Vetrunner December 2007.pub - ACT Veterans Athletics Club

VETRUNNEREmail: vetrunner@actvac.com ISSN 1449-8006 Vol. 29 Issue 6 — December 2007ALISON IDEMASTER SPORTSTAR OF THE YEARACTVAC members dominate Masters Sportstar AwardsStory by Consie LarmourOn Saturday 3 rd November, ACTVAC was well representedat the annual presentation night of the ClubsACTSportstar of the Year Awards. In the Masters category,ACTVAC members who won monthly awards were: theW70 Relay team of Alison Ide, Cory Collins, Anne Youngand Consie Larmour ( December); Val Chesterton(January); Grant Edwards(February); Jack Thackray(April); Peter Kallio (May);Robin Whyte (August); andRad Leovic.That ACTVAC was so wellrepresented was due to BryanThomas and his work in nominatingus. His time and generosityin promoting ACTVACand its members, and his researchinto records andachievements, should not gounnoticed.Alison Ide also gained theNovember nomination for herTennis achievements(including winning the WorldBrenda Ford with Alison Ide at theOctober 2007 HandicapWomen’s 70+ Doubles Title).So with two monthlyawards in two different sports, anddespite the awesome achievements ofthe above members and the award winners from othersports, Alison certainly merited her new title of MasterSportstar of the Year. No one could match her two currentworld titles!Alison’s November tennis nomination was for winningthe World Women’s 70+ Doubles title, with her partnerJoyce Rogers of Victoria, at the International Tennis FederationWorld Championships in Turkey. She also representedAustralia in the Women’s 70+ international tennisteams event.Alison’s December nomination was for athletics and theACTVAC W70 relay team. During the year this team –Alison, Cory Collins, Anne Young and Consie Larmour --set ACT and Australian records in the 4 x 100 metres relay,W70, established 16 November 2006; the 4 x 400 metresrelay, W70, established 7 December 2006; the 4 x 800metres relay, W70, established 15 March 2007; and the 4 x1500 metres relay, W70, established 14 December 2006. Inaddition Alison’s relay team hold the 4 x 200 metres relayrecord for the ACT.The 4 x 800 metres relay, W70, established 15 March2007 has been recognized as aworld record.According to the team, Alisonwas largely responsible for organisingtheir participation inall relays open to this agegroup.Alison credits Brenda Fordwith introducing her to Vetsathletics. Her first run was inthe monthly handicap at Curtinin January 2003. Then, hermain aim was to build andmaintain her fitness for tennis.She found members ofACTVAC friendly and encouraging,and particularly remembersthe help and advice of ValChesterton.At the ClubsACT Sportstar ofthe Year dinner, the ACTVAC nomineeswere supported by Fran Harris(who coaches and trains with Alison and many of the othernominees), Hilary Thackray and Marlene and Neil Reid.When presented with her award of Master Sportstar ofthe Year, the MCs for the night, David Hohnke and LucilleBailie asked Alison whether she had any advice foryounger sports participants. Alison said that perseveranceand commitment are what count: you don’t have to be awinner but, if you perform to the best of your ability, thenyou have achieved.During the evening many of the sportstars present congratulatedAlison on her particular achievements duringthe past year.Alison Ide story continues on Page 5ACTVAC Sportstar nominations on Page 5MEMBERSHIPS DUE 1 JANUARY 2008RENEW ONLINE AT WWW.ACTVAC.COM.AUOR FILL OUT THE FORM ON PAGE 34The O’Connor Ridge Handicap Reportplus a story on John Busteed’s special 200T-Shirt are on Page 14Printed by Instant Colour Press

Page 2 — December 2007 VetrunnerJohn Parker andJuani B O’Reilly(50 run T-Shirts)Roger Pilkington(100 run T-Shirt)and John Busteed(200 run T-Shirt)Waddell Series winners:Greg O’Neill (Gold), JohnBusteed (Silver) and RickHatcher (Bronze)Left: Frylink Series winners:Wanda Stewart (gold) andJodie Sims (Silver)Below: Thomas Series winners:Barbara Tucker (gold)and Howard Hollow (silver)

December 2007 Vetrunner — Page 3Thinking about it, December is a concept inherited fromthe northern hemisphere, and can be an anomaly in itsAntipodal manifestation. At this time of year, thepredominant cultural practices in our wide, and(increasingly) brown, land draw heavily on Europe. There,December beckons the winter equinox, and progressivelyless darkness per 24 hours, and invigorating sunlight aroundthe corner, so to speak. Christmas, as a religious event, andthe other stalwart of December, celebrates the birth of thecentral figure in the Christian heritage. Birth is symbolic ofgrowth, development, achievement.December in the northern hemisphere is cold, andChristmas settings are frequently snow encrusted. Beforeindustrialisation, living would have been a little cramped inDecember for any European forebears. Christmas was apep-me-up to its adherents, reminding them that they’dturned the corner and given hope for spring and warmerweather. Since the steam engine and growing literacy,Christmas morphed from its cultural ‘toe-hold on life’ into acommercial bonanza. Here, we work from January to arrive‘exhausted’ in December, where only holidays, gift-givingand other life affirming activities centred around family(food playing its part) give ‘a good break’ and revive us foranother year. Ah, how we cherish our traditions!What has this got to do with athletics? Well, for our club,memberships are due for renewal, and members are urged torenew for 2008. You can do this online, via Register Nowfollowing the links to memberships on the ACTVAC websiteBut there are more fundamental connections for athleticsand the end of year, Christmas-type notions. First, athleticspredates Christmas, and Christianity, by a long chalk. Weknow that it held a central place in the Hellenic cultural lifefor centuries before the modern era. Athletes came togetherto compete and socialise, and to celebrate achievement andlife. They would have done this in good weather, that issummertime, so our November events in throwing, walkingPRESIDENT’S MESSAGEand running continue that ancient tradition.Life with a capital ‘L’ continues, as does our club.Through the many and varied contributions of each andevery one of us, we create those inherently real, humanconditions that give us all the opportunity to enjoy, toparticipate, compete, to give our all. The real test of ourhumanity, a club for its members, is the opportunity formembers to participate and do their best, irrespective of theoutcome. Whether we seek personal satisfaction, or theaccolades of peers, the club has pretty much got the balanceright, with room for improvement. The variety ofachievements and experiences reported in Vetrunner is butone aspect of the whole being greater than the sum of itsparts.It is the time of year that the club honours those amongus who embody the values of striving, fairness andcommunity. These put our members, front and centre, bothas individuals and as contributors to the common good. Welldone to those who have had their contribution confirmed andacknowledged. Special congratulations to Alison Ide, ACTMasters SportsStar for 2007.A reminder about our Sunday pack runs. Currently, weleave at 9am on Sundays in Weston Park, corner of WestonPark Road and Prescott Lane. We look forward to seeing youthere. We may relocate to Stromlo Forest Park, following itsinauguration as a running facility on 18 November.Seasons greetings, and may all your experiences befestive. Remember, all travellers want to arrive safe andsound at their destination. Be alert, be respectful, becompassionate when driving, running, walking or evencycling this December and January. Make sure you andothers get there safely.Christopher Lang, PresidentACT VETERANS ATHLETIC CLUB “Fitness Through Fellowship”The Vetrunner is the official Newsletter of ACTVAC ISSN 1449-8006Postal Address: GPO Box 2356, Canberra, ACT 2601. Internet at: actvac.com.auDisclaimer: The views expressed in this newsletter are not necessarily the views of ACTVACPatron: Jack PenningtonPresident: Chris Lang . 62317353 (h)62613696 (w)0427317353 (m). Email:president@actvac.comVice President: Rosemary Parker: 62882508(h) Email: vicepresident@actvac.com;Run/Walking Sub-CommitteeSecretary: Rod Lynch62427071 (h)Email: secretary@actvac.comTreasurer: Audrey Gormley 02 6241 2934 (h).Email: treasurer@actvac.comAssets register, Insurance. Awards Sub-CommitteeMain Committee:Geoff Sims 62547284 (h)Email: committee@actvac.comJack Thackray 02 6262 4248 (AH) 0409 813368 (m)committee@actvac.comMarion Blake: 62817574 (h) 62899122 (w).Email: marion.blake@nhrmc.gov.auPeter Cullen02 62412934 (H) 0425 301 940 (m)committee@actvac.comRoger Pilkington: 62517966 (h). 0409543826(m).Email: committee@actvac.comMember/Services Sub-Committee.Craig Wisdom: 62889499 (h) 62068244 (w).Email: k.physio@bigpond.net.auCoaching/Training Sub-CommitteeSub-Committee Contacts:Annual Awards/Half Marathon Director:Bryan Thomas 61613635 (h). Email:brytrish@grapevine.com.auMembership Services: Geoff Moore 62544753(h) Email: speedygeoff@netspeed.com.auCompetition: Alice Scott 62383178 (h). Email:alice@yless4u.com.auSocial Events: Val Chesterton 62928994 (h)Jenny Galvin 62925294 (h) Monika Short62958625 (h).Run/Walk Handicaps: Stuart J Reid 62942368(h). Email: reidsk@grapevine.com.auInformation and Technology/Registrar: MickCorlis 62963969 (h) 62750753 (w) Email:mick.corlis@wizardis.com.auThrowing Handicaps: Trish Thomas61613635. Email: brytrish@grapevine.com.auOther Contacts:Catering/Lost Property: John Suiter 62959524(h) AIS track. John Alcock 62863213 (h)/BernieMillett 62999065 (h) (Monthly Run/WalkingHcps)Peter Freeman (Throwing Hcp) 62395112 (h).Club Marquee: .Equipment Officer: Jayne Hardy 62271433 (h)0421610053 (m).Health and Safety Officer: Roy Jones62510148 (h).Public Officer: Chris Mahe 62951440 (h).Email: mahe@homemail.com.auRelays and Cross Country: Jim White62314168 (h).Statistican and Club Records: Neil Boden62424038 (h) 62499428 (w). Email at home:nboden@iprimus.com.au or at workNeil.Boden@ga.gov.auUniform and Badges Sales: Rosemary/BobParker 62882508.Vetrunner Editor: Narelle Blackaby 62588902(h), Email: vetrunner@actvac.comVetrunner Distribution:Roger Abbott 62514051.Jenny Galvin 62925294.Run/Walking Handicap Sub-Committee,Vetrunner: Doug Fry 62886439 (h)Email: frydoug@yahoo.comFirst Aid Officers: Roy Jones, Gai Webster,Michelle Granville, Marlene Reid.

December 2007 Vetrunner — Page 781 M60 Alan Duus 30 30 29:55 13:37 43:42 4:30-4:35 5:28 4:42.5 71.5 89 Y Auto Rvw 2982 W60 Margaret McSpadden 21 21 23:10 13:43 50:33 5:15-5:20 6:19 5:26.8 71.2 88 Y Auto Rvw 2083 M45 Bryce Anderson 35 35 33:40 13:51 40:11 4:05-4:10 5:01 4:19.8 68.7 0 0 Auto Rvw 3484 M55 Geoff Sims 28 28 28:25 13:52 45:27 4:40-4:45 5:41 4:53.9 67.9 87 Y Auto Rvw 2785 M65 Doug Fry 17 17 20:10 13:53 53:43 5:35-5:40 6:43 5:47.3 62.6 86 Y Auto Rvw 1686 M60 Ken Eynon 17 17 20:10 13:53 53:43 5:35-5:40 6:43 5:47.3 58.2 0 187 M45 Nigel Coldrick 28 28 28:25 13:56 45:31 4:40-4:45 5:41 4:54.3 61.7 85 Y Auto Rvw 2788 W50 Jacqueline Millard 22 22 23:55 14:02 50:07 5:10-5:15 6:16 5:24.0 66.7 84 Y89 W50 Jennie Blake 24 24 25:25 14:05 48:40 5:00-5:05 6:05 5:14.7 66.8 83 Y Auto Rvw 2390 M60 Terry Giesecke 21 21 23:10 14:07 50:57 5:15-5:20 6:22 5:29.4 61.5 0 191 W45 Maree Coldrick 26 26 26:55 14:14 47:19 4:50-4:55 5:55 5:05.9 66.4 82 Y Auto Rvw 2592 M45 Robert Ey 37 37 35:10 14:15 39:05 3:55-4:00 4:53 4:12.7 71.0 81 Y93 M60 Martin Butterfield 29 29 29:10 14:19 45:09 4:35-4:40 5:39 4:51.9 69.0 80 Y Auto Rvw 2894 M50 Alan Mallory 31 31 30:40 14:21 43:41 4:25-4:30 5:28 4:42.4 65.9 79 Y Auto Rvw 3095 M65 Bryan Thomas 28 28 28:25 14:28 46:03 4:40-4:45 5:45 4:57.7 70.2 78 Y96 M65 Bernie Rogers 14 14 18:00 14:36 56:36 5:50-5:55 7:05 6:05.9 56 77 Y Auto Rvw 1397 W30 Rachelle Ellis-Brownlee 1 32 31:25 14:38 43:13 7:50-8:00 5:24 4:39.4 65.4 0 0 Auto Rvw 2998 W45 Karen Daniels 25 25 26:10 14:54 48:44 4:55-5:00 6:06 5:15.1 62.2 76 Y99 W45 Juani B O'Reilly 16 16 19:25 14:56 55:31 5:40-5:45 6:56 5:58.9 54.6 75 Y Auto Rvw 15100 M60 Rod Rhodes 13 13 17:15 15:12 57:57 5:55-6:00 7:15 6:14.7 54.3 74 Y Auto Rvw 12101 W55 Jill Brown 21 21 23:10 15:15 52:05 5:15-5:20 6:31 5:36.7 67.6 73 Y Auto Rvw 20102 M60 Michael Gardner 24 24 25:25 15:22 49:57 5:00-5:05 6:15 5:23.0 62.4 72 Y Auto Rvw 23103 M50 Steve Appleby 38 38 35:55 15:25 39:30 3:50-3:55 4:56 4:15.4 74.3 71 Y104 M55 Robert Kennelly 1 1 00:00 15:30 15:30 7:50-8:00 9:26 8:08.1 40.5 70 Y105 M55 John McMillan 21 21 23:10 15:32 52:22 5:15-5:20 6:33 5:38.6 58.3 69 Y106 M50 Peter McDonald 32 32 31:25 15:36 44:11 4:20-4:25 5:31 4:45.7 66.5 68 Y Auto Rvw 31107 M65 Richard Hilhorst 30 30 29:55 15:44 45:49 4:30-4:35 5:44 4:56.2 70.6 67 Y Auto Rvw 29108 W35 Amanda Walker 33 33 32:10 15:45 43:35 4:15-4:20 5:27 4:41.8 66.8 66 Y109 W60 Lynn Williams 19 19 21:40 15:45 54:05 5:25-5:30 6:46 5:49.7 68 65 Y110 M75 Michael Freer 21 21 23:10 16:24 53:14 5:15-5:20 6:39 5:44.2 74.5 64 Y111 M45 Mick Corlis 41 41 38:05 17:00 38:55 3:35-3:40 4:52 4:11.6 71.7 63 Y112 M45 Peter Sinfield 27 27 27:40 17:09 49:29 4:45-4:50 6:11 5:19.9 56.1 0 1 Auto Rvw 26113 M55 Mick Charlton 25 25 26:10 17:40 51:30 4:55-5:00 6:26 5:33.0 57.6 0 1114 M50 Mark Tucker 27 27 27:40 18:41 51:01 4:45-4:50 6:23 5:29.8 56.5 0 0 Auto Rvw 26115 W45 Helen Larmour 35 35 33:40 19:10 45:30 4:05-4:10 5:41 4:54.2 69 62 Y116 M45 Roger Pilkington 36 36 34:25 19:10 44:45 4:00-4:05 5:36 4:49.3 62.4 61 Y117 W60 Beryl Lowry 14 14 18:00 19:46 01:46 5:50-5:55 7:43 6:39.4 58.3 60 Y Auto Rvw 13118 W65 Caroline Campbell 23 23 24:40 19:54 55:14 5:05-5:10 6:54 5:57.1 72.1 59 Y Auto Rvw 22119 M60 Roy Jones 26 26 26:55 20:15 53:20 4:50-4:55 6:40 5:44.8 59.2 0 1 Auto Rvw 25FRYLINK SERIES over 4kmDifficulty factor36:00Place Age Name Gp GAct Start Gross Net GpRate Rate CorrRt Age % Pos Elig Comment NewGp1 W70 Anne Young 9 9 06:05 33:55 27:50 6:30-6:40 6:57 6:03.0 76.7 0 1 Review 132 W55 Wanda Stewart 10 10 06:55 34:00 27:05 6:20-6:30 6:46 5:53.3 62.1 75 Y Gold 163 W30 Jodie Sims 23 23 12:35 34:33 21:58 5:05-5:10 5:30 4:46.5 58.5 74 Y Silver 284 M45 Paul Noone 12 12 08:25 35:00 26:35 6:00-6:10 6:39 5:46.7 49.7 73 Y Bronze 165 W55 Cilla Chapman 9 9 06:05 35:33 29:28 6:30-6:40 7:22 6:24.3 58.9 72 Y Auto Rvw 106 W70 Lorna Burdon 7 7 04:35 35:48 31:13 6:50-7:00 7:48 6:47.2 66.2 71 Y Auto Rvw 87 W30 Melanie Walsh 28 28 14:30 35:51 21:21 4:40-4:45 5:20 4:38.5 60.9 0 1 Review 308 M70 Bob Chapman 31 31 15:35 35:53 20:18 4:25-4:30 5:04 4:24.8 87.4 70 Y Auto Rvw 329 W75 Judy Forbes 10 10 06:55 35:59 29:04 6:20-6:30 7:16 6:19.1 80.1 69 Y Auto Rvw 1110 W45 Vicki Matthews 20 20 11:25 36:07 24:42 5:20-5:25 6:11 5:22.2 61.2 68 Y Review 2111 W45 Kerry Boden 31 31 15:35 36:11 20:36 4:25-4:30 5:09 4:28.7 74.6 67 Y Review 3212 W55 Cathy Montalto 29 29 14:50 36:15 21:25 4:35-4:40 5:21 4:39.3 76.1 66 Y13 M30 Brad Osborn 31 31 15:35 36:17 20:42 4:25-4:30 5:11 4:30.0 57.0 65 Y14 W40 Deb Gordon 30 30 15:15 36:19 21:04 4:30-4:35 5:16 4:34.8 66.9 64 Y15 W40 Katie Forestier 40 40 19:00 36:22 17:22 3:40-3:45 4:21 3:46.5 81.1 63 Y16 M50 Ken White 41 41 19:25 36:23 16:58 3:35-3:40 4:14 3:41.3 82.6 62 Y17 M65 Michael Roche 20 20 11:25 36:34 25:09 5:20-5:25 6:17 5:28.0 61.6 61 Y18 M55 Neil Boden 34 34 16:45 36:35 19:50 4:10-4:15 4:57 4:18.7 72.4 60 Y19 M40 Brian Mclachlan 36 36 17:30 36:40 19:10 4:00-4:05 4:47 4:10.0 67.9 59 Y20 W65 Jenny Galvin 9 9 06:05 36:42 30:37 6:30-6:40 7:39 6:39.3 65.4 58 Y21 M70 Ray Bramwell 28 28 14:30 36:46 22:16 4:40-4:45 5:34 4:50.4 78.2 57 Y22 M45 Kevin Matthews 26 26 13:45 36:47 23:02 4:50-4:55 5:45 5:00.4 58.7 56 Y Auto Rvw 2523 M35 Tony Harrison 25 25 13:20 36:49 23:29 4:55-5:00 5:52 5:06.3 51.2 55 Y Auto Rvw 2424 W55 Carmel Lynch 12 12 08:25 37:05 28:40 6:00-6:10 7:10 6:13.9 57.8 54 Y25 M50 Gary Bowen 39 39 18:40 37:07 18:27 3:45-3:50 4:37 4:00.7 73.8 53 Y Auto Rvw 3826 W60 Brenda Ford 17 17 10:20 37:10 26:50 5:35-5:40 6:43 5:50.0 65.6 52 Y Auto Rvw 1627 W55 Carol Baird 30 30 15:15 37:12 21:57 4:30-4:35 5:29 4:46.3 77.8 51 Y28 M50 Adrian Krauss 10 10 06:55 37:23 30:28 6:20-6:30 7:37 6:37.4 45.0 50 Y29 M70 Mike Dwyer 12 12 08:25 37:25 29:00 6:00-6:10 7:15 6:18.3 57.9 49 Y30 M45 John Parker 30 30 15:15 37:27 22:12 4:30-4:35 5:33 4:49.6 60.9 48 Y Auto Rvw 2931 W55 Lynda Sinfield 7 7 04:35 37:28 32:53 6:50-7:00 8:13 7:08.9 49.5 0 1 Auto Rvw 632 W60 Rosemary Parker 26 26 13:45 37:31 23:46 4:50-4:55 5:56 5:10.0 74.1 47 Y Auto Rvw 2533 M70 Bill Egan 28 28 14:30 37:40 23:10 4:40-4:45 5:48 5:02.2 72.5 0 1 Auto Rvw 2734 W55 Josephine Kulesz 9 9 06:05 37:44 31:39 6:30-6:40 7:55 6:52.8 53.2 46 Y Auto Rvw 835 M55 Geoff Moore 40 40 19:00 37:53 18:53 3:40-3:45 4:43 4:06.3 77.3 45 Y Auto Rvw 3936 M50 Jamie Macgregor 26 26 13:45 39:10 25:25 4:50-4:55 6:21 5:31.5 54.7 44 Y Auto Rvw 2537 W60 Alice Scott 18 18 10:40 39:22 28:42 5:30-5:35 7:10 6:14.3 63.4 0 1 Auto Rvw 1738 W50 Jenny Holmes 6 6 03:50 39:49 35:59 7:00-7:10 9:00 7:49.3 44.2 43 Y Auto Rvw 539 W45 Amanda Chew 12 12 08:25 40:41 32:16 6:00-6:10 8:04 7:00.9 47.6 42 Y Review 1140 M50 George Kubitzky 33 33 16:25 40:42 24:17 4:15-4:20 6:04 5:16.7 57.7 41 Y Auto Rvw 32

