HEROICS ON THE HERTZ HILL

The Anderson St hill at the Tan Relays next Saturday will not present any problem to the hardy band of Valley runners who tackled the 2022 John Hertz Handicap at the Yellow Gum Park. After a torrential downpour overnight the course was in surprisingly good condition.

The climb from Blue Lake back to the entrance to the park is a long, hard slog before a short respite back to the start where they completed the 1.72km lap. Juniors ran two laps and the Open age ran four laps.

In the four lap race, Aaron Scott-Dalgleish made the most of handicap time & held off the field to cross in first place. Aaron was followed in by Dylan Littlejohn and Brody McCarthy. Peter Van Der Kamp ran the fastest time for the 6.88km course, finishing in 27:06. Dylan Littlejohn ran the fastest lap in 6:34.

Dillon Vidanapathirana took out the Junior 3.44km Handicap race. He was one of the few to negative split on the day, running laps of 9:30 and 9:15. Felix Morgan also did a negative split with 7:25 & 7:18. Felix was the Fastest Male while Poppy Scott-Dalgleish was the fastest female.

Jordan Rudd won the Metronome Award, only giving 6 seconds away on the second lap.

Club stalwart & race sponsor, John Hertz, was on hand to present the handsome trophy to the winner of the Open race.

Greg Luck did a great job with the Handicapping and received little criticism from the field.

Thanks to David Armstrong, Max Balchin & Lyn Davis for the course set-up.

Thanks to Greg Luck & Shania Murray for the Timekeeping.

Thanks to Maryann Murray for supplying the trophies.

Aaron Scott-Dalgleish storms to the finish line after four gruelling laps.

2022 JOHN HERTZ HANDICAP 6.88km HANDICAP

YELLOW GUM PARK, PLENTY

Saturday 10 September 2022

OPEN HANDICAP RESULTS:

2022 DVAC BINNAK BOWL 3.44km HANDICAP

Binnak Park, Bundoora

Saturday 10 June 2022

JUNIOR HANDICAP RESULTS: