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VETRUN No. 521
JUNE 2021
New run
Shelley Foreshore
May 23
VETRUN
Congratulations to Bar-
No. 521
JUNE 2021 bara and Delia for winning Walk
AMA awards. Barbara’s was
for the Most Outstanding Per- Legends?
formance and Delia’s for Ad- I have compared last
IN
iN MY
View
NEw rUN ministrator of the Year. month’s Roe Run results
Shelley Foreshore
May 23 with a club 15km of 1995.
In that event, you will be fas-
Cover – the new Shelley riverside
event 10km Track cinated if not amazed, to know
WHEN I arrived at Gary’s
Gutted!
that Paul Martin and John
NEXT EDITION: Vetrun No. 522
will be published in August 2021
Handicap Mison walked five and a half annual Nedlands nightmare
minute pace.
April 22, 2021 this year I spotted a sign Added to the sign was a warn-
In this edition ... McGillivray Oval
That pace was faster than two
thirds of the Roe event’s 15km
beyond the accursed wire ing, about algae in the water.
My View P2 We’re warned not ‘to eat mussels,
RUNNERS! which seals the riverside
You Write P3/4 Clare was fastest, John won it. or crab guts’ caught there.
Roe Run P5 OK, I know, it’s the Grumpy path. It turned out to apply
Clock H/cap Time Nanny state! When I feel the
Perry Lakes P6/7 Old git syndrome – but I have ‘freestyling on jet-skis’ (illegal,
1 John Fisher 64:12 15:26 48:46 craving for a slap-up feed of crab
Weir Run P8/9 the figures to back it up. it seems). Nothing about fenc-
5 Clare Wardle 65:51 25:00 40:51 guts, no bloody fence is going to
Curtin P10/11 Seventeen of the 1995 field ran
es, or work in progress. stop me!
RRC/RWC results P11 an hour or less for the 15km.
Nedlands P12 Even I did.
Shelley
Burswood
P13
P14
The Run that At the Roe nobody bettered
62 minutes!
Arthur was everywhere
Runners High
Helpers
P15 Time for-GOT Paul’s 1995 walk pace (as an ANZAC Day was a subdued
M50) is now unheard of. Melissa
Where they’re Running P16 You write … affair in Perth for a second
Lewis, W30, was quickest at Roe
Dear editor, For 25 years I year, with our brief lockdown
Club Contacts organised a run for our
with 64 minutes for 10km.
falling on that weekend. But
“And you tell kids that today
Editor: Victor Waters old-timers club, the Guess and they wouldn’t bloody Arthur Leggett, our club’s old-
vfdwaters@gmail.com Own Time event, generally believe yer.” est living, long-time, now
Website: know as the GOT. ex-member, was everywhere.
May I suggest a headline?
www.mastersathleticswa.org Contestants cover a cross-coun-
Sadly, you can only use it if At 102-years he has become
try course and the winner is the
Secretary: some absolute swine wins, and the media’s man-to-go-to at
person closest to his/her pre-race
mawasecretary@gmail.com unfortunately I don’t think there Anzac time. On ABC radio
guess of own time. No watches,
President: Richard Blurton are any of those in Masters. Arthur talked of his wartime
calendars or metronomes may be He now lives in a small retire-
r.blurton@iinet.net.au
ph: 0434 287 757
worn. The trophy which I made GIT experiences and four-year ment village and sounded as
imprisonment in Germany.
Clothing: Colin Smith
for the event (picture attached) is
unique.
GETS He last visited Masters when
sharp and alert on air as ever. No
surprise to me – the man who
colinsmith@netspace.net.au The event is coming up again in GOT Brian and Marg Bennett brought famously said, “If you can’t beat
Patron: David Carr August and I hope you will be Yours sincerely, him to the Darlington Dash for a them, outlive ’em!” – is certainly
reporting it as usual in Vetrun. Despondent of Wembley Downs celebration of his 100th birthday. doing that in style.
PAGE 2 • Vetrun, June 2021
you
Hi Vic
Who were the
Three Ps?
Just enjoying another
Vetrun. I notice the question Which was our
Vic
on 3P’s I am sure the oracle
(Bob? – yep) has already
WRITE club’s first meeting?
THE event was named by for- answered your question.
mer very good athlete, now But it’s because of Points Walter, Hi Vic, Would you or the club have a record of a meeting that
avid bike rider John Dundas, Heathcote. The latter, took place at McCallum Park on May 19, 1974? As I recall, this
Pressley, when on the MAWA Heathcote, is named after a meeting elected the club’s first President – Keith McDonald – and
committee and looking after Captain Stirling midshipman, sur- others to launch the WA Veterans Athletic Club.
name Heathcote. Of course, they Newsletter No. 1 makes mention of a 3km run on that same day, sug-
Sunday events.
sailed past it up the river to Perth. gested by John Gilmour.
3 P’s stands for the three points
Keep up the great work. Cheers. So, would that be the birthday of WAVAC? Bob Hayres
of the run.
Keith (Atkinson) Bob was there in response to a “There appears to be no surviv-
It starts at Pt Walter, passes Pt
Dundas (where the Majestic Hotel sports page ad, in the West or ing written record of the meeting
Keith
used to stand) and the turn is just Sunday Times (May 18-19, 1974) at which a committee was formed
before Pt Heathcote. Bob Hayres, pictured above be- inviting ‘aged athletes’ to attend. and memories vary as to timing
fore the world went into colour, The total attendance of the and attendees. John Gilmour, in
Bob Schickert
set off an internet ‘origins’ dis-
meeting is shown in a list of 3km his eulogy at Dick Horsley’s funer-
Thanks Bob. I have received sug- cussion which I have condensed
here for Vetrun. VW runners (see pic). al in 1996, said ‘It was in 1974
gestions for Patience and
Writes Bob: when I rang Dick for support to
Prudence (great singing duo) and
“After the meeting John start the Veterans Athletic Club –
Pansie but defer to your historical
Gilmour suggested a 3km run which he gave.’ ”
knowledge. VW
around McCallum Park. PAGE 4
“I remember this so well because
Hi Vic I went from a ‘run around the
I received an email from block’ hack to competing against
world experienced athletes. I fin-
John Oldfield last week, men-
ished a slow last of 16. From that
tioning that he is returning to
day on I was hooked.’ ”
live permanently in Perth. He
Alternative dates a meeting to
has family living in the north- form the club, comes from Bob
ern suburbs and hopes to be Schickert’s research. According to
here in October or November. Christine Oldfield’s book of our
Jackie Halberg club’s history:
I’ve never been a page 3 John and Christine Oldfield were “By 1972, Cliff, John and Colin
spread. Page 5 is as good as it always a huge asset to our club had been joined by several other
gets. and I am proud to recall propos- veterans, including Jack Collins,
Silke Peglow (Bunny Girl wan- ing them for life membership. It’s John on their regular runs at McCallum
nabe, who took an early look at sad that John and the family lost Park. The group remained infor-
the Roe Run page on the club Christine so unexpectedly and to WA will help alleviate their mal until 1974.”
