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Update 29/5/11

NO PAINATHLON FOR 2011

Many thanks for the many emails of interest for this years event.

Due to the organising team being overseas for work the Painathlon will take a hiatus in 2011. Once we return, so should the Painathlon. To register your interest for future Painathlons click on 'interested?' on our webpage top menu.

Happy hurting!

Jono Hague

Team Pain

Painathlon 2010 - Post Pain 5

Apologies this last update has taken so long to eventuate, have been waiting on a long delayed final tally.
Hopefully those of you who raised sponsorship for Variety will have received a letter outlining it's use this year.

The Final tally
Our grand total for 2010 is $12,299
That is an awesome achievement for a relatively small event so thanks for your efforts, most successful year so far!
You can be sure it's much appreciated by the recipients of the Variety grants and their parents/carers.

Special mention
In the previous update I neglected to mention a fantastic post-Painathlon effort by Robert Adams who, with a group of runners at the City to Surf, took on the world record for running a marathon in an ambulance suit. Rob and his team of doctors and nurses got alot of media attention and also raised over $10,000 for the Leukaemia Foundation for their unique efforts. Not to mention running a 4:18, well done!!)

A cracking race report
If you haven't already read through this years race reports there are some excellent accounts of individuals days (or half days) of Pain. Last to be added was Dave Koopu's quietly hilarious account of his 'devious plan' to beat the Painathlon.
Link is http://www.painathlon.com/2010-dave-koopu-solo
Definitely worth a read for some comic relief. For all you "sticklers for the rules", be assured it was all done with the best of intentions and not to take away anything from the 'more' serious competitors.

2011 Painathlon Hiatus
Since the event and some good Sunday Mail publicity, there's been a steady stream of keen people emailing for details of the 2011 Painathlon. While not a complete impossibility, it's looking very much like Painathlon will take a year off for at least 2011. The main reason being that Team Pain (Jono, Kinga and our daughter Milla) will be heading to Fiji this March for me to undertake a years work at Suva Memorial Hospital.
So very sorry to those of you who've pencilled it in for early August but unless we're back early from Fiji or some one/group would like to take on organisation, it won't be a goer.

I'll sign off here, probably for fair while. Thanks again for all your keen support of, and participation in, a pretty unique event.

cheers

Jono Hague
Team Pain

Painathlon 2010 - Post Pain 4

Hi Team Pain,

Feels like forever since August 1st but it's just on 6 weeks!

Loose ends are being tied up and I hope to have a final tally ($10000+??) for our Variety fundraising in the next week or two.

Website photos
Aswell as the massive searchable smugmug external gallery (which has even MORE pics added now!) I have transferred quite a few selected pics into each of the Painathlon.com 2010 gallery sections. I hope you've all managed to find some good ones of yourself. If there is one or two you'd really like in full-Res please drop me an email and i'll track them down for you from the DVD's i have.

Reports

Great response to the call for race reports this year. If you haven't found them already they are under www.painathlon.com/about There is a really good range of different accounts from Soloists to Teams to Halfs of varying speeds. I always find it fascinating to read other peoples accounts and see where multiple experiences overlap out on the course. Have a gander! I've put pics of the Painathletes reporting in amongst the report so you too can feel their pain (and i'm pretty sure everyone had some somewhere!)

Caps
I now have the 8 remaining Brooks Painathlon caps logo'ed and available for $30 to the first interested. They are quality running caps and a highly recommended souvenir, not to mention that the money goes direct onto the Variety total.

T-shirts
After the washup I have a few t-shirts left, 2 small and 1 large. Again they'll go for $30 to the first bidders.

Painathletes feature in City To Surf
Some great results by Painathletes (both current and former) this year in the big event, both in the 12km, Half and Full marathon. Colin Francis and David Hind had scorching times in the marathon while Painathlon champ Josh Randall and Joe Cleasby were at the pointy end of the 12km field. Dan Taborsky took a creditable 67th in the Half Marathon.

