Grahak Cunningham first home in world s longest race

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1 Vetrun SEPTEMBER 2012 No. 461 The magazine of Masters Athletics WA Inside... Stockman Success Story P2 In My (French) View P3 Mill Point Road Champs P4 State X/C Championships P5 State X/C Kings Park P6 Nedlands P7 Helpers; You Write P8 She s done it again and again! SO came the news that our own world-beating walker, Lyn Ventris, was stepping out in even more astounding style. Lyn walked in the 20km State Open championships on July 29 and smashed the old WR by more than 10 minutes. Her time was Then, on August 19 she broke the WR for 10km by 18 seconds, with a time of 49: and again In Adelaide at the Australian Walk Championships on August 26 Lyn broke her own WR for 20km by almost three minutes more, with 1:40:42! When she finds time, Vetrun hopes to publish an insight into the champ s fabulous recent form. State X/C Kings Park results P6 Grahak Cunningham first home in world s longest race MASTERS member Grahak achieved massive media coverage when he set a new pb and finished first in the New York Self-Transcendence 3,100 Mile Race. Lyn with Sebastian Coe in Monaco, where she received the IAAF award for Masters Athlete of the Year New members Welcome! 1145 DAVEY: Todd 1146 OBORNE: Timothy M ARAVENA-ROMAN: Max 1148 MASON: Mandy Club members who know Grahak will also know that this event is about something far more than victory over his fellow-runners. He is a devotee of guru Sri Chinmoy, who initiated the SelfTranscendence event as a way for entrants to highlight their own human potential. His 5,649 gruelling circuits of a New York block took 43 days, 10 hours and 36 minutes well before the 51-day cut-off. His previous personal best was in 2009, when he finished second after 44 days and nine hours. Grahak has now completed the epic marathon four times. Grahak ran for up to 18 hours a day and averaged almost 115 kilometres per day. Along the way he broke the Australian 1,000-mile (1,609km) record. As in previous years, instead of stopping at the 3,100 mile point, Grahak pushed on to make his run an even 5000km. Page 1 Grahak at the Carine run in 2008.

2 Karl at the Joondalup Run. KARL Karl joined the club in 2008 and before that he was just running the odd fun run with me. He mainly did the shorter distances for the first couple of years but committed to doing a half marathon in Melbourne in October It was, his first long distance run/race and his time was 2:02. The following month we both signed up for speed classes with the Running Centre, consisting of three sessions per week for six weeks. During this time Karl sustained a number of soft tissue injuries to the calves, quads and hamstrings. He sought physio treatment but still ran, just slowing down a bit and upping the amount of kilometres each week. Duo are another Masters success story MASTERS WA has a proud record. The club operates every week of the year, on the roads and T&F, without any paid admin or club premises. We have world-beaters. We boast an amazing agerange of fit and healthy people. But for me, camaraderie is Masters greatest virtue. Ordinary people not established athletes join us and improve, through the friendly competition, and advice and help from other members. Most recently we have watched Sandra and Karl Stockman become fitter, faster (and lighter!) She has set new pbs over 10km and the marathon pbs, and Karl s is transformed from occasional runner to the bloke who just knocked nine minutes off his halfmarathon pb! Here Sandra charts their progress since joining Masters. First marathon Over the summer we both started track running at Masters Tuesday night sessions, but in mid-january 2012 he developed a bursar on the hip. More physio, a cortisone injection, and he stopped running for about two months, working out at the gym instead. After this he slowly built up the kilometres again and set his sights on running his first marathon, Perth this year, in a time of 4:32. Preparation training wasn t great. A career move and a number of farewell dinners the week before the event didn t help! But he felt good enough at the end to commit to another, the Melbourne marathon in October this year. Karl also ran another half in early August, improving his PB by nine minutes to finish in 1:53. He is now running between 80 and 90km a week and looking to go under 4:20 in Melbourne. Oh yes: he s also lost 15kg since last year! Sandra in Perth Marathon 2011, her first. SANDRA I joined the club in April 2005 after moving to Perth from Canberra in 1998, where I ran with the Veterans Athletics Club. The Canberra vets only compete once a month, so I didn t run that much in Canberra, preferring to play golf, which I was much better at (nine handicap). I only competed with the Masters once or twice a year, plus the odd fun run, until I became serious in April 2009 and attended Sunday runs regularly. I never had much of an interest in running a full marathon until Bob Lane suggested I give the Perth 2011 marathon a go. So I started doing longer runs from Darlington on Saturday mornings in April My time for the marathon was 3:43. Like Karl, I felt good enough at the end to want to do another, so committed to running the Melbourne marathon in October 2011, hoping to break 3:30. Melbourne I did more training beforehand this time, though it was still difficult. I work as a Hansard reporter and have to work late nights when Parliament is sitting. I ran 3:23 in Melbourne. Then I did the speed class with Karl, track events in January and 14km runs on Wednesday nights with Marathon Club runners. Injuries This all proved to be too much as I started getting pain in my hamstring. I was diagnosed with everything from facet joint strains to sciatica, a bulging/protracted disk and osteoarthritis, so stopped running in early February while receiving treatment from physios, sports doctors and massage therapists, all to no avail. I was eventually referred to a neurosurgeon and had MRI, bone and CT scans, which showed up desiccated disks and a cyst on my spine. But I was told it was nothing to worry about (!) and that my problems were just agerelated and not a concern, and was given the go-ahead to run again. During the lay-off, I cycled, walked, did stretching exercises, did light cardio and weights at the gym, read as much as I could about back pain etc and was stricter with my eating regime. I m currently training for Melbourne again in October, hoping for a PB of between 3:15 and 3:20. Page 2

