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Alexa Wins Grampians
Physiotherapy Handicap (again!)
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| Alexa
Duke |
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Home ground advantage
saw Alexa Duke win the Stawell Amateur Athletic
Club Grampians
Physiotherapy Handicap on Saturday.
Halls Gap produced
fine conditions for the 27 senior runners
who lined up for the 6.5k event. Held
on a new course to previous years, the race started
along Mt
Zero Road, then turned off downhill along various
sandy
tracks then back up to the main road.
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| Shaun
Parnaby |
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The sand, combined
with such a long uphill finish, was best suited
to the stronger runners.
Alexa Duke used her
handicap mark
to good
advantage
and ran strongly all the way to win by only
4sec from Meg Parnaby, after a hard tussle
on the home straight. Susie Ellis finished third.
The
fastest time of the day was produced by Col Barnett
with 24mins 50sec. Fastest female was
Susie Ellis in 29mins 31sec.
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| Tobias
Blair |
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The junior race
saw a good field of 14 runners line up for
the start
of the 2.5km event. Shaun Parnaby
ran well to cross the line first with Harry
Steggall second, finishing in the minor
placings for the third week in a row. Must
be yours next
week Harry! Sophie Alexander came in third.
Alastair
Dugdale recorded the fastest junior time
of 9mins 52sec. The fastest
girl
was Naomi Jamieson in a time of 10mins
21sec.
Both
Alexa and Shaun seem to have a mortgage
on this race, as both won it last year as
well!
Nine sub-juniors lined up for the 1km dash.
An excited Tobias Blair notched up his
first win for the
season from a fast finishing Liam Scott,
with Richard Dugdale third.
Liam Scott
produced the
fastest time of 4mins 10sec. Fastest
girl was Heidi Sudholz in a time of 4mins
23sec.
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