Tour de Ridges newsletter

2016 Tour de Ridges newsletter Note: No entries accepted after 5pm Friday. No on the day entries accepted.   Canberra’s annual Tour de Ridges 21.2km, 15.3km and 10.6 km trail runs and 15.3km and 10.6 km walks are coming up this Sunday, 18 December 2016.   1.   Start/finish at the Mawson Sportsfields off  Beasley St, Read More …

Cuthbert and Quinn win Deep Space Marathon

Deep Space Marathon, Half Marathon, 10k and 5k Orroral Deep Space Tracking Station Orroral Road Namadgi National Park ACT Sunday 11 December 2016 Photos: See hundreds of photos on the Australian Mountain Running Facebook page. Chris Gammon’s photos at the Deep Space Mountain Marathon Festival: https://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisg0501/sets/72157675946985202/ Diane Arthur’s photos: https://hardingjohn.smugmug.com/Sports/Mountain-running/11-Dec-16-Deep-Space-Di-Arthur/ Photos by John Harding and Giles Read More …

Deep Space Mountain Marathon 2016 newsletter

Deep Space Mountain Marathon 2016 newsletter Race day – Sunday 11 December 1. Venue: Orroral Space Tracking Station, Namadgi National Park, ACT The start/finish is at the Orroral Space Tracking Station at the end of the Orroral Road in Namadgi National Park. It is NOT at Honeysuckle Creek (the venue for the previous 10 years) Read More …

Rogainers Cowan and Quinn the Trevor Jacobs handicap winners on Mt Ainslie

Mt Ainslie Run Up 2.3 km ACT Tuesday 6 December 2016 Photos: https://hardingjohn.smugmug.com/Sports/Mountain-running/6-Dec-2016-Mt-Ainslie-Run-Up/ Trevor Jacobs Christmas Handicap placings: Males: Craig Cowan 25.05, Sam Burridge 25.15, Etienne Blumstein-Jones 25.21 Females: Julie Quinn 26.15, Barbara Mackay 27.59 Actual times: Males: James Minto 11.50, Etienne Blumstein-Jones 11.51, Sam Burridge 12.15, Rowan Beggs-French 12.35, Craig Cowan 13.15, David Hardwicke Read More …

October-November Run UP results

Black Mountain Run Up 2.6 km Canberra Tuesday 15 November 2016 Weather: Cloudy 18 degrees. Males: Rowan Beggs-French 13.11, Dylan Cooper 13.22, Liam Stewart 13.41, Steve Hanley 15.07, James Bradley 15.37, Michael Phillips 15.41, Selwyn Snell 15.43, Michael Matthews 16.10, Craig Wurtz 17.25, David Baldwin 18.12, Ttrevor Jacobs 18.19, Michael Burt 24.16, Eric Wainwright 25.13. Read More …

Craigie and Gordon win Mt Majura Vineyard Two Peaks

Mt Majura Vineyard Two Peaks and One Peak Mt Majura and Mt Ainslie ACT 22.6 km, 10km and 1 km Sunday 23 October 2016 Pic: Start of the One Peak Photos by John Harding and Jeff Grey: https://hardingjohn.smugmug.com/Sports/Mountain-running/23-Oct-1-Mt-Majura-Vineyard/ Video by Peter Komidar: Preliminary results: Please advise omissions or errors to hackettrunner at hotmail dot com Read More …

World Mountain Running Championships and World Masters Championships

World Mountain Running ChampionshipsSaparevabanya, Bulgaria Sunday 11 September 2016  World Mountain Running Championship full results are at http://saparevabanya2016.info/results/In the senior women’s race over 7.3km with 773m ascent Elizabeth Humphries finished a strong 44th in 48:08.In the senior men’s race over 12.7 km with 1468m of ascent, , Alan Craigie ran strongly through the field to come Read More …