 W55 Beryl Lowry 1 0.00 06:11 06:11 8.16 0 90 1 3 Events Below Percentile 85% 1120 1023 M65 John Bakker 4 4.00 06:18 02:18 7.47 0 91 2121 1133 M55 John Dimitriou 11 10.40 06:31 55:51 6.59 66 91 Y122 2826 W65 Terri Jones 5 5.20 06:51 01:31 7.41 65 92 Y123 1398 M60 Bernie Rogers 6 6.40 07:14 00:34 7.34 64 93 Y 3 Events Below Percentile 85% 2124 4125 W50 Kay Austin 6 6.40 07:32 00:52 7.36 0 94 F Handicap Review 6125 1073 M55 John Busteed 13 12.00 07:42 55:42 6.58 0 94 1 3 Events Below Percentile 85% 5126 1332 M50 Geoff Moore 32 24.20 08:02 43:42 5.28 63 95 Y127 1763 M55 Neil Mcleod 3 2.40 08:21 05:41 8.13 62 96 Y 3 Events Below Percentile 85% 1128 2736 M50 Clive Beeson 9 9.20 12:39 03:19 7.55 0 97 G129 2701 W55 Val Bland 1 0.00 14:21 14:21 9.18 61 97 Y 3 Events Below Percentile 85% 1130 2564 W50 Belinda Thompson 23 18.40 16:07 57:27 7.11 0 98 F131 1887 W75 Juani M O'Reilly 5 5.20 16:50 11:30 8.56 60 99 Y132 2172 W40 Juani B O'Reilly 14 12.40 16:50 04:10 8.01 59 100 Y133 1271 M65 Lachlan Lewis 54 31.40 19:20 47:40 5.57 0 100 G 3 Events Below Percentile 85% 19FRYLINK SERIESNo trouble with the Frylink Series,except of course the hills that had a fewrunners being reduced to a walk,especially the lower handicap and lessfit runners like myself.The first two runners home were noteligible for medals or points this month,but Theresa Macgregor, second home,blitzed the field with a 19.08 with onlyNeville Madden 18.27 and BrianMclachlan 19.06 ahead of her. BobChapman was the third quickest of themen with a 19.51. Carol Baird was thesecond quickest of the women with a20.39 and third Kathleen Bleakley 21.31just edging out Maureen Rossiter’s21.45.Tony Brown was the second runnerhome in the overall stakes, however, heMay Vetrunner — Page 17The Frylink medal winners. Left: FrankNugent, in the centre, takes out anothergold medal, on the left Bob Chapman whotook out the silver and Megan Haycock wasthe winner of the bronze.

Page 18— May Vetrunnerwas not eligible for a medal or pointsthis time around.The gold medallist, Frank Nugent,was third home registering a net 24.06for the 4km, from his handicap group of18. Frank’s km rating was 6.01. Beforehis run at O’Connor Ridge Frank hadmade five visits to the medal podiumwith a gold in the Thomas Series, threemore gold medals in the Frylink as wellas a silver, also in the Frylink Series.Frank was pretty pleased with his visitto Bruce as was his daughter, Heather,who took a fancy to her dad’s medal andI’m sure she would have it around herneck before they got home.The next two across the line, JanetBurstall and Bill Egan were among thenon-eligible runners, although both havebeen in many handicap races before, buthaven’t been running them lately. Janetran a 25.27 and Bill a 24.08.The silver medal went to BobChapman with a pretty good net of 19.51for the distance. He got his challengeunderway on group 33 with the clock at10mins 40sec. His km rating was 4.58.This was Bob’s fourth medal, with two inthe Thomas both silver and one in theFrylink a gold. Although Bob is betterknown as a race walker he still runs inraces, but has trouble with his kneeswhich restricts his training for thelonger distances.On the other hand Megan Haycock isone of the new younger brigade that hascome into vets, has never won a medal inany of the handicap races and by thegrin on her face she was pretty pleasedwith herself. Megan was off 27 andcompleted the distance in 22.41 thatgave her a km rating of 5.40, pretty goodover such a hilly course.However, between the silver medalwinner and Megan there were three noneligiblesin Angela Rymer, Elaine BSlater and David Holmes. Of the threeonly Angela was a newcomer, David onthe other hand has taken home a heap ofmedals for both the Frylink and ThomasSeries’. In the longer events he has tothis credit two silver medals and in theshorter runs four silver and one bronze.On the other hand although havingtaken part in the handicaps Elaine isstill awaiting her first medal.Leading the pointscores after threeraces are David Meyers with 204 fromGeorge Kubitzky’s 200 with RogerStewart on 198.THE FRYLINK SERIES AT O’CONNOR RIDGE — 4kmPlace ID Age Name Grp GrpSt Gross Net Rate Pts % El Re-Group NewGroup1 4783 M45 Tony Brown 28 9.00 29:06 20:06 5.01 0 2 F 1 Events Above Percentile 20% 392 2214 W40 Theresa Macgregor 32 10.20 29:28 19:08 4.47 0 4 F 1 Events Above Percentile 20% 423 2582 M40 Frank Nugent 18 5.40 29:46 24:06 6.01 75 5 Y Gold Medal 294 4774 W45 Janet Burstall 15 4.40 30:07 25:27 6.22 0 7 F 1 Events Above Percentile 20% 235 1147 M65 Bill Egan 20 6.20 30:28 24:08 6.02 0 9 G 1 Events Above Percentile 20% 276 1089 M65 Bob Chapman 33 10.40 30:31 19:51 4.58 74 10 Y Silver Medal 417 4853 W35 Angela Rymer 10 3.00 30:37 27:37 6.54 0 12 F 1 Events Above Percentile 20% 178 4060 W40 Elaine B Slater 18 5.40 31:13 25:33 6.23 0 14 1 1 Events Above Percentile 20% 239 2029 M40 David Holmes 33 10.40 31:15 20:35 5.09 0 15 1 1 Events Above Percentile 20% 3810 4983 W35 Megan Haylock 27 8.40 31:21 22:41 5.4 73 17 Y Bronze Medal 3211 1438 M50 Roger Stewart 17 5.20 31:24 26:04 6.31 72 19 Y 1 Events Above Percentile 20% 2112 2720 W40 Karen Daniels 27 8.40 31:26 22:46 5.41 71 20 Y 1 Events Above Percentile 20% 3113 1103 M75 Merv Collins 1 0.00 31:39 31:39 7.55 0 22 1 Handicap Review 514 4109 W65 Alison Ide 13 4.00 31:43 27:43 6.56 0 24 1 2 Events Above Percentile 40% 1715 2404 W40 Vicki Matthews 21 6.40 31:43 25:03 6.16 70 25 Y 2 Events Above Percentile 40% 2416 4105 W55 Joy Hilhorst 11 3.20 31:48 28:28 7.07 69 27 Y17 2658 M45 Adrian Krauss 10 3.00 31:51 28:51 7.13 68 29 Y18 2470 M35 David Alden 35 11.20 31:54 20:34 5.09 0 30 1 2 Events Above Percentile 40% 3819 3704 W50 Carol Baird 35 11.20 31:59 20:39 5.1 67 32 Y20 1465 M65 Peter Trotter 36 11.40 32:01 20:21 5.05 0 34 1 2 Events Above Percentile 40% 3921 2538 M45 George Kubitzky 36 11.40 32:10 20:30 5.07 66 35 Y22 2385 W50 Chris Booth 5 1.20 32:11 30:51 7.43 65 37 Y23 1453 W50 Margaret Taylor 29 9.20 32:11 22:51 5.43 64 39 Y24 2401 W55 Jillian Clark 21 6.40 32:14 25:34 6.23 63 40 Y 2 Events Above Percentile 40% 2325 2001 M45 Robin Collins 28 9.00 32:18 23:18 5.49 0 42 1 Handicap Review 3026 2474 W60 Francis Harris 29 9.20 32:20 23:00 5.45 62 44 Y27 2170 M35 Brian Mclachlan 41 13.20 32:26 19:06 4.47 61 45 Y28 1322 M55 David Meyers 27 8.40 32:30 23:50 5.57 60 47 Y29 2460 W60 Val Chesterton 8 2.20 32:31 30:11 7.33 0 49 130 2303 M55 Phillip Toomey 26 8.20 32:34 24:14 6.03 59 50 Y31 2219 M40 Kevin Matthews 33 10.40 32:36 21:56 5.29 58 52 Y32 2609 M50 Ian Bowden 30 9.40 32:38 22:58 5.45 57 54 Y33 1849 M55 Grahame Delaney 13 4.00 32:43 28:43 7.11 56 56 Y34 1352 M70 Greg O'Neill 1 0.00 32:45 32:45 8.11 55 57 Y35 3599 W50 Maureen Rossiter 34 11.00 32:45 21:45 5.26 54 59 Y36 1090 W55 Cilla Chapman 5 1.20 32:47 31:27 7.52 53 60 Y37 4978 W30 Kathleen Bleakley 35 11.20 32:51 21:31 5.23 52 62 Y38 1682 M70 Jack Thackray 15 4.40 33:00 28:20 7.05 51 64 Y39 4930 W55 Brenda Ford 28 9.00 33:02 24:02 6.01 50 65 Y40 3807 M50 Malcolm Mann 18 5.40 33:04 27:24 6.51 0 67 F41 4955 W40 Jenny Fitzsimmons 17 5.20 33:05 27:45 6.56 49 69 Y42 3884 M50 Ross Peake 16 5.00 33:06 28:06 7.01 0 70 143 1937 M45 Neville Madden 45 14.40 33:07 18:27 4.37 0 72 144 2825 W45 Cindy Stewart 17 5.20 33:12 27:52 6.58 48 74 Y45 2191 M65 Ray Bramwell 31 10.00 33:14 23:14 5.49 47 75 Y46 4072 W35 Claire Perry 12 3.40 33:21 29:41 7.25 46 77 Y47 1346 M55 Alan Norden 18 5.40 33:23 27:43 6.56 45 79 Y48 1142 M65 Mike Dwyer 17 5.20 33:26 28:06 7.01 44 80 Y49 1104 W55 Trish Thomas 1 0.00 33:36 33:36 8.24 0 82 150 1067 W65 Lorna Burdon 2 0.20 33:40 33:20 8.2 43 84 Y51 2471 W70 Gwen Gleeson 5 1.20 33:41 32:21 8.05 42 85 Y52 2691 W45 Bev Breen 19 6.00 33:47 27:47 6.57 41 87 Y53 2647 W50 Cathy Montalto 35 11.20 34:14 22:54 5.43 40 89 Y54 5052 W35 Christina Jauncey -Ryan 1 0.00 34:35 34:35 8.39 0 90 F55 1351 M65 Jim O'Donnell 3 0.40 34:54 34:14 8.33 39 92 Y56 2067 M50 Jim Tucker 28 9.00 35:16 26:16 6.34 38 94 Y