Page 8 — December 2007 VetrunnerWADDELL SERIES over 4kmDifficluty factor 09:69Place Age Name Gp GAct Start Gross Net GpRate Rate CorrRt Age % Pos Elig Comment NewGp1 M75 Greg O'Neill 5 5 02:50 40:49 37:59 9:10-9:20 9:30 8:42.7 62.9 40 Y Gold 122 M70 Jim O'Donnell 24 1 00:00 40:54 40:54 7:00-7:05 10:14 9:22.8 58.1 0 G3 M70 Stuart J Reid 6 6 03:30 41:39 38:09 9:00-9:10 9:32 8:45.0 62.0 0 1 Review 104 M60 John Busteed 9 9 05:35 42:07 36:32 8:30-8:40 9:08 8:22.8 56.8 39 Y Silver 115 M55 Rick Hatcher 38 38 16:40 42:19 25:39 5:50-5:55 6:25 5:53.0 78.6 38 Y Bronze 396 M60 Will Foster 10 9 05:35 42:21 36:46 8:20-8:30 9:11 8:26.0 58.0 0 G7 M55 John Littler 30 30 13:55 42:24 28:29 6:30-6:35 7:07 6:32.0 70.8 37 Y8 M75 Dave Mackenzie 28 28 13:15 42:30 29:15 6:40-6:45 7:19 6:42.5 82.9 36 Y9 W60 Faye Green 14 14 08:20 42:42 34:22 7:50-7:55 8:36 7:52.9 68.0 35 Y10 W60 Rhonda Blackman 26 26 12:30 42:45 30:15 6:50-6:55 7:34 6:56.3 77.7 34 Y11 M75 John Suiter 32 32 14:35 42:46 28:11 6:20-6:25 7:03 6:27.8 88.4 33 Y12 M60 Peter Hann 24 24 11:50 42:47 30:57 7:00-7:05 7:44 7:05.9 67.1 32 Y13 M50 Edward Towner 28 28 13:15 42:55 29:40 6:40-6:45 7:25 6:48.3 62.8 31 Y14 W55 Pauline Rohan 23 23 11:30 42:57 31:27 7:05-7:10 7:52 7:12.8 73.0 30 Y15 M70 Neil Gentle 19 19 10:05 42:57 32:52 7:25-7:30 8:13 7:32.3 70.8 29 Y16 M70 Alan Burdon 29 29 13:35 42:59 29:24 6:35-6:40 7:21 6:44.6 79.2 28 Y17 W40 Amanda Lynch 13 13 08:00 43:08 35:08 7:55-8:00 8:47 8:03.5 57.8 27 Y18 M55 Henk Jansen 24 24 11:50 43:27 31:37 7:00-7:05 7:54 7:15.1 61.9 0 019 M55 Tony Fenotti 22 22 11:10 43:33 32:23 7:10-7:15 8:06 7:25.6 60.4 26 Y Auto Rvw 2120 W45 Linda Bone 13 13 08:00 43:37 35:37 7:55-8:00 8:54 8:10.1 59.6 0 N21 W60 Diann Bramwell 14 14 08:20 43:38 35:18 7:50-7:55 8:50 8:05.8 66.4 25 Y Auto Rvw 1322 M65 John Macleod 12 12 07:40 44:14 36:34 8:00-8:10 9:08 8:23.2 62.9 24 Y23 M65 Terry Munro 29 29 13:35 44:19 30:44 6:35-6:40 7:41 7:02.9 74.8 23 Y24 W60 Trish Thomas 15 15 08:40 44:31 35:51 7:45-7:50 8:58 8:13.3 65.6 22 Y25 W75 Juani M O'Reilly 10 10 06:15 44:45 38:30 8:20-8:30 9:38 8:49.8 81.4 21 Y26 W50 Helen Modrak 7 7 04:10 44:47 40:37 8:50-9:00 10:09 9:18.9 54.4 20 Y Auto Rvw 627 M65 Graeme Small 1 11 07:00 45:02 38:02 9:50-10:00 9:31 8:43.4 58.3 0 0 Auto Rvw 828 W55 Judy Gorman 12 13 08:00 45:04 37:04 8:00-8:10 9:16 8:30.1 61.9 0 N29 W70 Dorothy Seedsman 11 11 07:00 45:05 38:05 8:10-8:20 9:31 8:44.1 71.0 19 Y Auto Rvw 1030 M70 Barry Seedsman 25 25 12:10 45:06 32:56 6:55-7:00 8:14 7:33.2 72.2 18 Y Auto Rvw 2431 M75 Otmar Dorfer 21 21 10:45 47:06 36:21 7:15-7:20 9:05 8:20.2 65.7 0 132 W55 Sue Skermer 12 12 07:40 48:07 40:27 8:00-8:10 10:07 9:16.7 57.3 0 1 Auto Rvw 1133 M80 Merv Collins 12 12 07:40 51:33 43:53 8:00-8:10 10:58 10:03.9 59.7 0 1 Auto Rvw 1134 W40 Narelle Blackaby 1 1 00:00 52:03 52:03 9:50-10:00 13:01 11:56.3 38.7 17 Y35 W70 Alison Ide 1 1 00:00 52:05 52:05 9:50-10:00 13:01 11:56.7 50.6 0 0 Auto Rvw 136 W70 Consie Larmour 1 1 00:00 52:07 52:07 9:50-10:00 13:02 11:57.2 51.9 0 0 Auto Rvw 1Run / Walk Handicap PointscoresTHOMAS SERIESName Aug Sep Oct Low TotSteve Bradford 127 109 109 1105Bruce Wight 128 127 147 107 1014M Falzarano 135 146 111 1008Jim White 106 128 135 118 1008Richard Faulks 120 102 148 102 1006Maria O'Reilly 124 118 128 118 1005Rod Lynch 112 113 122 112 994Bernie Millett 133 121 138 102 993Colin Farlow 115 112 141 112 992John Kennedy 132 103 124 103 991Tony Cavuoto 130 133 132 103 989Amanda Walker 116 66 105 989George Hanzar 100 129 144 100 983Sue Counsel 146 108 125 88 968Peter Kallio 126 139 119 108 963Carol Ey 138 122 118 88 954Peter Clarke 121 119 129 106 951Jennie Blake 90 83 83 943Bob Parker 98 110 114 94 937Craig Wisdom 111 107 111 91 925Prue Bradford 118 142 70 921Steve Appleby 144 111 71 89 917Doug Fry 145 83 86 83 910Joan Mallory 95 141 127 72 908Roger Abbott 98 90 903Peter McDonald 103 77 68 74 885Jacquie Millard 134 147 84 80 880S Greathead 97 96 140 76 875Peter Ward 143 126 875Di Schneider 136 93 123 84 867Bryan Thomas 92 104 78 78 862Alan Duus 85 0 89 85 859Geoff Barker 90 107 73 852Peter Cullen 122 110 80 848Nick Blackaby 0 87 108 86 846John Alcock 133 845Peter Thomson 104 142 130 837Debbie Cowell 120 835Jill Brown 91 91 73 76 829Barbara Tucker 83 125 150 72 824FRYLINK SERIESName Aug Sep Oct Low TotKen White 68 69 62 62 548Kerry Boden 65 58 67 58 534Katie Forestier 63 60 63 59 519John Parker 56 56 48 56 516Bob Chapman 59 70 45 508Deb Gordon 61 51 64 54 496Ray Bramwell 64 57 52 495R’ary Parker 67 73 47 48 495Neil Boden 43 60 43 485Jenny Galvin 66 57 58 43 482Michael Roche 52 61 52 475Cilla Chapman 45 72 45 468Tony Harrison 62 65 55 48 459Jo Kulesz 41 61 46 42 452Lorna Burdon 45 54 71 41 436Geo Kubitzky 49 41 40 419Jillian M Clark 57 49 411Ian Bowden 40 55 0 409Brian Mclachlan 69 52 59 403Brenda Ford 52 397J Macgregor 39 37 44 37 393Gary Bowen 48 48 53 392Geoff Moore 47 62 45 390Mike Dwyer 58 63 49 374Carol Baird 74 41 51 0 336Amanda Chew 37 42 245Roger Stewart 38 39 193WADDELL SERIESName Aug Sep Oct Low TotJohn Suiter 36 31 33 29 277Rick Hatcher 31 38 24 268Dave Mackenzie 33 33 36 23 255Trish Thomas 19 37 22 22 245Alan Burdon 30 32 28 11 240Greg O'Neill 24 26 40 21 225John Littler 27 22 37 19 224Edward Towner 29 35 31 16 221Pauline Rohan 30 213Tony Fenotti 26 26 212Diann Bramwell 23 25 22 208Rhonda Blackman 36 34 206Jane Bell 30 196Rod Gilchrist 32 193Neil Gentle 28 29 181Narelle Blackaby 17 23 17 17 162

Top 20 in each category where appropriateName T F W TotOver 250George Hanzar 255 255Approaching 250Bryan Thomas 232 5 1 238Greg O'Neill 139 74 24 237Stuart J Reid 191 33 11 235Bob Parker 216 19 235Peter Freeman 165 3 46 214Alan Williams 213 213John Bakker 155 52 2 209John Macleod 185 12 11 208Sue Counsel 206 1 207Jim O'Donnell 94 61 48 203Rosemary Parker 57 139 7 203John Busteed 171 13 16 200Approaching 200Charlie Modrak 198 198Terry Levings 196 1 197Doug Fry 196 196Anne Young 165 25 2 192Otmar Dorfer 164 2 26 192Mary Ann Busteed 185 2 3 190Roger Abbott 181 8 189Trish Thomas 29 114 46 189Joan Mallory 188188Bob Chapman 106 80 186Bernie Rogers 186 186Michael Freer 171 6 8 185Colin Bridge 184 184Alan Burdon 124 13 41 178Run / Walk Handicap TalliesMike Dwyer 62 114 2 178Bill Leyden 178 178Michael Gardner 170 4 174Jim White 172 1 173Ewan Brown 172 172John Suiter 158 2 12 172Approaching 150John Littler 102 45 147Nigel Coldrick 139 6 145Neil Boden 38 104 2 144John Alcock 140 3 143Kevin O'Keeffe 142 1 143Thelma Reddy 124 15 1 140Alice Scott 80 54 5 139Lynn Williams 115 21 1 137Brian Austin 136 136Steve Appleby 136 136Peter Kallio 132 4 136Alan Mallory 136 136Kent Williams 133 133John Dimitriou 132 132Judi Edwards 128 4 132Dave Mackenzie 7 44 79 130Maree Coldrick 111 18 129Keith Perroux 74 53 127Alan Duus 126 1 127Ray Bramwell 41 74 10 125Approaching 100Dorothy Seedsman 70 5 24 99Ken White 82 13 2 97Adrian Krauss 97 97Frank Nugent 28 69 97Jo Cullen 97 97Ian Kenny 96 1 97December 2007 Vetrunner – Page 9Russell Lutton 85 11 96Wayne Berry 96 96Rod Gilchrist 65 4 26 95Karen Daniels 9 86 95Keith Butler 95 95Joe Mayer 93 93John Richardson 93 93Alan Anderson 77 15 92Chris Booth 33 30 27 90Diann Bramwell 18 72 90Tanya Colyer 10 35 44 89Jack Perry 88 88Michael Clancy 62 26 88Phillip Toomey 19 67 2 88Approaching 50Colin Farlow 49 49Geoff Barker 37 1 10 48Warren Butler 47 1 48Deslie Kubitzky 46 1 47Ken Gowans 46 1 47Kathy Sims 45 1 46Jane Bell 46 46Megan Haylock 8 38 46Ian Dundas 15 31 46Christopher Yardley 46 46Richard Hilhorst 46 46Alan Green 45 1 46Pauline Rohan 9 36 45Ron Ford 45 45Chris Higgins 45 45Jean Heath 27 18 45Mike Kennedy 45 45Desma Butler 38 2 5 45Narelle Blackaby 11 33 44Annette Sugden 39 5 44Run / Walk Handicap MedallistsListed are the medal tallies for all competitors whohave competed in six or more eventsName Tot G S BTrish Thomas 19 6 6 7Rosemary Parker 18 5 6 7Nola De Chazal 16 3 4 9Peter Freeman 16 5 7 4Rick Hatcher 15 3 7 5Thelma Reddy 15 4 6 5Terry Levings 14 6 4 4Ken Daniels 13 4 2 7Greg O'Neill 13 9 2 2Alice Scott 12 6 2 4Jim Tucker 12 4 4 4Alan Williams 12 4 6 2Tony Booth 11 4 4 3Nigel Coldrick 11 5 3 3John Littler 11 5 4 2Jack Thackray 11 3 2 6Lucille Warth 11 6 4 1Diann Bramwell 10 3 2 5Lorna Burdon 10 2 5 3Carmen Carlon 10 4 2 4Merv Collins 10 4 3 3Lesley Hamilton 10 2 4 4Beryl Lowry 10 5 1 4Al Mallory 10 4 4 2John Stenhouse 10 4 6Roger Stewart 10 2 3 5Neil Boden 9 2 5 2John Busteed 9 2 3 4Duane Lowry 9 4 3 2Jamie Macgregor 9 5 3 1Geoff Moore 9 4 5Terry Munro 9 1 7 1Alan Norden 9 4 1 4Andrina Norden 9 4 4 1Frank Nugent 9 6 1 2Robin Whyte 9 4 1 4Alan Burdon 8 2 2 4Cory Collins 8 3 2 3Mike Dwyer 8 2 3 3Mick Horan 8 2 4 2Gregory Lewis 8 3 5David Meyers 8 3 5Maureen O'Shea 8 2 2 4Monika Short 8 3 5Peter Ward 8 3 3 2David Alden 7 2 4 1Kerry Boden 7 1 5 1Bev Breen 7 3 4Will Foster 7 2 2 3Michael Gardner 7 3 3 1George Hanzar 7 1 6George Kubitzky 7 5 1 1Dave Mackenzie 7 1 3 3John Macleod 7 2 2 3Kevin Matthews 7 3 2 2Stuart N Reid 7 2 3 2Pauline Rohan 7 2 1 4Dorothy Seedsman 7 2 2 3Lorraine Stevens 7 2 2 3Bryan Thomas 7 1 2 4Raine Thompson 7 1 2 4Trevor Vogler 7 2 3 2Pamela Weiss 7 2 4 1Maria White 7 3 1 3Lynn Williams 7 2 2 3Jane Bell 6 1 4 1Chris Booth 6 2 3 1Ian Bowden 6 1 3 2Ewan Brown 6 2 3 1Bob Chapman 6 1 3 2Cilla Chapman 6 1 4 1Jillian M Clark 6 3 2 1Steve Crane 6 1 2 3Mick Dando 6 4 2Karen Daniels 6 4 2Otmar Dorfer 6 3 1 2Robert Ey 6 2 3 1Keith Johnson 6 3 3Peter Kallio 6 2 1 3Bill Leyden 6 1 3 2Joan Mallory 6 2 22Brian Mclachlan 6 6Brian Paxman 6 4 2Bev Scown 6 4 2Margaret Taylor 6 2 2 2Kaye Thorpe 6 3 2 1Phillip Toomey 6 2 4Glenda Wood 6 1 5Anne Young 6 1 5Roger Abbott 5 1 2 2

