Third Time Lucky…
It’s about 1am on Saturday morning, I’m 116kms into the race and I’m smashed. The slog out of Yarramalong was just that. I had all intentions of making a fist of the first 12kms that took us out of the Yarramalong Valley and out towards Somersby, but I was battered. It’s here that I hit … Read more
GNW100 Miler Ladies Winner Interview – Meredith Quinlan
Meredith Quinlan just can’t stop kicking butt this year – and a lot of it is male butt! After a cracking performance in the Commonwealth Games in Wales where she picked up a bronze medal in the 24 hour track race, Meredith not only won the females race this year but smashed the course record … Read more
Darrel Robins GNW100 Race Report – It’s All About the Beach
It’s all about the 500 metres of sand at Patonga – that’s why we do this run. GNW throws 174.5kms of the toughest bush terrain at you and then if you reach Patonga Beach, it gives in to you gracefully, and allows you the privilege of running on its golden sandy yellow carpet as reward … Read more
The Big ‘G’ Tipping Competition Results
After the three big races, we have our winner. The results are in, the number of winners counted and times assessed. Just to recap, the three individual winners of the races were as follows: Glasshouse 100 miler: Rob Mason correctly predicting Mike Le Roux Great Ocean Walk 100km: George El-Hage correctly predicting Julian Spence Great … Read more
GNW Results Run-Down
In the usual Dave Byrnes fashion, the results are up quicker than you could say boo to a goose. We touched upon some of the leaders and winners yesterday, but it’s only fair to give a full run down of the results and try to share a few stories from some of those not at … Read more
Footage from GNW
If you’re still mad keen on seeing how the race unfolded over the weekend, Martin Pluss has put together some great footage from Checkpoint 4, the 100km finish. Martin is a great guy and is always around to lend a hand, so thanks to him for pulling these videos together and allowing us to post … Read more
GNW – How did everyone get so good?
Wow! So there it is for another year, and what a year it was in terms of times. Four course records (male and female in both 100 mile and 100km), four gold medals and numerous people sticking two fingers up to the sub 30 hour mark. Up until this year, anything under sub 30 would … Read more
GNW100s – LIVE!
Once again, we’ve set up our nifty little tool to bring you all the tweets into one place so that you can track the latest goings on from the course. This takes the hassle and drag out of searching for it all on Twitter or relying on update from elsewhere or by phone. Of course, … Read more
