Wow! What a race that was! Congratulations to Ewan for his cracking win in the men’s event and overall with a time of 27:27. Ewan pretty much took it out from the off, leading with our own Andrew Vize and the ‘Running Man’, Dave Eadie. These three pretty much led the race all the way, but Ewan showed his class by moving away around the 100km mark and was never seen again.
In the ladies race, international runner, Julia Fatton moved her way steadily through the field to win in a barn-storming time of just over 30 hours and fifth place overall. With it, Julia broke the ladies course record by over two hours and has surely put a marker down that will be tough to beat for a few years to come for sure.
It was a highly successful race for both Julia and Christian Fatton, with Christian finishing fourth just behind Andrew in a time of 29:15.
However the cheers of the day have to go to Ewan for his storming victory and to be honest, having the balls to take it out from the very off, never backing off and simply running to his potential. In our pre race poll, not many had picked Ewan to take out the honours, but those who know him will know just how much focus he has put on this race.
Dave Eadie also put his heart and soul into the run and will surely be pleased to have put the demons of last year to bed with another quality time to add to his collection of top-class results. Dave is a top bloke, always willing to hang around and encourage the other runners on the course.
For Andrew, back to back wins was always going to be a tough ask, however to finish with another podium after his record breaking run at GNW shows just how much of a class act he is.
In the ladies, it was Julia all the way for the female title, no-one got near her. Second place went to Pam Muston, and third going to last year’s International Ultra athlete of the year, Sharon Sholtz. Marie Doke finished in fourth place and then Queensland favourite Susannah Harvey-Jamieson in fifth.
Special mention must also go to Phil ‘Spud’ Murphy for gaining yet another PB in this his fifth coast2kosci. Phil has run a PB at Glasshouse, GNW and now Coast2Kosci this year. As he cracks on another year, Spud just keeps on knocking out PB after PB.
Also showing great strength through to the end were Kevin Heaton, Rob Mason and Rob Hall with some awesome times. In this updated post we also have some video of Andrew running along the course and his ‘sprint’ finish in a bid to finish ahead of Christian Fatton
Full results are now available on the Coast2Kosci website, which you can find here.
amazing job by all i hope to get to this race some day congrats ppl
Christian Fatton of Switzerland, with no experience of the course, also pushed and punished the front end throughout most of the race, with the leadership battle still a 4-way tussle past the halfway mark. The contingent of runners that came from overseas this year, some to compete, some for the pleasure, all seemed very impressed by the quality of the course, event staff, and the experience. What a memorable event it’s been too.
Have posted a few albums on my Facebook with today’s presentation up at http://www.facebook.com/roger.hanney and earlier albums from the event up at http://www.facebook.com/HokaOneOneAustralia.
Great work all runners and crew who participated. Sounds like the live coverage really ramped up a few notches, with Dave Criniti and Marathon Web Solutions due no small amount of appreciation.
Christian, he is right up there in term of ability. Anyone who can knock off 250kms in 24 hours is top end. Great to see someone of his calibre come over and have a crack. Julia was outstanding too with her new course record.
It was great to see Ewan take the title out, he is a true gentleman, probably the best prepared on the day and a very talented athlete.
His no nonsense approach really helps in a run of escalating misery the longer you spend out there.
From my perspective it was great to get a true first hand account at how hard Ewan, Dave and Andrew raced though out the night and it was cool to see Christian close the gap on the final climb, giving us chance to see Vizey’s real speed at work 😉