ACT Walkers promotes walking for sport, health and fitness in the Canberra region. Fitness and race walkers of all abilities are welcome.
Actitivities
The club conducts a road walking series over winter using recreational paths around Canberra and holds track races in summer at the AIS. On the Queen's Birthday weekend in June each year, the club conducts the Lake Burley Griffin Race Walking Carnival, Australia's largest race walking event.
Calendar
For details of the next club event, go to the calendar page.
Recent Announcements
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Presidents Report 11/12 and New Committee
This year was quite an eventful year for the
Club. Not only did we have the
organising of the 45th Lake Burley Griffin Walking Carnival (LBG) on 9 June we
followed this up by conducting the Australian Road Walking Championships just
over 10 weeks later. This stretched our
volunteer base quite a bit however, as always, members rallied to the cause
ensuring that these two major events were a great success. A special thanks to Phil Reading and Robin
Whyte for their wonderful support in the organisation of the Championships.
Other
than the LBG and the Australian Championships our members helped with and
organised many events this year on behalf of ACTVAC, AACT and ACTLA as well as
our own ...
Posted 15 May 2012 20:29 by Phil Essam
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Updates to the site
Morning Everyone,Sorry that this site has become a bit old in the last few months with the lack of current information. I have hopefully started to rectify this today. The LBG Walking Carnival Page has been updated with info on this year's race. I have also updated the Race Program page and have added for the full winter program for 2012. Dont forget that the Club is at Facebook as well.The Club's facebook page is: https://www.facebook.com/ACTWalkersThe LBG's facebook page is at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/116927058324565/If you are on facebook, please consider having a look and joining these groups/pages.By the end of the day, I will ...
Posted 13 May 2012 17:15 by Phil Essam
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Walk results - 12th May 12
Athletics
ACT Walkers
12/5/2012 Lake Tuggeranong
Handicaps 8K (Place,Name,Time,Start) 1 Bob
Parker 57:52 (10:10) 2 Jennifer Gilchrist 59:00 (10:20) 3 Bryan Thomas 53:02
(16:25) 4 Derek Robinson 53:07 (16:25) 5 Ann Staunton-Jugovic 44:08 (25:35) 6
Robin Whyte 50:29 (19:40) 7 Rod Gilchrist 54:57 (16:25) 8 Geoff Barker 56:07
(16:25) 9 Pat Fisher 01:00:03 (14:45) 4K 1 Desma Butler 35:26
(03:50) 2 Jack Thackray 33:49 (08:25) 3 Rosemary Parker 31:09 (11:10) 4 David
Mackenzie 29:46 (13:00) 5 Trish Thomas 42:09 (01:05) 6 Jenny Reading 30:45 ...
Posted 13 May 2012 16:39 by Phil Essam
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2012 AGM - Sat 12th May 12
Next
Week 12 May AGM WITH HIGH AFTERNOON TEA PROVIDED FOLLOWING THE
WALKS
Handicap start at Sea Scout
Hall, Lake Tuggeranong (Map 31 Q9)
NOTE EARLY
STARTS
Distances: 8k 1.00pm 2k
Course
4k
1.30pm 2k Course
2k
1.30pm 1k Course
1k
1.30pm 1k Course
Race Director:
Helen
Bialecki
Judges:
Phil Reading
(C), Helen Bialecki
Timekeepers:
Geoff
Hunt, Peter Boden
Tea:
Doug
Fitzgerald
Posted 6 May 2012 15:37 by Phil Essam
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Race results 5 May 2012
Yerrabi Ponds 10k 1 Ann Staunton-Jugovic 56:32 2 Robin Whyte 01:03:52 3 Lachlan Wilkinson 01:06:14 4 Derek Robinson 01:08:00 5 Bryan Thomas 01:08:02 6 Geoff Barker 01:10:43 7 Pat Fisher 01:10:58 8 Doug Fitzgerald 01:13:55. 4K 1 Callum Burns 22:05 2 Ashleigh Resch 22:31 3 Zoe Hunt 24:58 4 Helena Bialecki 25:57 5 Marilyn Banfield 27:39 6 Kate Black 28:56 7 Bob Parker 29:09 8 Terry Munro 29:48 9 David Mackenzie 29:50 10 Jenny Reading 31:35 11 Edna Dundas 37:08 12 Helen Munro 38:33 13 Nola de Chazal 40:06 14 Trish ...
Posted 5 May 2012 01:39 by Lachlan Wilkinson
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