website.) I’m sure we all hope that a return loss. VW But … John Gilmour
Vetrun, June 2021 • PAGE 3
you RUNNING in 1995 was a com-
petitive period for the 60 to Poetry in motion
65-years old Vets.
WRITE Not only running but more im- David Carr then wrote, “Who’d
have thought the old man had so
More ‘poets’
revealed
In another book, A History of portantly – poetically.
much ink in him.” by George:
the Veterans’ Athletics Movement Inspired by a poem I had read
right, Dick
to my children I challenged my Vic, thanks for your interest in Blom, below,
in Australia, Gloria Seymon
friends in pain with ‘Mad Mick’s these forgettable but interesting Robin
quotes Dick Horsley’s written rec-
Mates’. curiosities. Bonner.
ollection from 1992:
Mad Mick Cousins responded George Schaefer
“April 1974 saw the inaugural
meeting to form the WA Veterans with ‘Mad Mick’s Revenge’.
You could find the poems in the
with seven people turning up. Dick Horsley in 1984. Vetrun archive. Vetrun No 266,
These were Cliff Bould, David December 1995 carried ‘Mad
Carr, Jack Collins, John Gilmour, Gloria quotes David Carr saying
Mick’s Revenge’. George
Jim Smith and Dick Horsley.” That the venue was “under a tree, at
Schaefer’s ‘Mad Mick’s Mates’,
only comes to six, so it’s a guess as McCallum Park, Perth”. According
the initial poem, was ‘probably’ in
to who Dick thought the seventh to others’ recollections, there
the Vetrun of November 1995.
was.” might have been any number
Finally, David Carr’s response
On April 20 and 21, Cliff and between seven and ten people in Romantic
was written and dated in
Dick had both been in Sydney attendance but it is generally poet?
December 1995 (probably, says
competing in the second agreed that they included Cliff right, ‘DM’
George) who also suggests it was
Bould, David Carr, Jack Collins, George Dalton
A u s t ra l i a n V e t e ra n s ‘circulated privately’. Moffett.
Championships. This suggests John Gilmour and Dick Horsley.
that meeting probably took place Subsequently, Dick nominated
Dear Editor You know what runners are though I rarely come to Sunday
in the last week of April. Keith McDonald as president.
Regarding your continual like, they’ll scan the race results runs, I had a few comments about
Keith was a member of Canning
whinge about lack of letters, looking for their own name, my hotel quarantine article.
AC and “competed on Leederville
browse the rest and never think Margaret Langford
Oval track at the same time as up the fact that you don’t get
of passing on their thoughts to the I’m so desperate for letters I’ve
and coming youngster Herb overwhelmed with letters to
bloke slogging away to find inter- even used this one. Ed.
Cliff Bould, Elliott”. the editor probably means
esting and relevant articles for
one-time According to David Carr, Dick people are quite happy with
British their edification.
was the logical candidate but the Vetrun.
Olympic Some must read it because even
“argued that we were aiming at a
team coach,
running at younger demographic than his”.
Coker Park Writes Bob: Rob Shand and Bob Hayres car- “Sixteen are listed as present,
as an M75. “Whatever the date of the meet- ried on digging add this postscript. except that A. Briggs should have
ing and the number in attendance, They conclude that as the been J. Collins. Reg Briggs did not
the Club was finally born before President was elected that day, join till some time much later.”
the middle of 1974. It’s interesting which Bob recalls, it probably Newsletter No. 1 is dated two
that both AAVAC and WAVA, the would be the first official meeting. months later, when Dave Carr got
national and world veterans’ bod- But there is an error in the ’round to writing it, which proba-