Page 10 — December 2007 VetrunnerOH WHAT A WONDERFUL WEEK IT WAS175 th Monthly Throwing HandicapIt was a memorable week indeed for John Parker.On the Saturday he won this month’s throwing handicap,an amazing feat for it was his third gold medal in onlyeight attempts and back-to-backwins as he also took home themajor trophy last month. Johncould be forgiven for thinkingthat this throwing caper is justtoo easy. The next morning hecompleted his fiftieth monthlyrunning handicap on the O’ConnorRidge course and was presentedwith his “50 runs” commemorativeT-shirt. Then, thefollowing Friday he reached thecelebrated Five O.We welcomed back four of ourfive throwers who participated inthe World Championships in Riccione,Italy. Janice Banens andFran Harris returned as medalists(not unusual for this talentedpair as both have participatedsuccessfully at many previousWorld Championships). BobBanens enjoyed his first competitionfor many weeks while RayGreen drove down from his newhome on Lake Macquarie to participatein the throwing events atthe track on Thursday evening aswell as for his 157 th monthlyhandicap. Unfortunately SharonGibbins had to work and wasunable to accompany Ray.Not even a flash flood that washedaway some sections of fences and herdriveway could keep Jayne Hardyaway. However she must have been anxious because shegot through her events as quickly as possible so as shecould get home to start repairing some of the storm damageat her rural property.Twenty-seven vets participated in this month’s handicapcompetition in shot put and discus with the heavyweight throws being optional extras.Biggest puts in the shot were by Ray Green 11.48m,Geoff Crumpton 11.22, Bob Banens10.56, Jayne Hardy9.98, Kevin Blewitt 8.60, Attila Spaits 8.47, Peter Neill 8.26and Janice Banens 8.17m. Winners of the handicapped shotput section were Neville Madden from Bryan Thomas andJayne Hardy.Longest discus throws were by Ray 43.53m, Bob 35.56,Jayne 35.22, Geoff 32.52, Attila 31.60 and Kevin 31.45m.Winners of the handicapped discus section were JohnParker from Jayne Hardy and Jean Heath.When the combined distances of both throws wereadded to each person’s handicap the perpetual trophy andgold medal for this month’s competition went to JohnParker. Jayne Hardy won the silver medal and Jean Heath27 October 2007Top: John Parker (Gold), Above:Jayne Hardy (Silver), Absent: JeanHeath (Bronze)the bronze. This month’s competition was very close as only41cm separated first and second and less than a metre betweensecond and third.With only one competition remaining,the top ten in the 2007Connell Series point score are:Tanya Colyer remains leaderwith a total of 343.5 points, TrishThomas is still second with 333.5,Geoff Crumpton has moved tothird on 330.5, Peter Neill is nowfourth on 328.5. Then RayleaRudov 311, Narelle Blackaby 306,Diann Bramwell 304.5, EwenDrummond 302, Bryan Thomas300.5 and Jen Bourke tenth with293 points.Frank Nugent won the luckydraw for the fine bottle of redwine kindly donated by BjarneKragh of Southside Physiotherapyand Sports Injury Centre inTuggeranong and Fyshwick.Nine stayed to participate in theoptional heavy weight event.Geoff threw the heavy ball furthest(14.71m). Janice hurled theimplement 13.77 a little furtherthan Ray 13.71 and husband Bob13.13m. The same people alsoattempted to heave the superheavy weight (56lb). This competitionwas made more interestingbecause M50 Geoff Crumpton hadan excellent series of throws that includeda new Australian Record of7.79m. Other long tosses were by Bob5.63 and Ray 5.46m.Next month’s handicap is the last of the year and will beat 1.00pm Saturday 27 November in hammer and javelin.Our annual presentations and BYO picnic will follow immediately.Trophies will be presented to the winners of theConnell Series (last year won by Sharon Gibbins), ClohessyTrophy (Trish Thomas was the 2006 recipient) and awardsto the best performers in each age group.Your throws reporter Bryan Thomas.Frank Nugentwins the wine

THROWING HANDICAP RESULTS27 OCTOBER 2007December 2007 Vetrunner – Page 11NAME AGE SHCP SHOT TOT PL DHCP DISC TOT PL TOTAL PL PTSJohn Parker M45 13.36 7.87 21.23 9 30.79 25.86 56.65 1 77.88 1 50Jayne Hardy W40 11.54 9.98 21.52 3 20.73 35.22 55.95 2 77.47 2 49Jean Heath W65 16.23 4.77 21.00 17 44.38 11.10 55.48 3 76.48 3 48Bryan Thomas M65 14.25 7.60 21.85 2 33.34 21.14 54.48 9 76.33 4 47Neville Madden M50 15.12 6.79 21.91 1 35.86 18.46 54.32 10 76.23 5 46Frank Nugent M45 15.04 6.27 21.31 7 37.08 17.57 54.65 7 75.96 6 45Fran Harris W65 14.88 6.34 21.22 11 42.00 12.72 54.72 5 75.94 7 44Wendy O'Brien W55 17.21 3.88 21.09 16 46.60 8.12 54.72 5 75.81 8 43Peter Neill M70 12.94 8.26 21.20 13 31.49 23.02 54.51 8 75.71 9 42Geoff Crumpton M50 9.28 11.22 20.50 24 22.44 32.52 54.96 4 75.46 10 40.5Bob Banens M55 10.80 10.56 21.36 5 18.54 35.56 54.10 12 75.46 10 40.5Fran Schiller W50 14.86 6.31 21.17 14 37.18 17.06 54.24 11 75.41 12 39Joan Mallory W75 16.42 4.44 20.86 21 45.02 9.01 54.03 13 74.89 13 38Mary Wahren W70 15.38 6.09 21.47 4 39.49 13.79 53.28 16 74.75 14 37Jen Bourke W65 13.99 6.93 20.92 20 34.61 19.00 53.61 14 74.53 15 36Ann Travis W35 14.68 6.26 20.94 19 37.38 16.09 53.47 15 74.41 16 35Narelle Blackaby W40 17.65 3.65 21.30 8 41.60 11.42 53.02 18 74.32 17 34Jan Banens W65 12.94 8.17 21.11 15 33.96 19.06 53.02 18 74.13 18 33Trish Thomas W60 13.77 6.88 20.65 23 35.80 17.47 53.27 17 73.92 19 32Diann Bramwell W60 16.05 5.18 21.23 9 42.75 9.83 52.58 21 73.81 20 31Raylea Rudov W60 13.59 7.63 21.22 11 33.28 19.02 52.30 22 73.52 21 30Ewen Drummond M80 13.49 6.90 20.39 25 38.16 14.73 52.89 20 73.28 22 29Kevin Blewitt M65 12.09 8.60 20.69 22 20.83 31.45 52.28 23 72.97 23 28Duncan Macnicol M55 13.30 8.06 21.36 5 25.08 26.10 51.18 25 72.54 24 27Ray Green M60 8.62 11.48 20.10 26 8.52 43.53 52.05 24 72.15 25 26Robert Kennelly M55 14.37 6.58 20.95 18 35.16 15.21 50.37 26 71.32 26 25Attila Spaits M65 8.47 31.60 N/E 1Throwers at the Winter Throwing Championships on the October Long Weekend

Page 12 — December 2007 VetrunnerTHROWING HANDICAP POINTSCORESName Events Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Low Pts 1 Low Pts 2 TotalTanya Colyer 8 39 44 48 46 40.539 48 39 39 343.5Trish Thomas 9 43 47 36.542 42 37 39 47 32 32 36.5 333.5Geoff Crumpton 8 31 50 40 47 45 49 28 40.5 28 330.5Peter Neill 9 35 46 35 34 46 41 41.542 42 34 35 328.5Raylea Rudov 9 49 43 31 37 38 38 37 38 30 30 31 311Narelle Blackaby 9 33 38 39 49 49 30 30 34 34 30 30 306Diann Bramwell 8 41 29 42 32 48 46 35.5 31 29 304.5Ewen Drummond 8 30 38 35 43 42 45 40 29 29 302Bryan Thomas 9 48 32 36.540 32 31 34 29 47 29 31 300.5Jen Bourke 9 38 39 44 33 37 33 29 33 36 29 33 293Jean Heath 8 1 48 43 50 28 35.532 48 1 285.5Mary Wahren 8 45 1 39 44 35 38 46 37 1 285Jan Banens 7 37 37 45 45 36 46 33 279Ray Green 7 50 35 34 43 31 49 26 268Jayne Hardy 9 25 30 28 26 27 27 27 48 49 25 26 262Frank Nugent 7 29 42 36 34 44 30 45 260Nola De Chazal 6 36 41 47 41 43 45 253Margaret Taylor 6 45 46 44 35 31 44 245Neville Madden 6 44 34 48 36 36 46 244Kevin Blewitt 7 27 40 29 40.5 41.531 28 237Wendy O'Brien 7 34 41 1 29 40 43 43 231John Parker 7 1 1 26 50 47 50 50 225Duncan Macnicol 7 1 1 50 38 50 49 27 216Sharon Gibbins 6 32 49 32 30 30 32 205Bob Banens 6 28 33 27 39 33 40.5 200.5Fran Schiller 6 47 1 45 25 33 39 190Joan Mallory 6 1 1 47 44 35 38 166Robert Kennelly 6 31 28 1 40 32 25 157Chris Yardley 5 1 49 25 43 28 146Phil Toomey 5 40 1 30 48 26 145Rad Leovic 5 36 31 34 1 37 139Grahame Taylor 4 24 27 50 1 102Colin Robbie 4 1 1 47 41 90Tim Gulliver 4 26 33 1 28 88Joyce Bannister 1 46 46Fran Harris 2 1 44 45George Mencik 3 42 1 1 44Ann Travis 3 1 0 35 36Attila Spaits 4 1 29 1 1 32John Hunt 3 1 1 29 31Robin Whyte 2 1 1 2Carmen Carlon 1 1 1Alistair Davey 1 1 1Juani B O'Reilly 1 1 1Claire Perry 1 1 1Ellen Nugent 1 1 1Brad Osborn 2 1 0 1

WEIGHT THROW 27 OCTOBER 2007ID NAME AGE WEIGHT DISTANCEStandard Weights2582 Frank Nugent M45 15.880kg 5.864396 Geoff Crumpton M50 11.340kg 14.712489 Bob Banens M55 11.340kg 13.131180 Ray Green M60 9.072kg 13.711136 Ewen Drummond M80 5.449kg 9.402354 Raylea Rudov W60 5.449kg 12.141104 Trish Thomas W60 5.449kg 7.684752 Jan Banens W65 5.449kg 13.772474 Fran Harris W65 5.449kg 7.81Heavy Weight2582 Frank Nugent M45 56lb 3.854396 Geoff Crumpton M50 56lb 7.79 A Rec2489 Bob Banens M55 56lb 5.631180 Ray Green M60 56lb 5.461136 Ewen Drummond M80 56lb 2.522354 Raylea Rudov W60 56lb 3.021104 Trish Thomas W60 56lb 2.734752 Jan Banens W65 56lb 2.462474 Fran Harris W65 56lb 2.11December 2007 Vetrunner – Page 13THROWING HANDICAP TALLIES2004 2005 2006 2007 TOTALBOURKE,Jen 10 10 10 9 175THOMAS,Trish 10 10 10 9 175WAHREN,Mary 10 10 9 8 162GREEN, Ray 10 9 10 7 157O'BRIEN,Wendy 6 8 9 7 151DRUMMOND,Ewen 9 9 9 8 146FREEMAN,Peter 10 8 8 138SCHILLER,Fran 8 9 7 6 138SPAITS,Attila 5 6 6 4 136RUDOV,Raylea 7 9 8 9 125THOMAS,Bryan 9 10 10 9 117DE CHAZAL,Nola 8 3 9 6 116COLYER,Tanya 10 9 10 8 110NUGENT,Frank 10 7 10 7 109TAYLOR,Margaret 10 9 10 6 107HARDY,Jayne 10 10 9 9 104FRISTAD,Auden 102BANENS,Bob 3 7 9 6 99NEILL,Peter 8 10 8 9 92MITCHELL,Irene 3 3 2 86HEATH,Jean 1 5 8 77BLEWITT,Kevin 8 9 10 7 76MALLORY,Joan 6 72BLACKABY,Narelle 10 9 8 9 68MALLORY,Alan 66TOOMEY,Phil 5 3 1 5 66CARLON,Carmen 3 2 1 1 64RANN,Charles 64GIBBINS,Sharon 9 4 10 6 60BANENS,Jan 5 8 8 7 58MENCIK,George 2 1 3 3 58HUNT,John 4 7 3 3 56TAYLOR,Graeme 2 4 5 4 55DANIELS,Ken 52KENNELLY,Robert 1 1 7 6 45QUIGLEY,Delia 1 45GULLIVER,Tim 2 4 7 4 43SCOTT, Alice 41BRAMWELL,Diann 8 9 7 8 36PERRY,Claire 9 9 4 1 36NORDEN,Andina 35CHESTERTON,Val 2 34SCHIWORSKI,Annie 32LAWS,Greg 31O'BRIEN,Kathe 30LEOVIC,Rad 6 3 5 5 29SCHIWORSKI,Peter 29HAGGITH,David 10 7 4 28ERICKSON,Jan 25JONES,Roy 24NOSWORTHY,Tanya 24DANDO,Margaret 23BURNS,John 7 2 20DANN,Richard 20HAMILTON,Leslie 20YARDLEY,Chris 7 7 5 19DANN,Judy 18FREEMAN,Christine 9 5 4 18WEISS,Pamela 7 4 18MORRIS,Alan 2 17CRUMPTON,Geoff 8 8 16DAWES,Stephen 2 9 16ROBBIE,Colin 4 2 4 16