3 Motoring in France IN Carayac without personal transport you are marooned. Buses are a good hour s walk away, up hill or down. Why wouldn t you drive, when you can buy ten old Mercedes for the price of a new Corolla? There are 951,200km of roads available for your use in France. That s metropolitan France so you imagine they re talking cities? Impossible! (Say it with a French accent so much more emphatic.) That s all the roads, including motorways, in towns and country. Imperial This metropolitan is a clue to France being even more imperialist than Rome, Ottoman and Britain at their peaks. France doesn t even acknowledge its colonies as being abroad. They re part of France. They re French. So to differentiate, the mass of land we all think of as France, is known as metropolitan France. It s the homeland. But I m getting off the track. The population of France was, at the last published account, 63,587,700 souls. Metropolitan France has 61 million people and now we re approaching the point. They all drive; whether or not they have licences is another matter. Value for money Assuming the average driver starts terrorising the neighbourhood on his scooter at 16, and dies in an appalling headon collision with a combine harvester at 66, il/elle has just 50 years of active mayhem to cover 951,000km. If you drove for eight hours a day for 50 years (thatís 151,840 hours) it would be simple. You could do it at 6km per hour. But that s laughable impossible in France, so everyone averages 10 times that to wring every last sou of value from their road tax and insurance. Parking Where to leave the car, between races and safaris, is the least of their worries. On the rare occasion your car isn t impounded by the gendarmes, or undergoing major body repairs, you just leave it where you stop. C est normal! I thought the Parisian who left his VW overnight on a pedestrian crossing was the champ. Then we came south and I saw a jeep left on the railway line. It s good if you re lucky enough to have a garage. But the you have to get in and out of it. Owners try everything to keep their access clear. The most imaginative found so far is the Monsieur who stuck an ambulance sign on his garage door, alongside the standard if you park here I will kill you warning. Don t know if he started driving around town in an ambulance. Whatever it didn t work see picture. DIY breathalysers Since July 1 every vehicle in France has to carry Breathalyser packs, two per car. Presumably you need two so you can also check any passenger volunteering to drive you home if you fail the self-test. What a great idea, I thought. I ll import these into Australia and make a fortune. Better see if they work. Now I am always ready to sacrifice myself on the altar of technological progress especially if it means drinking some wine before the altar first. Catholics do it every Sunday, why not me? In My View by the Editor-at-large This is the final French Vetrun. The best part of this rural sojourn? Not the great, cheap food and wine; or good friendship; or the novelty of living in another culture. No, it s having no telly or radio; often no phone or internet, and no bloody politicians or celebrities making me want to spit or kick in the screen. See you soon at the GOT Run! Pure science The test was very scientific. I bravely volunteered to drink enough to probably test positive. Two- Mercs Mich was the designated driver any way, because he knows all the un-patrolled country lanes around Figeac, so he would be the control. Half a bottle of Alsace, quick taste of Rioja, fair share of St Emilion; that should do it for me I announced. Let the testing begin. Gallic hysterics all round the table as everyone tried to comprehend the instructions printed on the packs. Obviously this is the first stage; if you can t understand the rules, you re drunk. We persevered. With the mouthpiece in place you simply blow hard until the balloon is full. At this point the mouthpiece-tube becomes almost too hot to hold. In my case the tube turned from yellow to green. Green means go? No, it means you have failed. Mich s turn, and on two glasses of wine over five hours his test was green and positive also. My scientific deduction is that these kits confirm that you have been drinking alcohol. Great! I think you might know that already before you open the bag. So much for my fortune. I don t think these gadgets will impress Aussies. GET ready for the GOT RECENTLY I have campaigned against the ugliest word in English. It s Got, a verbal crutch, used excessively, and mostly unnecessarily. For instance: I ve got should be I have. All right, it might be original old English, but it s still a dog. And don t get me started on gotten. (I ve browbeaten a few friends into the cause. When they say got or get, they now apologise.) Ironically I must now write and prepare new contestants for the Guess Own Time event known as the GOT. Fabulous trophies can be won. All you have to do is estimate how long you will take to complete either the long, 3-lap, 9km course; or the 2-lap, 6km. Go round any way you like - run, walk, hop, skip or limp. Winner is the member closest to estimate. Naturally, we don t want to make it too easy. So it s held over a mixed-terrain course at Hale School. Some find it hard to guess how long it takes to swing through the jungle section. And the quicksand is a problem. Amazingly, the famed Timeless Trophy has often been taken home by someone who picks their time to the second. Bob Schickert is believed to have a built-in metronome, and has won it several times. (Clue: follow Bob.) So do give this unusual run a go. But leave your watch at home please. VW Page 3

