Monday, April 14, 2008

A great location beside the Parramatta River, and a beautiful evening for a run. Ian Cameron put on an excellent course last week that saw the 70/75 competitors get to know the local Putney hills, and then some. Now that daylight saving has gone, this was for the true believers - although a couple of runners got underway before five to beat the dark. Ian deployed across the area, including several stretches up to (almost) Victoria Road. This chug would not have been bad as a steady flog, but the rehab hospital sits on a midway high point, meaning you were up then down and then up again! Great stuff that had the legs screaming.

Corespondent Rosscoe is writing this without the map for reference (age is catching up with me!), so I can't remember the exact pot numbers for commentary purposes. The scoring is another matter. It looked like 'Braddles the Paddles' (aka Malcolm Bradley) topped the table with 490 points, a touch in front of the fast finishing GP Kar-Soon (on 470 points). Peter Annetts enjoyed the mild night for 440, in front of a brace of likely horses on 410 (Sister Wendy, Sue Login and Marie OK/Dokie). Old gelding RB also managed this score after running 440 and three late. A feature of the evening was the number of competitors who 'beat' Michael 'I'm smokin' Burton's modest 240 points. Even though Michael protested that he was just accompanying Connie, we know he was at full stretch and a score is a score!

This Wednesday we move back to Cremorne where Ron 'The Jugular' Junghans has some fun in store at Primrose Park. Word is that Ronnie intends to stretch us both left and right from this harbourside park, and we all know what that means! A bit of the uppity up. Summer Series competitors would have seen the east side with last seasons Willoughby Bay outing, and older hands will know about the Tunks Park bits. Expect an excellent mingling from the vegie man.

Daylight desparates should be ok at five, although the true AE addicts will wait to be underway with the moon and dogs howling. What a way to run past most of Sydney's BMW's! Be there!

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