Page 14 — December 2007 VetrunnerJOHN BUSTEED ALMOSTPULLED OFF A REMARKABLE DOUBLEJohn Busteed went very close to pulling off a memorabledouble achievement when he narrowly missed out on thegold medal in his 200 th handicap run at last month’s eventon the tough O’Connor Ridge course. Six years ago he didmanage a special “double” when he earned his ‘150 runs’T-shirt on his 55 th birthday. Now John becomes the 13 thperson to complete 200 handicaps and to date has eightmedals from his 200 outings (one gold, three silver and fourbronze).John has been a member for 25 years running his firstmonthly handicap on the old Hospital Jetty course at Acton(which has not been used for many years) in July 1983.Until a heart disease scare in 1992 John had always runthe long course but on his return to running he was forcedto do the shorter event and more recently the WaddellSeries (walk handicap). His efforts to overcome his heartproblem and to make a graduated return to participationearned John the 1993 Heart Foundation Trophy.Prior to his health issues John was an enthusiastic longdistance runner – participating regularly with the CrossCountry Club, mid week BBQ Stakes, City to Surf andother fun runs, distance and middle distance races on thetrack representing both our club and South Canberra AC aswell as in most ACTVAC events. He has also completedmany half marathons and marathons (his marathon PB isan impressive 2.47).John served four years on committee (from 1994 to 1970and was a member of the handicap sub-committee for 14years (from 1988 to 2001).Now that he has retired John is a regular participantwith the “Tuesday Group” (a large and friendly crowd thatmeet at Black Mt Peninsula 9am every Tuesday morningfor a run and/or walk for approximately an hour beforegathering for morning tea).Congratulations John!DOWN TO THE WIREWith two handicaps to go, O’Connor Ridge provides one of the last opportunities for participants to make their mark inthe 2007 point score competition. With a difficulty rating of 1.16 and the presence of both hills and humidity the wordmost used to describe this month’s event was ‘challenging’. In his final handicap report John Stoney looks at how severalparticipants fared.Thomas SeriesW55 Barbara Tucker brought home the Gold this monthwhen she finished several minutes ahead of the Silver andBronze medallists. Starting off Group 19, Barbara stoppedthe clock at 1.08.41 (47.01 net) with a 5.53 per km rate anda very respectable age percentage of 74.9. M60 HowardHollow did well to take the Silver just ahead of M45 RichardFaulks. Coming off a Group 27 start his time of 1.11.04(43.24 net), per rate of 5.25 and age percentage of 72.0 wasenough to hold off a flying Richard who achieved the raredistinction of picking up a medal off a Group 40 start. Heblitzed the course finishing only 8 seconds further back in1.11.12 (33.52 net) with a per km rate of 4.14 and age percentageof 82.4.Howard reported “I have not run the course before butenjoyed it. I prefer short sharp inclines to long energy sappingpulls. Naturally I was pretty happy with the run. Ihave felt lately that my running has improved and when Ifound myself passing people at an early stage who I amnormally behind I thought I was having a good day, so Ikept on pushing myself.” He went on to say “However, Ibegan to fade around the last kilometre and found the lasthill pretty hard. I think I lost a bit of momentum after thatand did not pass many people. I had not really expected towin a medal as I knew a lot of runners were ahead of mebut still I was happy with my time.” Howard’s Silver is hisfirst ever handicap medal.Richard said that he “thought the course was very challengingwith many hills. Prior to the GDE, my runningfriends and I used to run the Eucalypt trail at Bruce everyweek, including part of this course so I knew the area well.I was very surprised to run well as I ran the second leg ofthe Brindabella Classic the week before and that was verytough but the hills in that may have helped me. I liked thecourse but many seemed to find it very hard- I saw a lot ofrunners walking.” Like Howard, this is Richard’s firsthandicap medal and “as I start from group 40 - no doubtfurther back now! - I never thought I would so it was a wonderfulsurprise.”Richard was not the only person to be blitzing thecourse. While ineligible, W50 Kathy Southgate literallymatched Richard’s overall performance (Group 39 start,1.10.57 time - 34.17 net – and per km rate of 4.17) and indoing so she achieved an age percentage of 95.7 which is

effectively of world class standard. As Alan Duus explained“The way we work out the age percentage is to use the publishedworld track records for 3K, 5K and 10K for agegroups W35, W40…to W85, and M35, M40…to M90. Ourlist of world records is updated every January before thestart of the first handicap. We interpolate to get results forevery age (eg. 36, 37, 38, 39 etc.) and for the length of theevent. We then apply the course difficulty factor which wedetermine from the race results. Kathy scored 95.7% at theO’Connor Ridge handicap. As far as I am aware this is thehighest score by a vet since we changed over to the newsystem at the beginning of 2006.”Kathy herself said “I thought my run went very well. Istarted near the back, at about group 39 I think. The firstbit was a long gentle downhill and I like that bit too, juststretch the legs out and enjoy the ride. About 5 to 6kmsinto the race (the bit along the track behind the caravanpark) was pretty hard going at times but I was catching alot of people there so that kept me focused. I expected tofinish somewhere in the middle of the field and had no ideathat I was finishing near the front. So yes, I was surprisedat the result. I was also pleased with the overall time, giventhe difficulty of the course. I was really surprised at the agepercentage. That's the highest I've ever scored on anything.”Kathy is obviously in a rich vein of form at the moment– the following weekend, Kathy set a new Australianrecord W50 3K on the track with an age percentage of95.8%.Behind the medallists the frontrunners in the overall2007 point score series were attempting to stake their penultimateclaims. M40 Bruce Wight just missed the medalsby a four second margin but his 147 points haul moved himinto second place overall in the Thomas, Marco Falzarano’s146 enabling him to join Jim White (135) on equal third.Richard Faulks medal winning effort moves him into 5 thjust ahead of Maria O’Reilly (128). While all made upground on leader Steve Bradford, his current lead of 89points still gives him a commanding lead going into thefinal event.FrylinkW55 Wanda Stewart returned to the medal winnersdais for the second time this year when she took out theGold this month from a Group 10 start, 34.00 (27.05 net)time, per km rate of 6.46 and age percentage of 62.1. W30Jodie Sims won her inaugural handicap medal with herSilver coming off a Group 23 start, 34.33 (21.58 net) time,per km rate of 5.30 and age percentage of 58.5. Paul Noonerounded out the rostrum from a group 12 start, 35.00 (26.35net) time, 6.39 per km rate and age percentage of 49.7.Wanda observed “I was pleasantly surprised with thecourse as I had read in the October Vetrunner that itwas going to be a 5 kilometre run, so when I reached thehalf way mark I realised it was only 4 this gave me a realincentive. I thoroughly enjoyed the course. I've had a hamstringproblem for some months now and apart from my legfeeling a little tight at the start, I feel it is definitely on themend” Wanda’s previous medal was also a Gold at KowenForest in March this year.Jodie thought the course “was pretty good, the ups anddown made it interesting.” She went on to say “My runwent well (obviously to have earned a medal). I felt prettygood, and was motivated to cross the finish line before myhusband Brad who started in a higher group (and was tryingto catch me)! Some words of encouragement from MumDecember 2007 Vetrunner – Page 15and Dad (Kathy and Geoff Sims) who I passed going theother way as they head out for the longer course, as well asthe motivation to see my toddler who was at the kids tentall meant I crossed the finish line in time for a medal. Ijoined the Vets earlier this year so this is my first ever runningmedal…. But maybe if I practice and get faster itwon’t be the last!. Jodie also mentioned “A special thankyou to all the officials and helpers, I’ve really enjoyed allthe monthly handicap events I’ve participated in – and thechild minding is a great idea!”Paul said “I thought the course was fairly challenginggiven the hills and humidity; the run went OK, but wasvery glad to see the finish line. I was surprised to finish4th as I thought I was further back in the field and one ofthe other place getters went past me like I was standingstill!” This is Paul’s second medal as he won a bronzemedal last year at Curtin in the Frylink event.In the pointscore competition Kerry Boden’s 67 pointsfor the day reduced the gap somewhat to leader Ken White(62) to 14 points. Katie Forestier (63) moved into third justahead of John Parker (48) and Bob Chapman (70). With 40points separating this top five, anyone of them can still winit.WaddellM75 Greg O’Neill strolled to the Gold this month, hisGroup 5 start, 40.49 (37.59 net) time, per km rate of 9.30and age percentage of 62.9 putting him comfortably aheadof the next eligible walker. M60 John Busteed celebratedhis 200 th monthly handicap in style by pick up the Silvermedal. Coming off a Group 9 start, he needed a 42.07(36.32 net) time, per km rate of 9.08 and age percentage of56.8 to stay ahead of the speedy M55 Rick Hatcher. Rick’sBronze came off a Group 38 start, 42.19 (25.39 net) time,per km rate of 6.25 and age percentage of 78.6.Rick reports “At the start of the course, officials had toldme that the course was downhill to the turn around anduphill all the way back. But it wasn't!! Some of the uphillwas steep, some was gentle, but none of it was extremelylong. I think that everyone enjoyed it. It was pleasantweather for the start of daylight saving. There did not appearto be many who arrived late after forgetting to puttheir clocks forward.”He observed “Having an out-and-back course made iteasy to see the order of those in front which helped pushoneself a little harder. Quite close to the finish line, I couldsee John Busteed pushing hard so I had to give him a yellthat I was on his tail. Perhaps I should not have!!!! I couldn'tget past him. But I was extremely surprised to find thatI won the bronze. Let's hope the official handicappers don'tpenalise me too much for the November event!” Prior tothis event Rick had won 3 gold, 7 silver and 4 bronze medals,and is “Looking forward to the final race for the year.”In the pointscore competition Rick’s efforts saw himbecome the big mover, his 38 points closing the gap toleader John Suiter (33) to 9 points. Dave Mackenzie (36)keeps his chances alive, with 4 th placed Trish Thomas (22)and 5 th Alan Burdon (28) possibly losing a bit too muchground coming into the final event.Continued on Page 16

Page 16 — December 2007 VetrunnerT-ShirtsFour T-shirts were awarded this month. Along withJohn Busteed’s 200 (see the separate report on this achievementin Vetrunner), Juani O'Reilly (junior) and JohnParker reached their half-century with Roger Pilkingtongetting his century.The youngest member of the talented clan of O’Reillywomen, Juani’s journey began on the old Copland Collegecourse in July 1991, having been inspired by her motherJuani (now a W75 champion), as was her sister Maria.Juani has most often participated in the Thomas Series,but on several occasions she been seen accompanying aninjured mum in either the Frylink or Waddell Series. Continuingthe family tradition of success, to date she has wonthree medals (two gold and a silver).John’s journey commenced in 1995 with his firstmonthly running handicap was in October on the LakeTuggeranong course in the Frylink Series. Obviously heenjoyed that format: all subsequent 49 handicaps havebeen in the Frylink, picking up four medals (two gold andtwo bronze) to date, and this year being crowned King ofthe Mountains for the Frylink course. 2007 has seen Johnalso become a regular participant in the monthly throwinghandicaps and even won the gold medal on both his fourthand sixth attempt. In addition, as a skilled tradesman hehas also given many hours of volunteer work setting up theinterior of our container at the Masson Street ThrowingField. He is also a regular at track and field where hemainly participates in the sprints and throws.Roger’s ACTVAC adventure began on the now disusedHospital Jetty course in June 1991 but he did not become aregular participant until four years later. Like many others,Roger had a background in a variety of sports, such asAFL, basketball, cricket, golf and skiing. To date he haswon six medals (three gold, two silver and a bronze) andwas the winner of the Thomas Series point score in 2005.He has also been race organiser of the Mt. Taylor handicapcourse for the last three years. On the track Roger runs inmost long distance races and particularly enjoys the AdlerSeries and steeplechase. On the road he has run many halfmarathons, including six ACT Vets’ Halves, as well as 14marathons (PB 3.18). Roger was elected to committee in2005 and again the following two years.The Best Gig in the House(Chapter 1) by John StoneyAs most of you have noted in the last couple of Vetrunner’s,we are now looking for a new person to take over themonthly handicap reports as I will be stepping down fromreporting as of this issue. In mid 2006 Jim O’Donnell approachedme at Mt Taylor and asked if I would take overthe handicap reporting due to his impending move north.While only a semi-regular handicapper, I thought withemail and the supports available through the club I couldprobably take on the task, and gave an undertaking to theMember Services Sub-Committee that I would take on theposition until the end of 2007 and then review my position.In the intervening period, changes in circumstances andpriorities have meant I have not been able to attend anyACTVAC events since then (as I once observed to BryanThomas, I feel like one of those war correspondents so eloquentlydescribed by George Johnston in ‘My Brother Jack’who would write “from the front line” reports while sittingsafely in a bar some 100 or so miles away!). This could andshould have led to disaster, but during that time email,those supports and the willingness of members to sharetheir experiences (combined with a natural story-tellingability many members seem to possess) has made producinga report each month possible. However, the time availableto me to properly devote to the task of doing the reportshas diminished – for example I’ve come to not havethe capacity to ring those medal winners who have no emailaddress, for which I apologise - and I fear the article qualitywill shortly suffer.So I am writing firstly to say thank you to all those whohave made writing possible. Narelle Blackaby has beengreat (and patient!) as Editor; Bryan Thomas backgroundinformation each month on T-shirt recipients is priceless;the Member Services Sub-committee that has provided usefulfeedback on articles (given my isolation) as well as followingup issues members may have raised with me in correspondencehas been very much appreciated. But mostimportantly I would like to thank all of you who have takenthe time to respond to my emails and provided with mewith such good material. As time has progressed, I simplyhave had to produce a basic canvas or structure, as manycontributors tell their own stories so well that they can virtuallybe reproduced as is. On other occasions a particulartheme for a report both demands writing but at the sametime almost writes itself, so good are the contributions.Secondly, I would like to encourage ACTVAC membersto consider undertaking the role of handicap reporter. Inaddition to the supports I have mentioned, a handover reportand template on how the current articles are producedhas been prepared as a guide. It is also a great job – despitemy inability to be actively involved in ACTVAC I’vestill been able to have almost a grandstand seat to see variousclub members recover from life-threatening illness orlong term injuries or discover they are actually adept atcertain distances, events or simply participating. Forsomeone who attends the handicaps it is a guaranteed wayof increasing your social circle – so many contributors havebeen keen to try and catch up with me in person at the nextevent, an opportunity I’ve unfortunately been unable totake up. So please consider if you might be able to do so –Narelle Blackaby would be glad to talk to you, and I can beavailable to provide some advice and support if need be.

Letter to the EditorDecember 2007 Vetrunner – Page 17Dear EditorI think that it was about 1994/5 when I joined the ACTVets after 10 years with the NSW Vets and many yearsbefore that with the SA Vets. It is now unfortunately timeto leave as my wife and I are returning to South Australiain a few short weeks. I have enjoyed the years when I wasable to take part in the track events, in fact winning a fewage group medals at the championships along the way forthe 5 and 10,000 metres . That was before my knees gaveup on me and I was shortly thereafter diagnosed with cancer.Luckily this has now gone, but I am far too frail to getback into even light jogging at this stage. I managed to actas your Auditor a couple of years back but my deterioratinghealth caused me to abandon that duty. Hopefully a changeof scenery will improve my health and I can continue activelyin the sport. After 12 Marathons , 30 Half-Marathonsand 20 City to Surfs among my 4,500 individual runs, it ishard to think that it might be over.Anyway the main reason for this letter is to say that Ihave an (almost) complete set of Vetrunners at home coveringthe last 4-5 years if any member would like the set.They can be obtained from myself ( 0419712500 ) to the endof November; after that we will have left and I will have toleave them in the care of my son.Once again, it has been a great time with the Vets and Iknow that you will all continue to prosper.RegardsGeoff HakesPh ( 02 ) 6231 8534Mob. 0419 712500geoffhakes@bigpond.comRUN / WALK HANDICAP AST %THOMAS SERIESName Aug Sep Oct Low AvePeter Kallio 91.2 92.9 91.3 90.3 91.5Maria O'Reilly 86.3 84.4 85.8 83.5 85.6Peter Clarke 84.8 82.9 84.2 83.0 84.8Peter Ward 87.5 85.9 84.6Bernie Millett 83.3 82.7 86.8 81.9 83.5John Kennedy 84.9 82.5 84.8 80.9 83.4Rod Lynch 83.1 81.4 82.7 81.6 83.1Di Schneider 83.5 80.2 83.6 80.2 81.8Roger Abbott 79.6 79.6 81.7Colin Farlow 80.6 78.6 82.5 78.6 81.2Jim White 79.5 80.1 81.5 79.5 81.1Mick Corlis 82.6 71.7 80.7Steve Appleby 81.7 79.0 74.3 78.5 80.2Richard Faulks 80.7 77.6 82.4 77.6 80.1Sue Counsel 81.1 79.2 81.2 76.9 79.3Michael Freer 78.7 74.5 74.5 77.6Steve Bradford 82.8 80.6 68.1 77.0Kathy Sims 73.4 79.5 78.3 76.8Bob Lowry 74.4 79.0 76.4George Hanzar 75.8 75.7 78.1 74.0 76.2Garry Hand 78.2 76.1 75.9Charlie Modrak 74.6 75.7Peter Thomson 74.6 76.6 76.7 75.3Carol Ey 77.1 75.9 77.8 71.2 75.1Kevin O'Keeffe 73.8 77.1 77.7 75.1Craig Wisdom 75.9 74.5 73.9 70.3 74.8Peter Cullen 75.2 73.7 71.8 74.5Norma Lindemann 77.4 75.9 74.4Debbie Cowell 79.3 73.8Bruce Wight 73.2 71.8 75.2 72.4 73.5FRYLINK SERIESName Aug Sep Oct Low AveBob Chapman 86.2 87.4 81.3 85.1Geoff Moore 79.2 84.7 77.3 81.9Ken White 81.5 82.2 82.6 78.5 81.4Katie Forestier 81.9 81.0 81.1 80.3 81.2Ray Bramwell 79.9 78.2 76.0 79.1Rosemary Parker 76.8 77.6 74.1 74.1 77.4Carol Baird 78.8 74.4 77.8 58.9 76.6Gary Bowen 73.0 73.3 73.8 76.1Neil Boden 68.8 72.4 68.8 72.3Kerry Boden 73.5 72.3 74.6 68.7 71.0Jillian M Clark 69.8 68.7 70.1Deb Gordon 67.2 65.4 66.9 65.6 67.8Brian Mclachlan 69.8 66.9 67.9 67.3Brenda Ford 65.6 66.7Jenny Galvin 66.4 65.6 65.4 63.1 65.7Geo Kubitzky 67.0 57.7 57.7 64.9Lorna Burdon 62.8 64.1 66.2 61.4 64.3John Parker 64.1 63.0 60.9 60.9 63.5Ian Bowden 58.2 63.4 58.2 63.2Michael Roche 60.8 61.6 60.6 62.2Mike Dwyer 59.8 60.1 57.9 58.7Cilla Chapman 56.3 58.9 56.3 57.8J Macgregor 55.6 53.3 54.7 53.3 57.8Jo Kulesz 50.7 55.5 53.2 50.7 54.2Tony Harrison 51.9 52.5 51.2 46.3 50.9Amanda Chew 45.4 47.6 48.9Roger Stewart 47.5 49.5 48.1WADDELL SERIESName Aug Sep Oct Low AveJohn Suiter 87.9 86.4 88.4 83.8 86.2Dave Mackenzie 82.2 82.6 82.9 79.3 81.3Alan Burdon 79.6 79.8 79.2 68.6 78.2Rod Gilchrist 78.3 78.1Rhonda Blackman 77.9 77.7 76.7Rick Hatcher 78.1 78.6 70.2 75.9Pauline Rohan 73.0 73.0Neil Gentle 68.5 70.8 69.1John Littler 67.9 61 70.8 65.6 68.9Trish Thomas 61.1 69.1 65.6 65.6 68.6Diann Bramwell 63.4 66.4 63.4 67.5Jane Bell 62.8 63.4Edward Towner 61.8 62.5 62.8 60.1 61.8Tony Fenotti 58.6 60.4 60.7Greg O'Neill 57.4 57.4 62.9 55.6 59.8Narelle Blackaby 39.3 41.8 38.7 39.3 42.5