THE FRYLINK SERIES AT O’CONNOR RIDGE — 4km (cont.)Place ID Age Name Grp GrpSt Gross Net Rate Pts % El Re-Group NewGroup57 1961 W45 Anitra Kenny 18 5.40 35:27 29:47 7.27 37 95 Y58 4128 W50 Margaret Tuckwell 4 1.00 37:10 36:10 9.02 0 97 F Handicap Review 459 2213 M45 Jamie Macgregor 28 9.00 37:16 28:16 7.04 0 99 F 3 Events Below Percentile 85% 1460 1931 M65 Ron Weir 23 7.20 40:24 33:04 8.16 36 100 YTHE WADDELL SERIESAs mentioned in the lead to thismonth’s report, at present there havebeen no medals awarded, although aftergoing through the results Tanya Colyergot the 50 points with Amanda Lynch39 and Diann Bramwell 38.Tanya was off the first group andwalked the three kilometres (only anestimate) in 30.29 that gave her a kmrating of 10.10. Amanda, off group ingroup 8, took 29.12 for the distance anda kilometre rating of 9.44. Diann wasthe quickest of the three with a 27.20with a km rating of 9.07.The quickest for the amended coursewere Bob Mee in 21.13 from RobinWhyte 21.39 and Dave Mackenzie 24.14.For the women Monika Short 23.06,with Rosemary Parker second on 24.35and Nola De Chazal’s 25.36.In the pointscore table Monika Short107 leads from Diann Bramwell 106 andPeter Freeman’s 102.As there were no medals presentedin the Waddell race there was of courseno picture taken. However I did manageto find a shot of Tanya Colyer which canbe seen on the right.The race director this month wasAlice Scott. Her helpers were:Mario Larocca course marker; assistedby Roy Jones;Eva Bennett was on the registrationtable in the Waddell Series as well asthe recording in the walking race;Kathy Sims start/finish in the WaddellSeries; Greg Lewis also start/finish inthe Waddell and handed out the placecards;Colin Farlow was on the registrationtable for the Frylink Series also at therecording tables in the shorter race;Rick Hatcher start/finish in the FrylinkSeries; Robyn Cavuoto also on the start/finish in the Frylink and handed out theplace cards;Jenny Galvin and Maria O’Reilly wereon the registration table for the ThomasSeries;Kaye Thorpe and Maria O’Reilly wereon the start/finish line in the ThomasSeries, with Rob Thorpe handing out thefinish place cards;Eva Bennett, Jenny Galvin and MariaO’Reilly also assisted on the recordingtables in the longer run;Kerry and Neil Boden were coursemarshals for the Frylink race;Maria White, Robbie Costmeyer,Michael Roche, Graeme Small, AlanWilliams, Geoff Sims and Otmar Dorferwere all course marshals in the Thomasrace;Jenny Hefford was at the turn around inthe walking race;Jane Halton and Lorraine Cox assistedKent and Lyn Williams on the ‘ChuckTHE WADDELL SERIES AT O’CONNOR RIDGE — 3kmMay Vetrunner — Page 19Tanya ColyerWagon’;Carol Baird and George Kubitzkyorganised the fruit; andDave Mackenzie organised the childmindingtent.This month’s report came from JIMO’DONNELL. The results were keyedinto SHERPA by PRUE BRADFORDand DOUG FRY and formatted forthe Canberra Times and Vetrunnerby JIM O’DONNELL.Pl ID Age Name Grp GrpSt Gross Net Rate Pts % El Re-Group New Group1 5061 W55 Margaret Henderson 1 0.00 26:43 26:43 8.54 0 4 F 1 Events Above Percentile 20% 112 5062 W55 Margrit McKeon 1 0.00 26:44 26:44 8.55 0 8 F 1 Events Above Percentile 20% 113 5063 W40 Sylvie Carter 1 0.00 27:48 27:48 9.16 0 11 F 1 Events Above Percentile 20% 94 5064 W50 Cilla Dalton 5 2.00 28:18 26:18 8.46 0 15 F 1 Events Above Percentile 20% 125 2828 W60 Jean Heath 1 0.00 29:18 29:18 9.46 0 18 X 1 Events Above Percentile 20% 66 1341 M65 Terry Munro 22 8.15 30:14 21:59 7.20 40 22 Y7 2540 W40 Tanya Colyer 1 0.00 30:29 30:29 10.10 39 25 Y8 2704 W55 Raine Thompson 15 6.30 30:48 24:18 8.06 38 29 Y9 2466 W60 Nola De Chazal 21 8.00 30:56 22:56 7.39 37 33 Y10 2311 W55 Diann Bramwell 12 5.30 31:00 25:30 8.30 36 36 Y11 1317 M60 Bob Mee 48 14.45 31:03 16:18 5.26 35 40 Y 2 Events Above Percentile 40% 5012 1356 W55 Rosemary Parker 28 9.45 31:05 21:20 7.07 34 43 Y13 4779 W55 Monika Short 42 13.15 31:26 18:11 6.04 33 47 Y14 3939 W35 Amanda Lynch 8 3.30 31:32 28:02 9.21 32 50 Y15 1165 M55 Peter Freeman 24 8.45 31:33 22:48 7.36 31 54 Y16 1494 M60 Robin Whyte 49 15.00 31:39 16:39 5.33 30 58 Y17 2864 W55 Faye Green 15 6.30 31:41 25:11 8.24 29 61 Y18 2449 M70 Dave Mackenzie 34 11.15 31:44 20:29 6.50 28 65 Y19 1293 M70 Al Mallory 6 2.30 32:09 29:39 9.53 27 68 Y20 1882 W50 Brenda Day 27 9.30 32:20 22:50 7.37 26 72 Y21 1066 M65 Alan Burdon 33 11.00 32:54 21:54 7.18 25 75 Y22 1186 M65 David Hall 15 6.30 33:10 26:40 8.53 24 79 Y23 4849 W45 Sylvia Mackay 11 5.00 33:33 28:33 9.31 23 83 Y24 2016 W45 Julie Carmody 11 5.00 33:42 28:42 9.34 22 86 Y25 4011 W50 Penny Lee 27 9.30 33:59 24:29 8.10 0 90 F26 1111 M60 Nigel Crew 1 0.00 35:23 35:23 11.48 21 93 Y 3 Events Below Percentile 85% 127 5055 W35 Elspeth Lowes 1 0.00 35:32 35:32 11.51 0 97 F28 5065 W30 Edwina Nelson 1 0.00 37:12 37:12 12.24 0 100 F

Page 20— May VetrunnerRUN/WALKING HANDICAP POINTSCORES BY SERIESTHOMASAge Name Evts Gross Net LowM55 Will Foster 3 411 411 134M45 Steve Bradford 3 402 402 131M55 Kent Williams 3 379 379 123M40 Ross Gregg 3 377 377 109M60 Wayne Berry 3 376 376 125M50 Peter Clarke 3 373 373 118M50 John McMillan 3 372 372 104M50 John Kennedy 3 365 365 111M40 Peter Cullen 3 360 360 111M40 Rog Pilkington 3 358 358 102M45 Geo Quarmby 3 351 351 93W50 C’maine Knobel 3 346 346 82M55 Chris Lathbury 3 341 341 110M50 Colin Adrian 3 340 340 90M50 Kevin O'Keeffe 3 339 339 97M60 Clive Glover 3 339 339 91M45 John Carmody 3 338 338 101M60 George Hanzar 3 336 336 96M50 Ewan Brown 3 335 335 73M45 Dave Watson 3 331 331 72W55 Judi Edwards 3 325 325 74W55 Di Schneider 3 325 325 94M50 John Revesz 3 323 323 100W60 Sue Counsel 3 320 320 102M55 Graham Burke 3 320 320 88M55 Jeff Day 3 320 320 99W55 Lynn Williams 3 317 317 73M55 Bob Parker 3 317 317 86W45 Jennie Blake 3 312 312 79W35 Allison Duncan 3 310 310 90M40 Mick Corlis 3 302 302 70W40 Maree Coldrick 3 298 298 69M55 Mike Gardner 3 297 297 77M40 Nigel Coldrick 3 296 296 86M70 Michael Freer 3 290 290 77M35 Bruce Wight 3 289 289 92M50 Chris Lang 2 281 281 136M40 Rod Lynch 2 272 272 122M55 Colin Bridge 2 268 268 130M50 Mario Larocca 2 267 267 121M40 Jon Donovan 2 264 264 114W50 Jenny Hefford 2 262 262 131M45 Nick Blackaby 3 259 259 80M60 Bernie Millett 2 257 257 112M60 Doug Fry 3 254 254 74M50 Jim White 3 254 254 78W50 Mary A Busteed 2 253 253 120M65 Peter Kallio 2 249 249 113M55 John Ison 2 244 244 104W45 Maria O'Reilly 2 243 243 100M45 Steve Appleby 2 242 242 117W50 Carmel Lynch 3 237 237 71M60 Richard Hilhorst 2 236 236 93M50 Charlie Modrak 2 235 235 103M65 Stuart J Reid 2 234 234 92W40 Carol Ey 2 234 234 