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[Johnso]

New personal best for me in the half! I went out a bit fast in the first 10k and some of the inclines on the way back in got to me a bit but I am very happy with my time - 85:45 on my watch. I beat my previous best by 11 minutes! Just the Melbourne Marathon to go this year - bring it on...

I hope everyone else had great runs and achieved whatever goal you were after and if not, found some resolve to go after it again next time. Sydney certainly turns on the weather for these runs - what an amazing city it is.

A big thank you to all the volunteers that make this race so enjoyable (and hydration-friendly!)

Does anyone know who won the half and their time?

Edited by Johnso, 20 September 2009 - 09:13 AM.

[Bellthorpe]

From News Limited:

NSW man Brett Cartwright crossed the finish line at the Sydney Opera House with a time of one hour, seven minutes and 29 seconds, to win the half marathon.

Maeyama Akiko from Japan came second followed by Peter Eason from the Northern Territory in third place.

The women's half marathon was won by Japan's Mina Nomura with a time of one hour, 15 minutes and 17 seconds.

Magda Karimal-Poulos from NSW came second and Queensland's Sally Bailey came third.

[AndrewCowley]

Bellthorpe, on Sep 20 2009, 09:37 AM, said:

NSW man Brett Cartwright crossed the finish line at the Sydney Opera House with a time of one hour, seven minutes and 29 seconds, to win the half marathon.

Gulp.  Holy crap that is fast.  91:30 for me, nearly 10 mins better than my previous PB, so happy with that.  The hills in the 2nd half killed my sub 90 dreams!

Thanks to the organisers and the volunteers.  I thought it was run very smoothly.

Edited by AndrewCowley, 20 September 2009 - 02:16 PM.

[Gronk]

From Blackmore Twitter a/c

# Blackmores Full Marathon winner Julius Seurei in 02:17:07 - congratulations!8 minutes ago from Tweetie

# Blackmores Half Marathon winner Mina Nomura from Japan 01:15:176 minutes ago from Tweetie

# Wheelchair Marathon winner Kurt Fearnley in 01:36:43 congratulations!!3 minutes ago from Tweetie

# Body & Soul Bridge Run winner Hollie Emery in a fantastic time of 00:30:57!half a minute ago from Tweetie

http://twitter.com/bsrf09

Edited by Gronk, 20 September 2009 - 10:39 AM.

[Nurse25]

Just got home from finishing my first ever 9km bridge run, did it in 53min 50secs    (was aiming for under 1hr)
Felt alot warmer than the forecast of 24 deg - the sun had some serious heat in it!

[guff]

Quote

# Wheelchair Marathon winner Kurt Fearnley in 01:36:43 congratulations!!3 minutes ago from Tweetie

Wow.  Smashed his record from last year.

I had a solid hitout in the marathon, well off PB, but considering a distinct lack of training I was more than happy with both my time and effort.  Congratulations to the winners and a massive thanks to the organisers and especially the volunteers, from my perspective everything went as smoothly as could be hoped.

Highlight of the day: a hi-five from Naoko Takahashi at 26km.

[wildcoyte]

Hi all i ran the 9k bridge run and was a little disapointed with my time as i was aming for under 30 but ran it in 36:42! saw some coolrunners out on the 9k coures running and we gave each other some support so well done to everyone who entered!! and a big congrats to nurse25 on your fantasitc time and getting under the 1hr mark in that heat!!

WC

[ChookLegsMonkeyBoy]

Lovely morning to be running the Half-marathon. Not a PB for me (1:40 or so), but I'm very happy with this time, especially as I've not done any specific training for this event (am aiming for 6-ft Track again next year). The short, sharp inclines still hurt, though, and I'm VERY glad that I didn't enter the full marathon.
Cheers,
ChookLegs.....

[Android]

Wow, what a day !

I wasn't holding very high hopes for a good finish due to a dislocated shoulder only last week but I fought through the pain and finished with a PB 3:12:33 (by my watch but the missus reckons the finishing clock was much lower than this so I'll have to wait for the official results to come through). It was only marginally faster than my Gold Coast time but given the huge difference in the course and conditions I'm thrilled with the result    

I kept company with a guy for the first 20kms that was running with a broken wrist so for a while there it would have looked like the battle of the walking (sorry, running) wounded !

