Trevor Jacobs Historic 10th Victory

Friday, 12 March 2010

Trevor Jacobs has created ACT orienteering history through being the first competitor to win four straight Runners Shop Twilight Series and to win 10 races in a Series.

The top five placings on points for the race at Black Mountain Peninsula, with their times for the 2.8 km Orange 1 course, were:

• Trevor Jacobs 125 points – 12 min 33 sec
• Shannon Jones 124 – 12 min 38 sec
• Ian Lawford 123 – 11 min 16 sec (fastest time for the course)
• Oliver Poland 122 – 11 min 51 sec
• Jenny Bourne 121 – 15 min 48 sec

Dave Shepherd had the second fastest time of 11 min 21 sec.  While the course was short and navigation was relatively easy, because of this, a mistake of just a few seconds would be costly.

The event attracted a record number of entries, 191 (14 pre-entered DNS) and a record number of participants, 242, for a Twilight series.

The top five placings (based on top nine scores) with one race to go and the likely final placings are:

• Trevor Jacobs 1125 points
• Oliver Poland 1114
• Shannon Jones 1112
• Rob Walter 1092
• Anna Booth 1075

Three competitors, Carol Harding (pictured), Geoff Wood and Greg Lane have competed in all 18 events this Series.

The Results are here

The Progress Points are here

The Final event will be held on the other side of the Lake at Yarralumla Bays on St Patricks Day and the top 10 scores from 18 events (event 7 excluded) will be counted.

Nominations for ACT League events 1 and 2  close on Tuesday 16 March.  Please help organisers by nominating on time.

This weekend Trevor Jacobs and a number of other ACT orienteers will compete in the Six Foot Track race.  The Six Foot Track is a 45km footpath stretching across the Blue Mountains from The Explorer's Marked Tree, near Katoomba to Jenolan Caves. The marathon started in 1984 and follows the length of the entire footpath. It is Australia's 5th largest marathon and by far the largest 100% off-road running event.