Griffith Feral Joggers Bacchus competition week six

Plenty of smiling faces at the finish line as Feral's felt they had nailed the course and were confident all would go well in the 3C Tech Shop Bacchus on the Lake.

In the long course Michael Romeo 41.40 was 1st making his swiftest appearance ever on the Hill, 18sec faster per km.

Two minutes later Adrian Baird 46.48 arrived in 2nd place then competition leader Vince Restagno 39.09 finished 3rd.

Restagno on 224 points should hold his lead and win the competition as he is 23 points ahead of Baird 201 points.

Had Baird not missed race 5, this competition grand final would have been a nail biter.

Tracey Josling was well down in the pack for races 1 and 2, missed races 4-6 then showed up for race 7 finishing 9th and the fastest female for the day.

In 1977 Area News Reported: a relatively unknown local Roy Binks ran third local in the Bacchus.12000 -- 45m13s. 44 years later Binks is still running strongly.

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He was 5th last week ran the 6th fastest time and is 6th in the overall point score. Josling and Binks prove there is still plenty of life in senior runners.

Eva Edgcome-Lucas 19.11 blitzed the Short Course by running 23 seconds per km faster than previous weeks.

Mum Karen Edgcome-Lucas 18.47 was 2nd followed by Savannah Vecchio 22.23.

The rest of the top ten running PBs or near to it. Niva Scremin, Maggie Croce, Callum Vecchio, Jai Kenny, Simon Croce, Lisa Croce and you have to go back a couple of years to find Hamish Gunn running better, 10th place and fastest of the competition, and that will be the new record for this new competition course.

Ella Savage was the fastest female but the top three times are surprisingly close together. The new record is there for the taking next week.

The Short Competition is set up for an interesting grand final with 17 points spreading the top three of Callum Vecchio (186), Anthony Trafilo (173) and Eva Edgcome-Lucas (171) - best of luck to all.

To register for then 3C Tech Shop Bacchus on the Lake visit https://griffithbacchus.org.au/ or google Feral Joggers and scroll to the bottom of this page and go from there.

Discount registrations close 4pm Thursday 25th April.

Race bibs can be collected from the 3C Tech Shop in Yambil St after completing registration.

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