4 10K RUN Men Kim Thomas Tony Smith Tom Tralau Hamish McLeod Ante Perdija Dante Giacomin Chris Reid Tristan Bell John Batta John Allen Peter March Mickey Muroi Ross Keane Wayne Taylor Karl Stockman Chris Koemam Chris Maher Bjorn Dybdahl Ian Carson Paul Ankers Bob Lane Paul Hughes Graeme Dahl Keith Miller George Fish Brian Bennett Charlie Chan Mark Hewitt Brian Danby Gary Fisher Frank Gardiner Terry Humphrey Neil McRae John Byrne Bob Fawcett Jim Klinge Mike Khan John Bell M40 M40 37:56 39:24 43:11 45:12 39:53 46:38 42:33 45:08 48:11 40:22 41:20 42:13 45:00 47:17 50:29 54:12 39:47 40:02 40:25 40:51 39:31 41:37 41:56 43:32 43:37 44:02 47:23 47:44 47:55 49:32 51:27 56:15 58:50 60:57 74:18 44:23 50:51 55:23 George Fish, Keith Miller and Tom Tralau. Jim Barnes Geoff Mullins John Talbot Roger Walsh John Mack Graham Thornton Paul Martin John Pellier Richard Danks Irwin Barrett-Lennard David Carr Cecil Walkley Women Trisha Farr Monique Fountain Tracey Koziniec Kris Adrian Sandra Stockman Sue Bourn Claire Walkley Janet Jiang Paula Koert-Bain Karen March Robin King Carmel Meyer Penny Horsfall Carol Bowman Julie Wilson Barb Humphrey Jo Richardson Peggy Macliver Lorraine Lopes Kathy Burr Mary Heppell 55:34 55:37 59:16 61:54 49:28 54:22 57:00 58:55 61:41 55:30 60:08 73:10 48:19 52:46 56:19 62:53 41:41 44:45 48:17 60:07 63:48 45:13 46:44 49:46 82:51 49:22 52:06 55:53 77:27 54:37 52:21 71:24 89:59 V4 Amanda Walker Raymond Gimi Ivan Brown Johan Hagedoorn Dave Roberts Damien Hanson Ray Attwell Delia Baldock Genevieve Schreyvogel V7 John Dennehy Kylie Mahony Sandra Rourke Aldo Giacomin Peter Hopper John Brambley Arnold Jenkins 20:27 20:32 24:26 25:12 25:19 26:20 27:14 27:23 27:33 28:03 28:20 29:09 30:36 30:42 31:30 32:21 32:47 33:54 5K RUN Page 4 Mill Point Road Championships July 29, 2012 Director: Milton Mavrick Chris Reid and Mickey Moroi. Mitch Loly John Ellard Carolyn Fawcett Julie Wood Vic Beaumont Sheila Maslen 10K WALK 34:43 35:41 39:00 39:42 40:04 40:14 Men Alan Jennings Jeff Whittam John Smith Women Val Millard Joan Pellier Ann Turner 79:43 84:11 84:13 75:23 84:59 89:00 John McDonagh Rosa Wallis Lorna Lauchlan Kirt Johnson Sofia Carson Lee Chan Margaret Warren Morris Warren Elaine Sillery Margaret Bennett Dorothy Whittam Mike Horsfall Pat Miller Leo Hassam Elaine Ellard John Dance Andrea Byrne W80 W30 36:43 43:05 44:43 44:44 45:25 45:58 49:16 49:17 49:47 50:05 51:51 54:46 55:19 55:21 55:57 60:28 63:49 5K WALK

5 State Cross Country Championships August 5, 2012 Director: Committee 8K RUN Men Kim Thomas Tony Smith Tom Tralau Dante Giacomin Kim Tucker Chris Reid Tristan Bell Rob Colton Trevor Scott Peter March Ross Keane Wayne Taylor Chris Koemam Karl Stockman Ian Carson Bjorn Dybdahl Paul Hughes Brian Bennett Charlie Chan Brian Danby Nick Miletic Neil McRae John Byrne Jim Klinge Mike Hale Mike Khan John Talbot Greg Wilson Bob Schickert John Pellier David Carr Irwin Barrett-Lennard M40 34:11 36:53 38:49 45:27 38:21 39:08 41:21 42:53 33:23 38:57 40:34 43:56 50:55 52:07 37:10 37:28 38:31 40:13 44:15 44:22 49:57 53:07 53:52 39:21 44:52 48:51 55:10 71:48 52:17 54:26 49:09 50:54 Start of the club's toughest cross-country Jorgensen Park. Women Sandra Stockman Sue Bourn Julie Keeley Sue Zlnay Karen March Robin King Delia Baldock Margaret Saunders Carol Bowman Julie Wilson Sarah Ladwig Peggy Macliver Lorraine Lopes Lynne Schickert 40:00 42:11 56:05 41:34 42:51 43:23 51:13 44:14 45:52 49:16 55:24 50:51 49:22 71:13 Lisa Searle George Fish Johan Hagedoorn 25:48 26:56 34:30 5.4K RUN W35 Ups and downs, and the ditch, give the old Jorgensen golf course its character. Broad-jumpers are, above, led by Graeme Dahl; right, Mike Hale and Charlie Chan; and far right, following David Carr. Page 5 Janet Jiang Bob Fawcett Sylvia Szabo Sylvia Szabo W30 40:07 45:40 61:30 61:30 Visitor V2 25:51 Neil Morfitt Paula Koert-Bain John McDonagh Ray Hall Gail Castensen Carolyn Fawcett Sofia Carson Kirt Johnson Lee Chan 12:26 18:16 18:39 20:47 22:55 23:16 27:03 27:57 28:28 Visitor V1 18:05 2.7K RUN

6 Kings Park Cross Country Run August 12, 2012 Director: Ralph Henderson Director Ralph directing. 10K RUN Chris Maher John Allen Bjorn Dybdahl Ian Carson Mickey Muroi Jim Klinge Chris Reid Lisa Searle Danny Sheehan Hamish McLeod Charlie Chan Mark Hewitt Bob Schickert Monique Fountain Lorraine Lopes John Byrne John Pellier Dennis Hughes W35 42:52 43:13 43:17 43:21 44:00 45:36 46:46 46:58 47:50 49:37 52:37 53:50 57:51 57:59 62:54 63:26 64:36 71:46 After a bit of a damp start the rain thankfully stayed away until the run was well finished. Although the numbers were down, presumably due to a combination of the weather and the Perth Half Marathon Championship, it was good to see some close competition for the leading places and a few young visitors running very well. I heard that the walkers enjoyed their challenging course. My job was made much easier by all my willing helpers and as a result we had a very successful event. So a big thank you to marshals Milton, Peter, Richard, Tracey and Sue, timekeeper Alan, recorders Jannie and Bob and drinks Sue and Carol. I trust everyone enjoyed themselves and will, I hope, be back next year. Carol Bowman Gary Fisher David Carr Dee Conibeer Peggy Macliver Graham Thornton Nick Miletic Neil McRae Johan Hagedoorn Delia Baldock Anne Jones Sandra Rourke John Talbot John Dennehy Sandra Hughes Arnold Jenkins Jackie Halberg Val Millard Gail Castensen 7.1K WALK One of our newest members, Gail Castensen at Kings Park. 5K RUN Paul Odam Graeme Dahl Paul Hughes Neil Morfitt Ross Keane Bruce Wilson Chris Koemam 21:33 22:26 22:37 22:49 24:01 24:07 26:37 John McDonagh Mike Rhodes Bryan Hardy Peter Hopper Alan Jennings Lynne Schickert Jeni Shillington Debbie Wolfenden Bob Fergie Jeff Whittam Joan Pellier Kirt Johnson Lorna Lauchlan Sofia Carson Lee Chan Patricia Hopkins Ann Turner Sylvia Szabo Sylvia Szabo Morris Warren Margaret Warren Pat Ainsworth Shorty Turner Mitch Loly John Dance Page 6 26:38 26:52 27:09 28:01 28:47 28:52 29:08 29:08 29:44 29:46 30:13 31:44 32:53 33:18 35:08 37:04 38:39 39:09 39:44 W80 W30 49:13 49:37 50:30 53:13 54:47 55:57 59:12 59:31 60:18 60:18 62:01 63:17 63:17 63:33 65:35 65:41 65:41 69:29 69:31 75:59 76:06 78:59 79:00 83:10 83:13 Ralph again, cheering 10km winner Chris Maher to the finish. Why are so many ladies joining Masters? It's obvious they want to photographed by Frank Smith! The duo are Ali Menegola and Allison Lilly; above is Sofia Carson.

