August 6, 2016
The XCR’16 season has been a very successful one for the Club so far, but we had many of our runners unavailable for the Ekiden relay at Anglesea on the weekend. Although not achieving the sorts of results that became routine in the early rounds this season, there were still some good performances over the rough hilly tracks.
Notably our men’s under 20 team of Alex Ritchie, Lucas Pamminger and Carlos Norman won a silver medal, while our men’s premier division team and men’s over 50 team both finished in 4th position, just a few seconds out of the medals.
It was also great to see the return of Daniel Clark and Mitch Dyer to the team and Georgia Griffith running extremely well in her first race of the winter season.
Special thanks to Megan Sloane and to Conor Yung and Zac Hunter who helped with officiating and to Kirsty Ritchie and Bert Pelgrim, who along with Ian Sloane helped with timekeeping.
Results (note that a last minute course change means that runners covered at least 300m more than the designated distance)
Men Premier Division 4th
- Nick Baggott 34:22 9.8km
- Peter Green 32:34 8.8km
- James O’Connell 28:58 7.9km
- Mitch Dyer 21:13 6.0km
- Andre Waring 18:01 5.2km
- Daniel Clark 16:30 4.6km
Men Division 2 9th
- Zac Hunter 39:34 9.8km
- Michael Vaughan 34:49 8.8km
- Michael Dowel 32:26 7.9km
- David Jiminez 25:03 6.0km
- Andrew Hester 21:44 5.2km
- Conor Yung 20:08 4.6km
Men Division 4 DNF
- Ron Ashbridge 42:07 9.8km
- Jack Prendergast 40:06 8.8km
- Bill Dyer 41:13 7.9km
- Andrew Tunne 34:52 6.0km
Men Over 50 4th
- Peter Stefanos 42:30 9.8km
- Chris O’Connor 36:13 7.9km
- Simon St. Hill 25:45 5.2km
Men Under 20 2nd
- Alex Ritchie 32:18 8.8km
- Lucas Pamminger 31:57 7.9km
- Carlos Norman 23:57 6.0km
Women Premier Division 7th
- Amy Carrig 45:11 9.8km
- June Petrie 39:35 8.8km
- Georgia Griffith 24:25 6.0km
- Pia Hunter 23:31 5.2km
- Kerry Putt 25:31 4.6km