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June 2011 Newsletter

Contents: President’s Report Upcoming CRR events

Shoelaces

Race Reports and photos Other events in the region and beyond

Our sponsors

President’s Report Welcome all to the Cairns Road Runners June Newsletter. A special congratulations to all our members who participated in the Cairns Challenge. What a fantastic feat! Gary Bryant was the first CRR member home in position #32. Pretty impressive. Great job, Gary. MANY others also participated, but I’ve not

received any race reports, so maybe for the next newsletter you would like to share your experiences? The inaugural Trinity Family Chiropractic Mt Haig Trail Marathon on 22 May attracted 16 competitors in the main event. The Babinda Boulders Burst Fun Run on 4 June was a great race and competitors were happy with the course. Hope more people make the effort to come along next year! Race reports and photos later in this letter.

Eight CRR members are participating in the Gold Coast Marathon and another six in the Half Marathon on 3 July. Good luck! For a list see the Shoelaces section. There are three events over the next few weeks for our Junior runners. All juniors are encouraged to come along and get some cross-country training in! There is also the Relay for Life on the 18-19th of June – not too late to pay your $15 and join us for a fun evening at Barlow Park. Contact our Team Leader

Kylie Colman on social@roadrunners.org.au or register with the Cairns Runners team online. Thanks to the efforts of Paul Ryan, we now have a group of runners on the Tablelands who are keen to meet up and do some weekly/fortnightly runs together! Paul will be contacting you over the next few weeks to let you know what is happening. Or send him an email on tablelandsrunner@roadrunners.org.au.

Remember that you are welcome to come along to the Cairns Athletics Club Invitational Track Races – mostly held on Friday nights. Currently I am the RECORD HOLDER for the 3000m Steeple Chase held at the All Comers Invitational at Barlow Park on 14-15 May! Congratulations to all who participated, including the McAvoys (look at all their medals) the Courtneys and the Vecchios! Check out the next Track event on the Training page on our website – where you’ll also find the dates for Trail Training Runs leading up to the Kuranda to Port Douglas Ultra Trail Marathon.

Join us for the 25th David Todd Memorial Mile on 9 July, and the Amanda Gale Physiotherapy and Wellness Clinic Copperlode Cup the next day! Teams are allowed to complete the 16km from the base of Lake Morris Road to Copperlode Dam. Enter online or collect an entry form at the Wednesday night run. See you out on the road, track or trail or at the next race!

Regards,

Lorraine Lawson President

McAvoys Lorraine in the steeple chase race Susan, Lorraine and Tienelle

Upcoming Cairns Runners Events June/mid-July 2011

Every Wednesday 5.30pm Road Run, Social Club Run (Everyone is

welcome) 5k / 3k

Northern end of Muddy's

Playground, Esplanade

Sat, 18 Jun 4.00pm Cross Country,

Juniors, Training St Mary's Cross Country #1

1.5k

circuit

St Mary's College, Anderson

Rd, Woree

Sat 18 - Sun, 19 Jun 2.30pm Track, Team Relay for Life 18hr Barlow Park

Fri, 24 Jun 7.30pm Track Running Cairns Athletics Invitational 1500m Barlow Park

Sat, 25 Jun 8.00am Trail & Road Race, Individual or Team

Man vs Machine Train Race (CRR

supported event, entry form

online)

18k Freshwater Railway Station

Sat, 25 Jun 4.00pm Cross Country,

Juniors, Training St Mary's Cross Country #2

1.5k

circuit

St Mary's College, Anderson

Rd, Woree

Fri, 1 Jul 7.30pm Track Running Cairns Athletics Invitational 1500m Barlow Park

Sat, 02 Jul 4.00pm Cross Country,

Training

Goomboora Park Cross

Country

2k

circuit

Goomboora Park, Brinsmead

(off Loridan Drive)

Sun, 03 Jul 7.00am Trail Run Walsh’s Pyramid 5km Pyramid Car Park, off Moss

Road

Wed, 6 Jul 5.30pm Road Run, Time

Trial Choice Australia

Management Time Trial 10k / 5k / 3k

Northern end of Muddy's Playground, Esplanade

Sat, 09 Jul 4.00pm Cross Country, Race 25th David Todd Memorial

Mile

1 mile

(1.6k)

Centenary Lakes, Botanical

Gardens, Greenslopes Street

Sun, 10 Jul 7.30am

Road Run, Race,

Individual or team,

Breakfast

Amanda Gale Physiotherapy

and Wellness Clinic

Copperlode Cup

16k Base of Lake Morris Road

Check the website (www.roadrunners.org.au) for more news and events.

