May Fun Runs....

 

Mothers Day Classic  May 13th - Domain

4k

Tom Davies 15.51

 



Sophie Gocher in pink, Olivia Hogg in the middle and Nicola Hogg at the right.

Sophie Gocher 16.14

Gemma Wickham 16.40

Olivia Hogg 17.08

Sophie Wickham 17.34

Darren Gocher 18.32

Nicola Hogg 18.37



Gus powering home in the 8K

Paramatta

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8k

Gus Wong 28.45 4th overall

 

Kyle communes with nature after his great efforts

4k

Kyle Wong 30.16

Our 2K and 5K runners: Samuel, Amy, Sophie, Holly and Gemma



Gus rounds the corner from Shelly Beach for the final sprint in his age group winning 10K

The Manly Scenic Fun Run was held at 8:00am. on Sunday 20th May. The distances were VERY inaccurate, but officially there was a 2K, 5K and a 10K. This is the way of things with fun runs!

Amy Polikowski was first lady in the 2K, with Sophie Wickham 2nd - a reversal of last year's placings. Holly Wickham was 7th.

Gemma was 2nd 12-15 girl in the 5K. Young Samuel was held back by his dad we suspect - he is only 9, and was 6th under 12 boy.

State Road Race championships at Homebush - 6th May 2012

We had some incredible individual results with Daniel Francken coming 2nd in the under 16 boys 5K, Edita 2nd in the under 12 girls 2.5K and Hannah Gibson 3rd in the under 18 girls 5k. We also had a lot in the top 5 or 10. In the teams we won 3 golds, 2 silvers and 3 bronze sets of team medals! Not a bad haul.

See below for photos (apologies for not having everyone) and then results......

Harlan smiles for the camera with team mate Daniel Watts of the under 16 boys
 and Gus Wong from the under 18s before the 5K road race.

Tom Davies and Cam Gorman warm up
with mum Cath Rasmussen before the 2.5K

Olivia Hogg, under 12 girl, running in
the 5K for the under 16 girls

Samuel, aged 9, runs 5K for the under 16 boys

Edita is no stranger to the podium - 2nd in the
under 12 girls 2.5K

Proud dad plus Tom and Billy Highnam watch
Ben Jagger show his moves in the 5K.

Some of our 20 Striders in the under 16s and under 18s 5K having a post race warm down.

Under 12 Boys – Tom Davies (9:36), Kieran (9:21), Benji (9:49), Daniel R (9:48), Billy (10:44), Cam (10:44), Joseph (11:02) and Nicola (10:55). A team, GOLD, B team BRONZE.

Under 14 Boys – Josh (8:54), Declan (10:45), Liam (9:08) and Fraser (9:19) SILVER

Under 16 Boys – Daniel (16:29), Paul (18:21), Luke (17:52), Adam (17:34), Harlan (19:14), Dan Watts (18:23), Ben Jagger (19:52) and Samuel (22:49).  A team GOLD, B team 4th.

Under 18 Boys – Gus (17:19), David (17:56), Taiki (17:50) and Gabe (22:10) BRONZE

Under 14 Girls – Beth (11:15), Sally (10:40), Edita (9:06) and Tessa (10:28). BRONZE

Under 16 Girls – Kate (22:39), Hannah R (23:16)., Jemima (21:20) and Olivia Hogg (21:51) SILVER

Under 18 Girls – Hannah Gibson (19:20), Jess Vernon (20:55), Bethany(20:11) and Amelia (20:17). GOLD

Race yourselves fit on Sunday afternoons in Pymble.

Maybe you can't always make it to training. Perhpas the West Met races are too far away? If you want some extra training, why not try these races on a Sunday afternoon, put on by Ku-ring-gai Little Athletics Centre. See http://www.klac.org.au/ and click on winter cross country down the side.

During the winter months, the Centre conducts a cross country competition at Bannockburn Oval, Bannockburn Road, Pymble. The course winds around the outskirts of the oval, and starts at 3:15pm each Sunday. The 2012 season will start on 6 May 2012 and continue until 5 August 2012. On the first day, athletes can register from 2:30pm and there will be a course orientation at 3:00pm allowing all runners and parents to walk the courses.

The 2011 season involved athletes from the Manly Warringah, Northern Suburbs, Ryde, North Rocks, Carlingford and Northern Districts Centres.