ies, were also formed in 1974.” Newletter report … bly accounts for the error. n
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5km Walk
Roe
262 Johan Hagedoorn M75 35:15
1110 John McDonagh M70 35:20
1944 Steve Travell M65 42:10
455 Sean Keane M55 43:03
248 Rex Bruce M80 43:30
Women
510 Delia Baldock W55 38:18
111 Lynne Schickert W75 48:06
Run
513 Jo Richardson W65 51:52
47 Joan Pellier W80 54:34
1599 Alicia Edwards W45 54:58
1722 Liz Dewhurst W35 58:21
APRIL 4, 2021 Director: Jim Langford
AGE-GROUP LEADERS
15km Run
2184 Glenn Rogers M55 64:11
1864 Martin O’Connell M50 64:25
1400 Kevin Johnson M60 66:27
2134 Gerrit Myburgh M45 67:07
784 Grahak Cunningham M40 68:35
755 Bob Lane M70 69:27
1202 Akos Gyarmathy M65 74:08
Women
1445 Vanessa Carson W40 69:27
650 Karen March W55 64:45
987 Julie Wilson W65 66:20
2109 Mell Sieczka W45 91:43
1515 Sandra Keenan W50 93:03
10km Run
2179 Jessica Smith W30 44:28
689 Sandra Stockman W55 47:45
843 Rochelle Airey W50 54:20
1720 Anne Young W45 57:21
1422 Carolyn Stephens W65 57:51
Men
1342 Alex Tinniswood M35 45:12 762 Mark Hewitt M65 25:37 1961 Sofia Dumlao W40 31:32 UHnnh – What’s up, Silke?
2212 Marcus Callum M50 52:15 1351 Randy Hobbs M60 27:42 2107 Madeline Radestock W60 31:49
512 David Baird M75 54:28 49 Mike Khan M75 32:22 1260 Melinda Fisher W55 36:03 Not a typical start picture,
454 Mark Sivyer M70 56:13 40 John Pellier M80 35:42 but Silke Peglow always
15km Walk
198 Keith Atkinson M60 57:11 627 Richard Blurton M70 38:31
1653 Phil Jowett M55 57:23 Women
251 Mike Hale M70 123:59 takes a witty line!
2054 Xinhuan Yan M45 66:20 1926 Gayle Craft W65 28:47
339 Elaine Dance W70 128:29 (No bunnies, or teeth, were
5km Run 2112 Audra Rimmer W50 29:25 10km Walk harmed in the making of
1226 David Adams M40 20:31 1994 Lorna McGavock W45 30:03 1704 Melissa Lewis W30 64:29 this picture, folks.) Mark Sivyer
743 Ross Keane M55 24:10 119 Margaret Langford W70 30:15 2080 Maja Zivanovic W30 69:38
Vetrun, June 2021 • PAGE 5
Perry Lakes PAGE 6 • Vetrun, June 2021
Perry Lakes
Tent Talk Volunteers – ta!
Our shelter isn’t in the regu- HOW much praise can be heaped on the
lar race kit and was shrewdly volunteers who make our club work? Too
arranged by Director Mark
Hewitt (left). “Double-cy- much is never enough. While we were out
clones threatened so I called enjoying that first hint of winter that only
John Fisher, who said Jim a cyclone threat brings, they dragged on the
Langford had the tent. Jim oilskins and brave faces to set-up, score, an-
had a friend deliver it to Perry nounce, marshal and proffer water to sod-
Lakes. It’s now drying in my
garage, for return to Jim at the den competitors. One man and his dog went
Women Bold Park GOT on April 25 – the extra metres. I witnessed Mark Comber
April 11, 2021 928 Sandra Rourke W50 42:27 which will be handy if it’s wet using a dishpan to throw woodchips onto
Director: Mark Hewitt 1961 Sofia Dumlao W40 46:33 that day!” Teamwork folks, it’s
481 Theresa Howe W70 47:37 the soggy, muddy chute run-in. Or perhaps
why you pay your subs! he was covering-up a Fido indiscretion?
AGE-GROUP LEADERS 3.5km Run
10.5km Run 1226 David Adams M40 14:00 Nah, he’s a hero.
1943 Sophie Giles W45 46:12 2212 Marcus Callum M50 17:01 Thanks go to all of the organisers and vol-
650 Karen March W55 50:35 1487 Jason Kell M45 17:17 unteers, at Perry Lakes and all our events,
843 Rochelle Airey W50 57:20 1351 Randy Hobbs M60 17:30
530 Peter Hopper M75 22:23 because without them Masters simply
987 Julie Wilson W65 58:10
1512 Noelene Treen W60 1:06:02 Women wouldn’t exist.
1682 Jo Shelley W40 1:07:32 1716 Elizabeth Gomez W40 19:09
967 Carolyn Fawcett W70 1:21:41 1994 Lorna McGavock W45 21:19
Men 739 Margaret SaundersW65 22:39
1218 Ginny Mulvey W60 23:12
1260 Melinda Fisher W55 25:27
131 Toni Frank W75 28:36
10.5km Walk
262 Johan Hagedoorn M75 1:16:36
339 Elaine Dance W70 1:26:26
7km Walk
1704 Melissa Lewis W30 44:14 1st Sophie Giles, 10.5km winner;
1729 Victor Munoz M65 45:44 2nd, that tree; 3rd Ian Cotton,
1231 Wendy Farrow W50 47:35 7km winner.
1110 John McDonagh M70 49:27
1864 Martin O’Connell M50 43:39 1808 Marcela Isabel Just remind me
796 Steven Hossack M60 47:00 Ruiz Valdes W60 52:00 … we’re standing
1707 Andrew Grosas M55 49:39 3.5km Walk here in the rain
1202 Akos Gyarmathy M65 49:50 510 Delia Baldock W55 26:34 because … this is
755 Bob Lane M70 51:33 1900 Glenys Duncan W80 31:17 fun, right?
1600 Paul Edwards M45 52:48 111 Lynne Schickert W75 38:10
1960 Leon Mitchell M40 58:47 513 Jo Richardson W65 39:42 John ‘Super’
7km Run 295 Julie Wood W70 39:43 Pellier, the club’s
741 Ian Cotton M55 30:00 1531 Lesley Dowling W60 41:07 top semi-nudist
1874 Michael Pascoe M60 36:05 Men (right) would
512 David Baird M75 37:54 174 Mike Anderson M70 24:54 say ‘yes’. Like
175 Brian Bennett M70 43:40 244 John Brambley M75 28:32 few others he
1781 Rohan Thompson M40 48:17 227 Gary Fisher M65 29:25 hates running in
40 John Pellier M80 51:42 455 Sean Keane M55 30:17 the heat.
Vetrun, June 2021 • PAGE 7
Weir Run
Kent Street
Extravaganza
RRC 10kM / RRC 5kM /
RWC 5kM
May 2, 2021
Directors: Sean Keane and
Neil McRae WELL, the foremost event
Age-Group Leaders
of the Masters Calendar has
come and gone. But due to the
Welcome
10km Run
1617 Chris Lark M40 35:25 present coronavirus restric-
2003 Paul Watson M50 37:31
tions, the invited internation-
to the
798 Kim Thomas M45 39:19
1392 Adrian al athletes were unable to at-
Fabiankovits M35 39:34 tend, leaving the locals to take
Masked Ball!
2184 Glenn Rogers M55 41:21 out the prizes once again
1400 Kevin Johnson M60 44:20
346 Chris Maher M65 45:07
Even our numbers were down
1256 Mercurio Cicchini M70 50:47 slightly due to Covid-19 and
2015 Frederick Smart M85 1:01:22 quite a few athletic events being
WOMEN held on the same weekend ...
