Ringwood Athletic Club

Round 2 kicked off for the Club split over Casey and Aberfeldie.  From all reports from Casey the headwind wasn't much fun at all.  Cool conditions all around as well.  With the Distance crew taking the honours last week with PBs and a record the Sprints and Throws took the honours this week.

New member Corey Mason ran a 12.00 into a -0.6 wind and was only 0.1 from the U14 Club record and with a birthday rapidly approaching in December some selective racing may be needed.  He also ran in the U16 100m hurdles and ran a Club Best for that age over the 84cm with 10 flights.  New member Neha Liyanage opened her Triple Jump campaign with an 11.37 and although it was windy (+2.6) the 11.73 U18 & U20 records could be within reach.

Other PBs for the weekend where:
Danielle Shaw - 100m 12.01
Kaelah Elvish - 400m Huurdles 69.48 and Shot 8.16
Genna Johansen - Hammer 34.94 and Shot 9.08
Debbie Voogd - Shot 5.76

Finally we had some competition.  After a lot of set backs through the Winter Season the Summer kicked off on the weekend with our athletes competing over three venues.  The weather was a bit cold and windy at times, especially from the wind readings at Glenhuntly  Erin Marriner had a great PB run in the U14 3000m setting an U14 Club Record of 11:10.0, the previous record was 11:19.1 and was held by Monique Gorman since Feb 1989.

Other PB performances for round 1 where by Peter Costanzo in the 100 and 400 and our 3k runners Mitch Graham, Tom Linnett and Charlie Orpwood.

Welcome to our new Club Members Carla Dreyer, Frazer Parker, Jacib Allison and Tiara Willis.

Check out who has made it onto the All Time Lists.

On a cold and foggy morning the athletes ventured to Cruden Farm, which is an easy run down Eastlink.  We had three athletes running their first individual races for the Club with Tom Linnett, Charlie Orpwood and Erin Marriner running the U14 4km events.  Tom was our best performer finishing 5th which was a fantastic effort in his first main race.  Charlie wasn't too far back in 16th.  Unfortunately for Erin she developed a severe stitch and couldn't finish the course.  Not one to dwell on that setback Erin ran in the Ringwood LAs cross country the following morning for a second place and a stitch free race,

Mitchell Graham and Anne Lord ran in the 12km races and for their efforts get to sit on top of the All Time list for 12km at Cruden Farm.

Thanks to AV for a number of the photos.

In perfect weather conditions we ventured back out to Lardner Park for the first individual championship race of the Cross Country season.  Starting with the juniors over a challenging 2km course up to our seniors who ran an 8km course of two 4km laps.  Best performance was Ben Reid running a PB for the course along with Mitchell Graham.

Thanks also to our official helpers Anne Lord and John Walker.

The following is a list of trophy winners for all of our well deserved athletes. 

Open Age winners of Trophies

Women

100m               Danielle Shaw

200m               Kaelah Elvish

400m               Natasha Kindler

800m               Natasha Kindler

long jump        Evangeline Cheung

triple jump      Evangeline Cheung

high jump        Natasha Kindler

walk                 Debbie Voogd

100m hurdles  Lateisha Willis

400m hurdles  Kaelah Elvish

Discus              Gemma Johansen

Javelin            Nicole Johansen

shot put           Nicole Johansen

hammer          Ayesha Palangasinghe Kodith

Men

100m               Tayleb Willis

200m               Jordan Drescher

400m               Hamish Hopkins

400m Hurdles  Blake Dobay

800m               Noah Thorpe

1500mMitchell Graham

5000m             Benjamin Reid

110m hurdles  Lachlan Lamb

discus Vishnu Ravi

long jump        Tayleb Willis

triple jump      Hamish Hopkins

Beryl Shearer Memorial Trophy                    Evangeline Cheung

Age groups Winners of trophies

Apologies for the formatting.

The Winter Season kicked off today in perfect sunny conditions with the opening run being the Jells Park Cross Country Relays. Due to a new playground being constructed this was new course with the long hill going but more repeat hills being added.  This is a pretty tough course as a lot of it is on very soft grass.

Ben Reid had a PB on his opening leg in the Open Men 6k and Mitch Graham was close to his PB from 2019.  No CC racing last year due to Covid.

Two new junior members made their debut for the Club today with Tom Linnett leading out the U14 mens team in the very smart time of 11.49.  The U14s run one lap of 3km.  Erin Marriner was our other new member and ran 11.59 for her 3k lap.  A big thankyou to Chloe Linnett who helped the U14 team to a finish by filling in that empty spot, Chloe at 10, going on 11 ran 13.29.

The Victorian Masters Championships where held again at the Doncaster track over the weekend.  We had multiple medal winners and a few PB's along the way (if my records are correct).  Well done everybody.