Summary: <p>With the athletics action hotting up across Australia, Sean reviews the ACT Championships that featured many prominent Victorian athletes including long jumpers Brooke Stratton and Darcy Roper. Roper’s training partners Henry Smith and Chris Mitrevsky also jumped well, with Smith leading the competition with a PB of 8:06m until Roper’s final jump of 8.20m. In the sprints Nana Owusu-Afriye ran an eye popping 200m and Jack Hale maintained his consistency and took out the win.</p> <p>Tim caught up with Harry Summers to reflect of his World Cross Country selection and discuss his aspirations for the event.</p> <p>The Box Hill Classic didn’t disappoint with a magic night of running across the 200m, 800m & 3000m distances. Harry Summers lead 5 men under the 8min mark for the 3000m while Morgan Mitchell had a great stoush with Georgia Griffiths to win the 800m in 2:03.93, her first sun 2:04 performance.</p> <p>The sprints saw Anastasia Purcell and Tom Willems take victories on a night where PB’s came crashing down.</p> <p>In the first of a series of athlete interviews, Lisa talks to Luke Mathews about his international experiences including management, sponsorship, coping with downtime and the age old question of how long to stay overseas. Luke also discusses his training environment and the coach/athlete relationship. We’ll hear more from Luke in Episode 9.</p> <p>The Oceania/Australian 20km Walks Championships in Adelaide saw wins to Swede Perseus Karlstrom in the Men’s and Columbian Sandra Lorenas in the Women’s race. Australian pair Dane Bird-Smith and Queensland’s teen sensation Katie Heyward took the silvers with our very own Jemima Montag winning the bronze.</p> <p>We also recap the results from the Parkdale and Ballarat Gifts with Luke Stevens and Ebony Lane taking the gift honours in Parkdale, while Jody Richards and Bikramjeet Singh doing likewise in Ballarat.</p> <p>Another big episode of Down the Track… enjoy!</p>