7 Nedlands August 19, 2012 Director: Frank Gardiner 10K RUN Kim Thomas Steve Weller Ian Carson Bjorn Dybdahl John Allen Chris Maher Peter March Sandra Stockman Chris Reid Paul Ankers Bob Lane Sue Bourn Karen March Geoff Bailey Steve Hossack Ross Keane Mark Hewitt Hamish McLeod Charlie Chan Robin King Wayne Taylor Gary Fisher Mark Dawson Jennifer Williams Maree Brown Bob Schickert Gillian Young John Bell Dee Conibeer Julie Wilson Karl Stockman Mike Hale Sally Floyd Geoff Mullins Claire Walkley Jo Clarkson Jim Barnes John Byrne Milton Mavrick Neil McRae John Talbot Sarah Ladwig Sandra Rourke Richard Danks Rochelle Airey Mike Horsfall Brian Bennett Greg Wilson Bob Fawcett M40 37:53 39:12 40:07 40:59 41:03 41:14 42:03 42:37 43:38 45:08 45:09 45:25 45:38 46:16 47:50 47:51 48:09 48:18 48:22 48:33 49:20 49:26 49:31 49:46 50:06 51:28 53:11 53:22 53:25 54:08 54:20 54:25 54:36 54:43 55:11 55:12 56:56 58:00 58:33 59:22 60:52 61:15 62:29 63:26 63:29 64:54 66:38 75:28 77:40 Rod Hamilton Paul Odam Paul Hughes Jim Klinge Bruce Wilson Giovanni Puglisi Tom Tralau Dante Giacomin Margaret Saunders Tom Clarke Raymond Gimi Carol Bowman Dave Roberts Johan Hagedoorn Nick Miletic Peggy Macliver Allan Billington M40 19:18 19:45 20:06 21:01 22:03 22:30 22:40 23:06 23:50 23:53 24:11 24:32 25:48 25:58 26:20 26:26 26:44 5K RUN Delia Baldock Irwin Barrett-Lennard David Carr Ray Attwell Sean Keane Tracey Koziniec Paul Martin Robert Poulinet John Dennehy Merv Jones Kylie Mahony Aldo Giacomin Damien Hanson John Brambley Arnold Jenkins Mitch Loly Kathy Burr Ali Menegola Allison Lilly Pierre Viala Ray Hall Carolyn Fawcett Gail Castensen Julie Wood Sheila Maslen Penny Horsfall Margaret Bennett Mary Heppell Cecil Walkley 27:18 27:29 27:44 27:53 28:15 28:51 29:53 29:57 30:56 31:06 31:07 31:19 31:29 32:16 33:13 35:23 35:26 35:30 35:31 36:12 36:36 36:56 37:51 37:52 39:40 41:41 42:06 42:08 45:31 John McDonagh Mike Rhodes 33:35 34:01 5K WALK Page 7 Start of the Nedlands event (above). Below, it might look confusing but they all really know just where they're going! Peter Hopper David Brown Elaine Dance Jeni Shillington Debbie Wolfenden Jeff Whittam Bob Fergie Kirt Johnson John Smith Ann Turner Rosa Wallis Lorna Lauchlan Elaine Sillery Pat Ainsworth Margaret Warren Leo Hassam Dorothy Whittam Andrea Byrne Melissa Hynds John Dance 10K WALK Bryan Hardy Lynne Schickert Alan Jennings Morris Warren W80 W30 W35 39:32 39:48 41:09 42:05 42:19 42:58 43:00 43:01 43:05 44:55 45:29 45:57 46:55 47:03 47:39 51:49 53:33 56:17 56:18 57:37 75:14 79:10 81:28 98:00

8 You Write EGM this month Vic I think you are correct that the meeting to be held on Sunday 16 September is the first club EGM to be held BEFORE a Sunday run but it is not the first AT a Sunday run. An EGM was held at the Deepwater Point run in 2003 AFTER the run. This was the meeting to change the club name from WA Veterans Athletic Club (WAVAC) to the current Masters Athletics WA (MAWA). As club secretary in 2003 I arranged the meeting and issued the notice. Bob Schickert Bob Schickert. All-rounder Pistorius During the London Olympics we saw quite lot of Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee South African blade runner. Nostalgia ain t what it used to be Dear Editor at large Thank you for bringing back fond memories of that famous x-country run in Kings Park. It is right up there with the time Dick Blom organised a run in Bold Park and told the marshal (Bob Sheehy I think) to turn em left at the at the top of the hill. The only problem was that he forgot to clarify that it was left as the runners headed up the hill not left as the marshall faced them Quite correctly, he is being hailed as a sprinter but in fact he is also no mean marathon man. In the 2007 Comrades he came bounding by me at the 50 km mark, and I believe he came in to the 90km finish at under 10.5 hours. This must make him one of so half the field spent the next 20 minutes trying to find their way out of Bold Park! Hope you are having a great holiday. Regards, Roger (t/c) More nostalgia, for those who remember the Commonwealth Games or even the Rolling Stones, the last artistes to fill Perry Lakes. If the ridiculous Cottesloe Pylon has heritage value, let s hope the old scoreboard is given similar reverence. Learn First-Aid Hi Vic I would urge our Club Members to sign up for one or other course to update their first aid skills. I was staggered to learn very recently on a St Johns refresher programme that a number of the procedures I d been taught a dozen or so years ago (by St Johns!) are now considered unhelpful, some said to be actually harmful. I hope I never have need of practising the first aiding skills I ve been taught but it s good to have them just in case! Mike Anderson the best all round athletes