Page 18 — December 2007 VetrunnerTRACK & FIELD PROGRAM 3 JANUARY TO 24 JANUARY 2008January 3 and January 10 – Joint Meetings with AACTJan 3 Track - Male and Female Field - Male Field - Female5:45pm 1500m / 2000m/ 3000m Walk6:00pm Sprint Hurdles Weighted Throw (Vets)(LTF)Weighted Throw (Vets)Long Jump6:15pm High Jump (0.90m) (QA) High Jump (0.90m) (QA)6:20pm 1500m6:30pm Shot Put Discus7:00pm 100 metres- handicap (D)7:10pmLong Jump7:15pm Discus Shot Put7:20pm High Jump (1.50m) (QA) High Jump (1.50m) (QA)7:30pm Relay 4 x 100m and 2 x 200m7:45pm 400 metres8:10pm 4 Lap Spiral (A)8:25pm8:35pm1500m/2km/3km Low Steeplechase2k/3k Steeplechase High Steeplechase.Order of events to be announced by7:30pmJan 10 Track - Male and Female Field - Male Field - Female5:45pm 1500m /2000m/ 3000m / 5000m Walk Long Jump less than 4m Long Jump less than 4m6:00pm Hammer Hammer6:15pm Long Hurdles 200m/300m**/400m6:15pm High Jump (0.90m) High Jump (0.90m)6:25pm 60m6:45pmTriple Jump (QA)7:00pm 800m- handicap Javelin Shot Put7:30pm 200m7:20pm High Jump (1.50m) High Jump (1.50m)7:45pm Triple Jump (QA) Javelin8:00pm 10000m ACT Championship (AACT)8:20pm Relay 4 x 100m (Hand timed only)Jan 17 Track Throws Jumps6.00 1200/2000m Walk (PH) Weight (LTF) Pole Vault (0.9m)6.20 100m (B)6.35 3000m (P)7.00 1500m Discus/Javelin (1) Long Jump (QA)7.30 400m7.45 Discus/Javelin (2)8.00 4x200m Relay8.10 5 Lap Spiral (A)Jan 24 Track Throws Jumps6.00 1500m Walk Hammer Throw High Jump (0.9m) (QA)6.15 Sprint Hurdles6.25 200m (D) 200m Scratch6.50 800m Shot Put/Javelin (1) Triple Jump7.10 60m7.20 One Hour Run High Jump (1.35m) (QA)7.45 Shot Put/Javelin (2)Walks All events for both Race and Fitness Walkers , Throws (1) Early Throwing events (2) repeat throwing events.(GM) Geoff Moore 3000m Series (P) Pennington Middle Distance Handicap Series.(PH) Perry Handicap Walk Series, (B) Boag Sprint and Hurdle Series, (QA) Quentin Anthony JumpsHandicap Series and (A) Adler Spiral Handicap Series. Rules for all these events are available on the club website.Note that the first two programs have been prepared by Athletics ACT for our joint meetings and aretherefore in a slightly different format from our own.

December 2007 Vetrunner — Page 19Jan 31 Track Throws Jumps6.00 1000/3000m (PH) Weight Throw (LTF) Pole Vault (1.35m)6.30 1500m7.00 60m Shot/Discus (1)7.20 3000m (GM) Long Jump (QA)7.40 400m (B)7.45 Shot/Discus (2)8.00 4x100m Relay6 Lap Spiral (A)Feb 7 Track Throws Jumps6.00 1500m Walk Championships Hammer Throw6.10 Pentathlon Championships (Long Jump,Javelin, 200m, Discus 800m (W), 1500m (M)6.20 3000m (GM)7.00 200m (7pm approx. to time with Pentathlon Shot PutTriple Jump200m)7.30 800m7.40 Javelin8.00 7 Lap Spiral (A)Feb 14 Track Throws Jumps6.00 800m (P) Weight Throw Pole Vault (0.9m)6.30 Long Hurdles (B)6.40 3000m (GM)6.45 100m (D) 100m Scratch7.00 10,000m Walk Championships Discus/Javelin (1) Long Jump7.45 Discus/Javelin (2)Feb 21 Track Throws Jumps6.00 800/2000m Walk – Hand timed Hammer Throw High Jump (0.9m)6.10 60m6.30 200m (B)6.45 Triple Jump (QA)6.50 800m7.00 Shot/Discus (1)7.15 400m7.30 10,000m Championships High Jump (1.35m)7.45 Shot/Discus (2)Feb 28 Track Throws Jumps6.00 1500m (PH) Weight Throw (LTF) Pole Vault (1.35m)6.15 3000m (GM)6.25 200m (D), 200m Scratch6.45 Shot/Javelin (1)7.00 1500m (P) Long Jump (QA)7.20 100m7.40 400m7.45 Shot/Javelin (2)8.00 8 Lap Spiral (A)Mar 7, 8, 9 Combined Club Championships with Athletics ACTMar 13 Track Throws Jumps6.00 800m Walk Hammer Throw6.15 2000m Turkey Handicap (No Watches)6.30 100m6.45 4x800m Relay Discus7.00 200m7.15 5000m Championships7.45 Track & Field Presentations

Page 20 — December 2007 VetrunnerTRACK & FIELD SEASON JAN-MAR 2008VOLUNTEER ROSTERDateRostered VolunteersJanuary 3 Joint Meeting with AACT .Gate: Terry Munro. Maria O’Reilly, Brad Osborn, Bob Parker Shisei Oya, John Parker, MarleneReid, Col RobbieJanuary 10 Joint Meeting with AACT.Gate: Paul Considine, Don Fraser, Paul Archer, Dale Moore, Michael Roche,Michael Roden, Antoni Podalak, Peter Prince.January 17 Meet Director: Richard Faulks, Gate: Rosemary Parker,Ruth Baussman, Gary Bowen, Ian Bradfield, Graham Burke, Nola deChazal,Roger Abbott.January 24 Meet Director: Bryce Anderson. Gate: Kathy Southgate,Jo Allison, Ray Green, Sharon Gibbins, John Hunt, John Kennedy, John Lamb.January 31 Meet Director: George Kubitzky. Gate: Charlie Mc Cormack.Kevin De Smet, Rod Lynch, Jamie McGregor, Bernie Matthews, Dave McClelland,Matthew Muell.February 7 Meet Director: Garry Maher, Gate: Phil Toomey.Bernie Millett, Demetrios Pandouras, Maureen Rossiter, Raylea Rudov,Damien Routledge, Chris Newton.February 14 Meet Director: Nick Mesher. Gate: Ewen Thompson.Chris Timpson, Amanda Walker, Barbara Tucker, Jim White. Jeffrey Symmes,Ellen LloydFebruary 21 Meet Director: Robert Kennelly. Gate: Mary WahrenKen White, Robin Whyte, Paul Veldkamp, Lachlan Wilkinson, Alan Williams.Peter SinfieldFebruary 28 Meet Director: Geoff Moore. Gate: Mark WorrallValerie Moran, Craig Wisdom, Anne Young, James Savill, Ian Sanders,Mick Saunders.March 13 Meet Director: Roger Pilkington Gate: Chris Yardley.Attila Spaits, Pat Stakelum, Robert Sok, Rozalie Sherwood, Ted Sherwood,Anne Travis, Carmen Carlon, Tim GulliverVolunteers:For the one meet out of twenty that you are rostered on as a volunteer, the club requires that you will act as a volunteeronly and not participate in any of the events. This enables the smooth running of the meet and helps the Meet Directorkeep to time. As a little reward for your diligence, at the end of each meet the names of the attending volunteersfor that night will be gathered for a draw for a bottle of wine (or something else for non-drinkers). The descriptionsof all rostered jobs are now available on the website.Change of Routine for Volunteers:The gatekeeper will arrive as usual at 5pm and the Meet Director by 5.15pm. All other rostered on volunteersshould please be at the track by no later than 5.30 to report to the Meet Director who will allocate their roles. The volunteerjob descriptions are on the website (find the link from the Track & Field Program page) – check through thesebefore your rostered evening. For those who can arrive early we would appreciate assistance in collecting the equipmentfrom the Vets shed behind the brush fence to have it ready for collection by the AIS Staff.Everyone Else:I think you will all be aware by now that the eight rostered volunteers cannot possibly do all the jobswe require of them – particularly in the field events. So when you have a moment and you can see a slotthat needs filling please don't hesitate to help – you can be sure you won't be knocked back!

What have we learned?by Jack Pennington, ACTVAC PatronI have reviewed the Lore of running by Professor TimNoakes three times and there are 940 pages but I do notintend another review, however as I have suggested it isthe greatest reference book on running and sports scienceof all time and so in moments of boredom, I take it off theshelf and become lost in it. You have to reflect that institutesof sport in this country did not exist prior to 1980 butthey did exist in Eastern Europe behind the "Iron curtain"and in Paris and Freiburg in West Germany. There werealso a couple of departments of physical education in Englandattached to Universities. In 1972 I went to one at SalfordUniversity for six weeks for experimental training ontreadmills and another six weeks at the Exeter College ofPhysical Education also using a treadmill and track forexperimental training. It was also a teacher’s college. I wasunder the wing of a senior lecturer in physiology who happenedto be a national athletics coach and at fifty years ofage I ran as number three in the cross-country team both atExeter and Salford.There was one peculiar episode in training in the gymat Exeter. Everybody was in track suits and I did not realisethat there were also females and on the command wesprinted the length of the gym and were to jump on theopposite numbers backs and they were to run back thelength of the gym. However as I approached the tracksuited person something told me to ask-"Are you male orfemale?" much to her surprise, as the reply made it clearthat she was not of my sex and so I refused to jump on herback so she jumped on mine and we were back at the startin first place. I assume all the other blokes had males ontheir back and so my jockey was the lightest.I say this just to illustrate that it was the only time Icheated and of course I would do the same again. Also in1972 I attended Freiburg University Cardiac Klinik forfitness- testing to destruction by the inventor of intervaltraining, Professor Reindell'. He was a Cardiologist and hecooperated with a lecturer, Woldemar Gershler to base middledistance training on heart-rates. ie;- Run to raise theheart-rate to 180 beats per minute then rest until theheart-rate drops to 120 bpm and run again using 400mintervals.However in the laboratory after heart x-rays I used acycle ergometer at increasing load to exhaustion and wastold the result was identical with Abebe Bikila the winnerof the 1960 and 1964 Olympic marathon and because I wasaged fifty they were rather surprised. Later, in the TorontoCardiac clinic, in a similar effort, I was told that I had thehighest maximal oxygen uptake of any middle aged manthey had tested. See my book A Life on the run 1995.The reason for my fitness was because I was just aboutthe only runner of my age training on a treadmill at 25kmper hour with a variety of inclines from two degrees to tendegrees. Incidentally when a treadmill is horizontal there isno training effect because you are only using energy to remainupright and no energy to move forward. It is necessaryto have at least a two degree incline in order to compensatefor the lack of moving forward in air, also in theDecember 2007 Vetrunner – Page 21experimental training supervised by the reader in Zoologyat the ANU, Professor Weatherley I was doing short sprintsup Black Mountain from the age of 45-50years. Ref."TheSymposium of Fitness and recreation 1969.” ANU and NationalFitness.I can now tell you that not much has changed intraining methods since the 1960s it is still ‘Gain endurancethen choose the event you like and specialise’using two sessions per day the key element is intensity.In The Lore of running, which covers everything learnedsince 1860, there are 'titbits' on running because the authorhas perused thousands of research papers and just aboutevery running biography since then. On page 738,;Noakessays many of the pills and potions produced to aid performancesimply do not work and the great danger is that themanufacturers include an unlisted amount of steroids becauseif it is less than ten per cent of the product the USAdepartment of health do not require it to be listed.On page 774, Noakes says there is no evidence thatstretching is beneficial for distance runners except as atreatment for cramp, for instance a stitch is a cramp of thediaphragm and the treatment is to stretch it by deepbreathing and a complete exhalation.I have previously, in my writings, reported that researchof runners in the New York marathon found thatthere were significantly more injuries among those whostretched prior to the race than those who did not. Thestretching most likely caused the injuries.My own personal experience of sixty years of runningand not stretching meant that I did not tear an achillestendon until the last 100mtrs of an 800m at the age of seventywhich I took as a warning and retired.On page 135 of-Professor Noakes book he says "The runnersdiet has an emphasis on carbohydrates but we mustremember that when we came down from the trees somefive million years ago we began to eat meat and that we didnot cook until ten thousand years ago.”My note is that our indigenous inhabitants who havechanged to our modern diet also acquired diabetes I assumeby consuming too much processed carbohydrates, incidentallyI have been told by a specialist in medicine that allmen over the age of sixty have a degree of diabetes. Myobservation is that runners who become fanatics can overworkthe production of insulin which is necessary to transferglycogen into glucose to supply the working muscleswith energy and therefore in later life they may be moreprone to type two diabetes, a reduction in the production ofinsulin.I note that Craig Mottram's London coach Nick Bideauhas said that he does not believe in tapering off trainingbefore a big race he believes in maintaining the tempo. Mynote is that I am sure the training load would be reducedand I would recommend that all serious runners shouldexperiment and at least reduce training by fifty per cent inthe week prior to an important race.I can tell you an example; Roger Bannister spent theweek before the first sub-four minute mile hiking in thearea of Mount Snowdon in Wales. His training was a daily10x400m around 60s with a couple of minutes rest interval.MEMBERSHIPS DUE 1 JANUARY 2008 — RENEW ONLINE AT WWW.ACTVAC.COM.AUOR FILL OUT THE FORM ON PAGE 34

Page 22 — December 2007 VetrunnerTWO SPECIAL ANNUAL TRACK EVENTSFOR DECEMBER 2007By Bryan ThomasSince the early 1990s two special track events, popular with participants and spectators alike have been held eachDecember. The Higgins Memorial 800m Handicap has been the feature event on our first athletics night in Decembersince 1991 and a year later the first of our annual “Gift” or President’s 100m Handicap was conducted on the last trackand field night before Christmas.17 th ANNUAL CHRIS HIGGINS MEMORIAL 800m HANDICAPThursday 6 December 2007This annual event is open to male and female veteran/masters athletes of any age and is handicapped according tomodified World Masters Athletics (WMA) standards recognising age and gender differences.The handicapped starting procedure is the same as for the 800m in the Pennington Series. This new series ofstart times, based on current world best performances was used for the first time in 2005.W75 start on GO then 2 seconds later M85, W70 24secs, M80 36secs, W65 43secs, M75 51secs, W60 57secs, M7066secs, W55 68secs, M65 75secs, W50 76secs, M60 82secs, W45 83secs, M55 86secs, W40 88secs, M50 89secs, M4593secs, W35 94secs, W30 97secs, M40 98secs, M35 106secs and 108 seconds for M30.Chris Higgins (April 1943 – December 1990) was a prominent public official and at the time of his death was Secretaryof Treasury, a position he had held since 1988. He was also a popular and enthusiastic club member having joinedin 1984. Chris was a talented veteran athlete with PBs in all track events from 400m (54.7) to 5000m (17.29) and alsothe marathon (2.46) that made him very competitive at national M45 level.On a warm still evening 6 December 1990 Chris collapsed at the end of an ACTVAC 3000m race suffering a massiveheart attack. He was unable to be revived and died on the track. He is the only person to have died at an organised clubevent.The inaugural Higgins Memorial 800m Handicap, preceded by a short silence was held exactly one year later and hasbeen a feature event on the first Thursday in December ever since. It began as a tribute to Chris, but over time becamean opportunity to remember members who have passed on and a reminder that although veteran/masters athletes are afit and healthy lot, none of us are immune from injury or illness.Two laps of the track was Chris’s favourite distance (2.05.5 as an M45) and as he also enjoyed competing in handicapevents (47 monthly running handicaps and winner of the M45 consistently fast medal in 1988 with an average of 3.37/km) it was logical to make this special race an 800m handicap.This year’s event will be conducted as the feature race at the track on Thursday 6 December. It has always been apopular event, usually attracts a large field of both men and women of all ages and abilities. Some members have runmany “Higgins” over the years but only Jim White has participated in all sixteen. Everyone is encouraged to be part ofthis year’s race and help commemorate Chris’s life and that of all our friends within veterans/masters athletics we havelost over the years.Previous top three place getters1991: Tony Murray M40, Garry Hand M45 and Denis Smith M451992: Denis Smith M45, Richard Game M45 and Nev Madden M351993: Tony Booth M55, Geoff Sims M45 and Merv Collins M651994: Elaine Cooper W35, Tony Booth M55 and Margaret Taylor W451995: Kevin Chamberlain M45, Tony Booth M55 and Peter Ward M451996: Rosemary Longstaff W45, Kevin Chamberlain M50 and Elaine Cooper W351997: Ken Daniels M60, Kevin Chamberlain M50 and Ian Boyd M451998: Tony Booth M60, Kevin Chamberlain M50 and Damien Rutledge M301999: Damien Rutledge M30, Kevin Chamberlain M50 and Tony Booth M602000: Phil White M45, Elaine Cooper W40 and John Morton M402001: Phil White M45, Nev Madden M45 and Kevin Chamberlain M552002: Kevin Chamberlain M55, John Morton M40 and Geoff Sims M502003: John Morton M45, Colin Farlow M40 and Damien Ruttledge M352004: John Morton M45, Damien Ruttledge M35 and Colin Farlow M402005: John Morton M45, Phil White M50 and Colin Farlow M402006: Colin Farlow M45, Kevin Chamberlain M60 and Mick Horan M45