Well done again to the CR cheer squad at Circular Quay, even though I wasn't wearing any CR gear just seeing and hearing you guys gave me a huge lift.

Edited by Android, 20 September 2009 - 01:31 PM.

[frankie17]

Top morning out. Very well organised. Top marks. Running over the bridge was sssspecial. City west link was not the bogie man I expected.

Personally, no cramps due to dinosaurs, gu Chomps and plenty o'sports drink.

All this led to a >15 min on the marathon so will sleep well tonight and look forward to no cramps at six foot next year (he says hopefully).

Edited by frankie17, 21 September 2009 - 11:09 AM.

[Daz7]

Ran the 9km and had a great time. My first ever event, so was a little awestruck at the numbers on the course but got used to that quickly enough.

Turned in a 51.57 and with only 3 months since starting running, I'm very chuffed.

[The Sloth]

Short report. Full to follow.
Target 2:45:00
Actual 2:49:42
PB ~8.5 min

Pretty happy.

[sook54]

I am very happy with my 1:57:43 in the half, great birthday pressie to myself!

[Hamburglar]

Marathon

Men

Julius Kiprotich – 2:17:07
Koji Taniguchi – 2:26:15
Jeremey Horne - 2:33:48

Women

Naoko Tsuchiya - 2:52:46
Norie Furuya - 2:59:08
Verity Tolhurst - 3:03:33.

Half Marathon

Men

Brett Cartwright - 67:29
Maeyama Akiko - 67:37
Peter Beason - 69:01

Women

Mina Nomura - 75:17
Magda Karimal-Poulos - 79:29
Sally Bailey - 81:08.

Bridge Run

Men

Tim Rowe - 26:58.
Jason Harrison - 28:22
Earl O‟Brien - 28:42

Women

Hollie Emery - 30:57
Kerry Lang - 31:50
Melissa Van De Water 32:50

Edited by Hamburglar, 20 September 2009 - 02:27 PM.

[Hamburglar]

Full results here

Pretty impressive turn around on results. Amazing.

Edited by Hamburglar, 20 September 2009 - 02:26 PM.

[aDrain]

Edited - duplicate

Edited by aDrain, 20 September 2009 - 08:59 PM.

[Spud]

Slow women's mara winning time.

[CulturalStereotype]

am very happy with my result - the race today went pretty well to plan (apart from a couple of "rest stops" which cost me a minute or two).  stuck with the 3:30 pacers til around 24k, so thanks guys for getting me that far.  got to the 32k mark very close to the target of 2:40 and dragged myself home over the last 10.2k for a pb of 3:36.  

The section of the run from re-entering the city til getting off the western distributor was very hard on the legs for someone with no hill training and an only one training run >30k but i found the temperature quite comfortable so my acclimatisation to hot/humid running served me well at least.  

so thanks again to the pacers great work. also nice to meet AuntyK along the way, i saw you just behind me around circular quay so looks like you would have done a 5 min pb, congrats! also bouquets to the organisers, no complaints except that that starting two runs close together made the toilets hard to get too!

[aDrain]

3:50 (Marathon PW) Disappointed. Was wanting the 3:30 (or maybe 3:45). Obviously need to HTFU.

Poor start dashing from porta loos to start line as the MC was announcing the 1 minute warning to marathoners. Who put the toilets at the bottom of the hill for Pete's sake?

Around 10k was asking myself Why? Interestingly enough I also ask Why around the 3k for City to Surf. Obviously a 25% pattern forming.

Was a couple of minutes under 3:30 pace, but then ... the whole city to Norton St and back again is something about which I shall not talk.

Discovered (after all said & done) that one of the 3:45 pacers is a long lost friend, so that was another plus.

Didn't make it to Orient (doh!) but did meet a few lovely CRs before and after.


Note to all ... when one has Vanilla Endura'd through the race the freebie Lemon/Lime Gu in recovery village tastes disgusting! Won't do  that again.  