1255 Clare Wardle W45 39:18 1994 Lorna McGavock W45 31:56 Walk winner Melissa Lewis re- Congratulations to Chris Lark
489 Amanda Walker W55 45:06 1697 Karen Alford W55 36:58 veals all for the scorers; and new
and Clare Wardle on finishing first
1882 Pamela Thonell W50 50:46 1787 Hazel Stephen W70 37:47 member Brenton Mizen cleans up
1833 Sally-Anne Smith W40 53:22 149 Jackie Halberg W75 38:44 the 5km run. in the Men’s and Women’s events.
406 Chris Pattinson W65 55:18 10km Walk (unofficial event) both in pretty slick running times.
1512 Noelene Treen W60 59:03 74 John Bell M75 83:02 But we do have a load of sym-
967 Carolyn Fawcett W70 79:09 5km Walk pathy for Clare as year after year,
5km Run 1704 Melissa Lewis W30 32:28
2222 Brenton Mizen M30 18:41 1231 Wendy Farrow W50 33:43 she has to drag the trophy out of
1226 David Adams M40 20:40 510 Delia Baldock W55 37:32 the pool room, bring it to the event
178 Ralph Henderson M70 23:52 99 Peggy Macliver W75 39:43 and afterwards, take it all the way
743 Ross Keane M55 24:02 1716 Elizabeth Gomez W40 39:54 home again!
2212 Marcus Callum M50 25:23 339 Elaine Dance W70 42:08 Weather conditions were per-
229 Blakeney Tindall M60 25:38 128 Irene Ferris W65 42:41
49 Mike Khan M75 33:02 713 Grace Hollin W60 43:38 fect, and we must mention our
40 John Pellier M80 37:19 47 Joan Pellier W80 53:54 helpers, all of them for doing such
WOMEN MEN superb work. In fact, their efforts
1862 Ceri Morton W35 25:01 1110 John McDonagh M70 33:40 were so valiant that we have de-
1926 Gayle Craft W65 28:07 262 Johan cided to keep them on for next
1751 Shareenah Hagedoorn M75 35:35
Virahsawmy W40 28:35 1624 Haydn Gawne M70 40:16 year’s event … although we hav-
739 Margaret 762 Mark Hewitt M65 50:23 en’t actually asked them yet!
Saunders W65 30:22 2054 Yan Xinhuan M45 51:03 Neil and Sean
PAGE 8 • Vetrun, June 2021
Weir Run
Tragic life of Ghost Runner
JOHN Tarrant was born in JIM Barnes first set up the
Shepherd’s Bush, London, Weir Run and the John Tar-
in 1932. During the Second rant and Dot Brown trophies,
World War, while his father which acknowledge two fine,
was away on active service, early athletes. Presenting
John’s mother died of tuber- them this year to Clare Wardle
culosis. and Chris Lark, Jim told a little
Runner and
coach – Ross of the poignant Tarrant story.
John and his younger brother
Keane always It’s the subject of several books
Victor (born 1934) were raised in
gives his all; this and newspaper articles, well-
day, 1st 5km a children’s home in Kent until
worth seeking out.
M55 in 24:02. his father was demobilised at the
end of the war. In 1947 his father Under cover
records for 40-mile and 100-mile
remarried, and the family moved Despite this setback, he contin-
distances. In 1967 he became the
to Buxton in Derbyshire’s peak ued to train, and (with the assis-
first man ever to win the sea-
district. tance of his brother Victor) began
son’s grand slam in Britain’s four
Tarrant’s sporting career began to gate-crash races to which he
principal ultra-marathons (the
here. In 1950, aged 18, he took was officially refused entry, often
London-to-Brighton, Isle of Man,
up boxing, earning a grand total out-performing recognised cham-
Exeter-to-Plymouth, and Liver-
of £17 in prize-fights at the local pions of the day.
pool-to-Blackpool). While partic-
Town Hall. Nicknamed “The Ghost Run-
ipating in the 90km
ner” by the Press,
During his training John discov- Comrades Marathon
Gentleman Chris his popularity
Maher follows ered his talent for long-distance in South Africa in 1968
eventually led
Amanda Walker running, gave up boxing and set (in which he finished
to a relaxation of
in this year; but his sights on the marathon, hop- fourth), he became
with 11 victories the ban against
ing to compete at the 1960 Sum- aware of the apartheid
he remains the him: from 1958 he
mer Olympics in Rome, Italy. conditions there, and
most consistent was permitted to
John Tarrant In 1952 he applied to join the (as a white man) began
compete nation-
trophy-holder. Kim Salford Harriers in order to regis- to enter the first ever
ally, but would
Thomas won six ter with the AAA. “multi-racial” races
in a row – 2012- remain ineligible
there as a form of sup-
2017. Clare Wardle Asked whether he had ever to be selected
port, notably winning
(W45) now has played sport for money, he chose for his country,
five Dot Brown the 80km Goldtop
to answer honestly and declared and hence never
wins, beginning Stanger-to-Durban
his brief career in prize-fighting competed at the
in 2015, her run race in 1970.
– and due to the strict amateur Olympic Games.
broken only by Most tragically, John Tarrant
code enforced at the time, he was
young marathon Ultra champion died aged just 42, never achieving
champion Rochelle immediately banned from compe-
Rogers in 2017. In the 1960s John turned to his great ambition – to compete for
tition for life.
ultra-marathons, and set world his country.
Vetrun, June 2021 • PAGE 9
Curtin
May 9, 2021
Directors: Giovanni Puglisi
& David Adams
IT WAS pleasing to observe
the large contingent of MAWA
members and visitors choos-
ing to launch their Mothers’
... and
Day celebrations with the
Sunday event at Curtin Uni-
versity.
Mother’s
Conducted around the pictur-
esque Edinburgh Oval the 5km
walk handicap and the 10km run
handicap events attracted keen
Day!
‘handicappers’ seeking to win and
take home one of the impressive
trophies.
The weather was mostly over-
cast, conditions still, and the track,
firm and fast.
Top caterer and Mum of the Day, Melissa
It’s not an easy assignment to
Lewis with baby Kathryn and Melissa’s own Cold start, but not THAT cold!
win a handicap event as it often mum Bev, whose regular help allows Melissa Campbell Till obviously took
requires the successful athlete to to excel in our events. an early ice bath and kept some
put in a long and serious training cubes down his shorts until the
lous planners hoping to prevail on ing MAWA events collected both with the early morning course
preparation, dedication and metic- race started.