Letters to the Editor Received via email on 30/5/2011

G'day Lorraine, I just wanted to drop you a quick line to say "thank you" for such a fantastic Sunday morning run last week. I trust that you arrived at the finish no worse for wear? I apologise for not hanging around for all of the runners to finish, however I had a prior commitment that night here at home - so I guess I was racing most of the day! Could you again pass on a huge thanks to Alan and the rest of your team who put the event together (despite facing so many obstacles). Each of these races has been more fun than the last and I can't wait until the ultra. Until the next adventure! Ben Carter

Received via email on 31/5/2011, edited

Hi Lorraine

My name is Joni Bennett and I am part of the Port Douglas Event Management team. We want CRR members

to know that we have managed to secure 300 spaces in the 2012 Solar Eclipse Marathon for locals to run in the

event. As we are not the event managers for this particular marathon, however we can provide the 2011 GBRM

entrants first priority which is fantastic.

Received via email on 2/6/2011

Hey Lorraine,

Just letting you know the kids all did well in the Peninsula Schools cross country. Stirling McAvoy 10yrs Boy

champion, Mackenzie McAvoy 10yrs Girls 2nd, Montanna McAvoy 11yrs Girls Champion, Sandra Vecchio 2nd. All

head off to Roma for state champs in July.

Regards Alicia McAvoy

Membership: 252 for 2011 Welcome to the Club new members: Tanya B, Donna M, Wally P, Todd R, Mary-Anne E. Philip M, Scott & Chrissy R, Deborah M and Derek M.

June Cairns Runners Birthday Babies: The big wishes go to: Peter Banaghan, Maddy Hargreaves and Tanya Bassford. Enjoy the big “0”. And Happy Birthday to the rest: Ccommittee member Nick Carling, Flynn, Debra M, Bruce H, Elisha, Imogen, Amelie, Amy, Pauline T, Noelene, Rebecca, Dominique, Liz N, Annalese, Rosie O, Chrissy, Martin H

The train race entry form is available on the CRR website under “Trail Running”. Numbers are limited to 150. TCMstrata are sponsoring the Women’s race - 1st $600, 2nd $300, 3rd $100. The Men’s race has the same awards too. There will be plenty of SPOT prizes as well. ANYONE NOT RUNNING ON THE DAY -- WE NEED YOUR HELP AT DRINK STATIONS ETC. Contact Race Director Alan Courtney on 0418 759 318

Here is a list of Gold Coast Marathon/Half Marathon participants who have nominated the ‘’Cairns Road Runners’’ as their running club for the Australian Open Running Club Championship: Marathon

Taras Jakubovsky Lorraine Lawson Amanda Lee-Ross Darren Lee-Ross Craig Mann

Nathan Moore

Rebecca Tucker John Vaughan Half Marathon

Lorna Bradshaw Philip Bradshaw Andrea Collins

Alan Courtney Moniek De Kievith

Tamara Hansford If there are any other club members who are running in the events and are not listed above, please let Lorraine know.

Keep up to date with what’s going on in the Townsville Running Club by signing up to their newsletter. Go to: http://www.townsvilleroadrunners.com.au/index.cfm?Menu=ClubNewsletter&PageID=318

Pyramid Race

Thanks to the support of the Department of Environment and Resource Management we now have permission for 150 runners

to tackle the challenge of the Great Pyramid Race. To date 163 registrations have been received. For details and to sign up toe

the newsletter, go to http://pyramidrace.com/.

Race Reports: Cairns Road Runners Trinity Family Chiropractic Mt Haig Trail

Race and Tablelands Sign On, 22 May 2011 Race Report by Race Director Alan Courtney