110M60 Mike Worsley 2 231 231 82M55 Alan Duus 2 227 227 103M55 Rob Costmeyer 2 225 225 102M70 Otmar Dorfer 2 224 224 107M65 John Macleod 3 223 223 69M45 Alan Mallory 2 223 223 93M40 Robert Ey 2 219 219 76M65 M Falzarano 2 219 219 100M55 Rod Gilchrist 2 217 217 99W60 C’line Campbell 2 217 217 81M55 John Dimitriou 3 214 214 65M55 Alan Williams 2 214 214 84Over 200ID Name Tally1195 George Hanzar 208Nearing 2001458 Bryan Thomas 1991352 Greg O'Neill 1941355 Bob Parker 1921386 Stuart J Reid 1891289 John Macleod 1801165 Peter Freeman 1781023 John Bakker 1781496 Alan Williams 1771338 Bron Gardner 1721280 Duane Lowry 1721057 Colin Bridge 1661351 Jim O'Donnell 1661073 John Busteed 1641109 Sue Counsel 162M45 Rob Thorpe 2 213 213 63W55 M McSpadden 2 211 211 78W40 Prue Bradford 2 211 211 96M65 Roger Abbott 2 209 209 72M45 Milton Valentine 2 207 207 62W55 Alice Scott 2 205 205 85W35 Lisa Wilson 2 204 204 64M60 Graeme Small 2 203 203 89W50 Robyn Cavuoto 2 202 202 97M55 Kevin Chapman 2 199 199 80M55 Peter Ward 2 198 198 89W55 Val Bland 3 193 193 61M55 Doug Limbrick 2 188 188 80M70 John Suiter 2 173 173 78M45 Ralph Marshall 2 166 166 77M50 David Webster 2 164 164 67W70 Joan Mallory 2 162 162 79M45 Peter McDonald 2 149 149 74M40 Peter James 1 149 149 149W55 Rae Palmer 1 149 149 149W50 R Baussmann 1 148 148 148M45 Ken White 1 147 147 147W40 Cathy Newman 1 146 146 146M55 Geoff Barker 1 144 144 144W45 R Mcclelland 2 142 142 0M55 John Alcock 1 141 141 141M55 Mick Saunders 1 141 141 141M60 Bernie Rogers 2 139 139 64M60 Bryan Thomas 2 138 138 68W50 Jill Brown 2 138 138 67M55 Neil Mcleod 2 135 135 62M65 Mick Dando 1 135 135 135M40 Colin Farlow 1 132 132 132M50 Lloyd Donnelly 1 128 128 128M50 Tony Cavuoto 1 126 126 126W60 Pamela Weiss 1 126 126 126W75 Juani M O'Reilly 2 126 126 60M70 B Seedsman 3 117 117 0W50 Dawn Casey 3 112 112 0W45 Eliz Thompson 3 109 109 0W65 D Seedsman 2 106 106 0M50 Stuart N Reid 2 105 105 0W60 N Lindemann 1 105 105 105W65 Cory Collins 3 98 98 0M70 Rad Leovic 1 98 98 98W40 Jane Halton 3 96 96 0W65 Anne Young 1 95 95 95M60 Ian Kenny 2 92 92 0W45 Eva Bennet 1 87 87 87W40 Anna Farnham 1 84 84 84M50 Neil Matters 1 83 83 83W50 Maria White 2 81 81 0M65 Neil Gentle 3 81 81 0W50 Kathy Sims 1 79 79 79W40 Amanda Ruffin 3 76 76 0M60 Neil Harrigan 1 75 75 75M50 Clive Beeson 3 70 70 0W40 Jo Hastings 1 68 68 68W65 Terri Jones 1 65 65 65M50 Geoff Moore 1 63 63 63W40 Juani B O'Reilly 1 59 59 59FRYLINKAge Name Evts Gross Net LowM55 David Meyers 3 204 204 60M45 Geo Kubitzky 3 200 200 61M50 Roger Stewart 3 198 198 60M40 Frank Nugent 3 197 197 58W35 Megan Haylock 3 197 197 54M55 Phillip Toomey 3 195 195 591272 Bill Leyden 1611356 R’mary Parker 1601123 Ken Daniels 1591270 Terry Levings 1561329 Charlie Modrak 1561520 Anne Young 1541074 Mary A Busteed 1531169 Doug Fry 1521384 Dan Reddy 1511488 Lucille Warth 150W50 M’reen Rossiter 3 194 194 54M50 Ian Bowden 3 193 193 57W40 Karen Daniels 3 192 192 54W55 Jillian Clark 3 189 189 63W40 Vicki Matthews 3 188 188 53M65 Ray Bramwell 3 181 181 47W55 Margaret Taylor 3 178 178 57W60 Francis Harris 3 175 175 55W45 Anitra Kenny 3 168 168 37W55 Brenda Ford 3 167 167 50M40 Kevin Matthews 3 164 164 51W50 Carol Baird 3 163 163 48W40 J Fitzsimmons 3 141 141 43M60 Michael Roche 2 140 140 69W45 Cindy Stewart 3 137 137 44M35 Brian Mclachlan 2 131 131 61M45 Adrian Krauss 2 128 128 60W30 Kath Bleakley 2 127 127 52M50 Neil Boden 2 124 124 50M55 G Delaney 2 120 120 56M55 Peter Hann 2 120 120 59M65 Bob Chapman 2 116 116 42W50 Chris Booth 2 111 111 46W60 Jenny Galvin 2 103 103 51M70 Greg O'Neill 2 102 102 47M55 Alan Norden 2 101 101 45W50 Cathy Montalto 2 99 99 40W55 Cilla Chapman 2 97 97 44W40 Kerry Boden 2 95 95 45W35 Claire Perry 2 92 92 46W45 Bev Breen 2 90 90 41M65 Mike Dwyer 2 85 85 41W65 Lorna Burdon 2 83 83 40M65 Ron Weir 2 83 83 36M50 Jim Tucker 2 80 80 38W55 Joy Hilhorst 3 69 69 0M40 Mark Ellison 1 68 68 68W50 S Greathead 1 66 66 66W55 Lorraine Cox 2 53 53 0M70 Jack Thackray 1 51 51 51M65 John Bakker 2 43 43 0W70 Gwen Gleeson 2 42 42 0M65 Jim O'Donnell 3 39 39 0WADDELLAge Name Gross Net LowW55 Monika Short 107 107 33W55 Diann Bramwell 104 104 33M55 Peter Freeman 102 102 31M70 Dave Mackenzie 99 99 28W40 Tanya Colyer 99 99 26W50 Brenda Day 85 85 26M55 Rick Hatcher 74 74 36M60 Bob Mee 73 73 35M50 John Stenhouse 72 72 33M60 Robin Whyte 70 70 30W55 Raine Thompson 69 69 0M65 Alan Burdon 65 65 25W55 Faye Green 61 61 0W55 Elizabeth White 58 58 27M70 Al Mallory 57 57 27W45 Sylvia Mackay 51 51 23M65 Terry Munro 40 40 40W60 Nola De Chazal 37 37 0W55 Rosemary Parker 34 34 0W35 Amanda Lynch 32 32 0W50 Vera Lucas 32 32 32W50 Jane Bell 29 29 29M65 David Hall 24 24 0W45 Julie Carmody 22 22 0M60 Nigel Crew 21 21 0EVENT TALLIES THAT INCLUDE ALL THREE HANDICAPSNearing 1501135 Otmar Dorfer 1491001 Roger Abbott 1471104 Trish Thomas 1461089 Bob Chapman 1461346 Alan Norden 1461142 Mike Dwyer 1441066 Alan Burdon 1431293 Al Mallory 1431294 Joan Mallory 1431172 Mike Gardner 1421167 Michael Freer 1411385 Thelma Reddy 1401398 Bernie Rogers 1391044 Tony Booth 1391103 Merv Collins 1371064 Ewan Brown 1361236 Keith Johnson 1351067 Lorna Burdon 1321486 Peter Ward 132

1444 John Suiter 1291573 Will Foster 1281354 M’reen O'Shea 1221366 Keith Perroux 1221244 John Kemp 1222086 Jim White 1221129 Peter Davies 1191332 Geoff Moore 1161300 Ron Maxwell 1121423 Graeme Small 1122106 Maria White 1121984 Peter Clarke 1111326 Bernie Millett 1111353 Jim O'Shea 1101513 Lesley Hamilton 1091145 Judi Edwards 1091019 Brian Austin 1081155 Lloyd Field 1071197 Bob Harlow 1072135 Kevin O'Keeffe 1062224 Neil Boden 1051238 Marg Johnson 1051122 Mick Dando 1051002 John Alcock 1051335 Rich Morcom 1041773 John Littler 1042150 Alice Scott 1041997 Rob Thorpe 1041438 Roger Stewart 1031447 Robert Sword 1031476 Gwen Vines 1011339 Pat Mullins 1011133 John Dimitriou 1012196 Nigel Coldrick 1011201 John Hart 1001422 Peter Skinner 100Nearing 1001322 David Meyers 982023 Kent Williams 982067 Jim Tucker 972043 Lynn Williams 971115 Jo Cullen 971282 Russell Lutton 961075 Keith Butler 952006 John Carmody 941301 Joe Mayer 931389 J Richardson 931682 Jack Thackray 931744 Richard Scutter 921716 Alan Anderson 921242 Peter Kallio 921945 Stuart N Reid 922188 Jenny Hefford 912560 Steve Appleby 911887 Juani M O'Reilly 911276 N Lindemann 902163 Alan Mallory 902037 Beryl Lowry 902401 Jillian Clark 892435 Maree Coldrick 881763 Neil Mcleod 882386 Pamela Weiss 872052 Bernie Hackett 872088 Gregory Lewis 862460 Val Chesterton 851323 Mirek Milewski 851090 Cilla Chapman 841341 Terry Munro 842466 Nola De Chazal 832517 Alan Duus 832449 D Mackenzie 831931 Ron Weir 821229 Linda Jamieson 821274 John Lightfoot 811395 Laurie Robinson802191 Ray Bramwell 791347 Andrina Norden 781069 Graham Burke 782318 Bill Rendall 772672 Neil Matters 761083 Max Carter 761478 Trevor Vogler 761452 Tony Taylor 761882 Brenda Day 761414 Bev Scown 75Due to the closure of StromloForest the Mount Ainslie coursewill be used for the May handicapon Sunday, May 25.This is one of the easier races to getto, the start area lies between Ainslieand Hackett at the top of PhillipAvenue.However, for those running theThomas Series there is nothing easyabout this course, well maybe the last500m or so which is all down hill, butquite a lot of runners would be