Mothers’ Day! trophies. set-up; and to Tristan Bell for his
ulous planning of which events to
Students of form are quick to Among the runners, Bob Col- timely advice with the PA system
target leading up to the big handi-
point out, and rightly so, that no ligan and the delightfully effer- at the pre-race briefing. It was his
cap event.
winner of the club’s blue riband vescent Rashanthi Wanigasekera initiative to turn the volume up to
Additionally, you need to con-
Age Graded Handicap has fin- were winners. MAX (see pic – right!)
vince the club’s handicapper, the
ished within a bull’s roar of the Finally, an honourable men-
honourable Tristan Bell, that your
handicap winner at Curtin!
Thanks tion and special thanks to Melissa
current form wouldn’t be good Sincere thanks to our marshals
Banjo Paterson would delight Lewis for organising the morning
enough to win an outback event and dedicated helpers, especially
that a ‘smokey’ got up to win tea. After the torrid battle on the
in Yalgoo or Kookynie! Mark Kerr and John Ranger who
the Handicap! ‘Share the prizes race track everyone loved it!
Tussles around he’d reckon’ and hear hear, stepped in at short notice, cover- I was heartened to see so many
So, the Curtin Classic Handicap, don’t we agree? ing for helpers who couldn’t be people socialising after the event
in its short history, has provided Congratulations, to the 2021 there – or simply forgot to check enjoying a cuppa, goodies and a
many stirring tussles between a Curtin winners: in the walk hand- the electronic calendar app on yarn or two while all the time
plethora of like-minded athletes icap, partners Jason Kell and Eliza- their phones? Also, thanks David keeping safe 1.5 metres apart.
who are dedicated and meticu- beth Gomez, both currently walk- Adams for valuable assistance Giovanni
PAGE 10 • Vetrun, June 2021Curtin
WE had very strong support
this year for the 50km Cham- 50km draws
WINNERS pionship with 28 runners, but
strong field
less so for the walking event.
Congratulations to Chris Lark km over the 30km distance to win
and Clare Wardle on winning the the women’s event.
long-run events with exceptional The only significant milestone
times of 3:50 and 4:17 min/km. came from Johan Hagedoorn who
This was only Chris’s second clocked up his 10th Champion-
time in the RRC and he improved ship.
by 11 sec/km, while Clare posted Short events
the best time of her four Champi- For the short RRC/RWC events, Clare Wardle
onships. disappointingly we had no female
entrants in the run. We will pub-
Walkers licise the short championships
Club stalwart John McDonagh more vigorously next year.
10km Run (Handicap) Clock H/cap Time took out the men’s Walking Short event Championship
1439 Bob Colligan M60 1:03:01 13.16 49.45 Championship and Melissa Lewis wins went to David Adams, Mike
1706 Rashanthi Wanigasekera W45 1:04:58 5.28 59.30 clocked an outstanding 6:22 min/ Anderson and Liz Gomez.
5km Walk (Handicap)
1487 Jason Kell M45 41:25 7.44 33.41 50km RRC min/km Rashanthi
1716 Elizabeth Gomez W40 43:20 6.21 36.59 Chris Lark M40 3:50 Wanigasekera W45 6:24
Paul Watson M50 4:01 Noelene Treen W60 6:28
AGE-GROUP LEADERS 468 Wayne Taylor M60 28:43 Kim Thomas M45 4:14 Carolyn Fawcett W70 8:09
Glenn Rogers M55 4:20 30km RWC min/km
5km Run 136 Vic Waters M75 35:43 Chris Lark
Kevin Johnson M60 4:35 John McDonagh M70 7:13
1226 David Adams M40 21:27 Women
Peter March M60 4:40 Johan Hagedoorn M75 7:36
1522 Mark Kerr M50 21:44 739 Margaret
743 Ross Keane M55 24:09 Saunders W65 27:14
Darryl Downing
John Pentecost
M40 4:45
M60 4:53
Bob Schickert
WOMEN
M75 10:12
New Members
1751 Shareenah
– Welcome!
Paul Hughes M65 5:18 Melissa Lewis W30 6:22
Virahsawmy W40 28:03 Mercurio Cicchini M70 5:26 Wendy Farrow W50 6:56
Mickey Muroi M60 5:31 Regina Crouch W50 8:46
Charlie Chan M65 5:53 Short RRC min/km 2217 HERMANN: Charlie W50
Brian Bennett M70 6:03 David Adams M40 4:10 2218 McMAHON: Suzi W45
Milton Mavrick M65 6:05 Ralph Henderson M70 4:46 2220 BAGBY: Jamie M30
David Eustace M55 6:09 Ross Keane M55 4:47 2221 WILLIAMSON: Timothy M30
Lui Cecotti M70 6:27 Geoff Vine M70 5:11 2222 MIZEN: Brenton M30
Greg Wilson M70 6:56 Maurice Creagh M70 7:55 2223 CANAL: Julie W45
Frank Price M70 9:55 Short RWC min/km
2224 QUIGLEY: Karen W30
WOMEN Mike Anderson M70 7:16
Clare Wardle W45 4:17 Haydn Gawne M70 8:10 2225 HON: Angela W40
Sandra Stockman W55 5:00 Xinhuan Yan M45 8:24 2226 FERREIRA: Jan M45
1711 Denise Cleasby W60 29:28 Karen March W55 5:04 WOMEN 2227 ISA: Subhan M35
Pamela Thonell W50 5:26 Elizabeth Gomez W40 7:26 2228 ISA: Roxy W30
1523 Ngaio Kerr W50 31:38
Julie Wilson W65 5:53 Delia Baldock W55 7:35 2229 TROTT: Cath W40
1994 Lorna McGavock W45 31:54
Carolyn Stephens W65 5:59 Peggy Macliver W75 7:55
10km Walk 2230 ALLIEX: Giselle W30
Wendy Grace W65 6:23 Pamela English W75 10:40
1639 Geoff Vine M70 26:34 1138 Lui Cecotti M70 72.57
Vetrun, June 2021 • PAGE 11RRC 10kM / RRC 5kM / Age-group leaders in foreground of
RWC 5KM / RWC 5kM this start picture are: far left – Kim
Thomas; 3rd left Neil Morfit; then
May 16, 2021 Mark Kerr; Paul Hughes; and far right
Director: Gary Fisher Liz Gomez and Marcella Valdes.
AGE-GROUP LEADERS
15km Run
1617 Chris Lark M40 57:23
Don’t fence us in
IT was good to be back in
Nedlands for this event
which was not held in 2020
due to COVID restrictions.
