running events – Page 2 – Port Macquarie Pacers Running Club

August 5, 2019August 5, 2019

Beanies, golden guitars, emus and capes…

Well, it was a mixed bag on the weekend!

The Pacers showed their support for the Mark Hughes Foundation’s Beanies for Brain Cancer fundraiser with a run/walk and breakfast on Sunday, raising $220 towards this worthy cause.

A crew of eight Pacers took home their very own Golden Guitar medals from the Tamworth Running Festival – well done to Alisha, Madeline, Belynda, Dana, Max, Cliff, Gary and James! Well done to Gary on his Age Group win, and special mention to James for taking out the coveted sprint medal as well!!!

Chel and Dave made a new friend at Nambour Parkrun, Fluffy the emu! Selfies all round!

And the one and only Trish Davis jetted off to Bellerive parkrun as part of her Medibank parkrun hero prize, taking her nominator Lizzy J with her for the ride.

Last but not least, Dave ran an epic sub-4hr marathon at Sunny Coast… what a legend!!! Congrats!

July 23, 2019July 23, 2019

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.

July 8, 2019July 8, 2019

Pacers get busted on the Gold Coast

A small crew of Pacers travelled to one of our groups’ favourite destination races on the weekend, with team members competing in the 10km, half marathon and marathon at the Gold Coast Marathon event.

Karina and Dana took on the not-so-nice conditions on Saturday to complete the 10km.

Young master Binskin continues to smash goals, taking out an age-group win in the 10km! Congrats Ryan!!!

Rachel, Shannon, Amanda and Jo earned some new bling with an early start in the half marathon on Sunday. Well done ladies!

Cliff paced Adam to his first, long-awaited sub-3hr marathon, finally shaking the monkey off his back! Fabulous effort Adam!

Steve bagged a new PB, joining forces with Binnie up to about the 35km before soldiering on alone to finish strong. Gary and Dan smashed out another marathon each, and Dave encouraged Cindy through the sufferfest that is the last 10km of the mara to complete her first 42.2km.

June 12, 2019June 13, 2019

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!

June 5, 2019June 5, 2019

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!

May 28, 2019May 28, 2019

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!

May 20, 2019May 20, 2019

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!!!

May 12, 2019May 12, 2019

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.

May 5, 2019May 10, 2019

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.