Run 479

It was a fabulous morning for a run or a walk along the banks of the Yarra and today's run saw 15 people take to the 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 km courses. Thanks to Jacinta for coming down and doing the time-keeping duties this week. It was also good to see Sandi back and running well today. The weather was perfect and this was reflected in the fact that the first ten runners were all within 50 seconds of each other.

Mark was the only person to tackle the 2 km course today. In the longer distances, once the handicaps were taken into consideration, Jozica was first over the line but ran a little too quickly for our rules and came in just before the 30 minute mark today. That left the win open for Kieran in a beautifully timed run. Randall ran into second place just ahead of Nada. Sandi took out third place and Paul came in just ahead of Jon and Kaje (who ran the 6 km distance as three lots of 2 km instead of the usual two lots of 3 km). Atsuko was the tenth person over the line. Rachel managed eleventh place today with Cormick, Adrienne and Alicia the last competitors over the finish line.

There were five personal best times recorded today:
Kaje took another 2 seconds off his previous best time,
Randall sliced 13 more seconds from his PB,
Sandi was 14 seconds quicker than her previous 3 km best,
Kieran took 26 seconds off his time, and
Jozica was 32 seconds better than her previous PB.

Atsuko was the only other person within 15 seconds of their PB.

Next week the run will be on SUNDAY 4 August at 7:30 am because of the market on Saturday.

New runners and/or walkers are welcome at any stage during the season.