Author: Port Pacers

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A sea of Pacer blue at South West Rocks Running Festival

The Pacer blue was everywhere at South West Rocks last Sunday, with members entered in every event from the kids 300m to the full marathon, and plenty of podium action to boot.

There were outright placings, age groups placings and personal bests left, right and centre and the Pacers taking out the team shield for the event was the icing on the cake!

Some of the achievements across the races included Cliff’s outright first place in the marathon, Toni and Laura taking out second and third place respectively in the marathon, Clarissa third female in the 10km and age group wins for Natalia (marathon), Adam (10km) and Ryan (10km).

A few members tackled the full marathon distance for the first time including Madeline, Gary and Natalia. Congratulations guys!

Plenty of PBs were achieved as well – Jo and Steve Ashton and Chel among them!

Lastly a shout out to those members who couldn’t compete in their usual distance or at their usual speed but still participated and helped the team take out the shield!

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Happy Global Running Day

Well, Port parkrun was a PB-a-thon for Pacer members last weekend. Congratulations go out to Drew, Carina, Alexis, Damon, Steph and the crazy-fast Ryan on your PB runs!!!

Rob ran his 100th parkrun, congrats Rob!

A small, but no less amazing, Pacer team tackled the Brisbane Running Festival with Kylie B (the original) taking on the 10km, Sue smashing the half and Chris B absolutely killing it in the marathon! Well done crew!

Thanks to a frantic flurry of last minute voting, Pacers managed to win first place in the Essential Energy community grants, awarded $2,500 which will go towards new run/event equipment. Very exciting times ahead for our wonderful little Running Club!

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Aquaman take out PPL and the R-Adelaidians dominate

In one of the least surprising surprises since the Bigeni baby announcement, Chel and James (aka Team Aquaman) busted open the Pacer Parkrun League final to take out the win! Congrats Aquaman, well-deserved!

And in a town a little further from home, five Pacers smashed out four marathons and a half marathon at the Adelaide Marathon Festival. Cliff led the race for the first 100m before settling in to run a cracking sub-3 hour marathon. Jon lucked out with the weather, avoiding his usual 35km mark sufferfest to clock a 3.36 on very little training. Rinnie smashed out her first full marathon with Dave supporting her all the way. And Sally gritted her teeth through injury to finish the half marathon. Well done guys!

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UTA, SMH, Catwomen and Peter and Adam’s 50th parkrun!

Laura, Liz, Madeline, Nicole, Pat and Lizzie J went for a little stroll through the blue mountains on Saturday, all successfully making it up the infamous Furber stairs to complete the UTA22 course.

Chel and Ally ran the Sydney Morning Herald half marathon on Sunday, huge congratulations ladies, what an achievement for you both!

Congratulations also to Peter and Adam for completing their 50th parkrun!

And the semi-final of the chaotically complicated Pacer parkrun league saw a win for team Catwoman (Trish and Karina) and Team Aquaman (James and Chel) who will duke it out in the final this weekend!!!

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The Inaugural Pacer 10km Handicap Race

Sunday 12 May 2019 saw the running of the first Pacer 10km handicap race. Those not enjoying a Mother’s Day sleep in and breakfast in bed braved the icy wind to suffer through a 10km effort. Notable results included James going sub-50 for the first time and Clarissa getting back to some strong running form with an 48.33 and taking out the win.

Pacers travelled to parkruns at Stockton, Newy, Armidale, Horseshoe Bay Reserve and The Entrance.

Binskin Snr (Jon) and Binskin Jnr (Ryan) ran their 100th consecutive parkrun and Ryan also hit 150 total parkruns.

Take 2 of the Pacer team photo was deemed a success, albeit quite a few members being missing on the day.

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Milestones, Star Wars Day, and Ironman

Saturday was Star Wars Day. #MayTheFourthBeWithYou. On a wet and miserable day, Trish and Lizzie knocked over their 100th parkrun, and Kylie and Steph notched their 50th. Well done crew!

Saturday morning was also IronKids. Fast forward to Sunday, and its Ironman Day. Pauls team won the 70.3 mens team relay, we had Tammy completed her first 70.3, Rach was impressive as always in 70.3 and Andy and Denise completed the FULL. We had quite a few team members in 70.3, most notably the Ashtons combining for a mixed team. And we vollied. A Lot. From 4:30am until 10:30pm we were out on course, cheering the competitors home. Well done to all that participated.

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Easter weekend = Tourist parkruns

It was the weekend for tourist parkruns, with Pacers participating at Tamworth, Taree, Horseshoe Bay Reserve, Broadbeach Waters, Ararat and of course Port Macquarie parkrun events.

Gary ran his 100th parkrun at Ararat – congrats Gary!!!

The long weekend also meant a big turn out for the Easter Sunday Pacer Pursuit, with coffee and chocolate eggs at Little Shack afterwards.

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Parkrun PBs, Masters Games, Australian Running Festival and Social Sunday!

What a weekend!

Paul, Ebanie and Chel smashed out new PBs at Port parkrun, while Binnie and Pat broke poor Dave.

Sue ran a great Half Mara at one of her fave events, the Australian Running Festival in Canberra, while Gary took home a swathe of medals from the SA Port Pirie Masters Games.

A big contingent of Pacers enjoyed the Social Sunday run from Bonny Hills to Catarina Estate and back for brekky and coffee at Fat Fish Cafe.

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Dan’s first marathon

The quiet achiever Dan Watts smashed out his very first marathon at NewRun (Newcastle Running Festival) on Sunday. Paced by Cliff Hoeft and Jon Binskin, Dan crossed the line in 3hrs 24mins, an epic time for a first attempt at the 42.2km distance! Dan even bagged an age group place! Congrats Dan the Man!!!

Dan, Cliff and Jon were joined at NewRun by Chel, Carina and Bernadette who ran the 10km.

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Love and Marriage, PBs, a first time win, RunWest action, and a winery tour. Phew!

What better way to start a weekend than with 4 PB’s and a first time win! Chel, Madeline, Cliff and Paul all smoked out PBs at Port parkrun, with Paul, in his first run in the Pacers singlet, smashing out a win! #ItsNotARace 😉

Meanwhile, at the winery, the ladies were working up a thirst at Grapest

And in Sydneys west, Amanda and Suzie took on RunWest, and scored some epic bling!

Oh yeah, and these two love-birds tied the knot! Big day! #BiggLove