Just skimming the top few pages of results I found:

Marathon
16th overall Colin Francis 02:55:02
17th overall David Hind 02:55:54
77th overall Luke Colston 03:18:54
86th overall Pieter Vermeulen 03:21:43
171nd overall Norm Black 03:36:49
204th overall Reid Hamilton 03:40:50

Half Marathon
67th overall Dan Taborsky 01:31:54
199th overall Jason Dick 01:39:32
256th overall Josh Whitehead 01:41:37
293rd overall Andrew Coen 01:40:44

12km
23rd overall Joshua Randall 00:42:26
30th overall Joe Cleasby 00:43:27
84th overall Mark Oakshott 00:47:20

Cramp Tips (fwded on by Michael Parrotte)

I always have problems with cramps at the Painathlon. I was reading some tips for the Duathlon next month and came across the following:

Cramps are extremely common on the bike in Duathlon. This is due to the ankle going from mobile (running) to fixed (Cycling). Regularly push your heel down during the bike to stretch the calves and consider trying compression socks as another preventative measure.

As bad as they look I might have to try some compression socks next year.

The full list of tips can be found at:

http://www.trievents.com.au/duathlon/#Tips

Hopefully just one (maybe two) updates to go before we into Pain-Hibernation for the summer

Cheers again

Jono Hague
Team Pain

Painathlon 2010 - Post Pain 3

Hi Team Pain,

First of all, let me give some exciting rough figures for you regarding the Variety fundraising for this year

Total sponsorship collected at raceday rego - $3891.05
Total collected in Variety shake tins - $233.45
Total donated online (as at 10 days ago) - $4321.00

With some extra sponsorship money still to come in and all leftover entry fee's (minus event running costs/shirt printing) still to be added we are well over $10,000 at this point which is best ever in the 4 years of Painathlon.

Will be exciting to see what our final tally ends up being, and even more so who we get to help with the funds.

Huge thankyou to our sponsors/supporters

Alot of the essential components of the Painathlon are due to the generosity of our supporters and sponsors. We'd like to single them out briefly for some due praise.

Sportsfever (Applecross, Cottosloe, Subiaco, Inglewood, City) - With Painathlon since it's inception we get all our Painathlon volunteer and fundraiser t-shirts from these guys aswell as generous prize donations for the performers on course and top fundraisers. Do get in and support them with a visit to your local store. Great friendly staff, personalised fitting and extensive range of shoes and sporting gear.

Physiotherapy Solutions - Damian Oldmeadow very generously gives his time and his clinic in West Perth for the famed Painathlon recovery party. Don't hesitate to try him or one of his team for your physio needs. They are the best in the business and can bring you back to speed after a Painathlon beatdown!

MSAND - The Medical Student Society of Notre Dame does a huge deal for Painathlon including covering public liability costs, hosting painathlon.com and the online entry/payments as well as a large proportion of the all important volunteers to run the event itself. Not to mention organsing the venue for our pre-race briefing.

Steve Doyle / Sports Performance - All bike racks, finish chute frame and event signage are thanks to Steve. Really lends the Painathlon a feeling of professionalism despite the volunteer nature of the event.

Pure Blonde - On board since 2009 and help us offset shirt printing costs, provide prizes and a great looking finish line.

Hawker Britton - John Whitelaw and his team have provided excellent support for the event since 2009. True public relations experts and always willing to help.

Orienteering WA - For the use of their punches which form the major checkpoints of the course.

E3 Champion formula - New in 2010 and provided their product for the course aswell as some great prizes and showbag fillers. If you liked the product, seek them out.

For Fitness - Again new for 2010, these guys made up all the showbags which you all got at the finish line. Try them out for some online bargains!

Results and challenge splits

As many of you have already seen, i've put up all the challenge splits I have available from the marshall timing sheets.

Apologies but from certain challenges there were alot of missing times (arriving, leaving or both) on the recording sheets.   I will attempt to rectify all the question marks to actual approx times if at all possible.

To this end if you're one of the unlucky ones who got missed at a challenge, give me some info of who you arrived and left the challenge with (if you can remember) or any other useful details so I can insert you in the mix in approx the right place.  Most of the 1600 photos I have contain an accurate digital time signature so can see what time they were taken if that helps. Better still, if you timed your own splits and can inform me, i'll verify it.