feelingthe pinch before they even got to thatlast down hill section.For the Frylink and Waddell racesthe start area is almost at the entranceto the lower track that winds its wayalong the back of Ainslie. The distanceis 4.5km and it is an out and backcourse, it undulates upwards on the wayout and one would expect it to undulatedownwards on the way back. However,our new handicapper waits till everyoneis almost at the halfway point when shesneaks in a few more hills just for thefun of it.For the Thomas Series runners thiscourse is rumoured to be the hardest of1186 David Hall 752174 Neil Harrigan 752042 Kaye Thorpe 752426 S Greathead 741336 David Morgan 741003 Mike Adler 741340 Reg Mullins 741106 Brenda Field 732069 Glenda Wood 731951 John McMillan 731940 Ian Macfarling 732701 Val Bland 732538 Geo Kubitzky 732647 Cathy Montalto 722385 Chris Booth 721045 Jim Bosworth 721217 Bob Hunter 722071 Wayne Berry 712532 Jill Brown 712759 Mick Corlis 712704 R Thompson 702582 Frank Nugent 702149 Robert Ey 702309 Cory Collins 701466 Craig Tucker 691480 Peter Waddell 682522 Adrian Plunkett 682658 Adrian Krauss 682540 Tanya Colyer 672471 Gwen Gleeson 672472 D Seedsman 671453 Margaret Taylor 671250 Ian Kenny 671493 Brian Wenn 661362 Brian Paxman 651228 John Jamieson 652403 Doug Carney 652503 Rod Gilchrist 652609 Ian Bowden 642293 Ken White 641096 Connie Clement 641164 Alan Frazer 631367 Jack Perry 63all the other venues. Like the shorterrace it also undulates up for the firstfive to six kilometres which alsoincludes a couple of very short but steepclimbs.After that there is a reasonably flat2303 Phillip Toomey 632586 Anna Farnham 632691 Bev Breen 622728 Jenny Galvin 622762 Nick Blackaby 622825 Cindy Stewart 621465 Peter Trotter 621275 Eric Lindemann 612536 Michael Clancy 612483 Steve Crane 612077 Eliz Thompson 611221 John Ison 601168 Audun Fristad 592646 A Sutherland 592070 Vic Hessell 582117 M Falzarano 582167 Rog Pilkington 582484 Carolyn Behm 582406 Mike Worsley 581468 Harry Tys 581171 Peter Frylink 572720 Karen Daniels 572359 Carmen Carlon 561994 Patrick McNeile 562400 B Seedsman 552212 E Thompson 553441 Terri Henderson 553454 Cathy Newman 551888 Jeff Day 551501 Alan Wilson 541110 Hugh Crawley 542525 Peter P Davies 541961 Anitra Kenny 543478 R Baussmann 531239 Reg Johnson 531448 Chris Tait 531394 Carol Robinson 521518 Stephen Yates 521750 Marlene Reid 521461 Rob Thomson 511271 Lachlan Lewis 511127 W Davidson 512648 Mike Breen 51May Vetrunner — Page 212474 Francis Harris 512469 Tim Wright 512467 Gabrielle Wright 501290 Chris Mahe 50Nearing 501735 Grahame Taylor 492218 Tony Cavuoto 492478 Craig Wisdom 492631 Clive Glover 482736 Clive Beeson 482732 Deslie Kubitzky 473417 Ken Gowans 471147 Bill Egan 471138 Ian Dundas 462874 Gai Webster 462311 Diann Bramwell 461974 Elaine Cooper 463657 Maria O'Reilly 451159 Ron Ford 451207 Chris Higgins 452213 J Macgregor 442214 T Macgregor 432168 Mick Horan 431337 Gary Moss 431296 Stuart Manley 421247 Mike Kennedy 421046 Jenny Bourke 421463 Jack Tonkin 422083 Carol Ey 421927 Chris Lang 422864 Faye Green 422725 Jim McLean 411895 J Henderson 411377 Derek Quinto 411871 L’aine Stevens 411041 Ray Blackmore 402203 Glenn Coward 402697 A Van Herck 404034 Jon Donovan 394065 Bruce Wight 392255 John Stenhouse 392258 John Parker 39CHANGE OF VENUE FOR THE MAY HANDICAPSTHE WAY WE WERE . . .BRYAN THOMAS continues his serieslooking back to what you were doing adecade ago in April 1993.10 YEARS AGO (April 1993).ACTVAC winners in the CanberraMarathon were - M30 Geoff Large,M40 Trevor Jacobs, M45 KentWilliams, M50 Bernie Millett, M55Marco Falzarano, M60 Ernie Warner,M65 Bob Hammond, W30 Carol Eyand W45 Sue Kesson. Geoff, Trevor,Ernie and Carol continued on tocomplete the 50km, Trevor and Carolsetting Australian Records for thelonger distance (3:05.06 and 3:54.25respectively).Duane Lowry took over from BryanThomas the task of maintainingsection for a kilometre or so before thevery steep climb up over the passbetween Mt Ainslie and Mt Majura.If anyone has any energy left theywill be able to ‘hoot it’ down to the finishline of this 9.3km run. Best of luck.ACTVAC marathon records. Duanewas also our relay team coordinator andorganized our 3 teams for the ANZACRelays.A large team of 60 participated inthe Australian Veterans' AthleticsChampionships in Adelaide. MargaretDando arranged for 50 of us to stay atthe one motel.The monthly running handicap wasat Coppins Crossing. 116 ran the 7kmlong course won by Peter Clarke aheadof Alan Williams and John MacLeod.The short 3km course had 43 runnersand was won by Mick Horan from GregLewis and Rosemary Parker. RobParker earned his red "100 runs" T-shirtwhile Trish Connell (Thomas) and RegJohnson completed their 50th runs.

Page 22—May VetrunnerPROPOSED CHANGES TO ACTVAC CONSTITUTIONNOTICE OF MOTION FOR THE CHANGES TO THE ACTVACCONSITUTTIONChanges: (italics and bold indicates added words that may or maynot replace others, strikethrough indicates deleted words).All headings are bold.The motion is put that the following changes be reviewed individually anda vote taken for inclusion of each change into the constitution of the ACTVeteran’s Athletics Club. Moved Roger Stewart.1. Interpretation‘‘majority’ means that a candidate or motion hasreceived one vote more than half of the valid votescast. ‘public officer’ means as defined in section 57 ofthe Act;‘secretary’ means the person holding office under thisconstitution as secretary of the club or, where no suchperson holds that office, the public officer of the club;‘special resolution’ means as defined in section 70 ofthe Act.In this constitution (3) the provisions of the Legislation Act (2001)apply to and in respect of this constitution in the same manner as thoseprovisions would so apply if this constitution were an instrument madeunder the Act.2. ObjectThe object of the club shall be to encourage and to promote athletics forveteran and pre-veteran men and women above 30 years of age.3. Membership Qualifications(2)b) A member with second claim membership as per 3.2(a) is entitledto all rights and privileges of a first claim member with the exceptionof:iii) voting rights at the Annual General Meetings of the ACTVAC Inc,8. SubscriptionThe annual subscription of the club(1) will be recommended to the annual general meeting, as part ofthe budget, by the committee;(2) will be approved by a majority of votes at an annual generalmeeting called in accordance with sections 23 and 24; and(3) is payable before the commencement of the membership year or,on joining, by new members.9. Life membership(2) A member shall be declared a life member upon a specialresolution (see subsection 26(2)) nominating the member for lifemembership gaining a two-thirds three-quarters majority at ageneral meeting of the club in accordance with section 26.14. Constitution and membership(1) The committee shall consist of:a) the office-bearers of the club with the exception of the patron andthe public officer if the latter is not the secretary; andb) at least 2 and not more than 6 ordinary members of the club; eachof whom shall be elected pursuant to section 15 or appointed inaccordance with subsection 14(4).(2) The office-bearers of the club shall be:a) the patron;b) the president;c) the vice-president;d) the treasurer; ande) the secretary; andf) the public officer.