Ali G bags another elite second placing
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- Last Updated: Sunday, 29 September 2019 21:02
Alastair George showed his class for the second day in a row with another runner-up place at Oceania 2019, this time in the Australian Long champs on an awesome granite map near Bethungra.
The Big Foot JWOC rep (on the right in the top picture) finished just 13 seconds behind ACT's Patrick Miller over the 10km trek across some very intimidating terrain - the map getting its first use in about 20 years.
Newcastle prodigy Alvin Craig, still only 15, was third in a breakthrough performance at NOL level.
Ellen Currie (GO) was the best placed ONSW representative in the junior women in 13th and local Briohny Seaman (Waggaroos) was 16th in the senior women. Rob Bennett (NC) and Toby Wilson (GO) finished 9-10 in the senior men.
The map, formerly known as Gardiner's Lookout, is now called Split Rock after the giant boulder on top of the hill that had a huge crack in it.
The long steep walk to the start went past it. It made the rolling stone ball from Raiders of the Lost Ark look like a pebble. Naturally, there had to be a control at the base of it!
Meanwhile, congratulations to our 2019 Australian Long champs:
Alton Freeman (Big Foot, M10), Nicola Blatchford (Newcastle W21); Stephen Craig (NC, M35); Barbara Hill (Garingal, W50); Greg Barbour (BF, M55); Michael Halmy (Bennelong, M55AS); Jenny Hawkins (Northern Tablelands, W70); Maureen Ogilvie (Uringa, W85).
Results are here and Winsplits here. Monday's Relays were slated to have twice as much climb as the Long Champs.
We'll be back on this map in two years time for a State League weekend. Can't wait!