Should be able to get cycle leg splits up aswell eventually so bear with me. Will let you all know when they're up.

2010 Photos - Smugmug Gallery

At the link below you can find ALL 1600+ volunteer taken and tagged photo's for Painathlon 2010 (by Alex, Bronson, Jaimie and Kinga) .
On the gallery front page you'll find clickable hyperlinks to all challenges and entrants' individually tagged photos. If we could see your number or work out who it was we tagged it!

SMUG MUG PAINATHLON 2010 GALLERY

The alternative way of find all tagged pictures of one Painathlete is to use www.smugmug.com/keyword/ followed by '2010painXX' with XX being the racetop number. For Half painathletes add an 'h' after the number

So: -

For Solo Painathlete no 17 use: http://www.smugmug.com/keyword/2010pain17
For Team Painathlete no 99 use: http://www.smugmug.com/keyword/2010pain99
For Half Painathlete no 04 use: http://www.smugmug.com/keyword/2010pain04h

Have fun browsing and send me any extra pics I don't have. No No.8 Quadcruncher pics yet and only a few from the No.7 The Zig Zag

Random Painathlete spotting

Our 2010 Painathlon overall champion Josh Randall has been spotted in this months RAC 'Horizons' magazine on page 14 in a random city photo collage for an article on 'getting to work'.

Race-day reports

We've also spied a number of nice Painathlon reports on various blogs/chat topics around the web. We love to put Painathletes experiences up for everyone to enjoy (with pics of yourself added in) so send them through, or give us permission to use what you've written already.

Painathlon leftover t-shirts

After all the fundraising shirts have gone out I have a few remaining Small (x2) and Extra small (x2) Painathlon 2010 t-shirts to sell off. They are $30 each and will go to the first replies I get by email.

cheers again and Variety grant news to come in the near future.

Jono Hague

Team Pain

Painathlon 2010 - Post Pain 2

Hi Painathletes,

It's painful progress getting all post-Painathlon stuff going and up but we're getting there bit by bit.

This email there are overall results and one huge lot of pics uploaded for your viewing and downloading.

Overall results

If you think i've made a mistake anywhere in here, just let me know. I've done it up as accurately as I can based on all the marshall timing sheets I have.

Full Painathletes, your score out of 10 is what you'd completed at 5.45pm.

Congrats to Jason Dick and Leah Glass, who respectively smashed the Half race records!

Team Woop-Woop also set a cracking mark to beat in the Team category.

Challenge splits will follow soon

SOLO Course (1): 19 KP 166.7 km ^

Rank	Name	Race no	Result	Challenges
1	Josh Randall	Solo 17	8:38:14	10/10
2	Michael Carroll	Solo 12	8:53:45	10/10
3	Josh Whitehead	Solo 21	8:56:15	10/10
4	David Kennedy	Solo 09	9:02:52	10/10
5	Marek Klimczyk	Solo 24	9:04:34	10/10
6	Daniel Taborsky	Solo 05	9:17:20	10/10
7	Brett Johnson	Solo 13	9:18:35	10/10
8	Norm Black	Solo 29	10:00:50	10/10
9	Colin Francis	Solo 07	10:02:43	10/10
10	Todd Panietz	Solo 15	10:09:10	10/10
11	Matthew Oldakowski	Solo 18	10:20:02	10/10
12	Michael Parrotte	Solo 02	10:41:22	10/10
13	Peter Gill	Solo 06	10:45:00	9.8/10
14	Andy Jones	Solo 08	10:45:00	9.5/10
15	Rob Adams	Solo 11	10:45:00	9.4/10
16	Heath Rabey	Solo 22	10:41:30	8/10
17	John Cooke	Solo 26	10:45:00	8/10
18	Dave Koopu	Solo 28	10:45:00	8/10
19	Joe Cleasby	Solo 19		7/10
20	Joe Mcdowell	Solo 03		6/10
21	Rhys James	Solo 14		6/10
21	Mark Oakshott	Solo 04		6/10
23	Paul Falconer	Solo 16	8:44:02	5/10

