Category: Milestones

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January 2020

What on earth have we been up to since christmas?
Well, thanks for asking, its been another busy month!
It was a strong start to the new year, with Gary and Trent dominating at the Sawtell Running Festival. Closer to home we had 21 club members do the Port Macquarie / Wauchope parkrun double on New Years Day, with Ryan securing a win in both.

Amy scored herself a belated christmas present from Laura with a membership to the club – the ladies had a love-in (keep left ladies!)

the Thursday crew had a babyathon, and the sizzling friday long run sessions continued in the leadup to Port Running Festival, while Sue and the Dawso’s hit Tassie for the Cadbury Marathon weekend

The tuesday morning speed session was as popular as ever, poor Elise was inundated with kids and dogs, Suzie and Honni hit 200 and 100 parkruns!

and the Tuesday cruisers said a sad goodbye to Claire, poor Haley cooked herself, and the mountain goats ran some hills

a bunch of us hit the cars for a trip to Gloucester parkrun launch, we had our annual australia day hottest 100 laps of oxley oval, and we collected our RAV medals! Oh yeah, and we’re currently playing parkrun bingo! Its mayhem!

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James Conquers Melbourne

Marathon history made, as the great man James smashes his first marathon on Sunday in Melbourne. Look out for his finish at 4:43:20 of the official stream embedded below. Welcome to the marathon club! 👏👏👏

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Beach To Brother

After a relatively quiet weekend the weekend prior, this week we were back in action, this time at Beach To Brother. An epic trail race that begins at Town Beach in Port Macquarie, and ends 42kms away in Laurieton, at the top of North Brother Mountain. We had ten starters in the marathon, six starters in the half marathon, seven starters in the 10km and two in the relay teams.

Special mention to our epic vollies, Rach,Kylie, Rinnie, Mads and Rob and all those who helped out at Saturdays rego!

Congratulations to Cliff for winning the marathon, a back to back performance after winning last year! Also on the podium was Andy and his wife Pip winning the teams relay event, and Ryan collecting a podium with a 3rd placing in the 10km.

The Marathoners!

The Half Marathoners and Ten Km Runners!

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Coffs Domination, Bushy Pilgrims and a Goat!

Coffs Harbour Running Festival came and went. There was 4 events on the card – a half marathon, 10km, 5km and a 3km race. Incredibly, Pacers won 2 of the 4 events, podiumed a 3rd and scored an age group win also! Pretty handy!

On the other side of the Globe, Gary and Jenny took a pilgrimage to Bushy parkrun, the spiritual home of parkrun, with Gary coming 100th overall!

Meanwhile, Social Sunday was a hit in North Haven, as we prepare for the upcoming Beach To Brother

And, for reasons we can’t really explain, LJ brought a goat along to a run! Will it become our mascot? We need one.

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Saving Lives and Celebrations

Like a scene from BayWatch the Tuesday Crew saved a poor lass from drowning this week, when she fumbled her phone and then accidentally chased it into the Hastings River, just as they were beginning their Intervals session. Quicker than you can say ‘No Kiel, leave your singlet on’, they were helping her up the 1m drop and to safety. #Heroes

Speaking of wetness, Gary got himself a good soaking at Lake Macquarie parkrun, where he met up with our favourite Plodder Don. We miss you Don!

And on the other end of the spectrum, Chel went west to Goondiwindi, where she blitzed the field to be the first female home at parkrun. #QueenOfTheWest

Oh, and did we mention it was our second birthday. We celebrated in style, pacing parkrun. We had pacers pacing every minute from 18 minutes through to 40, and even a very pregnant Kylie had a crack pacing a lonely 50 minutes. Hopefully this will become a yearly tradition (the pacing, not the pregnancy)

Meanwhile, Sue did her 100th Port Macquarie parkrun, and scored herself an entry into their Hall of Fame!

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Hills, Hills, Hills

It was a weekend of Hills Madness this weekend, with the highlight being Adams epic second placing in the Mudgee Marathon. What starts out as a lovely country run alongside vineyards takes a turn for the worse about halfway through, where you run a mountain for about 6kms 🙁 #ouch

Closer to home, Dave, Steve and Cliff decided King of The Mountain wasnt quite gruelling enough, so ran 20kms along the beach and trails from Lake Cathie to the bottom of North Brother mountain, before taking on the King Of The Mountain event. No quads were harmed in the making of these photos, we’ve been told

And the ladies took their dogs to the #dirtydogtrail event with Mel and Hinata securing the win, and Laura, Vilius and Turbo a second placing. #woof

Lastly, congratulations to Rob for entering the Port Macquarie parkrun Hall of Fame, with his 100th Port Macquarie parkrun this weekend

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Trippin’

It was the weekend for travelling this weekend, with Lizzie and Claire heading south, a small crew took on the challenge of City To Surf, Carina knocked off our NENDY with a trip to Grafton, and the Poltoraskys went really west – to the Barossa where Leon scored himself a podium!

The journey begins though in Tuggeranong parkrun, where Lizzie and Claire were in fine form, both setting parkrun PBs. Great work ladies!

In Sydney, Paul, Amanda, Clarissa and Julie battled the crowds at City to Surf

Meanwhile Carina knocked off our club NENDY (nearest event not done yet) when she completed Grafton parkrun. Our NENDY now moves to Blue Gum Hills, 202kms from Port Macquarie in Minmi, which is west of Newcastle.

And lastly, in the Barossa, Natalia smashed out a half marathon, while Leon ran the 10km with Nik, and somehow secured himself an age-group podium! #LikeABoss

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Chills, Thrills and Sunday Hills

Did someone say Bushy?? Congrats to Julie for completing her trek to the home of parkrun, Bushy park last weekend. And speaking of parkrun, congrats to Dawso for completing his 100th parkrun on the weekend!

Meanwhile, we’re not sure what on earth is going on with our ThursDAY crew, but they’ve taken to recreating album covers in their post run photos!

Congratulations to Natalia for completing her first ultra-marathon, taking on the brutal Elephant Trail Race on Saturday, and the rest of the crew competing on Sunday in the the 25km and 13km.

Further to the south, Social Sunday trekked the last stages of the Beach To Brother course, as training for the event ramps up. Some running, some walking, some choosing the flatter options of a river run/walk. Well done to all.

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Pacers take on Wauchope, Dave and Mads’ 50th parkrun

A huge contingent of very rugged up Pacers ran and drove to Wauchope on Saturday. There were some impressive performances, with members taking out age category records for the scenic course and PPL handicaps busted all over the place.

Dave and Mads celebrated their 50th parkrun with cake (of course) and a finish line guard of honour.

Off we go to Taree parkrun this weekend!

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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!