Nedlands
Whilst the event is on annu-
ally it appears as though the
council also conducts work
in and around the preferred
course each year so again in
2021 I was required to alter the
Only Chris Lark, Astrid Rob- 10km Run 2109 Mell Sieczka W45 29:05 original course for safety rea-
erts Fayer and Paul Watson 1710 Mitch Cleasby M60 43:00 1523 Ngaio Kerr W50 31:42 sons.
were around the 4mins/km 1675 Lourens Jacobs M50 54:22 1819 Sue Glyde W55 35:40
mark over 15km, or even the Apart from that all seemed
Women 131 Toni Frank W75 42:48
shorter runs. 843 Rochelle Airey W50 53:24 to go smoothly which of course
10km Walk
1833 Sally-Anne Smith W40 53:54 1704 Melissa Lewis W30 1:03:40
would not be possible without
2003 Paul Watson M501:00:29 2107 Madeline 1231 Wendy Farrow W50 1:10:48 the efforts of the team of help-
798 Kim Thomas M45 1:03:56 Radestock W60 1:06:01 ers to whom I extend my warm-
2184 Glenn Rogers M55 1:04:11 5km Run Men
1729 Victor Munoz M65 1:07:28 est thanks.
1400 Kevin Johnson M60 1:06:22 1226 David Adams M40 20:55
106 Paul Hughes M65 1:18:24 2134 Gerrit Myburgh M45 21:04 1110 John McDonagh M70 1:11:32 Congratulations to all who
1256 Mercurio Cicchini M70 1:20:13 501 Neil Morfitt M65 22:49 262 Johan Hagedoorn M75 1:17:29 took part. Gary
2015 Frederick Smart M85 1:38:07 1522 Mark Kerr M50 23:20 5km Walk
Women 743 Ross Keane M55 23:34 1716 Elizabeth Gomez W40 35:19 Men
2210 Astrid Roberts 178 Ralph Henderson M70 23:39 1808 Marcela Isabel 174 Mike Anderson M70 36:05
Feyer W451:00:38 779 Prabuddha Nicol M60 24:16 Ruiz Valdes W60 35:24 244 John Brambley M75 42:43
867 Sue Zlnay W60 1:13:29 512 David Baird M75 26:12 510 Delia Baldock W55 38:36 455 Sean Keane M55 43:57
650 Karen March W55 1:16:23 Women 99 Peggy Macliver W75 39:49 2054 Xinhuan Yan M45 45:09
1737 Emma Lee W50 1:19:59 1867 Melinda Evans W40 23:05 1301 Erika Blake W65 45:07 248 Rex Bruce M80 47:00
987 Julie Wilson W65 1:25:16 739 Margaret SaundersW65 26:05 141 Roma Barnett W70 54:31 20 Jeff Whittam M85 51:47
67 Carolyn Fawcett W70 2:04:12 1711 Denise Cleasby W60 28:41 2080 Maja Zivanovic W30 56:33 347 Neil McRae M65 55:36
PAGE 12 • Vetrun, June 2021Shelley
May 23, 2021
Director: Chris Maher
Immaculate timing; two early-start 10km walkers finished their first
4km and returned to Shelley exactly when the main field set off. Courte- THREATENING wind and
ous front-runners gave them room, of course so Elaine Dance and John rain was replaced by a calm
Brambley (pictured right) were unscathed.
Left, Delia Baldock receives her national Administrator of the Year and near-dry Shelley Fore-
AGE-GROUP LEADERS
10km Run award from President Richard Blurton. shore Run and just over 100
athletes enjoyed the favour-
Martin O’Connell M50 41:40 Vynka Cridge W45 52:45 4km Walk
Mitch Cleasby M60 42:32 Julie Wilson W65 54:36 Robin King W60 29:48 able conditions and the scenic
Alex Tinniswood M35 44:01 Noelene Treen W60 1:00:36 Delia Baldock W55 30:03 pathway.
Bob Lane M70 46:40 4km Run Peggy Macliver W75 31:10 Spirits stayed high as the rain
Akos Gyarmathy M65 47:11 Drew Langford M40 14:11 Alicia Edwards W45 38:50 held off, with just a brief show-
Peter Brooke M55 54:22 Gerrit Myburgh M45 16:11 Roselyne Pillay W70 41:12
er at the very end and some fast
David Baird M75 54:27 Prabuddha Nicol M60 18:30 Jo Richardson W65 42:42
Brett Montgomery M45 54:59 Ross Keane M55 18:38 Men times were recorded on the flat,
Women Marcus Callum M50 20:01 though winding course.
Karen March W55 47:36 Graeme Dahl M70 20:55 There was great support from
Lucinda Rowlinson W50 47:50 Peter Hopper M75 25:24 the marshals and volunteers and
Women
feedback from the participants in-
Joanna Lloyd W45 17:27
Margaret Saunders W65 20:19 dicated a top morning of pleasant
Denise Cleasby W60 23:17 running.
Anita Cipriano W50 24:08 Thanks again to my partner
10km Walk Amanda and all those who as-
Johan Hagedoorn M75 1:12:58
sisted, with special thanks to Jim
Andrew Thorpe M65 1:17:15 Haydn Gawne M70 30:36
Women Mark Hewitt M65 40:52 Langford who fastidiously mea-
Elaine Dance W70 1:24:59 Paul Martin M75 41:59 sured the out-and-back course.
Roberto Busi M40 34:06 Angela Hon W40 49:52 Regina Crouch W50 1:33:17 Bob Fergie M85 43:13 Chris Maher.
Vetrun, June 2021 • PAGE 13Burswood RRC/RWC
RRC 25kM / RRC 5.2kM /
RWC 15kM / RWC 5.2kM
May 30, 2021
Director: Nick Franey
Pre-race check – new race director
Nick Franey and President Rich-
ard Blurton
DESPITE severe weather warn-
ings a great turnout of runners
and walkers braved mixed con-
ditions, including a couple of
heavy downpours.
But there was also some bright
blue sky and sunshine and all com-
pleted their respective courses in
good spirits. We had seven events
– RRC 25km and 5.2km; RWC 15km
and 5.2km; plus a 15km run and
10km run or walk as other options.
From Burswood everyone head-
ed north to the Windan Bridge.