December 2007 Vetrunner — Page 23Some fascinating trivia from the history of this popular raceMost major placings:8. Kevin Chamberlain (2 firsts, 5 seconds and a third)5. John Morton (3 firsts, second and a third)Tony Booth (2 firsts, 2 seconds and a third)4. Colin Farlow (a first, second and 2 thirds)Damien Rutledge (a first, second and 2 thirds)3. Phil White (2 firsts and a second)Elaine Cooper (a first, second and a third)2. Denis Smith (a first and a third)Nev Madden (a second and a third)Geoff Sims (a second and a third)Women have won twice: Elaine Cooper in 1994 and Rosemary Longstaff in 1996 and have finished in the top six on tenoccasions.A back-marker (M30 or M35) has only won once when Damien Rutledge stormed home on a rain soaked grass track atWoden in 1999. Damien also finished third twice (1998 and 2003) and a close second in 2004.Age group victories: The M45 age group has had eight wins while M60 and M55 have each won twice. W30, W35, M30and M40 age groups have each enjoyed a victory. No other age group has yet managed a first place.800m record: Merv Collins broke the ACT M70 record in the 1996 race, (allowable as he started at the ‘gun’). In thesame race Keith Perroux led Merv for all but the final 50m and also went under Gordon Boag’s existing record.Back-to-back wins: Phil White was an appropriate winner of the 10 th race (December 2000) because a decade earlier hewas the winner of the 3000m (December 1990) that Chris collapsed in immediately after finishing. To prove his win in2000 was not a fluke he did it again the following year and so became the event’s first back-to-back winner. M45 JohnMorton became the second runner to achieve back-to-back victories (2003 and 04).‘Hat trick’: John achieved a ‘hat trick’ by winning the 2005 Higgins by making it three wins in a row. He is the onlyrunner to have won the event on three occasions. John also finished second in 2002 and third in 2000.Most runs: Eight runners have participated in more than half of the sixteen Higgins run to date. They are:16: Jim White is the only person to have run all events.13: Tony Booth has finished in the top six places eleven times.12: Neil Boden.11: Kevin Chamberlain has never finished worse than sixth.9: Nick Blackaby and Cory Collins.8: Nev Madden and Kevin O’Keefe.They also ran in the first Higgins: Four participants in the 16 th Higgins also ran the inaugural event December 1991.Mick Horan was 3rd in 2006 with a net time of 2.13.5 and 12 th 1991 net 2.07.5, Garry Hand (15 th 2006 net 2.49 and 2 nd1991 net 2.06), Jim White (16 th 2006 2.46 and 24 th 1991 2.28) and Neil Boden (23 rd 2006 3.09 and 27 th 1991 2.46). Othersinvolved in both the first and 2006 Higgins were race starter Phil White who was 9 th in 1991, Mike Adler was starter forthe first event and in recent years has been handicap marshal while Bryan Thomas has been race organiser since thebeginning.14 th “GIFT” or PRESIDENT’S 100m HANDICAPThursday 20 December 2007Our ‘Gift’ is a handicapped 100m race in which all runners are given a start according to age and gender. The handicappedstarts are determined by WMA age standards. The event includes separate races for men and women and mayconsist of a series of heats, semi finals and a final, depending on the number of entries. It has traditionally been conductedon the Thursday evening immediately before Christmas.The inaugural ‘Gift’ was held in 1992 and was won by Ian Dundas M40 and Margaret Taylor W40. It was not conductedin 1994 because of rain or in 1998 because of program difficulties. The 1999 event was held at Woden AthleticsTrack immediately following a heavy thunderstorm keeping many sprinters away and making the grass track heavy andslow.The 2001 event added extra colour and spectator appeal with runners wearing brightly coloured bibs designatingtheir lane. Another innovation that proved popular with both competitors and spectators was the introduction of individualage handicaps in 2003. The new handicap starts recognize the four-year drop in potential performance between arunner at the beginning of an age group and one at its end. For example a 50year old male sprinter is given a handicapstart of 10.5m while his 54year old friend starts 2.5m in front. Similarly a W55 starts on 19m and a W59 begins her runfrom 21.5m.

Page 24 — December 2007 VetrunnerPrevious winners -1992: Ian Dundas M40, Grahame Taylor M45 and Steven Knight M35Margaret Taylor W40, Jan Erickson W30 and Lesley Hamilton W451993: Robert Barbaro M40, Michael Rutter M30 and Don Fraser M50Margaret Taylor W45, Sue Bourke W30 and Vicki Matthews W301994: (not held)1995: Martin Crowe M35, Ken Daniels M55 and Roger Stewart M45.Margaret Taylor W45, Sue Bourke W35 and Marlene Reid W401996: Robert Barbaro M40, Col Burns M50 and Michael Rutter M30Margaret Taylor W45, Sue Bourke W35 and Angela Reeves W301997: Robert Barbaro M45, Col Burns M50 and Ken Daniels M60Lesley Hamilton W50, Jill Pearson W40 and Alice Scott W501998: (not held)1999: Vince Craig M30, Ian Dundas M45 and Bob Banens M50Marlene Reid W45, Corrine Tong W45 and Bev Breen W452000: Ken Telfer M30, Kevin Matthews M40 and John Morton M40.Maureen Rossiter W50, Kerry Boden W40 and Vicki Matthews W402001: Michael Roden M35, Robert Barbaro M45 and Ken Telfer M30Margaret Taylor W50, Maureen Rossiter W50 and Kerry Boden W402002: Robert Barbaro M50, Gary Maher M50 and Col Burns M55Maureen Rossiter W50, Sue Bourke W40 and Fran Harris W602003: Don Fraser M60, Steve Jones M40 and Jeff King M40Maureen Rossiter W50, Sharon Gibbins W45 and Bev Breen W502004: Robert Barbaro M50, Leo Kennedy M45 and John Payne M60.Maureen Rossiter W50, Vicki Matthews W45 and Jayne Hardy W402005: Michael Roden M40, Don Fraser M65 and Leo Kennedy M45Margaret Taylor W55, Maureen Rossiter W55 and Sue Bourke W452006: Robert Vidler M30, Leo Kennedy M45 and Jack Thackray M75Margaret Taylor W55, Sharon Gibbins W45 and Sue Bourke W45Age Group Handicaps (see Table below) (modified WMA age standards using .5m and m intervals).Note that all individual ages from 30years up are given specific handicap starts but the table only gives those from M/W50 to 54 as examples.Most wins:7 Margaret Taylor (1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 2001, 2005 and 2006)Age Group Men Women 5. Robert Barbaro (1993, 1994, 1995, 2002 and 2004)30 Scratch Scratch4. Maureen Rossiter (2000, 2002, 2003 and 2004)2. Michael Roden (2001 and 2005)35 1m 2m Most places:40 4.5 5.57. Margaret Taylor (7 firsts)6. Robert Barbaro (5 firsts and a second)45 7.5 9 Maureen Rossiter (4 firsts and 2 seconds)50 10.5 12.55. Sue Bourke (3 seconds and 2 thirds)3. Don Fraser (first, second and third)51 11 13Col Burns (3 seconds)Leo Kennedy (2 seconds and third)52 12 13.5 Vicki Matthews (second and 2 thirds)Kerry Boden (second and third), Bev Breen (2 seconds),53 12.5 14.5 Ken Daniels (second and third), Ian Dundas (first and54 13 15third), Sharon Gibbins (2 seconds), Lesley Hamilton (firstand third), Marlene Reid (first and third), Michael Roden (255 13.5 15.5firsts), Michael Rutter (second and third) and Ken Telfer(first and third).60 16.5 19 Best sequence of wins: Margaret Taylor won four in65 19.5 22.5a row (1992, 93, 94 and 95) while both Robert Barbaro(1993, 1994 and 1995) and Maureen Rossiter (2002, 200370 23 26.5 and 2004) achieved a ‘hat trick’ by winning three consecutive75 27m 31m‘Gifts’.Age Groups: M60 is the oldest and M30 the youngestage group to win the men’s division. M40s have won four times, M30 three and M35 twice. W55 is the oldest and W40the youngest winners of the women’s race. Both W45 and W50 have won four times and W55 twice.

December 2007 Vetrunner – Page 25Eldest: Jack Thackray at 76 is the oldest runner to have been placed in our ‘Gift’, finishing a very close third in 2006.Fran Harris 64 finished third in the women’s final in 2002.Most runs: Five men and three women have participated in at least half of the ‘Gifts’ conducted to date. Leaders are:10: Ray Bramwell8: Val Chesterton7: Robert Barbaro, Ken Daniels, Maureen Rossiter Roger Stewart, Margaret Taylor and Jim White.6: Sue Bourke, Col Burns, Gary Maher and Ken Telfer. (Bev Breen, Kevin Matthews, and Michael Rutter have each competedon five occasions).Four also participated in the inaugural ‘Gift’: John Parker, Roger Stewart, Margaret Taylor and JackThackray ran in both the first and most recent ‘Gifts’ in 1992 and 2006 respectively. Margaret has the remarkable honourof winning both.TRACK AND FIELD RESULTS25 October 20071500m Race WalkAge Name Result Age %Race WalkM55 Robert Kennelly 12:25 51.1Rick Hatcher 9:23 68.3M65 Robin Whyte 8:45 77.9W45 Debbie Cowell 9:13 67.5Fitness WalkM55 Mick Saunders 10:34M60 RodGilchrist 9:43M80 Rad Leovic 10:56W35 Anne Travis 11:13W60 Alice Scott 11:18M’ret McSpadden 11:32W65 Caroline Campbell 10:47Val Chesterton 10:553000mPaul Torley 11:33.47M30 Adam Robinson 13:36.96 54.7M45 Colin Farlow 10:36.90 76.5Jeffrey Symmes 11:16.36 72.1Richard Faulks 11:17.78 73.0John Morton 11:39.31 71.4Dave McClelland 11:53.68 69.9Hugh Ford 12:11.81 67.6Bryce Anderson 12:27.74 65.2Mick Horan 12:51.36 64.2Roger Pilkington 14:21.58 57.5M50 Ken White 11:40.34 74.2Neville Madden 12:10.81 70.5M55 Jim White 12:37.24 71.0Geoff Moore 13:27.22 67.2Mick Saunders 14:28.22 62.5W30 Jeni Greenland 13:03.77 64.4Kate Mokrij 17:28.81 48.0W40 Katie Forestier 11:58.26 73.7W45 Debbie Cowell 12:45.01 75.0W50 Kathy Southgate 10:54.22 91.0W55 Barbara Tucker 15:11.65 71.8W60 M’ret McSpadden 15:52.78 70.7Rosemary Parker 15:59.52 70.2W65 Caroline Campbell 14:42.37 82.4Francis Harris 18:45.59 65.6100mM35 B Hoogendoorn 14.05 72.5M40 Ken Telfer 12.06 85.1M45 Leo Kennedy 12.75 85.5Otto Karki 13.09 82.2Kevin Matthews 14.32 76.1M55 Duncan Macnicol 14.29 79.4M60 Lawrie Kupkee 14.92 78.4M75 Jack Thackray 16.38 81.7M80 Rad Leovic 18.60 76.3W30 Kate Mokrij 16.93 62.0W35 Allyson Gordon 17.06 61.5Anne Travis 20.17 52.0W45 Kerry Boden 14.71 82.5W65 Caroline Campbell 22.40 63.3200mM30 Robert Vidler 22.15 87.6Brad Osborn 27.62 72.0M35 B Hoogendoorn 30.32 68.2M40 Ken Telfer 24.82 83.9M45 Leo Kennedy 26.47 84.1John Morton 27.49 80.9M55 John Lamb 28.18 84.0Duncan Macnicol 29.65 78.3M60 Lawrie Kupkee 32.28 74.3M65 Michael Roche 34.62 72.2M75 Jack Thackray 35.40 80.1W35 Allyson Gordon 39.00 55.1Anne Travis 39.52 54.0W45 Kerry Boden 30.38 82.8W55 Carmen Carlon 1:20.63 33.3Jill Brown 37.06 74.8800mM30 Adam Robinson 3:17.13 51.3M45 John Morton 2:16.82 84.3Bryce Anderson 2:38.52 70.8Dave McClelland 2:42.46 71.0M50 Ken White 2:30.65 79.8Neville Madden 2:36.50 76.2M55 John Lamb 2:26.96 84.5Geoff Moore 3:04.18 68.0W40 Katie Forestier 2:53.31 67.8W55 Jill Brown 3:22.92 69.7Long JumpM30 Brad Osborn 5.12 59.5M35 B Hoogendoorn 4.64 56.9M45 Otto Karki 4.45 60.1M55 Duncan Macnicol 4.05 60.7John Lamb 3.99 62.4M70 Ray Bramwell 3.06 60.0M80 Rad Leovic 2.81 64.4W65 Val Chesterton 2.41 52.7DiscusMichael Burns 18.29M30 David Lane 22.82 30.8M35 Zyonko Detoni 24.64 33.3M50 Geoff Crumpton 29.27 41.8M55 Bob Banens 36.57 58.5Duncan Macnicol 20.41 30.3Robert Kennelly 17.20 27.5Rick Hatcher 13.83 22.7M60 Ray Green 38.16 61.6Tim Gulliver 25.61 40.5M65 Robin Whyte 21.14 35.7W40 Jayne Hardy 31.17 47.8W55 Carmen Carlon 9.54 17.8W60 Raylea Rudov 16.44 37.3W65 Jan Banens 16.12 38.5JavelinMichael Burns 24.34M30 David Lane 21.47 22.6M35 Zyonko Detoni 24.47 27.2M50 Neville Madden 23.40 32.1M55 Bob Banens 37.40 56.8Duncan Macnicol 20.30 29.0M60 Ray Green 28.97 46.4Tim Gulliver 23.99 37.6M65 Robin Whyte 22.32 37.4W40 Jayne Hardy 27.64 45.8W55 Carmen Carlon 6.72 14.2W60 Raylea Rudov 15.15 39.6WeightM50 Geoff Crumpton 14.79 66.9M55 Bob Banens 12.49 61.7M60 Ray Green 15.13 70.8W40 Jayne Hardy 12.94 83.4W60 Raylea Rudov 12.79 75.7W65 Jan Banens 13.43 83.5

Page 26 — December 2007 VetrunnerFor Runners Who WalkBy Geoff BarkerThe opening night of the track and field for 2007/8, onthe 25 th October, as everyone knows, was a wet affair. NOTso for the walkers who had the privilege of being the firstcompetitors for the new season. As is the custom, andunique to the ACT, we had a mixture of fitness and racewalkers in the event, a 1500 metre scratch event.In the race walking field there were two juniors,Michael Reading, who won the event with ease, showingthe Vets how to really walk, and Kit Sharman, whofinished 3 rd overall The master Robyn Whyte was 2 nd placegetter. To newcomers to our track events, Debbie Cowelland Rick Hatcher put in a really admirable performancecoming in 4 th and 5 th respectively. Robert Kennelly usedthe event to practice his technique and did so admirably,while picking up the wooden spoon.The fitness walkers had a field of eight. It was good toM80 Rad Leovic competing in one of his 1 st ‘walks’. Anothernew starter was W65 Caroline Campbell. Both Rad andCaroline finished in the middle of the field of 14 finishers.An excellent start to the season.The 1 st November saw the 1 st Perry Handicap seriesover 3000 metres, an event again open to fitness and racewalkers. Without rain again for the walkers, a good field of17 starters went off with the 1 st walker, Trish Thomasstarting at 3mins 10. Last walker away was LachieWilkinson on 12mins 15.1 st across the line was one of our most experiencedwalkers, Ann Jugovic who started on 11mins 55. Annrecorded a net time of 16mins.45. For the second week in arow the master Robyn Whyte got second place trailing Annby 1min 51. The ever consistent Lachie Wilkinson followedRobyn across the line a mere 2secs later. Alan Williamswas then able to hold out the two new walkers RickHatcher and Debbie Cowell. The wooden spoon went to theall rounder Anne Travis after she started on 6mins 45. Thejudges were vigilant and DQ’d two race walkers. Thewalkers did not find out till after the race was over, whichis unavoidable for a small meeting. As with all walkers,both walkers, accepted the decision as one of the “hazards”of walking. The finishers totalled 14, exactly the same asthe 1 st week.ACTVAC track and field25 October 2007By Nick BlackabyThis was the first night of track and field in the 2007-2008 season.The planned opening night on 18 October was cancelled because relayingof the track had not been completed.It seems to be a tradition that the track and field season beginswith a wet evening. This evening was initially fine, but with heavycloud. However, light rain started falling soon after the start duringthe evening and of course got heavier into the night. This probablyreduced numbers on the night but about 50 brave veteran athletespushed on with the competition anyway. Meet Director Neil Bodengave a warm but wet welcome to new starters.1,500 metre walkers were the first users of the new track. It isreported to be faster but this was probably not noticeable on the nightbecause of pools of water and the rain. 26 runners lined up for thestart of the 3000 metres, held in light rain. This was won by ColinFarlow.A few brave long jumpers held a competition despite having tosplash along the runway and land on cold wet sand. A highlight of theevening was a new ACT M80 record of 2.81 metres for Rad Leovic,this in spite of the wet weather. This was a Quentin Anthony seriesevent.The evening also included the first of the Adler Series – this was afour lap spiral handicap run. Beware the handicapper.There was 100 metres Daniels handicap and 100 metres runs, also200 metres and 800 metres, javelin and discus.

