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On the Usain Women, Milla Key was never challenged for the lead, although big improver Annabelle Davey, and experienced campaigner Claire Adams, both took a number of individual legs. Consistency saw Eleanor Williams and Rebecca Neylon in second and third place; Milla reclaimed the yellow jersey. Claire won the Sprint and the green jersey is almost assured; Paula Davey won the Hillclimb and has the polkadot, but is being pushed by Hannah Adams. Heartfelt thanks to the control collectors who came back looking very soggy but cheerful.
Every year we like to throw something different into the mix.
Park sprinting is a different ball game to campus sprinting, and you need to adjust tactics accordingly. Royal Park is a Melbourne icon, famous as home to the Zoo. The new map featured trees — hundreds of them. Not to mention thickets and vegetation boundaries. It was all about keeping to a line, staying confident but not cocky , then making a snap decision about which way to hit the flag. Several longer legs broke things up. While the map looks deceptively simple, there were plenty of tales of woe. High visibility, fast terrain and direct sight lines all lead to errors see flag, run to flag, wrong flag!
On the Mo Men, Will Gardner led from start to finish, winning in Kerrin Rattray was second, and Bruce Arthur third. This was enough to give Bruce the yellow jersey, after main contenders Brodie and Aston were absent, but Kerrin is only three points behind, and is one race in arrears so is looking like the favourite.
Brody McCarthy made it five wins from five, and will take home a green jersey next Sunday uncontested. As for the hill climb, it was short, but steep! There was an unprecedented 7-way tie for the minor placings on Mo. Brody took the 10 points, but Shane Mallia was second, which was enough to have the polkadot jersey handed across to him. Shane will need to barrack for Bruce to hold the yellow next week.
A small error by Liis Johansson on the second leg of the Mo Women opened the door for Tash Key, who kept the lead until leg 9. Liis drew level, then drew fractionally ahead. The 10 points for Liis saw her take an unassailable lead in the yellow jersey competition. Lanita Steer was third, and great consistency in her first senior year will see her runner up overall.
The sprint leg points were shared between Tash and Mel Gangemi, bringing Mel into green jersey contention; current holder Lanita will have to throw all her eggs in one basket next week and hope to score maximum points. Mel won the climb today, but Clare Brownridge will almost certainly keep the polkadot jersey. Jensen is back in yellow, but needs to ensure he scores enough points next week to stay in front of Mason Arthur and Callum White.
Fifth place on the jersey ladder, Ian Dodd, has asked me to point out that he is older than the top four put together.
Rod took out the climb, and has only been beaten once this series, so the polkadot jersey is all his. Janine made a couple of uncharacteristic errors this week see flag, run to flag, wrong flag! Kate Francis mispunched today so could not claim points on the sprint leg; however she has enough up her sleeve to hold onto it — unless Janine ends up winning the yellow, then the green will revert to Heather — see how complicated it is? I blew my chances by veering left at the junction en route to On the climb, Heather and Sarah shared the points; Janine is in the polkadot jersey.
Jack Sweeney was third. Ashley won the sprint and the climb; Evan Gavens is only half a point clear of Thomas Caristo in the green jersey comp, and Thomas is a point ahead of Evan in the polkadot comp! Both youngsters have been out there nearly every week doing a great job. The yellow jersey comp is not over yet though, with Milla, Annabelle and Claire Adams all vying for it in the final race — there has been some great competition amongst our junior girls this year.
Claire will take home another green jersey after winning the sprint today; however a four way tie on the climb did not help resolve the winner of the polkadot jersey, with Paula Davey only a few points in front of Hannah and Claire. Danish coach in residence Mikkel updated the map and set the Latrobe courses, to give us something to remember him by.
During his stay in Victoria, Mikkel did a lot of work on the Latrobe map to bring it up to date, and to add a new dimension of the vertical kind! Before he left he set the courses, leaving us with something to remember. This series is all about skilling up — and we learned the new skill of reading a multi level map. The stairs were all marked with a letter at the top and bottom, but the top level was mapped separately and shown off to the left of the ground level map.
The trick was to find one end of the stair you needed, then get up or down to the right level. Consensus afterwards was to be on the ground level where possible, as that had more opportunity for taking diagonals; but most of us were just happy to find a set of stairs that were in the vicinity of the next control, get onto the right level, then navigate on that level.
So — with final jersey points up for grabs, a very hot day, and another big race tomorrow, there were two different approaches. Those with jerseys in the bag sat back and cruised through the sprint and hillclimb legs, opening the door for others to step up and grab 10 points. But those whose jerseys were on the line went for broke!
On the Sprint leg, which was short and tricky and had stairs, Glen White was the winner, and there was a four way tie for second. Bruce was clearly determined to earn the Polkadot Jersey with a win on the stair climb, and he took the Jersey home.
