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McDonald Back
in Form!
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| Ivan McDonald |
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Ivan
McDonald shook off last years injury worries to
find form and take
out the Tyler's
Hardware 8km handicap held in Horsham last Saturday.
A field of twenty senior runners lined up for one
of the season’s
few flat courses along the banks of Wimmera River.
After missing most of last
season with an injury, McDonald is finding form
again, and with the flat course to his liking,
ran strongly
over
the last half kilometer to overtake a determined
Meg Parnaby 100m from the finish, claiming
his first victory for two seasons. Ray Scott
also ran well to claim third place.
Aggregate leader
Fiona
O'Brien finished 8th, taking her points
total to 80, well ahead of her closest rival Bob
Freeland,
on 63 points.
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| Harry
Steggall |
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Col Barnett again ran the
fastest time of 29 minutes 44 seconds. Suzie Ellis
was
the fastest
female
and ran a personal best of 34 minutes 6 seconds.
Thirteen
juniors lined up for the 3km handicap with Harry
Steggall taking the honours and
claiming his first win for the season,
after a string
of minor placing's. Emily Parnaby was second
followed by Naomi Jamieson third.
Karl
Scott was the fastest
junior in 11 minutes 57 seconds. Naomi
Jamieson was the fastest girl in 12 minutes 55
seconds.
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| Elly
Barnett |
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The largest sub-junior field
for the year of 14 runners lined up for the 1.5km
handicap. It was
Elly Barnett who greeted the judges
first with Isaac Ellis and Daniel Op de Coul
sprinting to
the finish line to decide second and
third. Ellis just nudged out Op de Coul by
1
second.
Liam Scott was the fastest
sub-junior in a time of 6 minutes 22 seconds.
Fastest girl was Heidi
Sudholz in a time of 7 minutes 2
seconds.
As
a special feature of this race all runners
were asked not to wear watches
and to estimate
the time
they would take to complete the course.
A special prize was awarded to the
runner who
ran closest
to their estimated time.
Gary Howden
was only 3 seconds away and looked
to be a
sure winner
but
Stephen Baird upstaged everyone
by coming in within 2 seconds of his
estimated time, which
was a great
effort.
In the junior race it was
Naomi Jamieson who estimated the closest
to
her actual time.
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