of our time. I also had the good fortune to meet with him the following evening and he gave the impression of being a pleasant and unassuming young man. John Smith Prostate remains a poser A detailed summary of the prostate dilemma, titled To Test or Not to Test, To Cut or Not to Cut has reached Vetrun courtesy of Dr John Bell. It s fascinating reading and should interest most members. But being rather long for these pages, the article is published in Vetrun Extra on our website. You can also find it online at the following link: org/index.php/prostate-cancer-dilemmas-to-test-or-notto-test-to-cut-or-not-tocut/#more John Bell. John Smith. SEPTEMBER 9 CLIFF BOULD TROPHY Race Director: Ivan Brown Sue Bourn, Mark Dawson, Raymond Gimi, Mary Heppell, Janice Matthews, Peter Sullivan, Sue Zlnay, Bob Fergie, Bert & Bridget Carse, Marg Forden SEPTEMBER 16 MATTAGARUP Race Director: Wayne Pantall COMING EVENTS HELPERS Mike Anderson, Delia Baldock, Chris Koeman, Bernard Mangan, Michele and John Mison, Sylvia Szabo, Peter Van Duren, Val Millard SEPTEMBER 23 MULLALOO MAGIC Race Directors: Mike Anderson / Johannes Hagedoorn John Collier, Ray Lawrence, Dalton Moffett, Martin Watkins, Julie Wood, Marie Fitzsimons, Lucio Cecotti, Irwin & Berwine Barrett- Lennard SEPTEMBER 30 WIRELESS HILL Race Director: Chris Reid Graeme Dahl, Carolyn and Bob Fawcett, Peggy Macliver, Nick Miletic, Dalton Moffett, Elaine Sillery, Sylvia B Szabo, Kim Thomas, Rosa Wallis, Bob Fergie, Merv Jones ALL HELPERS Please contact your race director to confirm that you are available for your allocated event. If you are not available, please find a replacement and advise your race director. OCTOBER 7 GUESS YOUR OWN TIME Race Director: Vic Waters Raymond Gimi, Neil McRae, Frank Smith, Merv Jones, Irene Ferris, Jochen and Genevieve Schreyvogel, Alan Jennings, Andrea and John Byrne OCTOBER 14 DARLINGTON DASH Race Director: Delia Baldock Richard and Barbara Blurton, Mike Khan, John Mack, Darryl and Wendy White, Ray Hall, Stan Delandgrafft, Colin Chisholm

9 Vetrun September No 461 (We need 135 Vetruns for September) (Pp1/2/3) New members - Welcome! 1144 JAMES: Keith 1145 DAVEY: Todd 1146 OBORNE: Timothy M ARAVENA-ROMAN: Max 1148 MASON: Mandy You Write... EGM this month Vic I think you are correct that the meeting to be held on Sunday 16 September is the first club EGM to be held BEFORE a Sunday run but it is not the first AT a Sunday run. An EGM was held at the Deepwater Point run in 2003 AFTER the run. This was the meeting to change the club name from WA Veterans Athletic Club (WAVAC) to the current Masters Athletics WA (MAWA). As club secretary in 2003 I arranged the meeting and issued the notice. Bob Schickert Nostalgia ain t what it used to be Dear Editor at large Thank you for bringing back fond memories of that famous x-country run in Kings Park. It is right up there with the time Dick Blom organised a run in Bold Park and told the marshal (Bob Sheehy I think) to turn em left at the at the top of the hill. The only problem was that he forgot to clarify that it was left as the runners headed up the hill not left as the marshall faced them so half the field spent the next 20 minutes trying to find their way out of Bold Park! Hope you are having a great holiday. Regards, Roger (t/c) Learn First-Aid Hi Vic I would urge our Club Members to sign up for one or other course to update their first aid skills. I was staggered to learn very recently on a St Johns refresher programme that a number of the procedures I d been taught a dozen or so years ago (by St Johns!) are now considered unhelpful, some said to be actually harmful. I hope I never have need of practising the first aiding skills I ve been taught but its good to have them - just in case! Mike Anderson All-rounder Pistorius During the London Olympics we saw quite lot of Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee South African blade runner. Quite correctly, he is being hailed as a sprinter but in fact he is also no mean marathon man. In the 2007 Comrades he came bounding by me at the 50 km mark, and I believe he came in to the 90km finish at under 10.5 hours. This must make him one of the best all round athletes of our time. I also had the good fortune to meet with him the following evening and he gave the impression of being a pleasant and unassuming young man. John Smith She s done it again and again! SO came the news that our own world-beating walker, Lyn Ventris, was stepping out in even more astounding style. Lyn walked in the 20km State Open championships on July 29 and smashed the old WR by more than 10 minutes. Her time was Then, on August 19 she broke the WR for 10km by 18 seconds, with a time of 49:15. Prostate remains a poser A detailed summary of the prostate