If you've been exercising indoors a lot, switch to some more outdoor exercise to benefit from the fresh air and sunshine. After 3 weeks, Brodie has the yellow jersey firmly in his grasp. Think of all the butterflies emerging, flowers blooming, the bees buzzing, and the smell of freshly-mowed grass. Spring is a great time to check the age of your makeup. Pre-allocated start times from And so another Sprint Into Spring series came to a glorious end — thanks to the organising team, the advisors, planners, mappers, equipment bringers, timing system gurus, and to all of YOU for supporting us in our fifth season.
Lanita Steer continued her consistent form to finish third; in doing so she was runner up in the Yellow Jersey comp, ahead of Tash. Lanita won the Sprint leg, and claimed the Green Jersey. Clare Brownridge has an iron grip on the Polkadot Jersey, and she dominated this category again in All series, the Sally Pearson women have been locked in battle, and for a while there I was expecting a deadlock. But it was the men who provided the tightest of competitions in the end. Jensen Key was fourth, but it was enough to keep him in Yellow at the end of the day; Callum was second, and Mason Arthur third.
Rod Phillips won the Polkadot jersey, but in the final race was unable to beat Wayne Love on the race up the stairs. Who would have the edge today? Would there be another tie? Janine won the day, Jenny Bourne was second, and Heather third, handing Janine a one point victory and a Yellow Jersey; Heather was second and Sarah Davies, who has been in red hot form, was third.
Kate also won the Climb, but Heather ended up with the Polkadot Jersey. Last but definitely not least — probably the most dominant performance of SIS was by junior speedster Ashley White. Ashley scored 50 points in the Yellow and Green jersey comps on the Usain Bolt course, and 49 points in the Polkadot comp.
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Of course you can only have one jersey, and it was great to see the Green go to Thomas Caristo, and the Polkadot go to Evan Gavens — both youngsters came along nearly every week, and had a great time out there. Today though, it was Maya Bennette who had the fastest time, Luca Bogdanovits was second, and Milla third. Annabelle Davey was the jersey runner up, while points for third overall were shared between Maya, Luca, and Claire Adams, showing just how close the girls comp was this year.
Paula also won the climb, and the Polkadot jersey, another repeat winner. And so another Sprint Into Spring series came to a glorious end — thanks to the organising team, the advisors, planners, mappers, equipment bringers, timing system gurus, and to all of YOU for supporting us in our fifth season. There are far more buildings, paths, courtyards, angles, nooks and crannies.
Congratulations to everyone involved for a great day and a fitting finale to Sprint Into Spring. Home Carnivals Sprint Into Spring How to exercise outdoors. Draw , paint or photograph spring scenery. Drawing is fun and relaxing and even if you've never tried it before, you never know——you might be quite good. Painting requires an eye for color, and there is plenty about in spring as the flowers, blossom and brighter colors start to emerge. And if you enjoy photography, spring is a lovely time to experiment with plant, scenery and cute animal photography. Here are some ideas to help: How to use light in photography How to draw How to paint and paint flowers and How to paint with watercolors.
Include your email address to get a message when this question is answered. Already answered Not a question Bad question Other. Tips If you have hay fever, take something for that before you go out. Don't let sniffles, runny eyes and a clogged nose spoil your days. Putting Vaseline in your nostrils and wearing sunglasses can help relieve hay fever. Use the change of season to check smoke alarm batteries, de-flea your pets, check filters in your air-conditioning and pool systems, etc.
Warnings Don't spend too much time outside if you have hay fever. Remember to use sunscreen; you can still get sunburned in the Spring. Article Info Featured Article Categories: Thanks to all authors for creating a page that has been read 44, times. Did this article help you? Cookies make wikiHow better. And it seems a few people were a little too relaxed in their approach to early controls, proving once again that you can never get complacent when it comes to sprints. We sprinted right past Spring and headlong into Summer, with the first degree event of the series.
Courses headed straight into the complex stuff with a number of short legs and direction changes, then some longer running legs in the open, which sapped the energy sufficiently to make the last few legs hard on body and brain.
Jersey points are very interesting this week as some classic battles between the contenders continued — check the scores. Courses at Edgewater had two distinctive sections — they began with several straightforward running legs, designed to wear you out before you got to the sprint leg — which was immediately followed by the hill climb.
Dodging the wedding parties again, we headed into the campus for the second half. Straight away traps were set, and promptly fallen into. The final loop of short legs had everyone dashing in all directions before the last sprint for the line. We quickly found out what we were in for when course setter Ewen Templeton threw us straight into the north end of the campus, which is full of intricacies. After spinning us around in there, we popped out for a sprint leg across the oval and flipped our maps, only to be faced with a long hill climb which will have seen the true jersey contenders rise to the top.
Then it was straight back into the complexity again, before a final loop of very short legs. Another fantastic afternoon of sprint racing at its finest. The metre dash along the finish chute made great spectating, and the instant results on our TV screens created a real buzz at the arena. Think On Your Feet: Maps are full colour and large scale, with a high level of detail.