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”
1. Distance category awards criteria
– Awards to the quickest male and female 10km, 21km and 42km race anywhere.
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2. Club Champs criteria
– The format is as follows:
1. There are 14 races to choose from
2. 5 of the 14 will count towards your club champs points tally
3. 10 points for a distance category win with points reducing by 2 for each subsequent placing (e.g. first male and female in the same event earn the same points)
Restrictions:
1. You need to be a financial member of South Pine Striders at the time of the event for the points to count.
2. The 14 races is not to encourage you to do all 14 but rather provide options and time for recovery. Choose wisely.
3. No complaints will be entertained.
4. You need to run in your own registered number.
5. You should run in Striders club kit to run faster.
6. Your safety and health and that of other competitors is of primary importance.
And the races are:
1. 11 Jan Resolution run (11km)
2. 21 Feb Mt Glorious Trails (22km)
3. 22 Mar Twilight (10km & 21km)
4. 18 April Pinnacles (18km)
5. 23 Mayl Noosa (10km & 21km)
6. 3 May Pine Rivers Festival – Pine Rivers Charity Fun Run 7. (10km)
7. TBC June Doomben (10km & 21km)
8. 14 June City 2 South (14km)
9. 4-5 July Gold Coast (10km-4/7/2015, 21km & 42km-5/7/2015)
10. 19 July Jetty 2 Jetty (10km & 21km
11. 2 August Brisbane Running Festival (10km, 21km & 42km)
12. 30 August Sunshine Coast (10km, 21km & 42km)
13. 20 September Twilight Bay Run (10km & 21km)
14. TBC October Toowoomba (10km, 21km, 30km & 42km)
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
Hi my name is Monique and I did the 4km Junior Dash at the Gold Coast airport marathon 2014. The amount of support and cheering we had during the run was incredible and the water station was packed with volunteers. The volunteers were kind and encouraging. Continue reading “Striders Young Guns At Gold Coast”
This year’s 6th Twilight running festival attracted a contingent of keen Striders. The events kicked off in very uncomfortable 30 degree heat and oppressive humidity making the going tough for everyone participating.
Despite the heat there were some very impressive results and PB’s achieved. The course was slightly altered this year but is still a scenic run along and over the river and through the leafy suburbs that line it. Continue reading “Striders Sparkle At Twilight”
Well done to Enda Cotter, Paul Dack, Nicole van Gurp and Jerrod Smith on completing a tough trail run on Saturday morning of 22 February 2014. Here are some pictures from the day. This is also the first airing of our partner/sponsor banner kindly supplied by Brendale Community Bank® Branch of Bendigo Bank with the joint male first place finishers being awarded their trophies. Well done to all. Continue reading “Mt Glorious Trail Run”
For the 2013/2014 season the club will not be increasing memberships. The membership of the our club consists of junior, ordinary and social members. Membership fees go towards financing the expenses of running our club which includes the purchase of new equipment, coach development, race organisation, advertising & promotion, trophies, insurance, coaching registration, etc. Continue reading “New Striders Season Memberships Due”
Our club has a duty of care to all those who come and train with us. The Management Team have agreed on a new policy to ensure we look after people as best we can. We’ve uploaded a new Pre-Exercise Medical Checklist so that participants can judge whether or not they fall into a high risk category, and should obtain a doctors consent before training with us (or continuing to train with us). If you have a condition which puts you at risk we ask that you go and see your GP, and you can use the Consent Form which we’ve uploaded. This applies to both new club members and existing club members. We note that Striders cannot give you a medical diagnosis, only a suitably qualified doctor can, which is why under certain situations we will ask people to obtain one. You can download and view our forms on our ‘Membership’ page or simply click here.
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