dilemma, titled To Test or Not to Test, To Cut or Not to Cut has reached Vetrun courtesy of Dr John Bell. It s fascinating reading and should interest most members. But being rather long for these pages, the article is published in Vetrun Extra on our website. You can also find it online at the following link: org/index.php/prostate-cancer-dilemmas-to-test-or-notto-test-to-cut-or-not-tocut/#more Grahak Cunningham first home in world s longest race MASTERS member Grahak achieved massive media coverage when he set a new pb and finished first in the New York Self-Transcendence 3,100 Mile Race. Club members who know Grahak will also know that this event is about something far more than victory over his fellow-runners. He is a devotee of guru Sri Chinmoy, who initiated the Self- Transcendence event as a way for entrants to highlight their own human potential. His 5,649 gruelling circuits of a New York block took 43 days, 10 hours and 36 minutes - well before the 51-day cut-off. His previous personal best was in 2009, when he finished second after 44 days and nine hours. Grahak has now completed the epic marathon four times. Grahak ran for up to 18 hours a day and averaged almost 115 kilometres per day. Along the way he broke the Australian 1,000-mile (1,609km) record. As in previous years, instead of stopping at the 3,100 mile point, Grahak pushed on to make his run an even 5000km. The Stockmans another Masters success story MASTERS WA has a proud record. The club operates every week of the year, on the roads and T&F, without any paid admin or club premises. We have worldbeaters. We boast an amazing age-range of fit and healthy people. But for me, camaraderie is Masters greatest virtue. Ordinary people not established athletes join us and improve, through the friendly competition, and advice and help from other members. Most recently we have watched Sandra and Karl Stockman become fitter, faster (and lighter!) She has set new pbs over 10km and the marathon pbs, and Karl s is transformed from occasional runner to the bloke who just knocked nine minutes off his half-marathon pb! Here Sandra charts their progress since joining Masters. KARL Karl joined the club in 2008 and before that he was just running the odd fun run with me. He mainly did the shorter distances for the first couple of years but committed to doing a half marathon in Melbourne in October It was, his first long distance run/race and his time was 2:02. The following month we both signed up for speed classes with the Running Centre, consisting of three sessions per week for six weeks. During this time Karl sustained a number of soft tissue injuries to the calves, quads and hamstrings. He sought physio treatment but still ran, just slowing down a bit and upping the amount of kilometres each week. First marathon Over the summer we both started track running at Masters Tuesday night sessions, but in mid-january 2012 he developed a bursar on the hip. More physio, a cortisone injection, and he stopped running for about two months, working out at the gym instead. After this he slowly built up the kilometres again Page 9

10 and set his sights on running his first marathon, Perth this year, in a time of 4:32. Preparation training wasn t great. A career move and a number of farewell dinners the week before the event didn t help! But he felt good enough at the end to commit to another, the Melbourne marathon in October this year. Karl also ran another half in early August, improving his PB by nine minutes to finish in 1:53. He is now running between 80 and 90km a week and looking to go under 4:20 in Melbourne. Oh yes: he s also lost 15kg since last year! SANDRA I joined the club in April 2005 after moving to Perth from Canberra in 1998, where I ran with the Veterans Athletics Club. The Canberra vets only compete once a month, so I didn t run that much in Canberra, preferring to play golf, which I was much better at (nine handicap). I only competed with the Masters once or twice a year, plus the odd fun run, until I became serious in April 2009 and attended Sunday runs regularly. I never had much of an interest in running a full marathon until Bob Lane suggested I give the Perth 2011 marathon a go. So I started doing longer runs from Darlington on Saturday mornings in April My time for the marathon was 3:43. Like Karl, I felt good enough at the end to want to do another, so committed to running the Melbourne marathon in October 2011, hoping to break 3:30. receiving treatment from physios, sports doctors and massage therapists, all to no avail. I was eventually referred to a neurosurgeon and had MRI, bone and CT scans, which showed up desiccated disks and a cyst on my spine. But I was told it was nothing to worry about (!) and that my problems were