Aberfeldie Masters Athletics

13/09/2026

Another busy weekend for Aberfeldie Masters Athletics runners.

parkruns:

Brimbank #402 97 finishers
Shaun first in his 150th parkrun in 20:46

Campaspe #285 90 finishers
Carolyn 45th in 29:30

Mt Beauty #401 18 finishers
Channy 14th in 46:22 Struggled on after injuring her Achilles / calf.

Yodogawa Kasenkeon Yagumo Chiku, Osaka #44, 34 finishers
John C parkwalked in 50:22 to just beat the Tail Walker.

Maribyrnong parkrun #555 521 finishers
Pat 49th in 21:42
Sinh 65th in 22:40
Marlon 118th in 24:33
Ash 177th in 26:26
Jean Paul 199th in 27:15
Michael O 391st in 24:16
Bill 499th in 52:07

Thanks to Ian and Rob for volunteering

Final round of XCR..
Always a hightlight of the season with the running of the Tan Relays. In some cases, this event determines premierships, promotion or relegation.

Maggie (ESS) 21:33 for the 3.8km lap.
David A (KSB) 15:17 in Open Men's Div 3
Maria (KSB) 17:31 in Open Men's Div 6
Janice (WES) 19:22 and Cheryl 21:09 picked up 2nd place in the F60+

Jo Mo 20:33 in DIV 2nd Female open Div 5 team

The Horsham Running Festival & Dimboola Dash Running Festival was held on Sunday.
Again, Kappa's Crew were there doing a mighty job of pacing and sweeping.
John K Sweeper Marathon
Bill Sweeper Half
Cheryl Half 2:30 pacer (according to Strava this was Cheryl's longest run!)
Jo Mo Half 2:20 pacer
Mal Quarter Marathon Sweeper
Ian Quarter Marathon Walk Sweeper
Janice 5Km Sweeper

10/09/2026

Another good evening of running and celebrating Mal’s Birthday.
Thanks to all who helped out with running the events and providing supper.

07/09/2026

Weekend Warriors Sept 5 /6

parkrun Results
Lancefield #313 36 finishers
Sarah 25:39 2nd female home.

Lake Boga Foreshore #273 27 finishers
Channy 36:45 15th

Campaspe #284 64 finishers
Carolyn 60th in 50:17

Maribyrnong #554 303 finishers
Shaun 15th in 20:52
John K 46th in 23:54
Ash 61st in 24:26
Jean Paul 153rd in 28:23
Michael O 267th in 36:43

Vols Ian and Rob

Point Cook #596 128 finishers
Chuck Chucky (first timer) 6th in 22:55. What a sensational run!!

Momoi Harappa (Japan) #254 40 finishers
John C 35th in 33:05

Sunday XCR Rnd 9
Burnley 15km

Maria (KSB) 1:16:24
David A (KSB) 1:02:17
Cheryl (WES) 1:30:15...According to Strava this was her fastest 15k.

Running the short course (4Km) Representing WES
Janice 19:16
Mal 20:37

03/09/2026

Happy Birthday to Lea who celebrated her birthday with us.

03/09/2026

What an evening we had for our members and visitors. French theme evening, new club apparel arriving, Birthday celebration and great food. Not to forget some great running.
Big thank-you to John K for supplying and setting up the lovely French food.
Thanks to everyone who chipped in and helped with running the events.

03/09/2026

After more than two weeks, the World Masters Athletics championships have come to a close in South Korea.
Starting with an Opening ceremony to rival any Olympics (not quite), the competition was held in a friendly spirit.
The weather in Daegu was all over the place from hot (38°), humid (80%), rainy...we had it all.
Results for our Aberfeldie crew were sensational!

Ilana W35
100m Semi 12.47 Q(2nd), Final 12.29 4th but just 0.13 sec behind 1st.
200m Heat 25.18 Q(1st), Final 25.18 for Bronze
400m Semi 57.15 Q(2nd) Final 55.37 with an amazing last 50m GOLD!
4X100 relay

Brett M50
400m Heat 53.67 Q(1st) Semi 53.29 q, Final 53.35 for 6th
4 x 400 Anchor leg GOLD in 3:40.32

Marlon M45
100m 17.71 (inj) DNP
4 X 400 Silver!!

John C M70
800m 3:16 DNP
400m 80.10 DNP

Others to compete were Anna Kasapis, Andy Boudrie and Mark Giglio from Aths Ess.
Anna won the W45 1500,
Andrew picked up silver in the M40 4 x 400.
Mark picked up gold in Brett's relay team.

Start preping for 2028 in The Netherlands.

02/09/2026

Aberfeldie Masters claims a World Master's Champion!
Ilana Grandine took out the final of the W35 400m with a stunning finishing burst in a time of 55.37.
She had advanced to the final with a Q in the semi, finishing 2nd in 57.15.

This was all done on top of 4th in the 100m final, just 0.13 seconds behind the winner and 3rd in the 200 final.

Check out the video of her 400m...go to the 40 minute mark and learn some Korean while you're watching.

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29/08/2026

Aberfeldie Masters Athletics were at parkruns and at the WMA championships in Daegu, Sth Korea.

parkruns...

Maribyrnong #553 with 465 finishers
Sinh 65th in 23:12
Ash 110th in 25:30
Cheryl 155th in 26:55
Jean-Paul 158th in 27:01
Maggie 179th in 27:49
Ian 267th in 30:49
John K 290th in 31:36
Michael O 382nd in 36:56
Pat 385th in 37:08
Bill 456th in 53:40

Thanks to John P for volunteering.

Newport Lakes #408 with 125 finishers.
Janice 34th in 27:13

Albert #704 735 finishers
Chucky (First Timer) 171st in 25:25

Ovens River #257 with 33 finishers.
Channy (First Timer) 11th in 33:42

24/08/2026

Some photos from last weeks meet and video of some impressive 200m running in the rain

23/08/2026

Plenty happening this weekend, in addition to the regular parkruns.
Parkruns first -
Jells Park -
Chucky - 25:09 NEW PB! Congratulations Chucky

Cruikshank -
Michael O - 36:52

Lancefield -
Sarah - 25:23 First female! Well done, Sarah

Marby -
Sinh - 22:49
Kappa - 23:11
David C - 26:36
Jean-Paul - 26:44
Pat - 28:28
Pappy - 48:19
Bill - 53:49
Ian - Timekeeper extraordinaire (and photo bomber)
It was the Marby Parkrun's 12th Birthday, and the dress-up theme was 'M'.

Newy -
Carolyn - 31:34

Tallangatta Station
Channy - 33:52
Out and back on a bitumen course. Bit of a constant steady incline on return half but wasn't too bad.

Australian Athletics Championships in Ballarat.
There were some fantastic performances by our Aberfeldie Runners who braved the challenging conditions to bring home the goods for the pool room. Our masters athletes ran the 4km course.

Mal Hodgart M65 25:40 BRONZE!
Cheryl Nelson W60 28:50 BRONZE!
Janice Hodgart W60 25:34 SILVER!
(fellow Western A's member Carolyn Huell W60 Gold!)
A clean sweep of the podium for Western A's women in the W60 race - the best cross country runners in the whole country. Huge congrats to all our runners!

Daegu 2026 WMA Championships
Unfortunately, Marlon's Korean campaign got off to a bad start in the 100m. Hopefully he can recover quickly for his next event.

Best wishes from all of us to Marlon and John