An impressive 68 runners (44 male, 24 female) from Fish Hoek Athletic Club (FHAC) are taking part in the Two Oceans Ultra Marathon this year.
12 will be participating for the first time, while Brian Molyneaux is a veteran participant with 27 Two Ocean medals. Mogamat Burghers is going for his 20th Two Oceans, a Double Laurel, while Serena Haupt is running for her Permanent Blue Number.
24 FHAC members have run the race 10 or more times to qualify for permanent Blue Numbers which says a lot about the magic of the race and the guts of the runners. A fun run initiated in the early days of this 34 year old club was called the South-Easter, so if history is anything to go by, this year-of-wind should not have upset the training of the FHAC runners!!! See the full list of participating runners from Fish Hoek Athletics Club below. (Runners! Those of us who watch in amazement as you just keep going would love to know Why and How you do it. So please comment and share your motivation with our readers. )
The 56km route follows Fish Hoek Main Road into Kommetjie Road and on through Noordhoek. The runners will be passing through Fish Hoek between 7:20 and 9:00 on Saturday morning 23 April. The sun will be getting up as the first runners come through Fish Hoek. Let’s give them, especially the FHAC contingent, a warm welcome as they reach the 21km mark on Main Road.
So! Get the family up early, dress in the FH Athletic Club colours of old gold, black and white and join the supporters having fun along Fish Hoek Main Road. There will be music, action, breakfast specials and performers from the eMzantsi Carnival team including the Mahorshi Gumboot Dancers, the Mapiko giant puppets and drummers. The festivities will officially end at 10:00 in the Fish Hoek Arcade, with Ald. Felicity Purchase accepting Easter Eggs from the community on behalf of children’s homes and schools in Masi and Ocean View. Look out for collection points for Easter Eggs at businesses throughout Fish Hoek this week. Please donate to help spread some Easter cheer.
We wish all our runners a great race.
Fish Hoek Athletic Club participants in the 2011 Two Oceans Marathon
Fish Hoek athletics Club has a long and active history dating back to when it started in 1977. For info go to: www.fishhoekac.com.
We have 68 participants (44 male, 24 female) in the Ultra Marathon
The Participants:
COLIN ADAM
MARY BALL
TOMMY BALL
BRUCE BARBER
ELAINE BARBER
LAURIAN BARROW
BRUCE BELL
GORDON BELL
KOOS BLEEKER
CHERYL BUCKLOW
DAVID BUCKLOW
MOGAMAT BURGHERS
ANDREW CAMPBELL
HEATHER CAMPBELL
NIKKI CAMPBELL
BRENDA COOMER
BEAUMONT COOPER
DEREK COOPER
ANDREW COTHILL
ANNETTE DE BRUIN
ANNIE DELPORT
MARTHINUS DELPORT
TIM ELLIOTT
NICOLA FORGAN
DAVID FROST
SONIA HARLOCK
SERENA HAUPT
ADRIAN HAYES
BERNARD HAYES
NICK HEARNE
MIRANDA HEATHCOTE
CATHERINE HISHIN
AMANDA HOWELLS
KOBUS HUISAMEN
ARNOLD HYDE
SARAH JANE VEENSTRA
DAVID JENKINS
NORMAN JOHNSON
CHRISTOS KASFIKIS
GRANT LABUSCHAGNE
IAN LITTLE
BEVERLEY MACKINTOSH
RUSSELL MACKINTOSH
GIMO-ZUADA MATUSO
WENDY MCLEOD
BRIAN MOLYNEAUX
CHRIS MYERS
CHARLOTTE NOBLE
OLWYN OLIVER
DAWID O’NEILL
MARK RENAUD
DONALD ROSS-WATT
JOHN RUSSELL
JORG SCHMID
JIM SCOTT
KEITH SEARLE
CATHY STANLEY
NICHOLAS STEVENS
ANDREW STEVENSON
JOHANNA TAYLOR
KAREN THORNTON
STEPHEN VAN DER BERG
PAUL VAN ECK
GERRIT VERLAND
KIM WETTERGREEN
WILLIAM WETTERGREEN
COLIN WHITE
RUSSELL WRIGHT
12 runners will be participating in the Ultra for the first time.
The novices (8 male, 4 female) are:
NICOLA FORGAN
MARY BALL
MIRANDA HEATHCOTE
ANNETTE DE BRUIN
GIMO-ZUADA MATUSO
CHRIS MYERS
JOHN RUSSELL
JORG SCHMID
NICHOLAS STEVENS
STEPHEN VAN DER BERG
GERRIT VERLAND
COLIN WHITE
1 runner will be going for Permanent Blue Number (10 runs):
SERENA HAUPT
1 runner will be going for Double laurel (20 runs):
MOGAMAT BURGHERS
24 FHAC runners participating this year already have permanent Blue numbers (10 or more medals)
FHAC participant with most 2 Oceans medals:
BRIAN MOLYNEAUX (27 medals)
Oldest FHAC participant:
Jim Scott, 67 years old
Youngest FHAC participant:
HEATHER CAMPBELL, 21 years old
A family affair (FHAC families participating):
Dad, mom and daughter:
Andy, Nikki and Heather Campbell
Father and son:
Bernard and Adrian Hayes
Father and daughter:
Bruce Bell and Sarah Veenstra
Husband and wife:
Tommy and Mary Ball
Dave and Cheryl Bucklow
Tinus and Annie Delport
Russell and Bev Mackintosh
Bruce and Elaine Barber
Barrie and Kim Wettergreen
Half Marathon:
27 participants
4 Novices