just agerelated and not a concern, and was given the go-ahead to run again. During the lay-off, I cycled, walked, did stretching exercises, did light cardio and weights at the gym, read as much as I could about back pain etc and was stricter with my eating regime. I m currently training for Melbourne again in October, hoping for a PB of between 3:15 and 3:20. Melbourne I did more training beforehand this time, though it was still difficult. I work as a Hansard reporter and have to work late nights when Parliament is sitting. I ran 3:23 in Melbourne. Then I did the speed class with Karl, track events in January and 14km runs on Wednesday nights with Marathon Club runners. Injuries This all proved to be too much as I started getting pain in my hamstring. I was diagnosed with everything from facet joint strains to sciatica, a bulging/protracted disk and osteoarthritis, so stopped running in early February while Page 10

11 Kings Park Cross Country Run August 12, 2012 After a bit of a damp start the rain thankfully stayed away until the run was well finished. Although the numbers were down, presumably due to a combination of the weather and the Perth Half Marathon Championship, it was good to see some close competition for the leading places and a few young visitors running very well. I heard that the walkers enjoyed their ìchallengingî course. My job was made much easier by all my willing helpers and as a result we had a very successful event. So a big thank you to marshals Milton, Peter, Richard, Tracey and Sue, timekeeper Alan, recorders Jannie and Bob and drinks Sue and Carol. I trust everyone enjoyed themselves and will, I hope, be back next year. Ralph Henderson Race Director Mill Point Road Championships July 29, 2012 Director: Milton Mavrick 10K RUN Men Kim Thomas 37:56 Tony Smith 39:24 Tom Tralau 43:11 Hamish McLeod 45:12 Ante Perdija M40 39:53 Dante Giacomin M40 46:38 Chris Reid 42:33 Tristan Bell 45:08 John Batta 48:11 John Allen 40:22 Peter March 41:20 Mickey Muroi 42:13 Ross Keane 45:00 Wayne Taylor 47:17 Karl Stockman 50:29 Chris Koemam 54:12 Chris Maher 39:47 Bjorn Dybdahl 40:02 Ian Carson 40:25 Paul Ankers 40:51 Bob Lane 39:31 Paul Hughes 41:37 Graeme Dahl 41:56 Keith Miller 43:32 George Fish 43:37 Brian Bennett 44:02 Charlie Chan 47:23 Mark Hewitt 47:44 Brian Danby 47:55 Gary Fisher 49:32 Frank Gardiner 51:27 Terry Humphrey 56:15 Neil McRae 58:50 John Byrne 60:57 Bob Fawcett 74:18 Jim Klinge 44:23 Mike Khan 50:51 John Bell 55:23 Jim Barnes 55:34 Geoff Mullins 55:37 John Talbot 59:16 Roger Walsh 61:54 John Mack 49:28 Graham Thornton 54:22 Paul Martin 57:00 John Pellier 58:55 Richard Danks 61:41 Irwin Barrett-Lennard 55:30 David Carr 60:08 Cecil Walkley 73:10 Women Trisha Farr 48:19 Monique Fountain 52:46 Tracey Koziniec 56:19 Kris Adrian 62:53 Sandra Stockman 41:41 Sue Bourn 44:45 Claire Walkley 48:17 Janet Jiang 60:07 Paula Koert-Bain 63:48 Karen March 45:13 Robin King 46:44 Carmel Meyer 49:46 Penny Horsfall 82:51 Carol Bowman 49:22 Julie Wilson 52:06 Barb Humphrey 55:53 Jo Richardson 77:27 Peggy Macliver 54:37 Lorraine Lopes 52:21 Kathy Burr 71:24 Mary Heppell 89:59 Visitors V8 38:20 V1 40:42 V2 43:28 V5 56:17 V3 56:55 V9 57:04 5K RUN V4 20:27 Amanda Walker 20:32 Raymond Gimi 24:26 Ivan Brown 25:12 Johan Hagedoorn 25:19 Dave Roberts 26:20 Damien Hanson 27:14 Ray Attwell 27:23 Delia Baldock 27:33 Genevieve Schreyvogel 28:03 V7 28:20 John Dennehy 29:09 Kylie Mahony 30:36 Sandra Rourke 30:42 Aldo Giacomin 31:30 Peter Hopper 32:21 John Brambley 32:47 Arnold Jenkins 33:54 Mitch Loly 34:43 John Ellard 35:41 Carolyn Fawcett 39:00 Julie Wood 39:42 Vic Beaumont 40:04 Sheila Maslen 40:14 10K WALK Men Alan Jennings 79:43 Jeff Whittam 84:11 John Smith 84:13 Women Val Millard 75:23 Joan Pellier 84:59 Ann Turner 89:00 Visitor V6 75:26 5K WALK John McDonagh 36:43 Rosa Wallis 43:05 Lorna Lauchlan W80 44:43 Kirt Johnson 44:44 Sofia Carson 45:25 Lee Chan 45:58 Margaret Warren 49:16 Morris Warren 49:17 Elaine Sillery 49:47 Margaret Bennett 50:05 Dorothy Whittam 51:51 Mike Horsfall 54:46 Pat Miller 55:19 Leo Hassam 55:21 Elaine Ellard 55:57 John Dance 60:28 Andrea Byrne W30 63:49 (ends///////////) State Cross Country Championships August 5, 2012 Director: Committee 8K RUN Men Kim Thomas 34:11 Tony Smith 36:53 Tom Tralau 38:49 Dante Giacomin M40 45:27 Kim Tucker 38:21 Chris Reid 39:08 Tristan Bell 41:21 Rob Colton 42:53 Trevor Scott 33:23 Peter March 38:57 Ross Keane 40:34 Wayne Taylor 43:56 Chris Koemam 50:55 Karl Stockman 52:07 Ian Carson 37:10 Bjorn Dybdahl 37:28 Paul Hughes 38:31 Brian Bennett 40:13 Charlie Chan 44:15 Brian Danby 44:22 Nick Miletic 49:57 Neil McRae 53:07 John Byrne 53:52 Jim Klinge 39:21 Mike Hale 44:52 Mike Khan 48:51 John Talbot 55:10 Greg Wilson 71:48 Bob Schickert 52:17 John Pellier 54:26 David Carr 49:09 Irwin Barrett-Lennard 50:54 Page 11