(1) Each member of the committee shall, subject to this constitution,hold office until all committee positions are declared vacant,and a call for nominations is made at the annual generalmeeting following the date of the member's election, and areeligible for re-election.(7) The president if re-elected each year, may only hold office upto a maximum of five consecutive years.15. Election of office bearers and committee members(6) All voting shall be determined by a simple majority vote.Where there are more than two candidates for office bearerpositions or more than two options, elimination ballots willbe held to achieve the majority vote. Committee membersshall be elected in a block, with successful candidates beingthose receiving the highest number of votes.17. TreasurerThe Treasurer of the club shall (c) prepare and present abudget for the succeeding year at an annual general meeting.21. Delegation by committee to sub-committee(1) The committee may delegate, by instruction in writing, to 1 ormore sub-committees (consisting of such member or members ofthe club as the committee thinks fit) the exercise of such of thefunctions of the committee as are specified in the instrument,other than:31. Voting(6) A member with second claim membership is not entitled tovote at any general meeting of the club (see subsection 3(2)b)).35. Common seal(6) The common seal shall not be affixed to any instrument except bythe authority of the committee and signatures of two membersof the committee shall attest the affixing of the common seal.All non substantive clarity changes as indicated by bold italic orstrikethrough in the draft constitution document be included.ACT VETERANS ATHLETIC CLUB INCANNUAL GENERALMEETINGfollowing SPECIAL GENERAL MEETINGThursday, May 22, 2003Special General meeting commencing 6.30pm.(Constitutional change)Annual General meeting commencing 7.30pmAt the WEST DEAKIN HELLENIC BOWLINGCLUB, KENT STREET, DEAKINTo all members - You are invited to attend the ACTVACAGM on the above date. Prior to that AGM, there will bethe Special General Meeting, when you can vote on theconstitutional changes that will be presented.AGM Agenda:1. Present.2. Apologies.3. Minutes of the previous AGM.4. Annual Reports: President, Secretary, Treasurer.5. Motions on notice.6. Other business.7. Election of Office Bearers: Patron, President, VicePresident, Secretary, Treasurer, Committee persons(six), Auditor, Public Officer.SHARON GIBBINS - SECRETARY

May Vetrunner — Page 23A VERY SPECIAL DAY FOR THE FIRST CLUB PRESIDENTBRYAN THOMAS writes about hisjourney to Umina on the NSWCentral Coast to joint in thecelebrations for PETER FRYLINKS70th birthday.Currently 28 members haveachieved the special age of “three scoreand ten”, in fact three of them are over80 years of age and most are activeparticipants.Six members celebrate very specialbirthdays during the year; JuaniO’Reilly became a W75 in February,George Mencik an M70 a few weekslater, Peter Frylink joined the M70s inMarch, Ewen Drummond will be anM80 in May while Jim O’Donnell turns70 and Anton Tesija 90 in October.All of these people have beenprominent within our club for manyyears. Brief items on the athleticscareers of Juani and George appeared inthe last edition of Vetrunner, Peter’sstory is published below, Ewen is anoutstanding athlete who is a regularparticipant in our track and field andmonthly throwing handicap programs,Jim of course is everywhere and thelong time editor of the best clubathletics magazine in the nation whileAnton just keeps on coaching andthrowing the hammer in his Croatianhomeland.Recently Trish and I traveled up toUmina on the Central Coast to helpPeter Frylink, our inaugural presidentand a Life Member, celebrate his 70thbirthday. I had been asked to give ashort speech about Peter’s involvementwith the Vets. Here is what I said -PETER FRYLINK – “FITNESSTHROUGH FELLOWSHIP”“Fitness through Fellowship” is themotto of the ACT Veterans’ AthleticsClub and if Peter didn’t actually comeup with the phrase he certainly played akey role in its adoption. Peter firstreferred to it in his editorial in thesecond edition of the club’s newsletter inOctober 1979. The motto is also a prettyfair description of his personal outlookon life and physical activity. AlthoughPeter has been a member of our clubsince its beginning he was neverrenowned for being an elite athlete, infact he was your average weekendjogger who liked to go for a long runwithout actually working up too much ofa sweat.I have known Peter for more than 23years as a sporting colleague and friend.I knew his first wife Willie, I haveenjoyed meals and parties at his formerhome in Canberra, perhaps the mostmemorable being a New Years Eveparty that had as its highlight a noisymidnight pack run through the streetsof Chapman. I was invited to be one ofthe witnesses when he remarried and Ihelped celebrate both his 50th and 60thbirthdays.Now I have the honour to tell you alittle about Peter the veteran athlete.Peter is one of the “Originals” of theACTVAC in that he was there at thevery birth of the club in May 1979. Peterbecame our first President, a position heheld for the first six importantformative years (1979 to 1985). Duringthat time I watched him in actionspreading the good word about this newand exciting concept of serious sport formature aged people. Peter was anexcellent role model for the time as heencouraged apprehensive newcomers to“have a go”, or join him in a gentle jogand told them that there was no need toget hung up with trying to do PBs; butmost of all he encouraged them to relishbeing fit and active and to enjoy thespecial ambience of veterans’ athletics.Although he appreciated andencouraged high standards of athleticperformance he came to the conclusionthat our club was better off stayingoutside mainstream athletics (AA).Apart from being president heperformed many other tasks; some ofthe most significant being editor (1979 –1981) and co-editor (1985 – 1986) of ourpopular monthly magazine “Vetrunner”and for many years he was alsoresponsible for printing “Vetrunner” ona cantankerous old spirit duplicator inhis garage (a messy and frustrating joboften helped along by a flagon of cheapwhite wine). He was also our annualFun Run Organiser in the early yearsand leader of the team that organisedthe 1984 Oceania and AustralianVeterans’ Athletics Championships. Thetask of organizing these championshipswas particularly stressful; we were asmall, inexperienced fledging club, wewere finding it difficult to obtainsponsorship and our leader’s wife Williewas battling breast cancer at the time.In November 1985 his contributionto the development of the ACTVAC wererecognized by being awarded LifeMembership.As a competitive runner Peter wasmore your social jogger. More often thannot he would plod along at the back ofthe field happily enjoying the fun run,cross-country or track race he happenedto be competing in, and if by chance hehappened to run alongside someone ofhis own gentle pace, (usually older menor women) he would engage them infriendly chatter. In such fashion he wasa regular participant in distance racesthroughout Canberra and further afield,including