Season fees: Registered Little Athletes $10, and Unregistered children $55

Course Distances

Under 6: 525 metres

Under 7 & 8: 828 metres

Under 9 & 10: 1,687 metres

Under 11 to open: 2,280 metres

The Novice Cross country championships at Scarborough on Sat. 28th April 2012.

Tess Constantine in the 4K - pretty in pink.

It was a lovely, sunny day for these races. We had the

Striders tent and food and drink brought along by Peter

Hibbard. I am sorry there are a few people we didn't get

pictures of - next time!

Highlights were Daviel Francken coming second

overall in the 2K in 6:16 and Sophie Gocher coming

3rd overall lady in the 2K and 2nd under 12 girl. Also,

Hannah Gibson and Emma McGlinn were part of the

bronze medal winning open Striders women 7K team.

Dad of Bec and Billy Highnam, Tom, made his juniors

proud by coming 3rd overall in the novice 10K.

GO STRIDERS!!!

The Scene at the start of each race was like this.

David Gardiner 1st junior Strider in the 4K

Ben Jagger has the moves in the 4K

Bethany Halmy in her first race as a Strider in the 4K

Daniel Francken 2nd overall in the 2K in 6:19!

Sophie Gocher 3rd lady overall in the 2K and 2nd under 12 girl.

Emily Gocher in the 2K

Declan King-Smith looking good in the 2K

Jocelyne Francken looking strong in the 2K

Bec and Billy Highnam give out drinks in the 7K and 10K

3 of the bronze medal winning team in the 7K - Emma McGlinn, Hannah Gibson, Mary Stringer and Caroline Yarnell.

Mary chasing Hannah in the 7K

Emma McGlinn strides out in the 7K

Caroline looking a bit too happy - this is a RACE!

Juniors training all over Sydney on Easter Monday



Cam holds the plank position for 13 mins.!

We had a great 2 hour training session for around 25 juniors and parents on Easter Monday at Passmore Reserve, Manly Vale. Congratulations to Cam Gorman on setting a Junior Striders plank record - 13 mins. Can any Senior Stiders beat that? He held perfect form!! See below.



Before the big race....

Janet Jagger put on a 6.7 mile race along the Nepean River at 11:00am. on Easter Monday too, and the times from that will be the basis for a handicap series. Paul Loader was fastest on the day - well done Paul (back row - far left and in photo below).

Paul has a clear lead

Ben getting ready for a sprint start

Jess Vernon looking in top form

Jemima striding out downhill

Declan pacing his mum

The Easter Bunny 1 mile handicap - Monday April 2nd 2012, Narabeen.

We had 20 who completed the race, and one DNF. Keiren Gorman was our winner, improving on his time by a whopping 21 seconds, so he went home with the large green egg and the trophy. Daniel Rasmussen, Tessa, Luke, Sophie Gocher and Cam also improved and won choccy prizes. It was impossible to decide who was best dressed, so it was a tie between Josh Phillips and Tessa - visions of pink bunniness! See photos below. They ran / walked in their outfits too! Josh's outfit is now one of our prizes at the 5K handicap on Thursday - 6pm. Shelly Beach.

Lindfield Fun Run 5K and 10K this Sunday April 1st. 2012

http://www.lindfieldrotaryfunrun.org.au/

A good time was had by all at the sunny Lindfield fun run I think. The results are up ontheir website. Juniors numbers were low this year - just seven of you: Gus, Kyle, Fraser, Hannah Gibson, Tessa, Beth and Leila. However, we had the Striders tent up near the finish, so that attracted all the senior Striders like a magnet giving us the lively group we've come to expect at this race There is lots of choccy mud cake left over, so you'll get a piece of that if you are at the mile handicap this evening - 6pm. for warm up at Narabeen track.

Here are some key rseults,(for parents of juniors too):

10K.

Hannah Gibson was 2nd lady in 41:08 and 1st in her age group, 2nd to Anna Fitzgerald, a senior Strider. Brilliant result!!!

Gus Wong 41:08 3rd in age group. He missed the start by a minute - those who know him will guess why.
Tony Wong 44:22

Fraser McKinlay 47:07
Fiona McKinlay 50:26

John Bowe (Leila's dad) 42:11

5K.

Caroline Yarnell 23:20 1st in agegroup

Tessa Constantine 23:37

Leila Bowe 25:47

Beth Murray 28:02

Kyle Wong (walker) 52:49
This race has become a bit of a tradition with Strider Juniors. Here we were in 2010.......

and in 2011.....