XCR 26 Round 5 Calder Park Relays

This round we were greeted by a very fine day with a slight breeze kicking up in the latter part of the day. The main challenge I found with this course was the long straights, but otherwise not a bad run, no hills! We had much better numbers than previous rounds with 48 athletes competing across all catergories, although it was our open teams that benefited most with 4 four women’s teams and 5 full men’s teams and our first Div 7 men’s team for the season. Highlights for the day included our open women’s Premier team finishing second and our Premier men’s team 3rd, on the podium together again.

It was all hands to the deck to get these teams together so thanks to all those who agreed to run the long course including three junior athletes; Aiden Muscat, Leanne Ellis and Bon Martin. Thanks to Nick Tavendale for bringing the marquee and Peter Cashin and Alistair McDonald for undertaking the AV duties.

Open Women

With good open numbers, we fielded four full teams, and we had our best result for the Premier team, with a 2nd place. Amy Cashin led the way completing the 7.2km course in a time of 24 minutes and 27 seconds in what also appears to be the fastest women’s time of the day. Ebony Dodemaide was second with Janae Mackrell third, U20 Leanne Ellis fourth and Maddy Button rounding out the team. In the other divisions our Div 2 was 6th, Div 4 was 5th and the Div 5 was 6th.

Ladders

Premier - 3rd

Div 2 - 5th

Div 4 - 5th

Div 5 - 10th

Open Men

Good numbers in the open men’s and with some assistance from our juniors, we a had a solid suite of results. In the premier team it was Zayd Al Sayd lead out the team handing to Adbi Haji Ali then Liam Cashin who our fastest and posted the third fastest time of the day in 20 minutes and 53 seconds. In fourth was Callum Drake then Nathan Pearce with Ben Chamberlain finishing for the team. In the Div 3 we had a solid team with Michael Masseni making a comeback and U18 Bon Martin fortifying the result with the team finishing 4th. The Div 5 was 6th, Div 6 was 5th and the Div 7 was 6th.

Ladders

Premier 2nd

Div 3 - 7th

Div 5 - 8th

Div 6 - 7th

Div 7 - 17th

Juniors

Just three teams in the junior events, the U20 3×7.2km and the women’s U18 and U16s 3×3.6km. In the Men’s u20 Jackson Wirght ran well to post a time of 22 minutes and 56 seconds with Mitchell and Riley parks in support and the team finishing 6th. In the women’s U18 team, Keely Williams, Sofia Mbote and Shivika Dubey made up the team which was 7th. Ella McDonald and Hasel Hew ran well in the U16s team but was incomplete unfortunately and the team finished 9th.

Ladders

Men U20 - 4th

Women U20- 6th

Women U18 - 8th

Women U16 - 7th

Men U16 - 7th