Edited by aDrain, 20 September 2009 - 02:38 PM.

[Johnso]

Results are up: http://results.au.ev...sp?EventID=3478

Edit: Sorry, I see the link is already posted.

Edited by Johnso, 20 September 2009 - 02:45 PM.

[aDrain]

Nurse25, on Sep 20 2009, 12:58 PM, said:

Felt alot warmer than the forecast of 24 deg - the sun had some serious heat in it!

Mac weather widget from BOM has current temp at 26.2C

[Colin]

Hamburglar, on Sep 20 2009, 02:22 PM, said:

Full results here

Pretty impressive turn around on results. Amazing.

With the electronic timing, it could even be live/real time...pretty standard stuff these days...especially with an expensive 'big city' marathon

Spud, on Sep 20 2009, 02:30 PM, said:

Slow women's mara winning time.

And the men's too , especially the depth of performances across the board... one sub 2:20, two sub 2:30 ,sub 3 gets you top 50, sub 80 top 25 , 4:12 is a better than average performance etc

Just goes to show that in terms of international credibility and standing a marathon needs more than just thousands in the field, running across a bridge etc.

[CulturalStereotype]

HotnSweaty, on Sep 20 2009, 02:30 PM, said:

am very happy with my result - the race today went pretty well to plan (apart from a couple of "rest stops" which cost me a minute or two).  stuck with the 3:30 pacers til around 24k, so thanks guys for getting me that far.  got to the 32k mark very close to the target of 2:40 and dragged myself home over the last 10.2k for a pb of 3:36.  

The section of the run from re-entering the city til getting off the western distributor was very hard on the legs for someone with no hill training and an only one training run >30k but i found the temperature quite comfortable so my acclimatisation to hot/humid running served me well at least.  

so thanks again to the pacers great work. also nice to meet AuntyK along the way, i saw you just behind me around circular quay so looks like you would have done a 5 min pb, congrats! also bouquets to the organisers, no complaints except that that starting two runs close together made the toilets hard to get too!

forgot to say thank you for everyone who turned up to cheer on the runners, the crowd support was amazing!

[wildcoyte]

I'll be in for the half nxt year!! i'll hope to do a sub 100 and get around 85-90mins in the half next year i'll just have to learn not to go out way to hard and in all the twilight run comming up i'll be running the 10k so i can get my milagle up and then do the 10ks durning the nxt years x season

Edited by wildcoyte, 20 September 2009 - 03:01 PM.

[walshy2]

The Marathon beat me today

A combination of a phenomenal blow up and cramping put paid to my sub 3:15 goal

Went through half way in 93:XX which was a little quicker than I wanted but felt ok

Around 23km felt the 1st twinge in both Calfs.

Went through 30km still on pace in 2:14:28, still holding just under 4.5 min km's but it was beginning to become a struggle. I was having trouble staying with Sailaway (3:15 pacer) and would only catch him at each drink station. I could feel my pace becoming slower and I was starting to get dizzy spells, so was drenching the head at each drink station.

Was getting progressively slower through each km's and went through 37 km in 2:49:28, still on target for a sub 3:15, but now I was really struggling as both my Calfs were really cramping badly. Tried stretching and had to take a bit of a walk up a couple of hills.

When the other 3:15 pacer (Steve Hume I think), went by me soon after I knew that a bucket load of HTFU would not have been enough to get me home sub 3:15. I had hit the wall and from here it would be a matter of just trying to manage my cramping and my blow up and get home as best I could

In my mind I reset my target and the aim was to get in sub 3:30

The final 4 km's were just dreadful as my calfs were contorting and my running became this strange combination of running, shuffling and hobbling. I was not alone in this department and me and similiarly afflicted guys tried to spur each other on.

With about 1.5km's to go despite my own misery I was over the moon when Ratdog came by me, looking very strong and I knew he would get his goal of sub 3:25. Well done mate, I really was happy for you when you came by, congrats on a terrific run

My final 2.2km took me 17:57 and I came over the line in 3:25:09 by my watch, which should see a net sub 3:25.

