Another beautiful day weather-wise for the Gilchrist Rosebowl Cross Country event up at Hamilton Lake on Saturday…

A good number of keen folk sporting their Hawks colours zipping around the course, giving it their all… One of our new members – Zack Conroy – had a particularly good run, pushing Rich all the way.

Report by Nichola McMahon
On Saturday we had the Gilchrist Rosebowl event at the lake and it was a great day, sun was out and no wind and maybe a little hot but great conditions. I must amid that its not a favourite of mind at all but I decided that I would give it ago again.

We had a small group attend but there was definitely a few laughs.
We started with the kids event, 2 laps of a 1km loop and it was great seeing the 3 children run their way around. Next was our event, 2 laps of 1.9km loop with some painful hills to start with and then flattened out and downhill and along the straight and then do it all over again.

I’m not very good with hills so this was a bit of a struggle for me but whats a bit of pain.

I decided I would walk up the tough bits as I could walk faster than running up hill and then carry on running. Once I got through the hills, I made it to the top, nice and flat my favourite and then downhill and back to the start to do it all over again. Oh boy but I didn’t give up and at the end of the day I was pleased that I did it. Sometimes you have to push yourself to do something out of the comfort zone but you will be pleased you did it.

Adults 4km
Name	Time
Richard E	14:45
Zack Conroy	15:00
Mike Harris	15:28
Sunil Fernandez Ritchie	15:53
Chris Keith	16:24
Kevin Knowles	16:36
Garry Wilson	16:39
Iain Rattray	17:00
Nisha Moorfield	17:23
Mark Cornaga	17:35
Paul Ewart	18:01
Paul Reynolds	18:23
Dawn Tuffery	18:48
Lily James	19:23
Vaughan Kestle	21:18
Grahame Clarkin	21:47
Gilbert McDonald	23:34
Nicola McMahon	23:36
Peter Horan	26:07
Kerry Rattray (1 lap)	11:27
Kids 2km
Claire Laing	10:51
Austin Liang	11:24
Alba Watkins	12:47