Bronze, Silver, Gold’n Ponds – Easter 2013

Wednesday, 3 April 2013

Bronze, Silver, Gold’n Ponds – Easter 2013

Great news for Bushflyers ,  who came equal second in the interclub challenge at the Easter weekend competition at Bendigo. The large contingent made up of long standing Bushflyers, coupled with families (left) attending their first Easter competition (Barnett and Miller families) , meant that Bushflyers were able to put in an outstanding  effort.

Standout performances were at both ends of the age spectrum with Tristan Miller and Noah Poland (right) taking first and third respectively while Jenny Hawkins took first in the Women 65 years, Pauli Piiroinen (below left) first in Men 75 years  and Alan Sargaent second in men 55 years AS. Patrick Miller took second place in Men 14 years, Ewan Barnett first on the sprint day but the technical terrain got the better of him over the later days.  Bushflyers Australian representative runners Oliver Poland and Lachlan Dow continued to stand proud for the club with Olle taking first in Men 17-20 Elite on 3 of the 4 days and taking out first place overall, while Lachlan Dow took third overall in Men 20E and first place in the Australian University championships.

A standout performance was made by Andrew Barnett who showed consistent form across all events and took out fourth place overall in the Men’s 17-20 E class.

Bushflyers will again form a substantial part of the JWOC team with both Oliver Poland (right) and Andrew Barnett having been selected to represent Australia in Czech Republic in July this year. Well Done.

Overall it was a fabulous carnival, well run and with lots varied technical terrain. Other Bushies who made the trip were Ross S, Alan S, Valerie B, Dennis and Annette T, Harding family, Ari and Jesse P, Coral D.

Points of interest: Flag launched at its first interstate event, Valerie took a chunk out of her knee, an ant took a chunk out of Dennis’s foot, Toni took a face plant, Natalie Miller and Carol Harding turned up with matching boots, Alison Miller did an amazing job pushing a pram around gold mining terrain and not content with gold, silver and bronze in the events many ventured deep into the underground mines in search of more gold.