I'd like to thank all the Coolrunners who gave me encouragement out there today, Horrie, Brick, Moh, Ratdog, Neil Anderson for the kind words down Hickson Road, Seris who tried to spur me on just when I knew the wheels were becoming very shaky. And thanks to all the other Coolrunners for the encouragement along the way.
Thanks Hamburglar for the support when I saw you out there on your bike at various points
Thanks Sailaway and Steve?, for pacing and sorry I couldn't stay on the bus


Thanks to the Coolrunner cheersquad, you guys rock.

Caught the train back to Milson's Point and had a chat to BOD. Thanks mate for the words of encouragement. I was a bit disappointed but you put it in perspective when you pointed out it's still a 20 minute Marathon PB for me.

Oh well now to plan the next goal

walshy

Edited by walshy2, 20 September 2009 - 08:02 PM.

[SteveNorden]

Very impressive that the full results are up so quickly.  I downloaded a finishers certificate for the half marathon but it only has the gun time on it, not the net time   1:59:57 on the certificate would have been much nicer than 2:03:44.

Overall for a large city event I thought the organisers and volunteers did a great job this year.

[yondi]

I had a good day. Ran just under 2hr pace until 13k then just couldn't keep it up. Ended up with a net time of 2:10:25. I'm happy with that.
It was pretty hot out there and I could only think about the poor marathoners to follow.
Thanks for a great Go Yondi from the cheer squad. Mr Yondi took some photos I will post them in the gallery.There's a great one of Chelbub and Linda's mum waving here pom poms(but I don't know Linda's CR name).

Great to meet Budo,Joe and Action. Sorry Budo I didn't see you guys anywhere along the course.
Nice to see Chelbub and Kazz and Carmen along the way who where all looking great.
Chelbub's starlight foundation shirt looked fantastic and good job on raising so much money for a good cause.

Great run, Mick, in the marathon look forward to reading your report.

Thanks to all the volunteers and organisers for a great day I thought it all ran very smoothly. I thought the seeding was much better this year (although what would I know as i am right at the back).

YONDI

Edited by yondi, 20 September 2009 - 04:25 PM.

[RL44]

Well done Walshy and others.

Sometimes the ones that come easy are quickly forgotten and the ones you work have much more meaning.

Congrats to you all.

(As a side note I haven't run for nearly 2wks now, so it'll be Canberra 2010 for me!)

[Crunchie]

Not the best day for me.  I ran the half and ran it 4 minutes slower than last year.  I didn't think I'd smash last year's time but was expecting it to be at least a little bit better, considering I've run a lot more and as I was originally aiming for the marathon until 6 weeks ago, had done several runs longer than 21.1km.  

My times across shorter events have come down in that time, so maybe I just had a bad day.  For some reason the legs were sluggish today- possibly due to my ultra-long self-imposed taper (ie laziness over the last few weeks).  Lesson learnt.  Anyway, I take the view that completing a half marathon is an achievement regardless, and am trying not to be too hung up on times.

I have no complaints about the organisation/ general running of the event, everything seemed to flow smoothly from where I was (at the back of the pack).  

Glad to hear others had a good day.

Forgot to add a thanks to the cheersquad, you guys were great!

[lloydy]

Thanks Coolrunner cheer squad, really helped me through that zone with a 1k to go. Thanks also to the fellow Strider that got me over the last few hundread metres to get a pb of 3.42. Hot out on the Western Dist, reflective heat really hit mebut just had enough to get home. Have to say, it is very well organised event.

[Android]

Hamburglar, on Sep 20 2009, 02:22 PM, said:

Full results here

Pretty impressive turn around on results. Amazing.

Does it look a little strange to others that there are a large number of people who finished in the top 200 that have the same gun time and net time ?

I counted at least 10 seconds from the gun going off to when I ran over the timing mat but they have me with the same gun and net time ?

Edited by Android, 20 September 2009 - 03:30 PM.

[sook54]

1:57:43 half-mara chip time - 2:04:xx gun time, took nearly 6 mins to cross the start line after unbelievably long queue at the loos to start (got out of there with 30secs to gun time after having queued for half an hour!).

