Monday, November 2, 2015

Somewhere Over the Rainbow - it always rains

Cast your mind back to the corresponding event in 2014. Yes it rained- as a matter of fact it poured for about an hour.
So there we are set up under the magnificent fig trees in Latham Park and all was well. A glance to the west and what do you know black clouds, thunder and lightning were once more going to grace us with their presence. Fortunately we were able to bug out to a small area of undercover before the rain came. We need to change the name of this map before it is re-used.
There were 53 souls who braved initially the humidity of the afternoon then the very wet air of the later afternoon.
Course setter Tim did a fantastic job and there was nary a whinge back at the download station.

It was a challenge to get all 600 points and it was a close call for Steve Ryan who went to all but was a few seconds late.
Tim's challenge!
Uringa members did very well: Georgia was 1st home in Junior Women with Maree not that many points behind. Catherine streeted the field in Open Women Serje dominated Masters Men. Ian was 2nd home in Veteran Men with Shane in 3rd.
Linda and Maggie had a battle for the top positions in Veteran Women with Linda ahead at the end. Terry Murphy had a fine 3rd in Legends Men and Helen went 2 better with a win in Legends Women. Mary Jane was 3rd behind Helen.

Brian was 1st home in Immortal class with Dave in 3rd.

Our next summer series event is on 11th November at Concord. This will be a big event with over 200 runners expected.

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