by Bruce Davie | Sep 30, 2025
Race Report by Greg Plier A Backyard Ultra (BYU) is a format where competitors must run a 6.71km course (known as a yard) on the hour every hour. The race continues until there is only one runner left, the last one standing. My understanding of why each yard is 6.71km...
by Bruce Davie | Jun 7, 2025
By Rob Jones John Foley defied our esteemed handicapper to complete a second consecutive handicap victory in perfect conditions on 20th May. After taking out the 3km event as a newcomer in March he was duly given a much tougher mark for the 5km. But a swift scratch...
by Bruce Davie | May 7, 2024
By Rob Jones The latest event in this year’s MMM Club Championship was the 5km handicap at AOP (Olympic Park Oval) on 16 April. In calm, pleasant, if unseasonably warm, conditions 12 runners covered just under 10 laps of the track. Anne Martin was comfortably first...
by MMMMaster | Jan 19, 2024
The Milers posted a great collection of individual and team performances in the Two Bays 28km, 2024 edition. Our brave group of runners placed second out of eight teams in the 28km mixed team competition. Antony Rickards took 2nd M50 in 2:05; Bruce Davie was first M60...
by MMMMaster | Mar 13, 2023
Post race team photo. Credit Gary Zuccala The third event of this year’s Miler Club Championship, the 3k Handicap, took place on 7 March, with a field of 16 competing on the track at AOP. Outright winner Rob Italia (11.08) may have benefited from a generous...
by MMMMaster | