Box Hill 5
k Handicap Race Results - 27 April 2002
Haley Tomlinson runs fast time to claim victory in club event
The annual
Club 5000 Handicap race was run on Saturday April 27 at the well-established
Bennettswood course adjacent to Gardiner’s Creek.
Meeting at Hagenauer’s Reserve, a small group
departed 20 minutes before the planned starting time and were pleasantly
surprised at the number of others on course waiting to start.
Ultimately 26
starters materialized, several of them vying for the honour of coming up with
the most inventive excuse for leniency or producing the most agonized facial
expression upon hearing the news of their allocated mark.
Notable efforts came from Dave Cross, Tom Waters and Dale Bickham.
A special novice attempt from Cameron Baker was adjudged outstanding.
He nearly knocked off more experienced campaigners such as Wes Windsor, a
perennial high achiever in the annual efforts to extract a more lenient
handicap, and again this year’s star performer.
Previous race winner, Jocelyn Keage, showed she will be difficult to beat
in future years with an impressive and impassioned effort to convince the
handicapper that there had been a serious mistake made in her case.
Cameron was somewhat lucky not to have an additional time penalty, as the
handicapper had calculated his proposed time assuming that he would be running
the course with pole held aloft in the vaulting position.
Maybe with the additional adrenalin such a penalty might have induced, he
might have shaded his opposition – perhaps next year?
Sam Hassett and
Dale Bickham both qualified for the “Time Mismanagement Award”, literally
arriving when the race was about to start or when it had actually started. Certainly this was a novel attempt to persuade the
handicapper that they deserved different treatment in forthcoming years.
Enough of the
preliminaries, and on to the main event. Haley
Tomlinson ran a superb race, and won clearly in the outstanding time of 17 m. 44
s. She started like a rocket and
overtook everyone else in front of her, crossing the finishing line 11 seconds
clear of Dominic Macken, an experienced athlete set to resume his running career
with Box Hill after a break from the sport.
Haley’s time on this tested course was extremely impressive, and as
many of us who have watched her improving know, suggests that she will continue
to create new standards of achievement as she gets older and stronger.
Well done Haley and we look forward to seeing you continue to improve.
Chris O’Connor nearly outfoxed the handicapper, resorting to being
sighted recently riding a bicycle along the Yarra Trail with an alleged injury. Well,
the sympathy has come to an end with the revelation in the race of his excellent
form, untroubled by the previously cited injuries.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating, as they say.
Our two leading
distance athletes, Graeme Olden and Marcus Tierney, who both started in the
absence of John Meagher, performed well, and had probably their best chance to
win this year (the Year of the Backmarker), had not several others excelled
themselves on the day. Other
notable efforts came from the punctual David Ayers, Patrick Kelly, who forgot to
start at the right time, the battle between Adam Pepper and Tony Bird, adding to
their recent rivalry, and one unnamed starter who removed part of her running
costume which should have remained where it was intended to stay.
Sam Hassett
probably should really have been the winner as he ran exactly to the time
predicted by the handicapper, and Marcus Tierney also gained Brownie points for
his acuity in pace judgement.
2001 Box Hill 5 K. Handicap Race Performances
Place
|
Name
|
Elapsed Time
|
Handicap
|
Act. race time
|
|
1. |
Haley
Tomlinson |
20
m. 49 |
3:05 |
17
m. 44 |
|
2.
|
Dominic
Macken |
21 m. 00 |
2:30 |
18 m. 30 |
|
3.
|
Chris
O’Connor |
21
m. 02 |
4:00 |
17
m. 02 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
4.
|
Cameron
McIver |
21
m. 05 |
3:30 |
17
m. 35 |
|
5.
|
Graeme
Olden |
21
m. 23 |
6:20 |
15
m. 03 |
|
6. |
David Ayers |
21 m. 33 |
3:25 |
18 m. 08 |
|
7. |
Patrick Kelly |
21 m. 47 |
4:20 |
17 m. 27 |
|
8. |
Sam Hassett |
21 m. 50 |
5:50 |
16 m. 00 |
|
9. |
Marcus Tierney |
21 m. 51 |
6:35 |
15 m. 16 |
|
10.
|
David
Cross |
21
m. 58 |
2:15 |
19
m. 43 |
|
11. |
Tom Waters |
21 m. 59 |
5:10 |
16 m. 49 |
|
12. |
Alice
Baquie |
22
m. 16 |
2:20 |
19
m. 36 |
|
13. |
Dale
Bickham |
22
m. 18 |
5:50 |
16
m. 28 |
|
14. |
Amanda Harper |
22 m. 20 |
0:30 |
21 m. 50 |
|
15. |
Fiona Turner |
22 m. 23 |
1:35 |
20 m. 48 |
|
16. |
Tony
Bird |
22
m. 24 |
4:50 |
17
m. 34 |
|
17. |
Adam
Pepper |
22
m. 26 |
4:50 |
17
m. 36 |
|
18. |
Matt
Slater |
22
m. 43 |
4:40 |
18
m. 03 |
|
19. |
Luke
Yeatman |
22
m. 45 |
5:40 |
17
m. 05 |
|
20. |
Dave
Featherston |
23
m. 06 |
2:30 |
21
m. 36 |
|
21. |
Cameron
Baker |
23
m. 18 |
2:15 |
21
m. 03 |
|
22. |
Carly
Carmody |
23
m. 25 |
Go |
23
m. 25 |
|
23.
|
Beth
Bird |
23
m. 35 |
1:50 |
21
m. 45 |
|
24. |
Amy
Zagato |
24
m. 30 |
2:20 |
22
m. 10 |
|
25. |
Wes Windsor |
25 m. 37 |
2:10 |
23 m. 27 |
|
26. |
Jocelyn Keage |
27 m. 01 |
4:25 |
23 m. 27 |
History of our race
|
|
Previous
Winners |
|
Fastest
Time |
|
|
1992 |
Leigh
Miller |
17
m. 06 |
Graeme
Olden |
14
m. 56 |
|
1993 |
Nick
Luxton |
16
m. 48 |
Graeme
Olden |
15
m. 09 |
|
1994 |
Dale
Bickham |
17
m. 16 |
Scott
Jackson |
15
m. 08 |
|
1995 |
Sam
Hassett |
18
m. 38 |
Graeme
Olden |
15
m. 17 |
|
1996
|
Michael
Bourne |
24
m. 40 |
Graeme
Olden |
15
m. 27 |
|
1997 |
Michael
Bourne |
20
m. 50 |
Glenn
Tooze |
15
m. 58 |
|
1998 |
Ashley Boyd |
20 m. 11 |
Graeme Olden |
15 m. 07 |
|
1999 |
Tom Waters |
15 m. 38 |
Marcus Tierney |
14 m. 34 |
|
2000 |
Jocelyn Keage |
17 m. 40 |
Graeme Olden |
15 m. 21 |
|
2001 |
Liam Rourke |
17 m. 40 |
Scott Jackson |
15 m. 36 |