TEAM Course (1): 19 KP 166.7 km ^

Rank	Name	Race no	Result	Challenges
1	Woop-Woop	Team 99/98	8:44:31	10/10	TEAM RACE RECORD
2	Nova Scotia	Team 91/90	8:48:22	10/10
3	Maid For Pain	Team 97/96/95	9:43:00	10/10
4	Last Minute Hacks	Team 89/88/87	9:57:33	10/10
5	PATathlon	Team 94/93/92	10:07:50	10/10

HALF Course (2): 11 KP 46.42 km ^

Rank	Name	Race no	Result	Challenges
1	Jason Dick	Half 04	3:00:10	6/6	NEW HALF RECORD
2	Cameron Storm	Half 12	3:02:40	6/6
3	Leah Glass	Half 35	3:13:20	6/6	NEW WOMENS HALF RECORD
4	Stephen Spencer	Half 06	3:19:58	6/6
5	Justin Lang	Half 03	3:23:30	6/6
6	Jono Hague	Half 39	3:29:38	6/6
7	Lauren Bultitude-Paull	Half 13	3:32:50	6/6
8	Stefanos Sifandos	Half 23	3:34:08	6/6
9	Trisha Lee	Half 33	3:34:58	6/6
10	Paul Oliver	Half 22	3:38:00	6/6
11	Jordan Masters	Half 17	3:44:24	6/6
12	Ron Purvis	Half 27	3:44:30	6/6
13	Nigel Adcock	Half 32	3:44:50	6/6
14	David Press	Half 10	3:45:35	6/6
15	Duncan Marr	Half 05	3:45:57	6/6
16	Jakob Kulver	Half 21	3:48:00	6/6
17	Geoff Follows	Half 25	3:48:40	6/6
18	Nick Coombs	Half 19	3:51:40	6/6
19	Kinga Paszkudzka	Half 01	3:54:00	6/6
20	Jeremy O'Brien	Half 31	3:55:17	6/6
21	Ian Patullo	Half 37	4:02:25	6/6
22	Roger Cook	Half 08	4:08:15	6/6
23	David Allen	Half 30	4:10:50	6/6
24	Intan Watono	Half 36	4:24:56	6/6
25	Shane De Jong	Half 20	4:28:23	6/6
26	Sarah Black	Half 09	4:40:49	6/6
26	Tony Highfield	Half 28	4:40:49	6/6
28	Julie Bull	Half 24	4:48:42	6/6
28	Kevin Norris	Half 29	4:48:42	6/6
30	Kilee Giles	Half 16	4:57:30	6/6
31	Kate Schoots	Half 26	4:57:30	6/6
32	Phil Bowler	Half 11		1/6

Photos uploaded and online

In case you haven't seen already, there are approx 70 pics online at www.painathlon.com/galleries to get you started.
Until we have an indexed searchable photo database up at Smugmug.com Alex Sleeman has kindly uploaded over 1000 full-res pics and sent me the links below.

If you're prompted for a password, the login in 'competitor' and there is no password required (just press enter)

The links to the galleries are

http://gallery.me.com/alexsleeman#100039 (500)

http://gallery.me.com/alexsleeman#100029 (75)

http://gallery.me.com/alexsleeman#100015 (500)

http://gallery.me.com/alexsleeman#100031 (176)

There is almost 8 GB of photos there, so Alex will only be leaving them up for about 6 weeks.

Remaining challenge prizes to hand out

If your name is below make contact to either arrange pick up or otherwise

Stephen Spencer - You've won the Reabold Bolt prize, aswell as the Service shield

Marek - Cardiac Hill challenge prize + your fundraising shirt

Rhys James - Mount St prize

David Kennedy - Quadcruncher prize

Fundraising prize and t-shirts

Pete Gill was our overall top fundraiser with a huge $1481 at last count. Pete drop us a line and we'll get you your prize pack plus your lunch bag back.

