The race founded by Alex Jones started in 1964, and still follows the original route from Green Point to the naval sports’ fields in Simon’s Town. While this year marks exactly 50 years since the race was first held, it did not take place from 1994-1997, due to the introduction of the Cape Town Marathon. Continue reading “Tony at Cape Peninsula Marathon 2015”
On the 7th of March 2015 the MT Glorious trail race was taken on by 5 striders. Mt Glorious is a challenging race with a total of 1200m climbing and 650m of descent. This terrain does not go without reward with some amazing rainforest and free lunch at the end. Continue reading “The Glorious Mountain”
Our fearless Head of Coaching has put the finishing touches to the plan for glory on the Goldie. There are two plans to choose from, one for rookies and one for seasoned pros. Enjoy! Continue reading “Gold Coast Marathon Plan”
Like the start of every new year, many people start with their New Years Resolution. Well in this case, 3 Striders members started the new year with the Resolution Run 2015. Resolution Run has two distances; 5.5km and 11km. Its not a huge event, this year there were 415 finishers in the 5.5km event and 611 finishers for the 11km.Congratulations to Lisa Millar who finished the 11km in 59:25 which was a new PB! Woo Hoo. Lisa was stoked to have run the course achieving her sub 1hr goal. What a great start to the running year. This year Lisa will be concentrating on triathlons and hopefully a new PB at the Gold Coast Marathon in July. Best of luck Lisa.Also a massive Congratulations to Peter Lewis who finished the 11km 45:08 which placed him 3rd in his category!! Well done mate! Peter was a first timer for this event, however his 10km splits were also a PB. Looks like Peter has made a great start to the running season. Looks like he is well onto the way of smashing his parkrun rimes, particularly in this heat and achieving his sub 40minute 10km goal. Also best of luck to Peter with his Gold Coast Marathon preparation in July!I also ran the Resolution Run 11km event. This was the second time I have entered and finished this event. Due to the unusual distance, I generally don’t take this event seriously and like to have some fun with it. This year, I ran with a mate of mine Kyle. Kyle is recovering from an ankle reconstruction and the 11km was his longest distance to date. This was also Kyle’s very first fun run, but definitely not his last. Kyle’s lead up to completing the Resolution Run was running with me pacing him at Sandgate and New Farm parkruns for the past 3 weeks, where his time has improved from 32:24 to 26:57.The morning of Resolution Run didn’t start off very well. I was supposed to pick Kyle up at 5am. I sent him a text the evening before to remind him to hydrate (I remembered how hot it was the previous year) and Kyle texted me back saying he would love a sub 01:10:00 finish time… Unfortunately the morning of the race my alarm didn’t go off and I woke up at 5:19am with 3 missed calls and numerous text from Kyle in a state of panic. I quickly got dressed, jumped in the car and phoned him and made arrangements where I would meet him at the start line and everything would be ok. Fortunately with very little traffic, and my online pre-booked car park, I arrived at the baggage tent, where I met up with Kyle just as the MC was stating we had 2 minutes to the gun.As this was Kyle’s very first fun run, I suggested he stick with me for the first 1km whilst we juggled around the walkers/joggers then I would set us a pace I knew he could manage. Kyle managed the first 5km by sticking with the pace I had set. The brief shower at the 2km cooled us down, but then the sun came out which turned the run into a sauna, and I could see Kyle was struggling so by 4km we decided to walk. The temperature was 23degrees with 89% humidity, so to say it was sticky was an understatement. As I had been keeping pace, I knew we still had some time up our sleeve so a walk wouldn’t. During the second lap, Kyle really started to struggle and the running became less and the walking became more. He kept looking at his watch and could see his goal finish time slipping away. I said to him, “Stop looking at your watch! Don’t worry about the time, we will be fine.” Fortunately for me, he’s a soldier and takes direction well. So we soldiered on (excuse the pun) and about 500m from the finish line Kyle said to me, “let’s sprint the last 100m!” So together we ran the last 100m and finished Kyle’s first fun run, side by side with huge smiles on our faces. Kyle was given his finishers medal and we were both given a bottle of water. I took our post race selfie (I told Kyle he has to have a photo from each race as a souvenir even it its only a post race selfie). Kyle expressed his disappointment with our finish time because he saw the finishers chute reading 01:10:15. I replied, “Ahhh, but that is the race time, our actual finish time (net time) was 01:09:19, so you made your goal – Congratulations!” which of course he was stoked with. I’ve since given Kyle a list of fun run dates and events for him to register for including Fun Run Pink, Twilight, Gold Coast Bulletin, Gold Coast Marathon and Brisbane Running Festival events. Now I just need to talk him into registering as a Striders member and getting him to Tuesday or Thursday sessions……CheersLisa
On the 19th October 20, 2014 the Brisbane to Gold Coast ride was taken on by several South Pine Striders and also South Pine Riders, this was tenth time this event has been held. The starting 15 to 20 km were outstanding leading entrants from South Brisbane to Underwood via the bus lane or as we all called it the fast lane! Continue reading “Brisbane to Gold Coast Ride”
My first international race and my first trail race happened all at once on Saturday 18 October 2014. I am over in San Francisco for a work conference and as part of the conference, a group of about 30 of us led by one lady from Houston signed up for a 7 mile trail run on the other side of the Golden Gate Bridge from the city starting at a place called Muir Beach. I was the lone Aussie amongst many countries represented which were Austria, Canada, China, Cyprus, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Netherlands, Peru, South Africa and of course USA. Continue reading “Coyote Ridge Traile Run, USA”
A small group of Striders made the journey to Toowoomba for the Toowoomba marathon last Sunday. While Toowoomba is a tough course I love the small community feel of this event and this year was even better. Continue reading “Toowoomba Marathon 2014”
Whilst many of our club mates made the annual trek to Toowoomba to support our fellow amateur runners at their annual event, Chris Edwards and I decided to tackle the marathon that promotes itself as Australia’s biggest. Continue reading “Striders At Melbourne Marathon”
I guess my race report could be titled ‘How Not to Race a 70.3’, however as I often say, to finish should always be your first and last goal, and while I salvaged that I have to say it was one of my ugliest races I have done in a while. I never expected it to be pretty with a lack of consistent training (heck a lack of training full stop) but there are no excuses there. Continue reading “Sunshine Coast Half Ironman Report”
Saturday 13th of September started our 1st official trail run of the 2014/15 season. Glasshouse trails had it all happening from 10km all the way to a 100miler run….that’s right, 168km for those not from America. It was a brisk morning with plenty of the usual suspects. Striders out on the course were the Banfields, Paul Vennels, Enda Cotter, Nicole Van Gurp and Jerrod Smith (A.K.A… Mr. and Mrs. Smith) Continue reading “Glasshouse Trail Running Race Report”
South Pine Striders 