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  • Great Barrier Reef Masters Games

    From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to All on Thu May 27 20:36:00 2021
    Well, good to see this echo fire up. When it comes to sport, I'm more of a doer than a watcher. While I've done a number of sports, currently, my main sport is Masters athletics, and I focus mainly on sprints.

    Last weekend, I was in Cairns in far north Queensland, Australia, for the Great Barrier Reef Masters Games. I ran 4 sprints on Saturday at the track, and a 5k road race on Sunday. Didn't do too bad either.

    Saturday - conditions were windy and mostly cloudy, with a couple of showers. Results were:

    100m 4th, 13.80, -1.5m/S wind ( - means headwind, + means tailwind)
    60m 4th, 8.78, -4.0 m/S wind
    200m, 3rd, 27.46, -0.7m/S wind
    400m, 2nd, 66.65

    Fields included national champions, so it was a tough meet.

    Sunday - conditions warm and fine, light breeze.

    5km road race, 1st, 27:54 (course was 150-200m long).

    So, a pretty good weekend.

    Now that track season has finished, I'm focusing on endurance and general fitness, to start rebuilding for next summer.


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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Vk3jed on Sat May 29 12:31:08 2021
    On 27 May 2021 at 08:36p, Vk3jed pondered and said...

    Well, good to see this echo fire up. When it comes to sport, I'm more
    of a doer than a watcher. While I've done a number of sports,
    currently, my main sport is Masters athletics, and I focus mainly on sprints.

    Last weekend, I was in Cairns in far north Queensland, Australia, for
    the Great Barrier Reef Masters Games. I ran 4 sprints on Saturday at
    the track, and a 5k road race on Sunday. Didn't do too bad either.

    You are a machine :) I am always impressed at the level of involvement you
    have in the sports you enjoy. You always give your best and the results show
    it :)


    Now that track season has finished, I'm focusing on endurance and general fitness, to start rebuilding for next summer.

    Hopefully this summer will be more open and easy to get out and compete :)
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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Avon on Sat May 29 16:44:00 2021
    On 05-29-21 12:31, Avon wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    You are a machine :) I am always impressed at the level of involvement
    you have in the sports you enjoy. You always give your best and the results show it :)

    Thanks, yeah I love it, and for a number of reasons, I do need to keep this active. Oh, and if I recall, we're the same age. ;) I do plan on coming over to NZ when there's a Masters meet in Dunedin, so we can catch up. Should happen within the next few years. :)

    Now that track season has finished, I'm focusing on endurance and general fitness, to start rebuilding for next summer.

    Hopefully this summer will be more open and easy to get out and compete
    :)

    Last summer wasn't too bad, except for an Achilles niggle (can't blame that on the virus ;) ), but this winter's already gone pear shaped again, with the latest lockdown. Should have stayed in Queensland. ;)


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