Ran to 16km or so with Strider Lenore, she was great company and we kept each other honest with drink/walk breaks and chatting to make sure we weren't going anaerobic too soon. I think I probably erred on the side of enjoying myself a bit too much in the first half of the race, and my lack of long runs since coming back from injury was definitely felt in the last 2km, but overall I am thrilled with my birthday present to myself!

Mr Sook also did magnificently in the bridge run, coming in sub-1 hour.

Champagne is on the menu for the party tonight!

[lloydy]

Android, on Sep 20 2009, 03:22 PM, said:

Does it look a little strange to others that there are a large number of people who finished in the top 200 hundred that have the same gun time and net time ?

I counted at least 10 seconds from the gun going off to when I ran over the timing mat but they have me with the same gun and net time ?

Are there split times, can't find them?

[Android]

lloydy, on Sep 20 2009, 03:27 PM, said:

Are there split times, can't find them?

Yep, if you scroll through the overall results instead of using the quick search you will see the gun and net times.

[rachinaus]

I could put together a whole list of reasons why I think it didn't work for me today but at the end of the day I just didn't run as fast as I wanted to.

Gun time 4:08:07, Net time 4:06:34.

Marathons are tough and unpredictable.....but you knew that right?

A big thanks to the CR and Striders cheer squads - put a smile on my face when not much else was, and the 4 hour pacer who tried to pick me up around the 36km mark, and Loco66 for keeping me company for a few hundred metres with some words of encouragement. Well done to everyone taking part  - a tough day at the office so extra well done if you got what you came for or better.

Great to see everyone at the Orient afterwards

Disappointed - yes, defeated - no way (but maybe next year now though eh? - see you at Canberra)

At the end of the day...noone died.

Cheers

[craigus]

At the start of this year, I said I might do a HM this year – I can now proudly say I’ve done two!  Finished with net time of 1.47.54 – a big 5min20 improvement on SMH so I am very happy.

Started out well and kept the 110 min pacers in sight most of the way.  Quickly realised they must have been running on gun time, so I thought stick close to them and you’ll be under 1.50 on nett .   Well done pacers – I think you were pretty much spot on.

I really found the second half difficult – especially from the turnaround near the rowing club and back up the hill toward Norton St – you were looking directly sun, very little shade and no real breeze to speak of.  

I think it was Allrounder that I passed at about 17km.  Gave a GCR and the response was “gee it’s a struggle today.”  I couldn’t have agreed more.

The support from the CR cheer squad in front of the MCA was great.  Thanks guys for the cheers – it was exactly what I needed with 1km to go and fading badly.

I won’t start a rant about the HM bag collection set up - I want to keep this a positive post (the volunteers were doing a great job in what must have been difficult circumstances).  Overall, it was a great day and still pretty chuffed about the pb.

Congrats to everyone who ran today – especially the marathoners – it must have been hot out there for you.  I hope there were plenty of PB’s.

[bobbys]

Hi all,

Will post a full report when i get home. Great race - ran a 3:49:32 nett. Totally ecstatic has if I hadn't gotten cramps at 34km,i I could have gone 3:30.

BobbyS

[ChookLegsMonkeyBoy]

sook54, on Sep 20 2009, 03:26 PM, said:

1:57:43 half-mara chip time -........ overall I am thrilled with my birthday present to myself!

Champagne is on the menu for the party tonight!

Well done Sook! I'm enjoying some wine tonight. Not my birthday, but will indulge nevertheless.

[AndrewCowley]

My HM net time is 10 seconds slower than the time I recorded on my stopwatch.  10 seconds is nothing to worry about, however I do wonder how it can be that much out.  I started and stopped my stopwatch in sync with stepping across the blue mats.

Edited by AndrewCowley, 20 September 2009 - 03:48 PM.

[Gadfly]

I made it!  and a PB too!!     Net time 2:30:58.... 5 min PB!!!    I'll post a full report later, but just happy to get through without my feet blowing up (they are feeling it now though).    It was hot out there on the way back up towards Norton St....thanks to moondust for helping me through it.    

