20 December 2023

 

This evening in the Runners Christmas Picnic run there were 76 starters.  We welcomed Thomas Thuroczy, Eddy Lee, Bridget Delaney, Zac Clark, Jessica Gault, Fiona McKinnon and Emma and Kate Corcoran to their first run with the group.

 

There were 14 personal best times recorded.  In the 2-kilometres Poppy Melgaard improved by 8 seconds, Kelsey Pye improved by 53 seconds, Emma Kennedy improved by 5 seconds, Max Gunn improved by 8 seconds, Jann Simmons improved by 16 seconds, Olive Issaakidis improved by 44 seconds, Maxine Plant by 4 seconds, Cillian Delaney by 2 seconds, Saoirse Delaney by 8 minutes and 10 seconds.

 

In the 4-kilometres the improvers were Geordie Cox by 11 seconds, Nuno Goncalves by 38 seconds, Mark Nolan by 11 seconds and Meg Edenborough by 50 seconds.

 

The best time recorded on the night was from Matt Johnsen, who ran an incredible time of 12.52 over the 4-kilometres course with an improvement of 16 seconds.  Matt is an elite runner having run in America in the National Cross-Country Championships.  He has also been competitive in national marathon events.

 

We were pleased to be able to present Simon Wall with his 30-run shirt.  Simon lives in Canberra and during Covid he did most of his runs over 5-kilometres remotely.  Because of work and health reasons he has not be able to do many of the actual runs on a Wednesday at Broulee.  He is very proud of the shirt, and it will be seen regularly in Canberra as Simon does his daily runs.

 

2 Kilometres

 

James Gunn 8.26

Lewis Gunn 8.30

Benji Mackay 8.48

Marcus Mackay 8.54

Aengus Delaney 8.56

Neil S Mackay 8.59

Mollie Kennedy 9.28

Poppy Melgaard 9.47

Kelsey Pye 10.14

Thomas Thuroczy 10.22

Jude Issaakidis 10.23

Max Gunn 10.42

Elliott Jackson 10.47

Imogen Seidel 10.53

Sara Norgate 10.56

Eli Melgaard 11.19

Scott Melgaard 11.21

Emma Kennedy 12.56

Judy Jensen 13.19

Alyssa Birks 13.56

Tommy Birks 13.58

Theo Birks 13.58

Katharina Birks 13.59

Eddy Lee 14.08

Alfie Mackay 14.10

Colon Mackay 14.11

Jann Simmons 14.23

Chloe Tangney 14.53

Olive Issaakidis 14.54

Maxine Plant 15.00

Cillian Delaney 15.08

Candice Delaney 15.09

Saoirse Delaney 17.02

Bridget Delaney 17.03

David McCann 18.33

Michael Lambert 21.26

Bernie Lambert 21.27

 

3 Kilometres

 

Zac Clark 13.33

Ruby Johnsen 17.04

Emma Corcoran 17.30

Bradley Lunn 18.22

Julianne Domeny 18.42

Steve Phipps 19.00

Sandra Lunn 19.49

John Hicks 20.06

Otis Remling 23.41

Elise Remling 23.42

Lisa Robbins 25.09

Tracy Denning 25.13

Jason Domeny 26.22

Jessica Gault 7.49

Shelby Stapleton 31.36

Gill Stapleton 31.38

 

4 Kilometres

 

Matt Johnsen 12.52

Geordie Cox 13.47

Anthony Kennedy 14.12

Nuno Goncalves 14.29

Matt Lambert 16.16

Paige Connaughton 16.45

Brad Turner 17.55

Fiona McKinnon 18.18

Jo Edenborough 18.20

Harry Edenborough 18.20

Matt Edenborough 18.21

Stephen Seidel 18.25

Dave Connaughton 18.29

Jackie Snowball 19.32

Kate Corcoran 20.23

Anthony Snowball 20.39

Mark Nolan 20.43

Brenton Cole 21.07

Meg Edenborough 21.36

Simon Wall 23.00

Deb Connaughton 23.02

Robert Turner 24.53