Craigie and Humphries ACT senior mountain running champions

ACT Mountain Running Championships
Mt Tennent ACT
Saturday 5 April 2014 

Weather: 15 degrees, overcast, light drizzle.

Helpers: John Harding, John and Judi Anderson, Leonie Doyle, Steve Appleby, Nic Bendeli, Hugh Moore, Martin Pogson.

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Alan Craigie led from start to finish to win the senior men’s ACT Mountain Running Championship over 11 km with 1,000 m of climb. Craigie has personal bests of 29.29 for 10,000 m, 14.10 for 5,000 m and 8.37 for 3,000 m and on the previous Tuesday had won the Mt Ainslie Run Up in his debut on the course in 11.15. After 80 mm of rain in the previous 24 hours, the Mt Tennent course was soft and slippery in places and in the Australian Championship on 11 May Craigie should be able to improve on his winning time of 55.06 if the course is drier. As it is, 55.06 places him second on the all-time ranking list, only behind Scott McTaggart’s 2010 Australian Championship win in 54.40.

Michael Chapman was running strongly in second place until the final kilometre when he was over hauled by Luke Schofield who had surprisingly ridden his bicycle out to the event all the way from Queanbeyan. Schofield ran 57.01 and Chapman 58.04.

Former Australian mountain running representative Elizabeth Humphries mixed up the race start times and arrived in gum boots with only 10 minutes to go. After a quick change and very short warm up, she had a strong win in the women’s 8 km in 51.44. Gemma Worland was in second until halfway but had to retire after feeling ill, paving the way for Australian Masters orienteering champion Anita Scherrer to finish runner up in 56.23.

Australian junior men’s champion Bryce Anderson had a very good hit out, clocking 45.15 to win the junior men’s title ahead of fellow ACT junior orienteering representative Ciaran Lane in 1.02.00. Nikki Armstrong won the junior women’s 6 km in 47.29.

Results:

Event Place FirstName LastName Age Gender Time
11 km 1 Alan Craigie 30 Male 55.06
11 km 2 Luke Schofield 30 Male 57.01
11 km 3 Michael Chapman 27 Male 58.04
11 km 4 Lachlan Dow 22 Male 1.01.31
11 km 5 Chris Helliwell 44 Male 1.01.50
11 km 6 Tim Cochrane 33 Male 1.03.20
11 km 7 Grant Bluett 41 Male 1.09.34
11 km 8 Martin Pogson 53 Male 1.12.21
11 km 9 Jeff Grey 50 Male 1.14.55
11 km 10 Stephen Graham 50 Male 1.21.35
11 km 11 Peter Thomson 53 Male 1.22.48
11 km 12 James Swann 41 Male 1.25.35
11 km 13 Greg Lane 44 Male 1.48.11
8 km 1 Bryce Anderson 17 Male 45.15
8 km 2 Ciaran Lane 16 Male 1.02.00
8 km 1 Elizabeth Humphries 28 Female 51.44
8 km 2 Anita Scherrer 46 Female 56.23
8 km Gemma Worland 23 Female DNF
6 km 1 Hugh Moore 65 Male 54.14
6 km 1 Nikki Armstrong 18 Female 47.29
6 km 2 Carol Harding 54 Female 50.01

Race rankings:

Men’s 11 km
Scott McTaggart 54.40 2010
Alan Craigie 55.06 2014
Mark Bourne 55.47 2012
Luke Schofield 57.01 2014
Stephen Brown 57.57 2010
Michael Chapman 57.01 2014
Adam Byles 58.13 2010
Stuart Doyle 59.30 2010
Women’s 8 km
Vanessa Haverd 46.25 2010
Jessamy Hosking 48.25 2012
Ellie O’Kane 48.56 2010
Deahne Turnbull 51.02 2010
Louise Sharp 51.31 2012
Colleen Middleton 51.43 2010
Elizabeth Humphries 51.44 2014
Junior men’s 8 km
David Bayley 41.44 2010
Ben Duffus 44.23 2010
Ben Buckingham 44.35 2010
Charlie Brooks 44.39 2010
Bryce Anderson 45.15 2014
Junior women’s 6 km
Lauren Parsons 42.14 2010
Audrey Amiya-Hall 46.33 2010
Nikki Armstrong 47.29 2014
Madison Sternbeck-Rutter 51.59 2010