I had a great time out there today and could really feel the benefits of the training I'd done, despite the injury difficulties.   Cheer squad were awesome (and I was glad to be able to join them for the marathoners coming in), volunteers were great and it all seemed to go smoothly.

Looking forward to having another crack at the PB early next year some time.   Well done to all who ran today...

sook54, on Sep 20 2009, 03:26 PM, said:

1:57:43 half-mara chip time - 2:04:xx gun time...
Mr Sook also did magnificently in the bridge run, coming in sub-1 hour.
Champagne is on the menu for the party tonight!

Well done to Mr and Mrs Sook - enjoy the celebrations tonight !  (and Happy Birthday too Sook   ).

Edited by Gadfly, 20 September 2009 - 03:54 PM.

[Gadfly]

SteveNorden, on Sep 20 2009, 03:06 PM, said:

I downloaded a finishers certificate for the half marathon but it only has the gun time on it, not the net time   1:59:57 on the certificate would have been much nicer than 2:03:44.

Ahh, I also printed out the screen grab that has Net and Gun time and placing in category on it....  You most certainly want a sub 2 up there in big print!

[lloydy]

Android, on Sep 20 2009, 03:31 PM, said:

Yep, if you scroll through the overall results instead of using the quick search you will see the gun and net times.

but not the halfway time compared to result  - not that I need reminded I was so slow on the second 21k!

[blkbox]

1:50:50 net time and a new half pb for me.

Congrats to all those who "scored" their goals today.

Will put a full report on my blog later - now I need to eat and drink, all that cheering has taken it out of me  

[Jogger]

So does that make Uncle Dave as first CR home in the marathon ?
19th place 2:49:44, a bit slower than his norm.

[markmik]

Atfer three years of doing the 4 km with the kids we up graded to the 9 km run (if you can call it that). After a near 20 minutes wait to get to the start line we started the race in hot conditions. Lots of people throughout the whole race and the drink stations were perfect. Got to enjoy watching the 3:30 hour to 4 hour Marathon finishers. And finished the day with an enjoyable trip over the habour in a ferry followed by brunch at North Sydney.

Congrats to all the finishers and PBs.

[Android]

lloydy, on Sep 20 2009, 03:53 PM, said:

but not the halfway time compared to result  - not that I need reminded I was so slow on the second 21k!

Sorry I misunderstood and yes you're right, no halfway split times up yet. Maybe they'll add these later ?

It'd be great if they could take a leaf out of the book of the Gold Coast Marathon and lay down mats to give you 5km splits, a fantastic luxury but very useful for post race analysis !

Edited by Android, 20 September 2009 - 04:06 PM.

[CantPaceIt]

That Bridge run seeding was a disaster!
What is the point of putting people into groups based on estimated finishing time if it's not enforced?
I lined up in the bluegreen area on the grass thinking that they would let us all go before the yellows and then the reds. I don't know what the hell happened but we were standing around for ages and ages and we ended up being almost the last to start the run! Why were yellows and reds allowed to go ahead of us? Why were they not fenced off?

As a result of that nonsense at the start, I may as well have carried a football in one arm because all I did the whole run until the last downhill was sidestep. I can't believe that after entering the front group I was forced to run after and alongside prams, little kids and walkers. A comparison of my times illustrate the absurdity of the situation. Blue Group, Gun- 54:xx, Net 37:5x

CPI

[AndrewCowley]

Johnso, on Sep 20 2009, 09:12 AM, said:

New personal best for me in the half! I went out a bit fast in the first 10k and some of the inclines on the way back in got to me a bit but I am very happy with my time - 85:45 on my watch. I beat my previous best by 11 minutes! Just the Melbourne Marathon to go this year - bring it on...

Wow, that's a huge improvement.  Would love to get some insights into your training.

[CantPaceIt]

oops

Edited by CantPaceIt, 20 September 2009 - 04:08 PM.

[walshy2]

JoggerK, on Sep 20 2009, 03:56 PM, said:

So does that make Uncle Dave as first CR home in the marathon ?
19th place 2:49:44, a bit slower than his norm.

Kev, I think someone said before the race Uncle Dave was helping pace someone?