AGE-GROUP LEADERS 1392 Adrian 2107 Madeline MEN 10km contestants pressed on to
25Km Run Fabiankovits M35 1:10:54 Radestock W60 1:06:16 1110 John McDonagh M70 1:51:01 turn just beyond East Street. 15km
1632 Roberto Busi M40 1:35:07 1522 Mark Kerr M50 1:16:29 2022 Jenny Hogg W55 1:18:23 262 Johan Hagedoorn M75 1:54:51 and 25km competitors went fur-
1673 Steve Preece M50 1:37:57 1623 Peter Brooke M55 1:21:43 10km Walk
5.2km Run ther upstream to turn at May-
798 Kim Thomas M45 1:47:38 WOMEN 1729 Victor Munoz M65 1:07:39
1226 David Adams M40 21:34 lands Waterland. No participants
2184 Glenn Rogers M55 1:50:38 1648 Rochelle Rodgers W30 1:09:59 1808 Marcela Isabel
178 Ralph Henderson M70 24:49
1400 Kevin Johnson M60 1:57:49 867 Sue Zlnay W60 1:17:13 were lost despite heavy overnight
743 Ross Keane M60 24:53 Ruiz Valdes W60 1:15:23
755 Bob Lane M70 2:03:47 1833 Sally-Anne Smith W40 1:25:01 rain which erased all chalk mark-
2054 Yan Xinhuan M45 31:23 251 Mike Hale M70 1:24:58
1202 Akos Gyarmathy M65 2:10:52 2098 Vynka Cridge W45 1:25:40
218 Maurice Creagh M70 41:13 244 John Brambley M75 1:25:09 ings along the course (honestly,
2042 Heather
WOMEN Longworth W50 1:26:03 5.2km Walk they were there!) and turned flour
WOMEN
1255 Clare Wardle W45 1:51:57 10km Run 1926 Gayle Craft W65 28:26 1716 Elizabeth Gomez W40 37:36 marks into nothing more than
689 Sandra Stockman W55 2:07:21 2096 Paul Highway M45 43:05 928 Sandra Rourke W50 32:22 510 Delia Baldock W55 39:06 white smudges.
1737 Emma Lee W50 2:11:40 2134 Gerrit Myburgh M50 44:36 1994 Lorna McGavock W45 33:02 215 Robin King W60 40:17 Six people started really early –
1862 Ceri Morton W35 2:26:55 2032 John Lucas M60 46:49 2056 Grace Yang W40 35:22 99 Peggy Macliver W75 40:45
7am – and fourteen more set off at
987 Julie Wilson W65 2:32:47 512 David Baird M75 56:51 1819 Sue Glyde W55 35:43 1301 Erika Blake W65 49:12
1512 Noelene Treen W60 2:47:49 2171 John Panegyres M55 59:29 7.30am.
1813 Isolde Tietz W70 38:21 MEN
967 Carolyn Fawcett W70 3:23:39 2015 Frederick Smart M85 1:10:10 174 Mike Anderson M70 37:37 Well done to all competitors and
340 John Dance M70 1:23:15 15km Walk thanks to our 15 volunteer helpers –
15km Run 530 Peter Hopper M75 44:36
WOMEN 1704 Melissa Lewis W30 1:34:37
1721 Zane Walsh M40 1:07:38 1231 Wendy Farrow W50 1:43:09 227 Gary Fisher M65 44:39 mostly members, of course, but also
843 Rochelle Airey W50 54:0
308 Lachlan Marr M60 1:08:47 339 Elaine Dance W70 2:06:10 11 Bob Fergie M85 53:13 family and friends who chipped in.
1682 Jo Shelley W40 1:01:15
248 Rex Bruce M80 53:15 Nick Franey
PAGE 14 • Vetrun, June 2021hours were less anxious and felt
What’s behind the
runner’s high? It’s Psst! Hey, less pain than their wheel-less
counterparts.
runner –
When the mice were given
more likely drugs that stop endorphins from
endocannabinoids
wanna
latching onto opioid recep-
tors, they still got those good post-
than endorphins run effects.
ABC Science get high? “But when we gave the mice
endocannabinoid receptor block-
By science reporter ers, all the positive effects van-
Belinda Smith ished,” Dr Fuss says.
This result intrigued him. It was
Long-term mental This story, which comes compelling evidence that endo-
health benefits from ABC Science, is too long cannabinoids were behind the
Most people (but not all) feel for Vetrun to reprint in full. feel-good effects of running, not
pretty great after a workout too. I endorphins.
Go to Vetrun Healthline on the club
call it “happy exhaustion”: my But, of course, mice aren’t peo-
website for the full account.
muscles feel tired and heavy, but ple. And a mouse may act less
Image courtesy of Sasin Tipchai, Pixabay.
in a good way, and I can look for- anxious after exercise, but you
ward to an afternoon of snacking ate intensity, says Matthew Jones, “So while they might be import- throughout the body and mainly can’t ask it if it felt a euphoric buzz
and napping on the couch. an exercise physiologist at UNSW. ant, endorphins are not the only in the brain. during its bout on the wheel.
What are endorphins? This coincides with a rise in thing contributing,” Dr Jones says. • The endocannabinoid system So Dr Fuss and his crew devel-
oped a similar experiment, but
• Endorphins are a group of endorphins in their blood. In recent years, research has is involved in regulating appetite,
this time, with 63 human runners.
chemicals made in the body when On the face of it, the endor- put forward a different class of pain and stress.
we’re stressed or in pain (the word phin high makes sense. Like a key self-made drugs: endogenous can- • The first endocannabinoid, The science behind the
is short for endogenous mor- in a lock, endorphins slot into opi- nabinoids, or endocannabinoids. which was discovered in 1992, is
oid receptors on the surface of Yep, as in cannabis. The main called anandamide. Its name
perfect running style
phine).
The researchers gave the partic-
• They’re produced in the brain brain cells. psychoactive compound in mari- is derived from the Sanskrit
ipants a battery of tests to deter-
and spinal cord, and are also made This triggers a cascade of molec- juana, delta-9-tetrahydrocannabi- word ananda, which means bliss
and churned out into the blood- ular activity that ultimately elicits nol or THC, is a cannabinoid. or joy. mine their fitness and anxiety
stream by the pituitary gland. feelings of wellbeing and pain And there’s growing evidence Johannes Fuss, a psychiatrist levels, and took blood samples.
