A very enjoyable afternoon at the Road Relays out at Nundah. Thanks in particular to those who helped out with the Barbeque, in particular to Ken Stacey and to everyone who participated. Times for the 4.8k were as follows:

Women’s Team:

 Hubertien Wichers 18.07

 Rachel Effeney 17.46

 Lydna Bateson 24.43

Men’s Open Team:

 Osman Saleh 16.15

 Connor Stanton 19.35

 Tony Usher 17.40

Masters No. 1 Team:

 Paul Jackson 16.00

 Ron Peters 16.15

 Don Wallace 16.49

Masters No. 2 Team:

 Alastair Wallace 21.03

 Geoff Crowther 21.46

 John Purcell 20.39

Thanks

 John

Congratulations to everyone who competed in the Met North Districts.

Among those whose results I picked up on who got into the placings

were:

 Eleanor Dalzell - 1st - 200m, 1st - 400m, 2nd - 800m, 3rd - Relay

 Alex Dalzell - 3rd - 800m

 Tim Hurley - 1st - 100m, 1st - 200m, 2nd - 400m

 New member David Kai was age champion in the 17 yrs age group.

 Well done to everyone.

 John

Congratulations to ASR members on a week of excellent performances, Some of the highlights were:

* Don Wallace and Nickey Carroll’s team set a new record in the Kokoda Challenge Trail Race in the Gold Coast Hinterland. Glenn Barltrop, Cassie Brown and Connor Stanton also competed in the event.

* Hamish Granger was selected in the Queensland Team for the National Cross Country Championships after finishing fifth in the State Titles last Saturday. Tim Gibson has also been selected in the State Team.

* At the World University Orienteering Championships Rachel Effeney represented Australia well in a number of events with her best result being 25th place in the Sprint event, only dropping down from 6th place in the last four minutes of the event.

* At the Nickey Carroll Shield meet at St Paul’s Hubertien Wichers, Lisa O’Donovan and Lynda Bateson made it a trifecta in taking out the individual and teams results in the Masters Women’s 4k Championship. Ron Peters won the Men’s 50+ while Daryl Crook finished in fourth placing in the Open Men’s. Osman Saleh also set a new PB of

21.38 in the 6k event.

* At The Gap High School’s athletics carnival there were a number of good efforts from club athletes. Among those who recorded victories that I was able to come across were:

Tim Hurley - Open Boys 100m, 200m and 400m Heat

Tim Gibson - Open Boys 400m Heat

Alex Dalzell - Open Boys 800m (2.09) and 1500m (4.41)

Eleanor Dalzell - 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m (Dead-Heat)

Jared Easterbrook and Josh Gibson also performed well across a number of events, with the 800m and 1500m being highlights for Jared.

* At the World Junior Athletics Championships former club member Adrian Plummer has made it through to the semi-finals of the 800m with a clocking of 1.50.0. Adrian and his coach Bill Francis worked extensively over the years with some of our key support people like physio Michael Dalgleish and podiatrist Ash Mahoney. In an environment where distance runners in Australia have tended to be pretty nonchalant about the importance of strength work, the dedication that Adrian showed in this area as a younger athlete appears to now be paying full dividiends. Adrian joined the Gold Coast club where he lives a couple of years ago after being a member of Ashgrove for a number of years.

John

On July 18, Ashgrove Rangers Athletics Club played host to Qld Masters Athletics for their short course cross country championship. The race was held in conjunction with the Rangers’ monthly Flying 4 race.

A chilly 8am start meant times were slower than might have been expected.

Rangers members performed well in the event. Alastair Wallace took out gold in the 50-55 age group in 18:06.50 and was the first male across the line. Paul Circosta (21:21.12) took out silver in the same age group. Paul Holland gained gold in the male 40-44 age group in a time of 19:12.69.

The Rangers male team of Wallace, Circosta, Paul Holland and Dick Dunstan took out gold in the teams category.

Great results from the Gold Coast Marathon for Ashgrove Rangers! Don Wallace ran 2:31:53 and took out Gold for the Queensland Athletics Champs and won the trip to Japan early next year to run the marathon. Wayne Heath won Queensland Athletics bronze in the time of 2:39:11 and Paul Jackson came 4th in the QA Champs running 2:40:09

Vivienne Buss ran her second marathon and took out Queensland Athletics’ silver in 3:20:07, this time is a pb.

There were many other great performances:

Daryl Crook placed 6th in the 10km race running a pb of 31:04. Rina Hill was our first lady home in 38.04

Ron Peters: 34:44; Justin Woerner: 42:46; John Purcell: 48:03 and Lynda Bateson: 53:15

Geoff Crowther ran 1:37:03 for the half marathon. Well done!

DATE: Saturday 19 June 2010
VENUE: Payne Rd State School After School Care building - access via Kernell St
TIME: 4.45 pm

The Club will hold an athletic event for members at 4 pm at Payne Rd State School before the AGM - details TBA; and a game of “trivia” will be played immediately after the AGM.

Nomination for Committee
Any financial member of the Club may be nominated to serve on the 2010-2011 committee by any two other financial members of the Club using the form below.

Nominations must be lodged with the Secretary by 5 June 2010. Signed nominations may be sent by email (pdf) to the secretary.

If there are no nominations for a position (or in the case of other committee member positions, insufficient nominations), nominations will be called for from the floor at the AGM.

Nomination Form

Bardon State School took out the Joyce Petfield Memorial Trophy for girls and The Gap State School took the Ron Petfield Trophy for boys in the annual Primary Schools Challenge.

The Challenge is a 2km cross-country race contested by Year 5 – 7 boys and girls from public and private schools in the general Ashgrove-Bardon-The Gap area.
The meet was held in perfect autumn conditions on 29 April. 182 boys and girls lined up for the races, a very good turn out for an after-school activity.

Bardon bettered last year’s third placing on the back of top two placings in the girls event with Sarah Tisdall winning in 8 minutes and 18 seconds and Freya Lee 11 seconds behind. Mater Dei’s India Williams was third, a further 8 seconds back.

The Gap took out three of the top four placings in the boys event to claim the trophy in it’s first outing. Samuel Bailey placed first in 7 minutes and 52 seconds, 10 seconds ahead of Gavin de Wet. Bardon kept their representation consistent through Tiaki Cavanagh’s third placing in 8 minutes and 21 seconds. His excellent time showed the benefits of regular competition in the monthly Flying 4 event.

Results…

Daryl Crook and Andrew Barralet represented our club and Queensland in the National Track and Field Championships in Perth on Friday night.

Daryl came 3rd in the 3000m Steeple Chase (9:09:93) behind Olympian Youcef Abdi and Richard Everest. Excellent Work Daryl!

Andrew came 10th overall in the 800m in 1:50:52, just outside the qualifiers. He was the 3rd Queenslander over the line. Well done Andrew!

Congratulations also to our masters veterans who travelled to Perth to compete in the Australian Masters Championships.

Peter James (Club Vice President) came 1st in the 10 000m at Perth recently. Peter is pictured here receiving his medal.

Dick Dunstan long time Ashgrove Rangers member also performed strongly placing 9th in the 800m (M60-64), and 7th in the 1500m. Well done to both members.