Congrats to the following who raised over the $250 by raceday August 1st, qualifying for their free Painathlon shirt

Marek $595 (still to get shirt)

Rob Adams $250 (shirt en route)

Roger Cook $250 (still to get shirt)

Daniel Taborsky $365 (still to get shirt)

Ron Pervis $450 (still to get shirt)

Trish Lee $250 (still to get shirt)

John Cook $560 (shirt collected)

Heath Rabey $250 (shirt collected)

Peter Gill $1481 (shirt collected)

Lucy Bowman $500 (shirt collected)

Duncan Marr $370 (shirt collected)

David Press $340 (shirt collected)

I want to congratulate you all on the fundraising effort this year. It's looking like we'll easily break $10,000 which will fund at least 1-2 great Variety grants. I will keep you all informed when any presentations get made so you know what your effort went towards.

Painathlon caps and shirts

You may have seen last years Painathletes wearing the excellent Brooks Painathlon / Pure Blonde caps this year (pictured below on Todd). If you'd like a 2010 one, I have found 8 extra in the Painathlon storage which are currently being logoed up for 2010. The cost is a very reasonable $30 and will be first come, first served. Get in quick, they really are superb running caps.

Likewise after all fundraising shirts have been claimed, we'll sell the rest off, also at $30 each. I will let you know what sizes are available in the next week or so.

Lost property - waterbottles, lunch pack, sunglasses and socks

I still have

2 waterbottles left from the Truth swap station - Norm Blacks no 29. orange and a white Endura unmarked.
Pete Gills untouched lunch pack.
A pair of plain black imitation Arnette sunglasses was left in the tray aswell
and a pair of yellow thorlo ankle socks were left in my car (which was rack crew 3)

More than happy to arrange return of these, just let me know which ones are yours.

E3 Champion Formula - OFFER

Many of you will have sampled, and hopefully benefitted from, the E3 champion formula during the 2010 Painathlon (available at Challenge 1,4,5,6,10).

Anthony from E3 generously provided E3 for Painathlon along with samples for all the showbags and several 1kg packs for prizes.

In case you haven't seen the offer on the samples already let me just re-iterate it

If you buy a 1 Kg of E3 at $59.95 any Painathletes will receive a bonus 3x60g sachets plus an E3 waterbottle (valued at $30)

Please feel free to contact Anthony Durbridge on 0424 980 808 or anthony@e3champion.com.au with any enquiries.

This offer expires on 18/8/10 so be quick to take advantage and do support one of our supporters!

Race reports

If you feel like penning/typing your Painathlon 2010 memoirs down, I know many will be interested in reading them. I always put any race-reports up on the special section on http://www.painathlon.com/reports along with pics (good only!) of the author. I have a few promised already (Jake Hannah, Dave Kennedy), i'll do one for the half and Christo has already done his support vehicle story of the day. Get involved and let us in on your Pain!

Just to give you the idea let me fill you in on my funniest and most tragic moment from Painathlon 2010.

Funniest - Marek, every year claims this is the last time he'll take part (he's completed 10/10 within the cut-off 4 years running!). This year at the finish was no different but he sounded very sincere when he said "..no this is it.....this is really it for me.......You... win ....Michael Parotte.....You winnnnnnn" - note Michael Parrotte has also done every Painathlon so far but I had no idea that these two were locked in a Painathlon enduro battle for the ages. We'll see you again next year Marek, Painathlon wouldn't be the same without you!!

Most tragic - Having magically made it past the halfway point of the Bridges run during the half without cramping (unusual for me) I just had the back 4.5km to do along riverside drive. 30m ahead of me, an elderly lady probably in her 60's (not a Painathlete) was shuffling along efficiently. Feeling strong and fast, I slowly but surely reeled her in for the kill (read overtake) but the nearer I grew the faster she seemed to be going. Despite an awkward skate with no heel lift she was moving like the clappers. Foolishly I surged to try and pass her but no sooner had I drawn level and half a metre ahead of her, hammy cramp set in and I was sent reeling backwards into my rightful place trailing a granny. How embarassing, she sure showed me who was boss.

more to come soon

cheers

Jono Hague

Team Pain

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