Ashgrove Rangers

It was pretty wet but there were still some locals of various types enjoying the action at this morning’s October Flying Four.

In the Women’s Division it was Kristina Kersten ahead of Lynda Bateson while Will Law led home ahead of Ken Hastie and Craig Preston in the Men’s.

Bottles of w**e went to Peter Kersten and Ken Hastie.

Next race is 8am on Sunday 8th November with end of year Trophy Presentations at the December 13th event starting at the summer time of 7.30am.

Folks,

The Queensland Mountain Running Championships are being held at Mt Glorious on Sunday 8th November with Open over 22k and U20 Championships over the 11k distance.

Buses will ferry runners to the start from Samford Soccer Club.

These are very tough events with steep climbs and descents so you will need to have done a fair bit of training over tough technical Trail terrain in the lead-up.

Full details are available at the Queensland Athletics and TRAQ websites.

Folks,

We may have lost the Toowong meet this afternoon but we will be going ahead with the October Flying Four this morning at Ashgrove Sports Ground.

See you soon for an 8am start.

Oval closed for wet weather

Photos from a very big day ofGPS Athletics at QE2 yesterday courtesy of Damien Stannard.

With the recent wet weather this morning’s Ashgrove parkrun retreated to the wet weather course.

There were 185 starters with Frankie Hewett second female over the line in 22:10.

Bunyaville parkrun was cancelled due to the weather this morning but tomorrow’s Flying Four is going ahead at this stage - any change to that will be broadcast on this page by 7am tomorrow.

Folks, a reminder that entries for the UQ 1500m Classic next Wednesday close 9am Monday at the Queensland Athletics website which also has the schedule.

UQ Sport 1500m Classic - Queensland Athletics The 1500m Classic is a competitive middle-distance race hosted at The University of Queensland since 2004. The event is recognised as a World Athletics

A big day at the annual GPS Athletics Carnival today at QE2 with many club athletes pitching in with whole-hearted efforts for their school teams in both individual and relay events in an exciting atmosphere that brought out quite a number of PBs.

Surprisingly the weather cleared and held after early showers and Ipswich Grammar were very strong winning both the Junior and Senior competitions.

Thanks to all of the schools involved along with the parents, athletes, coaches and officials whose combined efforts contributed to a successful meet.

Results for our athletes are attached.

Folks,

Just letting you know that with all the current rain and a lot more forecast through to Sunday, the annual Toowong/Ashgrove clash has been postponed.

When a new date is agreed upon with Toowong we will let you know.

John

Folks,

This deal would involve regular travel to the Sundown Coast but if you want to apply for it let us know and we can provide further details.