After filling second, third and fourth places in last week’s 8km event Woodvale Michael Preece, Glenn Roulston and Ben Goode thought the only question was which of them would win the Purtill’s Nursery 6.5km race at Huntly on Sunday.  However there was one small thing they didn’t allow for.

That small thing was determined first-year runner Kerry Ellis.  Kerry, whose times have improved by more than 30 seconds per kilometre this season, led the race from start to finish and never looked seriously threatened, cruising to the finish 18 seconds clear of Glenn Roulston.

With 500 metres to go in Sunday’s Bendigo Athletic Club Viatek 8k handicap it was a race in three with backmarker Michael Preece closing in on Kevin Shanahan and Glenn Roulston.  Kevin showed the benefit of more than 30 years of training and competition, managing to find the something extra needed to hang on for a 7 second victory in a good time of 34:06 over the challenging Woodvale course.  This was Kevin’s best performance for the season so far.

In only his first year of running with the Bendigo Athletic Club 14-year-old Lachlan Perdon won his second race of the season in the Schultz and Stewart Landscaping 6500 metre handicap at Notley’s Reserve on Sunday.  Improving on a second place at his previous start Lachlan hit the front with over a  kilometre of the race to go and drew away to win by 24 seconds.