12 Women Sandra Stockman 40:00 Sue Bourn 42:11 Julie Keeley 56:05 Sue Zlnay 41:34 Karen March 42:51 Robin King 43:23 Delia Baldock 51:13 Margaret Saunders 44:14 Carol Bowman 45:52 Julie Wilson 49:16 Sarah Ladwig 55:24 Peggy Macliver 50:51 Lorraine Lopes 49:22 Lynne Schickert 71:13 5.4K RUN Lisa Searle W35 25:48 George Fish 26:56 Johan Hagedoorn 34:30 Janet Jiang 40:07 Bob Fawcett 45:40 Sylvia Szabo W30 61:30 Sylvia Szabo 61:30 Visitor V2 25:51 2.7K RUN Neil Morfitt 12:26 Paula Koert-Bain 18:16 John McDonagh 18:39 Ray Hall 20:47 Gail Castensen 22:55 Carolyn Fawcett 23:16 Sofia Carson 27:03 Kirt Johnson 27:57 Lee Chan 28:28 Visitor V1 18:05 State Cross Country Kings Park August 12, 2012 Director: Ralph Henderson 10K RUN Chris Maher 42:52 John Allen 43:13 Bjorn Dybdahl 43:17 Ian Carson 43:21 Mickey Muroi 44:00 Jim Klinge 45:36 Chris Reid 46:46 Lisa Searle W35 46:58 Danny Sheehan 47:50 Hamish McLeod 49:37 Charlie Chan 52:37 Mark Hewitt 53:50 Bob Schickert 57:51 Monique Fountain 57:59 Lorraine Lopes 62:54 John Byrne 63:26 John Pellier 64:36 Dennis Hughes 71:46 5K RUN Paul Odam 21:33 Graeme Dahl 22:26 Paul Hughes 22:37 Neil Morfitt 22:49 Ross Keane 24:01 Bruce Wilson 24:07 Chris Koemam 26:37 Carol Bowman 26:38 Gary Fisher 26:52 David Carr 27:09 Dee Conibeer 28:01 Peggy Macliver 28:47 Graham Thornton 28:52 Nick Miletic 29:08 Neil McRae 29:08 Johan Hagedoorn 29:44 Delia Baldock 29:46 Anne Jones 30:13 Sandra Rourke 31:44 John Talbot 32:53 John Dennehy 33:18 Sandra Hughes 35:08 Arnold Jenkins 37:04 Jackie Halberg 38:39 Val Millard 39:09 Gail Castensen 39:44 Visitors V1 27:53 V6 30:24 V2 31:54 V3 32:53 V4 33:10 V5 33:43 7.1K WALK John McDonagh 49:13 Mike Rhodes 49:37 Bryan Hardy 50:30 Peter Hopper 53:13 Alan Jennings 54:47 Lynne Schickert 55:57 Jeni Shillington 59:12 Debbie Wolfenden 59:31 Bob Fergie 60:18 Jeff Whittam 60:18 Joan Pellier 62:01 Kirt Johnson 63:17 Lorna Lauchlan W80 63:17 Sofia Carson 63:33 Lee Chan 65:35 Patricia Hopkins 65:41 Ann Turner 65:41 Sylvia Szabo W30 69:29 Sylvia Szabo 69:31 Morris Warren 75:59 Margaret Warren 76:06 Pat Ainsworth 78:59 Shorty Turner 79:00 Mitch Loly 83:10 John Dance 83:13 Nedlands August 19, 2012 Director: Frank Gardiner 10K RUN Kim Thomas 37:53 Steve Weller 39:12 Ian Carson 40:07 Bjorn Dybdahl 40:59 John Allen 41:03 Chris Maher 41:14 Peter March 42:03 Sandra Stockman 42:37 Chris Reid 43:38 Paul Ankers 45:08 Bob Lane 45:09 Sue Bourn 45:25 Karen March 45:38 Geoff Bailey M40 46:16 Steve Hossack 47:50 Ross Keane 47:51 Mark Hewitt 48:09 Hamish McLeod 48:18 Charlie Chan 48:22 Robin King 48:33 Wayne Taylor 49:20 Gary Fisher 49:26 Mark Dawson 49:31 Jennifer Williams 49:46 Maree Brown 50:06 Bob Schickert 51:28 Gillian Young 53:11 John Bell 53:22 Dee Conibeer 53:25 Julie Wilson 54:08 Karl Stockman 54:20 Mike Hale 54:25 Sally Floyd 54:36 Geoff Mullins 54:43 Claire Walkley 55:11 Jo Clarkson 55:12 Jim Barnes 56:56 John Byrne 58:00 Milton Mavrick 58:33 Neil McRae 59:22 John Talbot 60:52 Sarah Ladwig 61:15 Sandra Rourke 62:29 Richard Danks 63:26 Rochelle Airey 63:29 Mike Horsfall 64:54 Brian Bennett 66:38 Greg Wilson 75:28 Bob Fawcett 77:40 Visitors V9 51:13 V7 56:19 V5 58:40 V8 66:52 5K RUN Rod Hamilton 19:18 Paul Odam 19:45 Paul Hughes 20:06 Jim Klinge 21:01 Bruce Wilson 22:03 Giovanni Puglisi 22:30 Tom Tralau 22:40 Dante Giacomin M40 23:06 Margaret Saunders 23:50 Tom Clarke 23:53 Raymond Gimi 24:11 Carol Bowman 24:32 Dave Roberts 25:48 Johan Hagedoorn 25:58 Nick Miletic 26:20 Peggy Macliver 26:26 Allan Billington 26:44 Delia Baldock 27:18 Irwin Barrett-Lennard 27:29 David Carr 27:44 Ray Attwell 27:53 Sean Keane 28:15 Tracey Koziniec 28:51 Paul Martin 29:53 Robert Poulinet 29:57 John Dennehy 30:56 Merv Jones 31:06 Kylie Mahony 31:07 Aldo Giacomin 31:19 Page 12

13 Damien Hanson 31:29 John Brambley 32:16 Arnold Jenkins 33:13 Mitch Loly 35:23 Kathy Burr 35:26 Ali Menegola 35:30 Allison Lilly 35:31 Pierre Viala 36:12 Ray Hall 36:36 Carolyn Fawcett 36:56 Gail Castensen 37:51 Julie Wood 37:52 Sheila Maslen 39:40 Penny Horsfall 41:41 Margaret Bennett 42:06 Mary Heppell 42:08 Cecil Walkley 45:31 Visitors V11 17:16 V3 20:17 V10 20:57 V1 29:38 V2 36:27 V6 36:37 10K WALK Bryan Hardy 75:14 Lynne Schickert 79:10 Alan Jennings 81:28 Morris Warren 98:00 5K WALK John McDonagh 33:35 Mike Rhodes 34:01 Peter Hopper 39:32 David Brown 39:48 Elaine Dance 41:09 Jeni Shillington 42:05 Debbie Wolfenden 42:19 Jeff Whittam 42:58 Bob Fergie 43:00 Kirt Johnson 43:01 John Smith 43:05 Ann Turner 44:55 Rosa Wallis 45:29 Lorna Lauchlan W80 45:57 Elaine Sillery 46:55 Pat Ainsworth 47:03 Margaret Warren 47:39 Leo Hassam 51:49 Dorothy Whittam 53:33 Andrea Byrne W30 56:17 Melissa Hynds W35 56:18 John Dance 57:37 Visitor V4 40:20 Page 13