several national Track andField Championships and even to anOceania Championships in Samoa so itis not too surprising that he rarely camehome with a medal or trophy. However,he must have hoodwinked theHandicapper because he did win ourvery first monthly running handicap inJuly 1979 and then in 1982 he surprisedhis friends by returning from theAustralian Veterans’ AthleticsChampionships in Perth with a silvermedal for the M45 shot put. Perhaps ifhe had his time over Peter may havefound his tall frame more suited tothrowing than long distance running.Peter’s enjoyment and promotion ofgentle social jogging as the mostdesirable form of running wasrecognized when the club named theshort course event in our monthlyrunning handicap program, the FrylinkSeries.Even during the height of the“running boom”, when it appeared thateveryone wanted to run a marathonPeter maintained his philosophy ofgentle jogging. At his going away partyprior to moving north to Umina, Peterpresented certificates to the few runnersin attendance that were qualified to joinhis “Non Marathoners Club”.During the “boom”, Deek Drive inStromlo Forest became the Mecca for allenthusiastic long distance runners tostart and finish long training runs. Itsoon became obvious that there wasneed for a tap and toilet facilities. Peterwon the contract to build a “state-of-theart-eco-friendly’toilet block. During itsconstruction it came to be affectionatelyknown as “Peter’s Palace” but whenDeek (Robert de Castella) officiallyopened it in 1987 and had the honour ofthe first pee it became “Deek’s Dunny”.Unfortunately, some years later Deek’sDunny or Peter’s Palace was burned byvandals and never rebuilt.Although Peter has lived on theCentral Coast for several years hemaintains a strong interest in our clubactivities and still has many friends inCanberra and I know that he stillbelieves and lives by the motto “Fitnessthrough Fellowship”.

Page 24— May VetrunnerI received a note with my pay slipasking if anyone would be interested inparticipating in a 24 hour Relay for Lifein aid of cancer. As my company wouldbe mainly walking I thought oforganising a Vets team of runners.Asking people at Vets track and fieldthe response was very pleasing with atleast 10 people showing real interest.With only three weeks to the run I madecontact with the ACT Cancer Council fordetails of the event. The relay started at6pm on Friday, March 27 and finished6pm on Saturday, March 28. 10 to 15runners would be needed and pay$11.00 each and try to raise sponsorshipmoney. I finally ended up with 21runners. I thought I would have troublegetting runners for the very late andearly hours but no trouble at all.The big day arrived. Up at 5am forwork and finishing at 2pm, home for ashower, load the car with air mattress,sleeping bag, table and chairs andrunning gear, food and drinks arrivingat the AIS track at 4pm. Next to erectthe Vets tent on the infield. Twomembers of another team helped meerect the tent for which I was verygrateful just in time as it started tosprinkle. The AIS track was coveredwith tents of the 40 odd teams.At 6pm a few speeches then thecancer survivors walk a lap of the trackthen the relay starts. Our first runnerwas M50 Trevor Jacobs running at afairly easy pace until passed by anotherrunner. Trevor then left him in his dust.Trevor ran for 44 minute covering 26laps. Next was W50 Maureen Rossiterrunning from 7pm till 7.30pm covering16 laps, a great effort and the most lapsshe has ever run on the track. W65 CoryCollins was up next from 7.30pm till8pm covering 12 laps being very happywith her run. The very fast M45Michael Leahey ran from 8pm till9.30pm covering a total of 55 laps.Michael provided two cartons ofGatorade, which was very welcome.Then it was the first of my four runsfrom 9.30pm till 10pm. I managed 17laps. Next was 'ironman' M40 MickCorlis running from 10pm till midnight(two hours), 19 laps first 30 minutes, 19laps, 2nd 30 minutes, 17 laps 3rd 30minutes. Mick, not well before the startof his run began to slow a great dealcovering onl y 14 laps in the final 30minutes “for a total of 69 laps” lookingvery unwell and of much concern. Nextwas W35 Lisa Wilson running from12am till 12.30am covering 16 laps. Myturn again from 12.30am till 1amcovering 17 laps again. Lisa ran again“RUN FOR LIFE”By Jim Whitefrom 1am till 1.30am this time covering15 laps. My turn again from 1.30am to2am, eight laps into my run my rightknee stared to hurt pretty badly so I hadto back off a bit but still managed 15laps.2am it was time for the very fastmiddle distance runner M40 JohnMorton. Running from 2am till 3amJohn covered 33 laps. 3am till 4am M40Mick Horan covered 33 laps. M55 KenEynon running for 90 minutes from 5amtill 5.30am managed 49 laps. My timeagain 5.30am till 6am, three laps intomy run I experienced a very bad pain inmy right knee but needed to keep goingto allow Mick as much rest as possible. Icovered a very painful 15 laps, for atotal of 64 laps. Mick Corlis was going torun a second two-hour stint from 6amtill 8am. Very worried team memberswatched as he ran. 17 laps first 30minutes, 17 laps 2nd 30 minutes, thenafter another 10 laps cannot continue soKen Eynon 14 laps, then Mick Horan 9laps completed Mick’s run. In his tworuns Mick Corils covered 113 laps(45.4km). M40 Craig Wisdom ran from8am till 9am covering 18 laps first 30minutes then 20 laps for the second 30minutes for a total of 38 laps. Great runCraig. W60 Val Chesterton ran from9am till 9.30am covering 10 laps. Racewalker M60 Robin Whyte from 9.30amto 10am walked a fantastic 14 laps.10am till 10.30am Val Chesterton ranand race-walked another 10 laps. RobynWhyte 10.30am till 11am another great14 laps. M35 Peter Cullen 11am till 12noon ran 31 laps. M45 Ewen Thompson12noon till 1am ran 31 laps. M55 ColinBridge 1pm till 2pm. Colin ran 18 and17 for a total of 35 laps. Next was thevery fast M50 Peter Clarke from 2pm to3pm with 18 and 19 laps for a fantastictotal of 37 laps.Three hours to go and I have notslept. M55 Geoff Barker 3pm till 3.30pmcovered 15 laps. M50 Neil Boden 3.30pmto 4pm ran 17 laps. Very good. GeoffBarker again 4pm till 4.30pm ran 16laps. Great run. Neil Boden again4.30pm to 5pm, 15 laps. M50 Geoff Sims5pm till 5.30pm 16 laps and finally W50Kathy Sims 5.30pm till 6pm a very good17 laps.Progressive totals:1st 3 hours – 91 laps2nd 3 hours – 104 laps3rd 3 hours – 96 lapsThe 24-hour “Run for Life”. Top: JillBrown coming round to complete yetanother lap.Above: Nev Madden, left, lapping withPeter Cullen.4th 3 hours – 97 laps5th 3 hours – 105 laps6th 3 hours – 79 laps7th 3 hours – 103 laps8th 3 hours – 96 lapsTotal – 771 laps (308.4km).What a great event, at least 40 to 50runners and walkers on the track forthe whole 24 hours. Spit roast fordinner, sausages and eggs for breakfast,live bands, pipe band, very happy peoplehaving a great time for a great cause.I would like to thank all teammembers for a great effort, especiallyMaureen Rossiter for helping with lapscoring from 6pm on Friday till 9.30amSaturday and keeping me company.Trevor Jacobs raised $680. Well doneTrevor. I did not sleep from 5am onFriday morning till 9pm on Saturdaynight (40 hours) and enjoyed everyminute.I plan to organise a team for nextyear, so join me for a good time.

