By Ian Sloane Sandown is one of the key events on the Athletics Victoria winter calendar. This is always a difficult race to win as you have to have six strong runners on the line and hope that no-one has a bad day. We have had some success here in the recent past with very […]
Bundoora Park 10 Kilometre Cross Country 18 June 2016 Box Hill AC is having an exceptional run in the Division 1 men’s competition this year recording four successive victories in the first four events of the year, despite the unavailability of a number of athletes in each event contested to date. The Bundoora cross country […]
BOX HILL MEN WIN AT LAKE WENDOUREE Box Hill’s men’s premier division team had another victory at the 15km road race around Lake Wendouree at Ballarat last Saturday. We had five runners finish in the first 18 places and six in the top 37 to clearly win the teams event. In other highlights, Mac Anderson took […]
16 K Cross Country Cruden Farm (Langwarrin) What an inspirational choice of terrain by Athletics Victoria in picking this venue. It was as close to perfect a course for Cross Country, and brilliant terrain. The property belonged to Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, who passed away in 2012. It is a spectacular property, and many athletes stayed […]
VICTORY AT WANDIN PARK After winning a close contest in round 1 of XCR’16, Box Hill men’s Premier Division team again performed strongly to take another close victory in round 2 at Wandin Park last Saturday. This new cross country course proved to be very tough, with jumps and some very steep hills. Led by […]
Box Hill AC had a brilliant opening to the 2016 XCR Winter season, with the highlight being a cracking win in the Men’s Premier Division. We also won the Under 14 Boys’ Relay and the Under 20 Men’s relay. We also picked up silver medals in three other divisions. This was a really great performance and the […]
Box Hill AC has run this event now for 25 years and inevitably someone runs the Bennettswood course a lot quicker than predicted. That happened again this year. However, of more interest was the fact that we had four runners who bettered 16 minutes which is noteworthy. I don’t think that this has occurred previously […]
After being on top of the ladder in the men’s premier division for most of the XCR’15 season, we unfortunately fell down in the last 2 events and finished 2nd on the ladder (see Ian Sloane’s reports below). Our men’s team, without a number of our best runners finished in 5th place at the Tan […]
After what has been a tremendous effort by our distance runners over the first 8 rounds of the XCR’15 season, things did not go to plan in the half marathon championships on the Burnley Boulevard on Sunday. Having coped well with injuries and absences throughout the season, this week we had our top 6 runners […]
The ekiden relay was held at Anglesea for the first time andf although numbers in general were down on those of the other relay events, it proved to be a testing and enjoyable event that is likely to grow in popularity in future years. Congratulations to our men’s premier division team, the men’s over 50 […]