Gerard

The “Railton Rocket”, Gerard Lowry, was a popular winner of the Professional Cross Country Club’s High-on-Penguin “King of the Mountains” race on Sunday. The tough 16.5km run begins at Burnie Park and makes its way to Ridgley via Brickport, Mooreville and West Mooreville Roads.

Lowry had previously won this race in 2008 and eight years later, at the age of 57, he still ran less than two minutes slower than his previous winning time.

He has since won the prestigious Wynyard to Burnie Feature Race (in 2012) which was his last win. On Sunday he had a tremendous tussle with the second and third placegetters, Mark Saint-John and newcomer to the club, Owen Britt, before beating Saint-John by 2 seconds in a sprint to the line.

Lowry starts from a tough mark and, allowing for age, it could be argued he is the best runner in the club.

Frontmarker John Purton led for much of the race before being overtaken with about 4 kilometres to go by Pat McMahon who then looked like the winner until Ridgley was in sight when the fast-finishing backmarkers swarmed past. McMahon looks very close to a win.

Club champion, Thomas Murton, stormed through the field to finish fourth and record the fastest time. Other backmarkers, Ben Hoare and Greg Smith were the next to finish.

The battle among the women for fastest time was intriguing. Eventually Rebecca de Groot took out that honour as Sally Haynes faded late.

Earlier in the day, the nominated time event winners were Kathryn Greenhill, Ben Saint-John and Mackenzie Troughton.

Race 11 2016 Actual

Race 11 2016 Fastest to Slowest

 


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