• Endorphins induce a feeling of relief. that the high some runners expe- who now heads up the Human Half the runners were given the
pleasure and pain relief by latch- “But whether or not that [high- rience is driven by the same sys- Behaviour Laboratory at the opioid blocker naloxone, while
ing onto opioid receptors in the er endorphin level] actually tem that’s activated during mari- University of Hamburg, started the other half got a placebo. All
brain. relates to someone then having juana use. investigating endocannabinoids then trotted on a treadmill at a
But the runner’s high hits while those feelings of euphoria and less as a potential source of the run- moderate intensity for 45 min-
a person is still exercising. pain is less clear,” Dr Jones says.
What are ner’s high during his PhD studies. utes.
How long that rush takes to If you give a runner a drug that endocannabinoids? He and his colleagues started
appear varies between people, but stops endorphins from doing their • Endocannabinoids are a group with animals. They found mice Now – turn to Vetrun
it typically comes on after around thing, they can still get a runner’s of molecules that activate canna- that were free to scamper on a Healthline for the rest of
half an hour of running at moder- high. binoid receptors, which are found running wheel for a couple of this important story.
Vetrun, June 2021 • PAGE 15June 6 – Manning Park
Where you’re HELPING! July 25 – Whiteman Park
… or running
June 20 – Club Half July 11 – Bardon Bash Everyone is welcome to join in Masters’
regular Sunday and T&F meetings and
Marathon, Burswood Park also the casual group runs listed here. All
Director: Ian Carson are organised by members, volunteers and
– 0419 040 861 supporters.
David Carr, Eric Emmett, John Do you have a regular training group?
Batta, Sofia Carson, Mandy Like some extra company? Email the details
– location, time, day of the week, distance
Mason, Jonathan Lester, Yury and type of run/walk – to Vetrun and we’ll
Hotimsky, Ian Brown, Mike add it to this feature. vfdwaters@gmail.com
Race Directors: Vanessa Car- Haederle, Michael Cyran, El- MONDAY
son (0411 349 514) & Cassie eanor Tobe, Maja Zivanovic, Directors: Mercurio Ciccihini • Track training – ECAC 7.30pm.
Hughes (0438 757 990) Anubha Baird –0414 730 866 & Roy Hart • Point Walter road run 8km, 6pm. Richard
Rochelle Airey, Greg Wilson, Director: Ross Langford
– 0418 878 900 Simmons 0408 986 631.
Julie Wilson, John Batta, Ro- – 0403 197 422 TUESDAY (am)
Arnold Jenkins, Mike Hale, Bob
han Thompson, Iain Parnum, June 27 –Kings Park CC Lane, Robyn Dunlop, Vanessa
Margaret Langford, Kerriann McGillivray Oval and Perry Lakes; 10am.
Joanna Lloyd, John Camer- Bresser, John Fisher, Mercurio Contact Jeff Whittam djwhittam@pixelvi-
Carson, Lesley Dowling, Rose-
Cicchini, Melinda Fisher, John sion.com.au.
on, Jeremey Murray, Mike lyn Pillay, Gavin Bain, Yury
Hillen, Tommy Glackin, Narelle TUESDAY (pm)
Haederle, Daniel O’brien, Hotimsky, Milo Barham, Cath- Perry Lakes grass circuit near Hockey
Emma Hartley, Cherrie Byrnes, Gaynor, Jonathan Lester, Tim
erine Breheny, Jenny Owen, Clubrooms; 5.45-6.30pm.
Audra Rimmer Karajas, John Herzfeld, Bijay WEDNESDAY
Hastakamala Diaz
Acharya, Fran Harwood Marathon Club, Burswood; start 5.30pm;
June 13 – Club CC Champs July 18 – Sharks 15km-20km. Contact Brian Bennett
Fremantle August 1 – Racecourse 0412 990 945; brianbennett47@gmail.com
Jorgensen Park THURSDAY
Director: Ralph Henderson Director: Paul Martin
Perth Trail Series, Kings Park Kiosk, Fraser
– 0408 939 293 - 0438 900 839 Ave. Start 6pm, finish 7pm. 8km to 10km
Bob Fergie, Milton Mavrick, Paul Hughes, John Pentecost, mob run, on the trails. Contact Melina
John Dance, Anne Jones, Clare Grace Hollin, Charlie Chan, Mellino 0423 729 949 melina@perthtrail-
Wardle, Bob Colligan, Marion Greg Wilson, Julie Wilson, series.com.au
Kavenagh, Wendy Grace, Ann John Mcshane, Sally-Anne FRIDAY
6am start, various central Perth locations.
Anderseb, Rashanthi Wani- Smith, Milo Barham, Catherine
Director: Gary Wilmot Contact Margaret Bennett; ph 9275 0169; or
gasekera, Iain Parnum, Joanna Breheny, Paul Watson, Grace mbe37778@bigpond.net.au
– 0403 197 422
Lloyd, Kathy Nicholas, Thomas Yang, Douglas Martyn, Wendy SATURDAY
Director: Jim Klinge Ivan Brown, Rex Bruce, There-
Tolchard Braddow DC’s group at WAAS; 8-945am; track train-
0408 501 814 sa Howe, Melinda Fisher, Tom- ing – all welcome. Cost $3.80 seniors – $6.70
Jim Langford, Elaine Dance, my Glackin, Jo Shelley, Zane others; pay at the door.
John Dance, Eric Emmett, Tr-
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isha Farr, Christy Davidson,
Maurice Creagh, Peter Hopper, Barbara Putland, Liam Hayes, Eleanor Tobe, ROAD runs early every Saturday at vari-
Lorna Mcgavock, Jaimie Hen-
Jason Kell, Alastair Wallace, Elizabeth Gomez, Ha- ous western suburbs locations. Contacts:
derson, Amanda Wylde, Ma- Drew Langford, Paul Highway,
zel Stephen, Isolde Tietz, Peter Tietz, Rodney Glos- Gary Fisher, gary.fisher@y7mail.com or
rie Pennock, Darryl Downing, Bijay Acharya, Wendy Brad- mobile 0400 855 978. Paul Hughes, email
sop, Crystal Glossop, Sulette Le Roux, Liam Hayes dow
Mell Sieczka, Audra Rimmer paul@wjhi.com.au or 0412 513 348.
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