Thanks for a great seasonTo the EditorI am writing to thank the AthleticsEvents Sub-Committee for organisingsuch a great track and field season.As someone who just turns up fairlyregularly to participate and does heronce only official duty I was impressedwith the program and the way thingsseem to happen without fuss and in avery relaxed manner.I am very aware that this does notoccur without lots of effort by manypeople, not only those rostered on.Besides the ‘big- four’ who were justlyawarded the Johnson Trophy, Iobserved that there were many regularhelpers every Thursday night who justdo what has to be done and areavailable to help as required before orafter their own event.This year the weather was good, hotuntil the sun went down and then quitebalmy with beautiful clear skies. It’sgreat to have a run in those conditions.The program was comprehensive,particularly convenient having distanceevents at the beginning and end of eachnight.To all those Monthly Handicaprunners and walkers, if you happen toread this, think about coming out to thetrack next season in October and doinga 3km, 5km, a spiral handicap run or awalk – I guarantee you’ll go home on ahigh.For some of us, a few more slowerrunners would be particularly welcome.I’m sure those who do the walks, thethrows and the jumps would alsowelcome more participants!Thank you again to Neil Boden andhis team.Cory Collins, Campbell.Where is our club going?To the Editor,I don’t normally get involved inpublic comment (it’s not my nature) butI felt it was time someone did. Therewere several times over the past 18months where I wanted somebody to saysomething but nobody did so finally Iam.I’m not trying to push anybody’sparticular point of view (includingmine), name names or anything likethat; all I want to achieve is to getmembers to think about what the clubmeans to them and where they think itshould be going.I remember thinking when I joinedthe club nearly four years ago what aprogressive and alive club it was. Therewas lots of enthusiasm, active memberLETTERS TO THEEDITORparticipation and generally the club wasvery active and demonstrated a clearvision to move forward.I was particularly impressed withthe club’s grasping of new technology toenhance the members’ experience andresults feedback (eg a really goodwebsite featuring results, course info,notices etc).This was all backed up by severalmembers who it seemed to me “lived forthe club” judging by the number ofhours they put in to ensure the smoothrunning of the club and itsinfrastructure.I don’t know if it’s just me but latelythings seem to be going around in everdecreasing circles, displaying a generallack of vision and purpose. There alsohas been significant membershipturnover and running participationseems to be declining.This is especially true amongst thebackmarkers where the ranks aregetting really thin and its quite boringrunning for ages before you see anybodyelse. I personally would like to see someeffort made to attract a few of the goodrunners back, OK so this may mean abit more of a competitive side to the clubbut its got nothing to do with elitism. Tome this would enhance my socialexperience of the club, which should beoffering both competitive, and socialdimensions so that members can choosehow much of each they are interested in.I think that things started to gowrong after all that unpleasantness atthe AGM two years ago where somemembers set out to air their ownpersonal agendas under the “guise” offree speech.The right to free speech only extendsThe Star newspaper in South Africareports of the new M55 world record in the800, which age-grades to an open equivalentof 1:41.73, an awesome performance:Stan Immelman from Central GautengMasters Athletics, competing in the EPMasters Championships in December inPort Elizabeth, bettered the men's 55-59world record in the 800 with a time of2:03.70.The existing record, currently held byTom Roberts of Australia, stands at 2:05.07and was set back in 1989.Immelman set a cracking pace with afirst lap in 58 seconds, maintaining a steadyMay Vetrunner — Page 25only up to the point where it infringeson others’ rights, after that its termedlibel and slander. What happened wasclearly in the latter category andbecause nothing was done about it bythe executive it set a general badprecedent where the club is still beingused by some members to push theirown agendas and vendettas. Honestly,sometimes I feel like shouting out “getreal you bunch of old phogies”.The fallout from this was severe onthe club’s functioning, several memberswere so badly offended that they leftand never came back while otherssimply stepped into the background andstopped contributing the enormouseffort they had been putting in.I could just do what several otherrunners have done and vanish, lets faceit you can collect a few mates and go fora run anywhere, anytime; you don’tneed a club to do it but that’s not what Iwant. I joined so that I could interactwith people who had a zest for life andbetter things to do than sitting aroundwith a beer watching the footy.So all I’m asking is for members tothink seriously about what the clubmeans to them, what they think itshould offer and what they themselvescan do for it and other members. Wehave a diverse range of members, fromthose who mainly want just the socialaspects of the club through to those whowant to be individually competitive.Most members sit between theseextremes but the club needs to offersomething for everybody to besuccessful.So think about whatever issues arerelevant to you and make yourselfheard, with the AGM coming up soonwhat better time or make yourself heardsome other way. (Don’t worry, this isn’ta pitch for me running for office, I’m aback row cynic and it’d ruin my style)Steve Bradford, Deakin.WORLD RECORD IN SOUTH AFRICApace throughout and running virtually onhis own.At the WMC held in Brisbane, inAugust, 2001, Immelman (then a M50) ran aPB of 2:02.56, finishing third in the final.He has his sights set on a sub twominute800m this season, which ends withthe South African Masters Championshipsin Bellville in May next year.Stan has been awarded the Male Athleteof the Year for his world record in the M55800m and being the highest age-gradedpercentage of 98.4%.Story from Ken Stone, Runner's WorldOnline at. http://www.masterstrack.com

Page 30—May VetrunnerMaySat 3 – ACT Race Walking Club. Stage 88,Commonwealth Park over 6/12km. Racingstarts at 1.30pm. Fitness walkers welcome.Contact 62576427.Sat 3 – ACTCCC at Nara Peace Park. Racesover 1/4/8km.Sat 10 – ACTCCC at Duffy Pines. Races over1/4.5/8.1km.Sat 10 – ACT Race Walking Club. Rowing ClubBlack Mountain Peninsula over 5/15km. Racingstarts at 1.30pm. Fitness walkers welcome.Contact 62576427.Sat 17 – ACT Race Walking Club. Acton FerryTerminal 4/8km. Racing starts at 1.30pm.Fitness walkers welc ome. Summerpresentations, AGM and BBQ afterwards.Contact 62576427.Sun 18 – ACTCCC Canberra Half Marathon.Sun 18 – Race Walking at Albert Park,Melbourne. Australian 50km Road WalkingChampionships. Entries close with ACTAthletics on Friday, 25 April. Contact62576427.Sat 24 – ACTVAC Monthly ThrowingHandicap at Masson Street in Turner. Hammerand Javelin starts at 1pm. Contact Trish62963278.Sat 24 – ACTCCC at the Carrilon. Scratch raceover 6km.Sat 24 – ACT Race Walking Club. BlackMountain Peninsula Boat Ramp over 5km anda 16.3km lap of the East Basin. Racing starts at1.30pm. Fitness walkers welcome. Contact62576427.Sun 25 – ACTVAC Monthly Run/WalkingHandicap at Mt Ainslie from 9am. Three races,one over 9.3km and a race and a walk over4.5km. Race