South Pine Striders

The Moreton Bay Road Runners annual Jetty to Jetty Fun Run/Walk is being held this Sunday.  The Striders club marquee will be in the finishing area.  At this stage at least 14 evening runners will be competing.  Bring your family, park out and have lunch afterwards in the club marque.

Congratulations to Wendy Clarke, who is our inaugural club Half Marathon Women’s Champion after taking out gold in the club championships at the Gold Coast Marathon.  Jenny Cahill took silver with yet another half marathon and one of our club coaches Mary Jackson just edged out Joe Field to claim the bronze medal.

The medals will be handed over next Tuesday

The ‘day after’ Comrades is always a good day, despite the fact that you walk like you have a carrot inserted in and uncomfortable place…  I spent 2 hours walking around a shopping centre and I’m feeling it now!

Ther were some interested facts that arose from the wash up of the race.  Firstly, nobody died, despite the very high temperatures: 27 degrees Celsius.  Only two guys got mugged, both for their shoes, both in the bush going to the toilet!  One guy carried on running in his socks, and the police caught the robber, chased after the guy, gave him back his shoes and he carried on to finish.  Only in South Africa! (more…)

Just a short note to thank you for all the great comments posted and for your interest in Comrades 2008.  My final finshing position out of 11000+ runners was 1288.  My average speeds were 5:44, 5:68, 5:90, 6:01, 5:96, 5:92.  I started in position 2316 at the first timing mat and moved up over 1000 places throughout the day to finish at 1288.  The last 30km were nice and tidy despite the fatigue.

I will blog again later but for the meantime, thank you so much to all, especially my girls. Love yous! p.s. feeling good today!