Shingler kids quinella Big Foot Sprints again
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- Last Updated: Saturday, 18 December 2021 19:44
Siblings Nea and Ewan Shingler have taken out the annual Big Foot Sprints for the second year in a row.
In warm conditions at St Ives Showground - where hundreds of cars were queued up for covid tests - Ewan had a 5-second lead over Big Foot clubmate Alastair George after the first 2.6km race.
This featured four gorgeous bush controls in the east of the map before a flat fast second half.
Ewan stretched his lead in the chasing start second run over 2.4km, where the bush legs 2-3 and 3-4 were key, and finished 17 seconds clear with a combined time of exactly 25 minutes.
Bush n Beach junior Sam Woolford, down from Coffs Harbour for the junior squad camp this weekend, was third in 27.34.
Nea was almost three minutes clear of Emily Sorensen, formerly from South Australia but now residing in Sydney, after the first run and coasted home by four and a half minutes in a combined time of 31.17.
Garingal junior Lilja Lehtonen was third female in 37.35, holding off Newcastle's Erika Enderby by six seconds. The chasing start format meant first to the finish was overall winner, so as you came through the last controls you were trying to overtake people - or not be overtaken.
This was a fantastic event to finish Big Foot's 40th year. Thanks to setter Paul Marsh, controller Tracy Marsh, results guru Andy Simpson for his computer wizardry, and Paula Shingler for the stunning cake.