Cool misty conditions ideal for trail running greeted the forty hardy souls at the start line at Kauri Creek, Tinaroo. With competitors from Cairns, Tablelands, Port Douglas, Innisfail, Brisbane and Melbourne, the greatly anticipated second event in the Cairns Road Runners FNQ Trail Running Series. The 42.2km marathon course, which included more than 1500m of vertical climbing, was tamed in devastating style by Smithfield’s Chris White in 3hr18min10sec, confirming him as major contender to Mike Le Roux, for the upcoming Cairns to Kuranda Train Race on 25 June. Club member, Ben Carter, from Townsville managed to stay on course for a well earned 2nd in 3hr45min49sec, followed closely by evergreen runners Steve Cunningham 4hr00min05sec and Amstein Prytz 4hr00min50sec. CRR president, Lorraine Lawson, took out the women’s event in 5hr31min05sec, to make her untouchable in the CRR trail series points. Trail runner Emma Mills was 2nd in 6hr02min48sec. A sprint finish in the 21.1km half marathon saw Atherton’s Paul Ryan beat Ryan Hoskins by the narrowest margin of the day of 04 seconds in 1hr46min52sec. Scott Ratcliffe was a creditable 3rd on the difficult course. Third overall and covered in mud, first woman home Louisa Cordingley finished strongly in 1hr52min19sec. In her first attempt at the half marathon distance, local Chiropractor Andrea Collins took 2nd place ahead of Louise Oliver. The ladies showed how it’s done in the 10km race with Jacqui Dovale winning outright in 52min12sec, well in front of first man home, Martin Ball in 1hr01min18sec. Close behind was Christine Radcliffe in 1hr02min46sec, followed by young Adaline Storch in a great effort of 1hr06min07sec. David Groundwater claimed 2nd spot in the men’s race in 1hr08min44sec. Atherton middle distance track runners dominated the 5km events, with Wally Plath winning in 20min24sec in front of Codey Martin and ten year old Ronan Courtney. Coming off her gold medal performances the prior week at Barlow Park, Tenielle Dunbar won the women’s 5km with ease in 24min41sec. Masters runners Janette Jacob and Gillian Marnock finishing just ahead of Nance Storch completed the field. A special welcome to the Club to all the new members from Kairi, Dimbulah, Malanda and Ravenshoe who signed up this weekend. A huge thanks to the very small team of volunteers who made this event happen, especially race director Alan Courtney, Craig Harriss, Helen Kinnane and Paul Ryan. And Team Lawson of course. Support and Sponsorship was provided by TRINITY FAMILY CHIROPRACTIC (Atherton & Cairns), SPORTSNORTH (Atherton & Mareeba), and DELLAMARINE SKINCARE.

Photos on next page, more on Facebook.

Cairns Road Runners

Babinda Boulders Burst Fun

Run, 4 June 2011 Race Directors Lorraine Lawson and

Nathan Moore

Thirty seven runners fronted for the

‘revived’ Babinda Boulders Burst Fun Run on Saturday, 4 June. Numbers were down from last year, yet those who participated were very happy with the scenic course

along the road to the Boulders. The fun run forms part of the Babinda Harvest Festival and the fun-runners set off after

the street parade at 4pm. Junior Club Member, Bini James, flew home and completed the 12.84km in 50min20sec! Followed closely by last year’s winner Robbo Robertson (51:51) and sprinter Wally Plath

(53:10). Thanks to sponsor Nando’s Chicken, Bini receives a dinner voucher. Danielle Beven, Tom Harwood and Jack Robertson were three runners fighting it out for the trophy for the first local runner home in the 12km run. Congratulations to Danielle, who come in 5th overall (1st female) in a time of 1hr1min32sec. The next two females home were Laurie Wheeler

(01:01:47) and Leanne Sharrock (01:03:05). Sam Ederveen took out first place for the 3km run in a time of 12min10sec and James

Omundsen had a great run in the 5km event finishing in 21.31. Thank you to the volunteers who offered support on the day, especially Nathan Moore and Lorraine Lawson for setting the course. Nathan also did the timing and recording, while Lorraine organised the gear, paperwork and snacks.

Full results and series points on the Cairns Road Runners Website (www.roadrunners.org.au), photos on our Facebook page (Cairns Runners).

Other Upcoming Events:

Crocs Triathlon Info Night at Blue Sky Brewery on the 16th

of June at 7.30 pm.

Cost: $10 per head. What are triathlons, how to get started, equipment, rules of the sport basic training tips.

The next triathlon is at Pump ‘n Pedals Yorkey’s Knob on 3 July. Visit the Cairns Crocs website for details.

HMB Endeavour is visiting Cairns from 24th

June to 5th

July and they are desperately in need of more volunteers to help

out during the stay in port. See flyer.

Cairns To Karumba Bike Ride – first week of school holidays – see flyer.