organiser TBA. Others on dutyinclude: John Bakker, Jane Bell, KathleenBleakley, Chris Booth, Karen Daniels, AllisonDuncan, Carol Ey, Fran Harris, MeganHaycock, John Littler, Joan and Al Mallory, JimMcLean, John McMillan, David Meyers,Paulette Montaigne, John Richardson,Maureen Rossiter, Elaine B Slater, PhilToomey and Amanda Walker.Weekly, Bi-Weekly and Monthly EventsCustoms Joggers meet every Friday at Stage 88 in Commonwealth Park at 12.20pm. NickBlackaby 62756506.Lake Tuggeranong Run every Tuesday on the lake edge near KFC at 12.20pm. Lloyd Edwards62446340.BBQ Stakes Handicap every Wednesday from the Senior Citizens Club in Woden at 12.20pm.Adrian Plunkett 62832307.Round the Lake (Burley Griffin) every second Wednesday (off PS pay week) from the NerangBridge in Commonwealth Park at 12.20pm. Geoff Perry 62496965.Barton Handicap every second Wednesday (on PS pay week) from the southern side of KingsAvenue Bridge at 12.30pm. Des Brown 62723512.Females in Training every Tuesday at the AIS Track (various distances) at 12.15pm. AnneGripper 62141239.ACTCCC Women’s and Girls Jogalong at Weston Park (till the forest is open again) on the firstSunday of the month at 9am. Maria White 62314168.Lake Ginninderra Handicap, last Tuesday of the month, from outside the Lighthouse Bar at12.20pm. Michael Aylott 62526683.Mount Ainslie Run Up, last Tuesday of the month, from Treloar Crescent behind the WarMemorial at 12.45pm. John Harding 62441153.ACTVAC General Committee Meetings monthly on Mondays (April 14, May 19) at the WestDeakin Hellenic Bowling Club, Kent Street, Deakin from 7pm. Sharon Gibbins 62910047.Sat 31 – ACTCCC at Molonglo Gorge. Racesover 1/3.5/7km.Sat 31 – ACT Race Walking Club. AustralianNational Gallery (Lakeside Recreation Path)over 4/10km. Racing starts at 1.30pm. Fitnesswalkers welcome. Sausage Sizzle afterwards.Contact 62576427.JuneSat 7 – ACTCCC at Rani Road. Races over1/3.5/5.2km.Sat 14 – ACTVAC and ACTCCC CrossCountry Championships. Venue TBA.Sat 21 – ACTVAC Monthly ThrowingHandicap at Masson Street in Turner. Discusand Shot starts at 1pm. Contact Trish62963278.Sat 21 – ACTCCC at O’Connor Ridge. Racesover 1/2.5/5km.Sun 22 – Terry Fox Fun Run from theCanadian High Commission. Two races over5/10km also a walking event over 5km.Sat 28 – ACTCCC at Yarralumla Bay. Racesover 1/3/6km.Sun 29 – ACTVAC Monthly Run/WalkingHandicap at Rani Road from 9am. Threeraces, one over 8km and a race and a walkover 4km. Race organiser Roy Jones62510148/ Others on duty include: RogerAbbott, Denton Bocking, Diann and RayBramwell, Peter Brown, John Carmody, Cillaand Bob Chapman, Sue Counsel, JennyFitzsimmons, Brenda Ford, David Holmes,Peter James, John Kennedy, Beryl Lowry, AlanMallory, Diana Schneider, Chris Pauling,Margaret Taylor, Gai Webster and Ron Weir.JulyWed 2 to Sun 13 – World Masters AthleticTrack and Field Championsips at Carolina inPuerto Rico.Sat 5 – ACTCCC at Stranger Hill. Races over1/3.5/7km.Sun 6 – Gold Coast Marathon (also QMAMarathon Championships), Half Marathon and10km.Sat 12 – ACTCCC at the Longstaff/Penningtoncourses. Races over 1/4/8/12/16km.CLUB TRAINING GROUPS IN AND AROUND CANBERRAGroups of veterans conduct trainingsessions all over Canberra. If you areinterested in training for a particular eventyou should contact one of the manygroups that are listed. It’s always fun totrain with others, to share skills andknowledge.Runners, throwers, jumpers and walkersof all levels are welcome.In both the training details and the comingevents calendar where there is no contactphone number indicated or information onany club event contact the Secretary,Sharon Gibbins 62910047 (h) or on Emailat: sharon.gibbins@telstra.com.auJumpsJOHN HUNT 62748035 (w) Sundays11am at the AIS track.ThrowsRAY GREEN 62316712 (h).Call for times.SprintingJOHN BURNS 62319511 (h) Monday at4.15pm at Calwell Playing Fields.FRAN HARRIS 62302341 (h) Strengthwork, hurdle training. Twice weekly at theAIS track. Call for times.Middle Distance RunningGEOFF MOORE 62544753 (h)0410544573 (m) Mondays from 5.30pmat the Parliament House. Thursdays from5.30pm at Dickson Oval. Call for details.GLENN COWARD 62885841 (h) Call fortimes.GREG STRETTON 62958474 (h) Call fortimes.Long Distance RunningMICK DANDO 62477361 (h) Tuesdaysand Sundays (when no vets handicap isscheduled) from Black MountainPeninsula at 9am. Saturdays at 7am fromthe Acton Ferry Terminal. (This venuewhile forests are closed).GRAEME SMALL 62581162 (h) Call fortimes and details.ROY JONES 62510148 (h) Call for timesand details.Race and Fitness WalkingROBIN WHYTE 62973438 (h) Call fortimes and details.CHRIS BOOTH 62474116 (h) Mondaysat 5.30pm from Parliament House.Water Strengthening andConditioningJOHN BELL 0438381425 (m) Deepwater training at the AIS Pool. Call fortimes and details.All runners, throwers, jumpers andwalkers should in the first instance phonethe contact .If you train regularly and you would likesome company please let us know.GEOFF MOORE Training GroupsCoordinator.

More winners from track and fieldMay Vetrunner — Page 31The Johnson Trophy. Above left: The “Fab-Four” as they will now be known, are, from the left, Jim O’Donnell, John Suiter, Doug Fryand Mike Adler were the joint winners of the Johnson Trophy. This award also known as the “Club Person of Person of the Year” ispresented to an athlete(s) that has gained from being involved in track and field, not only as a competitor but as a invaluable helper.Mike was the starter for all the running and walking events, Doug was the recorder for the track races and Jim and John took over theresponsibility of timing of the races, John also organises the tea and coffee each week and competes in the Adler Series SpiralHandicaps, Jim competed in several of the walking events as well as four of the spiral handicaps . This was Jim’s, John’s and Doug’sthird timer in taking out this award and for Mike it was his second.The Heart Foundation Trophy. Above right: Trish Thomas who was the worthy winner of this season’s Heart Foundation Trophy.This award is given to an athlete that is an elite performer in their chosen discipline at track and field and although having toovercome several health setbacks has gained enormously in competing at track and field. This is the second time that Trish hastaken out this award.ACT VETERANS ATHLETIC CLUB INCMembership/Change Application Details FormTo either join or renew your annual membership, or even change your membership details, please enter the relevantdetails below. When completed send to: ACT Veterans Athletic Club Inc., GPO Box 2356, Canberra, ACT 2601, or giveto the Treasurer, Secretary or Registrar at an ACTVAC Club Event.Name……………………………………………………………………………………..Membership No (if known)………………Address……………………………………………………………...City……………………………..State……..….P/C……..…..Contacts: Phone No (h)……………………………. (w)…………………………….…. (m)………………………………………Email Address……………………………………………………………. Gender: Male……………….. Female………………..Date of Birth: Day………….…..…... Month………….……..... Year…….……….……. Distribution List: [Yes] [No] Tick oneIf Double Membership (Second Person Details): Name………………………….………..……….… DoB…..……….………..Membership Fees $34 (Single) $54 (Double) Payment Details:…………………………………………(Cash/Cheque/Card)(Note: A capitation fee of $7 for each member goes to our national body, AMA)If Card: [MasterCard] [Visa] [Bankcard] Tick one. Card Number………………….……………………………………………..Card Holders Name………………………………………………………………. Expiry Date…………………..………………..Signature (If sent by Post)………………………………………..Emergency Contact No…………………………………..

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