Our new coaching director, Toby Wilson, has finished third in the junior men's elite section at the ultra long NOL event in the Flinders Ranges in South Australia.
Toby, the current Garingal club champion, completed the 20.2km course (yes, it was that long) in 2 hours, 2 minutes and 28 seconds. The results bodes well with junior world championship selections imminent. Clubmate Aidan Dawson was 12th.
In the women's open elite, Michele Dawson and Nicola Blatchford (Newcastle) were 7th and 8th over the 18.3km course. And in the men's open elite, Bennelong's Eric Morris was 10th in the 28.1km course. Victorian Leon Keely averaged 5.24 minutes per km in winning the event!
In the photo, those are not Tibetan prayer flags - they are maps hanging waiting for runners to come in for the two map changes.
In Saturday's middle distance event over more familiar course lengths, Michele and Nicola were 8th and 9th; Aidan and Toby were 6th and 7th; and Big Foot's Jock Davis was 5th in the open men's.
Among the public events in conjunction,
on Saturday: Goldseekers' Anna Fitzgerald won W35A, Karen Blatchford won W45A and Debbie Byers (BF) was third in W55A
and on Sunday: Anna and Karen came second, Nicola Nygh (BF) and Barbara Dawson made it a quinella in W45AS, Julia Prudhoe (Central Coast) was third in W55A, Callum Davis (BF) won M20A, Kevin Williams (WHO) won M55AS, and Peter Meyer (SHOO) was second in M75A.