The Power of the HonkDecember 2007 Vetrunner — Page 27In the good old days when I used to visit Portsea, I wasa teenager then but now I am not, all that is left is a verygood memory, Percy Cerutty used to provoke us to “soarlike an eagle”. But now-days I think that eagles are overrated.OK, you get the odd eagle who can over-come allodds and do something extra-ordinary, and one day I shallwax lyrical on how inspiring they can be, but eagles withall their magnificent qualities tend to be loners: they are upthere soaring majestically alone. Going solo.Rather than focusing on the undoubtedly tremendousinsights our life might gain were we to live, fly and soarlike an eagle; the metaphor which means much more to me,the bird I can really identify with, is the goose.For a start, look at all those goosy sayings. The onesabout being silly; or about scaring (saying “boo”), or theones about leaving golden eggs lying around. It appearsthat geese are as active as eagles, but are not very bright.That’s me, down to a tee. I am not very bright but I waddlearound making a fool of myself, happily ignorant of thefact.Where we really differ, we geese, from eagles, is thateagles soar alone. Eagles don’t form clubs. We geese clubtogether and help each other out. If you see yourself as aneagle, sure, go ahead, soar alone. There are a few such isolatedcases (pun intended). We read about the eagles in theback pages of our newspaper. Sometimes eagles succeed,and when they do they succeed splendidly. Sometimes eaglesfail, and then they fail with a great crash. You knowwho I’m talking about.But if you are like me and are a goose and not an eagle,you just might find it of value to team up with the rest of usgooses and get some mutual encouragement and support.My motto is “Fly Like a Goose”.Watching geese from the ground is a poetic, even mysticalexperience, they look to be flying easily and effortlesslyin their V formation, they look serene, it looks very peaceful.Like the grace of a top runner in full flight, at top speedthey seem to just flow without effort. But, if you were up inthe flock you would find it very, very different. What wouldinstantly startle you would be the noise the geese weremaking. The geese aren’t just gliding along silently; theyare constantly making a loud, raucous racket, honking toone another.These honks are simply for one purpose: they are creatingan environment where every goose is being continuallyencouraged and supported by the other geese to do theirbest, to keep in formation, to succeed in their goals of speedand endurance and form. I wouldn’t be surprised if theywere also being encouraged to maintain three wing-flapsper second! (training group in-joke, sorry). But just thenoise, the sounds, of honking, serve as sufficient reminderto continue and persist and endure and focus.This has been a very long explanation of why, at thetrack, among the old clichés of “looking good” and “just onelap to go”, you might just occasionally hear, if you listenvery carefully indeed, the cry of “honk honk”. It doesn’tmean “Pull over, I am passing”. It means “Go Go SpeedyGeese”.Geoff MooreRunning and training advice at http://geoffmoore.blogspot.comRemember to check regularly the ACTVAC website’s newspage http://www.actvac.com.au/mainframe/news.html.The rough translation is as follows:“ And all together now: “We are pleased that you wereborn, but we hate it that you are away so much.” Goose,Goose heartfelt best wishes! “ Gary Bowen sent this cardto our training group when he was overseas.$$$$$ for COACHING orOFFICIALS TRAINING???The AMA has funds available to support clubmembers who wish to undertake coaching or officialstraining courses.Any ACTVAC member who is considering undertakingan athletics coaching or officiating qualificationcan contact Craig Wisdom (0411 098 051) forfurther details regarding reimbursement of associatedcosts.

Page 28 — December 2007 VetrunnerBy Bryan ThomasAUSTRALASIANMASTERS GAMESThe inaugural Australasian Masters Games, Adelaide5 to 14 October, grew out of the success of the AustralianMasters Games that began in Hobart in 1987. For ten daysmore than 10,000 masters enjoyed themselves participatingin one or more of the 51 sports, socialising at variousorganised community activities and making good use of freepublic transport to travel anywhere throughout the cityand region. Adelaide turned on beautiful weather for theduration of the Games and the locals seemed genuinelypleased to have so many sports people wandering abouttheir attractive city.Softball with almost 1000 players was the largest sportwhile athletics had 643 participants (49 from overseas – 22from India, Sri Lanka 14, New Zealand 8, and one eachfrom Barbados, Canada, UK, Ukraine and USA).The athletics program consisted of four days of trackand field at the excellent Santos Athletics Stadium, an 8kmcross-country and 10km road walk conducted side by sidein Victoria Park (one of the city’s attractive parklands), astreet mile run along King William Street in the CBD and ahalf marathon made up of a three lap circuit along thepicturesque banks of the River Torrens.Although some fields were small all events were conductedefficiently and many winning performances were ofa high standard. Medal presentations were especially efficientand of course South Australian athletes had thelargest haul. The relatively small ACT contingent of onlynine athletes (Grant Edwards, Clive Glover, Geoff Moore,John Morton, Geoff Munro, Bryan and Trish Thomas,Barbara Tucker and Anne Young) also took home a goodcollection of medals – in fact every Canberran returnedwith at least one round metallic souvenir.It was no surprise that big Grant Edwards was one ofthe outstanding performers at the Games for he was onceone of the World’s strongest men having pulled jumbo jets,Manly ferries and even steam trains in the recent past.Grant easily won the M45 shot put, hammer, discus, heavyweight and throws pentathlon.Clive Glover took his bike to Adelaide anticipating hewould do some cycling between events but unfortunatelysuffered a bout of common cold that forced him to restricthis cycling and withdraw from the Street Mile. However hewon M65 bronze medals in both the 5000m and half marathon,in both events finishing behind two of the long distancestars of the meet, Peter Sandery (SA) and NorrisWyatt (NZ).Adelaide is where Geoff Moore grew up and commencedhis long and continuous involvement in athletics soit was a homecoming of sorts. Geoff ran the 5000m, crosscountryand half marathon. He was particularly pleasedwith his effort in the half (96.31) that earned him the M55bronze.It was good to see John Morton running so aggressivelyaround the track again after missing all of last season.He finished second to the same outstanding Tasmanianin both the M45 800m and 1500m in the excellenttimes of 2.09 and 4.38 respectively. All bodes well for BigJohn to enjoy another great season of track.Geoff Munro had entered several events but it seemshe only made it to the start line of the 8km cross-country.However he ran superbly to win the silver medal in thestrong M40 age group.M65 Bryan Thomas won his age group in all threewalk events (1500m, 5000m and 10km road walk) and javelin.He also won bronze medals in both the steeplechaseand Street Mile well behind that same pair of outstandingathletes that finished ahead of Clive in a couple of races.Bryan also made up the numbers in the shot put.Despite both shoulders requiring replacement TrishThomas threw some implements left handed and someright handed to win the W60 silver medal in all six throwingdisciplines (shot, hammer, discus, javelin, heavy weightand throws pentathlon). In all she was runner-up to prominentVictorian thrower Rhonda Dundas. However Trish’smost satisfying performances were in the sport of IndoorRowing where she won three gold medals (W60 2000m,1000m and 500m) and was second overall in the handicapped500m.Barbara Tucker wanted to experience another MastersGames before returning to New Zealand early in the newyear. Withdrawing from the race-walks because of injuryshe focused on the cross-country and half marathon andwas pleased with her W55 second place performance in thehalf.Like Geoff, it was also an opportunity for W70 AnneYoung to visit family and friends, as Anne is an originalKangaroo Islander. Anne was a little disappointed she wasoften the sole W70 in her events but her performances wereimpressive as she easily won the 800m (3.55), 1500m (7.56)and 8km cross-country well ahead of younger women.Cory Collins, Gwen Gleeson and Rad Leovic had alsoentered but unfortunately were unable to make it to Adelaide.Continuing their practise of attaching a holiday to competingin an athletics meet away from Canberra, Bryan andTrish enjoyed a trip to Darwin on The Ghan, a two day excursioninto Kakadu then a visit to family in Cairns and aday on the Reef.Next major veterans / masters track and field carnivalswill be the AMA Championships in Blacktown at Easter,the Oceania Championships in Townsville next July, the12 th Australian Masters Games in Geelong February 2009,the 18 th WMA Championships in Lahti, Finland August2009 and the 7 th World Masters Games in Sydney October2009.

TRACK AND FIELD RESULTS1 November 2007December 2007 Vetrunner – Page 29Age Name Result Age %HammerM50 Geoff Crumpton 36.76 52.6M55 Duncan Macnicol 22.77 34.1M60 Ray Green 37.40 65.0M80 Ewen Drummond 21.57 66.1W40 Jayne Hardy 39.76 75.8ShotM30 David Lane 9.61 41.6Brad Osborn 9.05 39.1M35 Zvonko Detoni 8.78 38.8Lachlan Granger 9.66 42.0M45 David Ashton 7.20 34.7M50 Geoff Crumpton 10.53 55.6M55 Rick Hatcher 4.79 28.9Duncan Macnicol 7.76 42.8M60 Ray Green 11.79 70.6Tim Gulliver 7.89 45.9M65 Robin Whyte 6.94 44.2M70 Colin Robbie 10.45 58.8W35 Bronwyn Calver 8.90 44.2W40 Jayne Hardy 9.71 55.2W60 Trish Thomas 6.88 53.3W65 Jan Banens 7.79 66.1Francis Harris 5.53 46.9JavelinM35 Brian Duval 40.77 45.2Peter Jugovic 34.36 38.7M45 David Ashton 29.33 36.6M55 Duncan Macnicol 18.91 27.0Robert Kennelly 14.32 21.7Rick Hatcher 11.94 18.5M65 Bryan Thomas 25.68 44.0Robin Whyte 25.50 42.7M70 Colin Robbie 25.29 44.8W60 Trish Thomas 12.81 32.060mM35 Paul Boschert 7.89 81.9M40 Ken Telfer 7.60 88.3Colin O'Reilly 8.28 81.0M45 Kevin Matthews 8.05 89.1Otto Karki 8.10 87.3Peter Sinfield 9.57 73.9M50 Nick Blackaby 12.05 61.2M55 Duncan Macnicol 8.79 85.1M60 Lawrie Kupkee 9.48 81.5M65 Kevin De Smet 10.71 76.0M70 Colin Robbie 10.40 79.2M80 Rad Leovic 11.23 80.1W30 Caroline Stevens 9.83 70.4Kate Mockerage DNFW35 Allison Gordon 10.34 66.9W70 Cory Collins 10.82 90.5400mM40 Ken Telfer 53.43 86.4M45 John Morton 1.00.73Colin Farlow 1.05.01Peter Sinfield 1.09.53M55 Duncan Macnicol 1.08.78Mick Saunders 1.19.17John Lamb 59.48 87.7M80 Rad Leovic 1.35.75W35 Emma Adams 1.11.45W45 Kerry Boden 1.07.56W70 Cory Collins 1.26.981500mM30 Brad Osborn 6.06.71M35 Lachlan Granger 6.28.83M40 Paul Torley 5.01.57M45 Bruce Graham 4.37.21Rod Lynch 4.55.25Mick Horan 5.02.07Jeffrey Symmes 5.11.56Bryce Anderson 5.25.72Nigel Coldrick 5.46.05Roger Pilkington 6.03.93Peter Sinfield 7.08.21M50 Phil White 5.11.04Gary Bowen 5.38.65Jamie Macgregor 7.10.31Nick Blackaby 8.20.36M55 Jim White 5.45.35Geoff Moore 5.52.90Neil Boden 6.12.98Mick Saunders 6.18.12M60 Lawrie Kupkee 7.05.44Alan Williams 7.09.07Michael Gardner 7.14.69M65 Tony Booth 7.06.51M80 Rad Leovic 7.46.23W30 Helen Mains 7.05.80W35 Emma Adams 5.27.54Bronwyn Calver 6.12.41W40 Katie Forestier 5.32.90W45 Debbie Cowell 5.51.65Carol Stevenson 6.15.99W55 Mary Ann Busteed 7.05.35W60 M’ret McSpadden 7.37.23Wendy Kupkee 7.59.12W65 Caroline Campbell 7.13.39300MHURM80 Rad Leovic 1.36.64W65 Francis Harris 1.11.624x100 RelayM35 Paul Boschert 50.71M40 Ken Telfer 50.71M45 David Ashton 50.71John Morton 50.71M50 Gary Bowen 1.00.56M55 John Lamb 1.00.56Jim White 1.00.56M65 Kevin De Smet 1.00.56W30 Caroline Stevens 1.01.03W35 Emma Adams 1.01.03Bronwyn Calver 1.01.03W45 Kerry Boden 1.01.03High JumpM30 Brad Osborn 1.70 72.6M35 Brian Duval 1.75 77.4Lachlan Granger 1.44 62.6M45 Roger Pilkington 1.25 61.3M55 John Lamb 1.30 71.0Duncan Macnicol 1.30 68.8M70 Colin Robbie 1.20 76.4M80 Rad Leovic 0.92 68.1Ewen Drummond 0.80 63.0W55 Margaret Taylor 1.25 84.5JavelinM35 Lachlan Granger 41.91 45.1M60 Ray Green 32.29 51.7Tim Gulliver 24.13 37.8W35 Bronwyn Calver 19.86 28.4W40 Jayne Hardy 31.90 52.9W65 Francis Harris 20.04 55.0Jan Banens 20.03 55.0Triple JumpM35 B Hoogendoorm 9.36 54.2Brian Duval 11.01 63.1M50 Nick Blackaby 6.06 41.9M55 Duncan Macnicol 8.49 60.4M80 Rad Leovic 5.97 66.0ADLER SERIES 5 LAP 1 November 2007Place Name Age Gp GAct Start Gross T Net T Points Elig % New Gp Comment1 Kate Black W40 12 01:55 12:10 10:15 0 N 0 32 New Starter2 Ashok Dhawan M50 20 03:15 13:51 10:36 0 N 3 30 New Starter3 Brad Osborn M30 24 24 04:00 14:09 10:09 50 Y 6 32 Above 30%4 Helen Mains W30 20 03:15 14:18 11:03 0 N 9 27 New Starter5 Margaret Taylor W55 19 19 03:05 14:37 11:32 49 Y 12 24 Above 30%6 Bev Forbes W55 18 02:55 14:44 11:49 0 N 15 22 New Starter7 Mary Ann Busteed W55 28 04:40 14:47 10:07 0 N 18 33 New Starter8 Tony Booth M65 27 27 04:30 15:01 10:31 48 Y 21 30 Above 30%9 Ted Walsh M45 34 34 05:45 15:10 09:25 47 Y 24 36 Above 30%10 Roger Pilkington M45 35 35 05:55 15:15 09:20 46 Y 27 37 Above 30%11 John Lamb M55 38 38 06:25 15:18 08:53 45 Y 30 40 2 above 40%12 Kathy Sims W55 32 32 05:20 15:19 09:59 44 Y 3313 Robin Whyte M65 20 20 03:15 15:22 12:07 43 Y 3614 Peter Cullen M40 46 46 07:45 15:23 07:38 42 Y 39 47 2 above 40%15 Bronwyn Calver W35 35 35 05:55 15:25 09:30 41 Y 4216 Bryce Anderson M45 44 44 07:25 15:27 08:02 40 Y 4517 Jim White M55 42 42 07:05 15:29 08:24 39 Y 4818 Ruth Baussmann W55 30 30 05:00 15:29 10:29 38 Y 5119 Gary Bowen M50 41 41 06:55 15:32 08:37 37 Y 5420 Michael Gardner M60 28 28 04:40 15:33 10:53 36 Y 5721 Peter Sinfield M45 35 35 05:55 15:34 09:39 35 Y 6022 Judy Forbes W75 14 02:15 15:37 13:22 0 N 63 14 New Starter23 Geoff Moore M55 42 42 07:05 15:38 08:33 34 Y 6624 Jeff Symmes M45 47 47 08:00 15:41 07:41 33 Y 6925 Neil Boden M55 39 39 06:35 15:43 09:08 32 Y 7226 Mick Saunders M55 40 40 06:45 15:49 09:04 31 Y 7527 Bryan Thomas M65 33 33 05:30 15:54 10:24 30 Y 7828 Caroline Campbell W65 33 33 05:30 16:03 10:33 29 Y 81 30 Below 80%29 Nick Blackaby M50 27 27 04:30 16:04 11:34 28 Y 84 24 Below 80%30 M’ret McSpadden W60 29 29 04:50 16:09 11:19 27 Y 87 25 Below 80%31 Katie Forestier W40 42 42 07:05 16:19 09:14 26 Y 90 37 Below 80%32 Ken White M50 44 44 07:25 16:26 09:01 25 Y 93 39 Below 80%33 Richard Hatcher M55 15 15 02:25 16:28 14:03 24 Y 96 10 Below 80%34 Nigel Coldrick M45 41 41 06:55 16:32 09:37 23 Y 100 35 Below 80%

