Turkey Trot becomes day of jakes and jennies

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Last Updated: Tuesday, 04 July 2017 09:32

There has been a changing of the guard in the Sydney Turkey Trot, with Big Foot junior Alastair George ending Garingal gun Glenn Horrocks' long winning streak in the iconic annual multi-map event.

It appears Glenn, who had 9 wins in a row (including two deadheats) recorded an mp. 

Hosts WHO used the combined maps of Darks Common and Knapsack Gully at the foot of the mountains to set courses pretty much all in the bush for the three courses.

Alastair has been in red-hot form this year and must be a strong chance to make the Australian JWOC team in the very near future.

He won the 20km men's Long event in 1:45:18 (averaging just over 5 mins per km!), 40 seconds ahead of WHO's Andrew Hill, and three minutes quicker than Big Foot's Bart Vonhoff.

Al's sister Rebecca was second in the women's Medium course (12km).

Juniors performed well in other divisions, with Garingal's Duncan Currie winning the men's Medium course in 1:09:13 ahead off Big Foot junior Ewan Shingler and Garingal's Peter Fozo.

Georgia Jones from Uringa took out the women's Short (8km) while primary schooler Nick Stanley was third in the men's Short.