Sydney Summer Series

A belated event report, but better late than never!

Last weeks SSS outing at Parramatta saw 166 runners on the charge in this delightful new venue. Lyn and Nev had set a riverside 'out and back' style course, that, at around 8.5 klms, looked a touch short for the fast men. This proved to be the case, with a trio of runners going under the 45, but gave good scoring to most others. Even though it looked 'doo-able' for the flyers, there were a few areas that sucked up time for the unwary - the track to #24 and the 'vegetation' route from #25 to #18 being amongst them.

Despite the world cup match giving the parking a bit more fun than intended, there was a great roll up with good running in all age classes. Huon 'Pine' pulled off his 5th straight win in the Junior Men, Jess Campbell grabbed her second ton in JW, Richard Green managed to pip Andrew for the lollies in OM, Joanna 'Sin' Sinclair grabbed a win in OW in her second appearance trackside this season, and Glenn once again out-pointed the young daddies in Masters Men. Gathering his wheezy breath Pork Pie continues.... Sibylle ran on strongly in MW to win in a very tight field, Michael 'It's No' Burton continued in the Vets, Karin went down to well weighted Robin Cameron in VW, Steve, Graeme and myself managed to hit the line together in SVM, Carol and 'Over Hill &' Dale shared the ton in SVW, and the Ron/Ted daily double rewarded in the old goats category - the Legends! Lots of other good running and scoring of course - just go to the results listing.

I sometimes ponder on the 'lonely pot' and thought that #8 might have been it here. There seemed to be plenty of runners everywhere else on the course, with many going the whole hog up to the mysteriously located #28. Running the river was the fun stuff, great along from #5 to #1 and 21 and on the other side to #6 and #10. We will be back!

Tomorrow we return to Manns Point at Greenwich, the location of our biggest ever roll up (around 265 odd two years ago). Lets see if we can better that as we enjoy Michael 'The Executioner' Halmy's course on what should be a great and fine day. Great running and interesting history in this spectacular location. Don't miss it.