Page 30 — December 2007 Vetrunner20 YEARS AGO (December 1987)This was a huge month in our club’s history because itwas the time of the VII World Veterans’ Athletics Championshipsin Melbourne. We had a very big contingent of 111(79 men and 32 women). Most travelled to Melbourne viaVic Rail and stayed together in a basic establishment onthe edge of the CBD.ACT athletes returned with 37 medals, 37 ACT Recordsand of course many more PBs and fond memories. Clubstatistician M55 Quentin Anthony reported on the championshipsin Vetrunner and attempted to list some of thehighlights – eg. W50 Joan Hooper 3 gold medals and aWorld record in 5000m walk, husband M60 Lindsay silverin the 1500m 4.43 and falling on the finish line of the800m, dead heat between M40 Canberrans Tony Murrayand Dick Telford in 1500m final in 3.57.4, W45 IreneMitchell winning gold and setting a WR (34.10m) in hammer,M50 Peter Kallio gold in marathon 2.30.52, W60 JoyBannister gold, silver and bronze in sprints, M50 KenDaniels silver in sprints and M55 Quentin’s own performancesof 2 gold and 3 bronze medals.ACTVAC medal winners. (Note – g = gold, s = silver and b= bronze medals).Quentin Anthony M55 pent g, 4 x 400 g, 4 x 100 b, hurdlesb and TJ b.Joy Bannister W60 400 g, 200 s, 100 b and LJ b.Mary Ann Busteed W35 XC team g.Bob Chapman M50 20km walk team g.Ken Daniels M50 pent s and 4 x 100 s.Frank Green M45 XC team s.Liam Hanna M40 XC team g.Joan Hooperand team g.Lindsay Hooper W60 1500m s.Peter Kallio M50 marathon g and team g.Tony Luyendyk M40 marathon team g.Annette McNeill W35 10000m g.THE WAY WE WEREW50 5000m W g (WR), 10km road W gIrene Mitchell W45 hammer g (WR).Tony Murray M40 10000m s and 1500m b.Keith Perroux M60 marathon team g.Charlie Rann M60 hammer b.Margaret Taylor W35 4 x 100 g and TJ s.Dick Telfer M40 1500m b.Dave Thompson M40 20km walk team g.Gwen Vines W40 10km walk team g.Mary Wahren W50 hammer b.Jan Williams W35 XC team s.Anne Young W50 marathon team g and XC team g.10 YEARS AGO (December 1997)7th annual Chris Higgins Memorial 800m Handicapwas won by M60 ken Daniels just in front of M50 KevinChamberlain and M45 Ian Boyd.M45 Rob Barboro won the men’s final of our 6 th annualGift (or President’s 100m Handicap) from M50 Col Burnsand M60 Ken Daniels. W50 Lesley Hamilton won thewomen’s final in a close finish from W40 Jill Pearson andW50 Alice Scott.Track and field records set during the month were by –M60 Ken Daniels 300m hurdles 47.4 (AR), M75 AudunFristad discus 17.71m, W30 Jayne Hardy discus 33.04m,W60 Mary Wahren discus 19.89m and a heap of new recordsby M70 Charlie Rann discus 40.43m (AR), shot put12.03m, javelin 28.86m, hammer 44.88m and heavy weight15.86m.The new Masson Street Throwing Field was openedafter 18 months of being an ACTEW construction site.Two vets’ teams of 8 runners (organised by Jim White)finished only a minute and a half apart in the annual ParliamentHouse Relays. Five of the nine finalists in the ACTSports-star of the Year were club members, they were –Kevin Chamberlain, Fran Harris, John Hunt, MargaretTaylor and Anne Young.OUR PATRON CELEBRATES ANOTHERSPECIAL BIRTHDAYBryan Thomas concludes his profiles of members who celebratedthree score and ten years (plus) birthdays during2007. Last month Lionel Barnett and Ken Daniels becameour newest septuagenarians and Lorna Burdon turned 71,Alison Ide 72 and Stella Saberton 78. This month we havetwo very special birthdays to recognize and celebrate – JackPennington becomes an M85 and John Macleod joins ourseptuagenarian ranks. John Bakker and Ray Blackmoreboth turn 72 and Jack Thackray is an athletic 77.JACK PENNINGTON OAM is now an M85 has beenclub patron since 1994. Jack was involved with veteran/masters athletics at national and international levels fromits very beginning as a prominent middle distance runner,coach, administrator and scribe. In 1995 Jack published anautobiography “A Life on the Run” relating stories of hislife, athletics and personalities he met along the way. Hewas a foundation member of the CCC, City Harriers, NSWand ACT Coaches Associations, NSWVAC, AAVAC and ofcourse our club. Jack was a champion middle distance runnerfor almost sixty years (1934-93). He was involved inselecting and obtaining support for an Australian team thatparticipated in the inaugural international meet for veteransin Cologne and London 1972. He ran in two US Championships(San Diego and New York) and three WorldChampionships (Toronto, Hanover and Christchurch). Althoughhe has run several half marathons he only attemptedone marathon, the 1981 Christchurch WorldChampionships in which his 3:12 performance is still 9 thbest local M55. He was awarded the Australian SportsMedal in 2000 and an OAM in June last year.JOHN MACLEOD our newest septuagenarianjoined in 1981 and was elected VP the following year. Hewas an accomplished middle and long distance runner withgood performances in all distances from 800m to the marathon.From 1983 to 1988 he ran all six ACT Veterans’ HalfMarathons. He also completed several marathons as anM45 getting frustratingly closer and closer to his target ofbreaking three hours, finally achieving his PB of 3.01.49 in

the1983 Canberra Marathon. In recent years chronic kneeinjuries has restricted his running to jogging or walking.He continues to be a regular participant in our monthlyhandicaps and was the sixth member to achieve 200 handicaps,earning his T-shirt in October 2005.JOHN BAKKER 72 is one of our ‘Originals’, havingcompeted in club events since 1979. He is a regular participantin the monthly running handicaps and completed his200 th in March last year. Obviously John likes accumulatingimpressive strings of performances for his proudestachievement in athletics is that he was the first ‘Legend’ ofour annual half marathon when he completed his twentiethin 2001. Only minutes after accepting the award and acclaimfor this outstanding achievement of durability he wascalled back on stage to receive his first ever trophy for theevent, 3 rd M65. In August last year he ran his twenty-fifthand from now on anyone who completes twenty-five of ourhalves will be forever referred to as having done a ‘Bakker’.RAY BLACKMORE 72 originally joined the Vets almosttwo decades ago but a series of injuries and loss ofmotivation caused him to give up running and relinquishhis membership for many years. However learning thatsome of the ‘Tuesday Group’ walk rather than run he decidedto join them. His renewed enthusiasm for physicalactivity encouraged him to rejoin and again participate inour monthly walk handicaps. He earned his ‘50 handicaps’December 2007 Vetrunner — Page 31T-shirt in January. Ray has completed a dozen marathonsof which the 1987 World Veterans’ Championships Marathonin Melbourne was a highlight. His PB of 3.14 was setin the 1984 Canberra Marathon at 48 years of age.JACK THACKRAY turns 77. Since joining in 1988Jack has been an enthusiastic participant in both track andmonthly handicaps. He has enjoyed considerable success inevents from 60m to 400m and currently holds several ACTrecords. He was awarded the Heart Foundation Trophy in1991 and won the Daniels Sprint Handicap Series in 1998.2000-01 was particularly memorable, for apart from numerousrecord-breaking runs Jack won the Boag as well as beingrunner up in the Fristad Awards. He ran well at theBrisbane 2001 World Championships earning a place in the400m final and selection in Australian teams that wonbronze in both 4x100 and 4x400m relays and last Easter hewas one of the most outstanding athletes at the AMAChampionships in Hobart. Jack has now completed morethan 120 monthly handicaps and in 1993 won the FrylinkSeries point score.Members moving up an age group this month are –Amanda Walker and David Hosking both turn 40. HelenKehoe becomes a W45 and Tony Mills-Thorn an M50. IanLavering and Marion Robinson are now 55 while CillaChapman, Keith Johnson and Carol Kelly all achieve thebig Six O.RUN/WALK HANDICAPPROGRAM FOR 200827 January 2008 Campbell Park 3K/6K24 February 2008 North Curtin 3K/6.5K30 March 2008 Kowen Forest 3.5K/7.5K27 April 2008 Majura 5K/10K25 May 2008 Oakey Hill 3.5K/7.5K29 June 2008 Mount Ainslie 4.5K/9.3K27 July 2008 Mount Taylor 3.5K/7.5K24 August 2008 West Stromlo/Blewitts 3.5K/7K28 September 2008 Goorooyarroo/Parkway 4K/8K26 October 2008 O’Connor Ridge 4K/8K30 November 2008 Innabaanya/Weston Park 3.5K/7KWhere 2 venues are shown the first is the preferred venue, but the actual venuewill be decided after course investigation and bookings.December, January and February are 8:30 AM Starts, remainder 9:00 AM starts.

Page 32 — December 2007 VetrunnerCOURSE DESCRIPTIONCampbell Park 27 January 2008How to get thereTurn off Fairbairn Ave atNorthcott Drive and follow theroad to the right around the outsideof the car park to the farNortheast corner. ( Yellow Pagemap reference Map 60 G3 )Course DescriptionAll three courses start about 20mNorth of the car park boundaryroad and about 60m West of thered gate.The course follows a track whichveers to the left. Just before thenature park fence the courseturns right and follows the fenceline, turning right again. About850m from the start turn left atthe gate and horse style and enterthe nature park. Follow the trackat right angles to the fence whichleads to the Eastern boundary ofthe nature park.The Frylink and Waddell coursesturn around at the 1.5k mark andreturn to the start. The Thomascourse continues along the fenceline with a brief detour around adam. At about the 3k mark thecourse veers to the left and joinsthe main Mt Ainslie track afterabout 700m. This track is followedfor about 300m to the turnaroundpoint (3k). The course then returnsto the start.EDITORIAL STYLE AND FORMATTINGStoriesAll stories submitted for inclusion in Vetrunner should becreated in Word with Century Schoolbook Font at 9 point.Any member’s story which is of an athletic theme, or thatmember has achieved an important milestone or award, orjust has a story to tell is welcome.PhotosWhen taking photos of award ceremonies, please ensurethat the awardees are looking in your direction and thebackground and foreground of the photo do not detractfrom the importance of the moment. All in all, check yoursurroundings before clicking. Action photos are very welcome.

DECEMBER 2007Tue 4 Dec ACTCCC Stromlo 2/5k6:00 pmThu 6 Dec Track & Field, (AIS),6:00pmSun 9 Dec Black Mtn Challenge,John Cardiff Close, Black MtnPeninsula 8:00amTue 11 Dec ACTCCC ParliamentHouse Relays, Enid Lyons St,Parkes. 6:00pmThu 6 Dec Track & Field (AIS),6pmThu 13 Dec Track & Field (AIS),6pmThu 20 Dec Track & Field (AIS),6pmJANUARY 2008Thu 3 Jan Track & Field (AIS),6pm (Joint meet with AACT)Thu 10 Jan Track & Field (AIS),6pm (Joint meet with AACT)Thu 17 Jan Track & Field (AIS),6pmThu 24 Jan Track & Field (AIS),6pmSat 26 Jan Monthly ThrowingHandicap (Discus and Shot)Sun 27 Jan Monthly Run / WalkHandicap, Campbell Park 3/6KRoster: Linda Bone, DiannBramwell, Bob Chapman, CillaChapman, Nigel Coldrick, HughCrawley, Alan Duus, Mike Dwyer,Terri Jones, Peter Kallio, JosephineKluesz, Amanda Lynch, CarmelLynch, Rod Lynch, JacquelineMillard, Pauline Rohan, BarrySeedsman, Dorothy Seedsman,Graeme Small, John SuiterThu 31 Jan Track & Field (AIS),6pmDecember 2007 Vetrunner — Page 33Weekly, Bi-Weekly and Monthly EventsPlease check with organisers to confirm detailsACTVAC General Committee Meetings monthly on the second Wednesday of the month atWestern Districts Rugby Club, Catchpole Street, Macquarie at 7pm. Contact Secretary RodLynch on 62427071 (h).ACTVAC Weight Pentathlons at 9am at Masson Street, Turner — 18 November, 16December - Contact Jayne 0421610053.Customs Joggers meet every Friday at Stage 88 in Commonwealth Park at 12.15pm. NickBlackaby 62756506 (w).Lake Tuggeranong Stakes every Tuesday on the lake edge near KFC at 12.20pm. LloydEdwards 62313733 (h).BBQ Stakes Handicap every Wednesday from the Senior Citizens Club in Woden at 12.20pm.Adrian Plunkett 62832388.Round the Lake (Burley Griffin) every second Wednesday (off PS pay week) from beside LakeBurley Griffin in Commonwealth Park at Nerang Pool bridge from 12.20pm. Ken Eynon62546548.ACTCCC Women’s and Girls Jogalong at Weston Park on the first Sunday of the month at 9am.Kerrie Tanner (h) 62850130.Lake Ginninderra Handicap, last Tuesday of the month, from outside the Lighthouse Bar at12.20pm. Ian Clout 62526737.Mount Ainslie Run Up, first Tuesday of the month, from Treloar Crescent behind the WarMemorial at 12.45pm. John Harding 62441153.Black Mountain Run Up held on the third Tuesday each month at 12.45pm, Clunies Ross St,100m east of Botanic Gardens Entrance.FEBRUARY 2008Thu 7 Feb Track & Field (AIS),6pmThu 21 Feb Track & Field (AIS),6pmThu 17 Feb Track & Field (AIS),6pmSat 23 Feb Monthly ThrowingHandicap (Hammer and Javelin)Sun 24 Feb Monthly Run / WalkHandicap, North Curtin 3/6.5KThu 28 Feb Track & Field (AIS),6pmJOIN A TRAINING GROUP — IMPROVE YOUR FITNESSGroups of veterans conduct training sessions all overCanberra. If you are interested in training for a particular eventyou should contact one of the many groups that are listed. It’salways fun to train with others, to share skills and knowledge.Runners, throwers, jumpers and walkers of all levels arewelcome.SPRINTINGJOHN BURNS 62319511 (h) Call for details.FRAN HARRIS 62302341 (h) Strength work, hurdle training.Twice weekly at the AIS track. Call for details.JUMPSJOHN HUNT 62748035 (w) Sundays 11am at the AIS track.THROWING TRAINING: Jen Bourke, 6296 3909 (h),maude@aapt.net.au. Call for details.RACE AND FITNESS WALKINGROBIN WHYTE 0414279639 (m) Call for details.RAINE THOMPSON 62901857 (h) Mondays at 5.30pm atParliament House.ALAN BURDON 62862411. Mountain walking. Call for details.MIDDLE DISTANCE RUNNINGGEOFF MOORE 62544753 (h) 0410544753 (m). Meet atParliament House underground car park Mondays 5.30pm,Thursdays 5.30pm.at Dickson Oval. Call for details.GREG STRETTON 62958474 (h) At Grammar School (cornerof Mugga Way/Flinders Way) on Sundays (no long weekends)at 9am. Call for details.LONG DISTANCE RUNNINGCHRIS LANG 62317353 (h) 62612826 (w). Sundays (when nohandicaps are scheduled) at Weston Park and Tuesdays atBlack Mountain Peninsula from 9am. Saturdays at 7am fromthe Acton Ferry Terminal. (These venues till further notice). Callfor details.ROY JONES 62510148 (h) Call for details.WATER STRENGTHENING/CONDITIONINGJOHN BELL 0438381425 (m) Deep water training at the AISPool. Call for details.FEMALES IN TRAININGKATHERINE FITZPATRICK 62141239. Tuesday at the AISTrack (Various distances) at 12:15pm.All athletes wishing to join a training group phone the contact. Ifyou train regularly and you would like some company please letus know.GEOFF MOORE Training Groups Coordinator62544753 (H) or speedygeoff@netspeed.com.au

Page 34 — December 2007 VetrunnerACT VETERANS ATHLETIC CLUB INCMembership/RenewalsMEMBERSHIP APPLICATIONS AND RENEWALS ARE AVAILABLE ONLINEIt is less expensive for the club and is secure and easy to useGo to actvac.com.au, click on Memberships and follow the promptsThe Club’s membership year is now 1 January to 31 DecemberMembership Fees for 2008 are $34 single or $57 doubleTo renew your annual membership, join as a new member, or even change your membership details, pleaseenter the relevant details below. When completed, please send to ACTVAC, GPO Box 2356, Canberra City,ACT 2601, or bring to any ACTVAC Club Event.First Name………………………………Family Name………………………………………………Membership No (if known)…………….Address…………………………………………………….…….……….Suburb……...………...………….………..State…….….P/C……...Contacts:.Phone.Nos(h)……………....………….....(w)……….………………….…....(m)….……………..…………….…..Email Address…………………………………………………………………..……..……………..… Gender: Male…… Female……Date of Birth: Day…………. Month…………..…..... Year…………….If Double Membership – Second Person’s Membership No…….….……..Gender:Male..…..Female……...DoB……………………..…Second.Person’s Details: First Name…………….………….………Family Name.………..…..………………………...Contacts:.Phone.Nos(h)…………...…………(w)……...….…….………(m)……...……….….…….Email……………………………………Emergency Contact: Phone.No………………...…...Name………………..…………..…..………..……….Relationship……………………Membership Fees:New Single Membership - (financial up to 31 December 2008)..…………………………...$34……….…..New Double Membership - (financial up to 31 December 2008)..…………………………..$57…………. .Renew existing Single Membership - (financial up to 31 December 2008)…………….…$34……..…….Renew existing Double Membership - (financial up to 31 December 2008)………...…….$57…………..(Included in the above fees is a capitation fee of $7 which goes to our national body, Australian Masters Athletics)Payment Details: [Cash] [Cheque] [Credit Card]….Please Tick oneIf Credit Card: [MasterCard] [Visa]….PleaseTick.one(or make use of the Online Payment facility available on the Club’s website www.actvac.com.auCard Number………………….…………………………………………………………………………………………..……Card Holder’s.Name……………………………………………………...………………………………...…Expiry Date…………………..Signature…………………….……………………………….……………………………...…………….……First aid skills…Yes/NoPlease place an X in this box if you DO NOT want your credit card details processed through the internet.* [Yes] — Receive the Vetrunner in the printed format. [No] — Receive it electronically via the Club’s website* [Yes] — Receive notice(s) of AGM and other meetings by e-mail. [No] — Receive by post and/or printed VetrunnerMEMBERSHIP APPLICATIONS AND RENEWALS ARE AVAILABLE ONLINEIt is less expensive for the club and is secure and easy to useGo to actvac.com.au, click on Memberships and follow the prompts

December 2007 Vetrunner — Page 35Above: Caroline Campbelltells it as it was - PhewAbove: Says it all but a bit close tohome for some of us John!Hi ho, hi ho it’s off to run we goVets athletes in theBrindabella ClassicBelow: Some folks had a better vantage point thanothersThe only cool part of the run

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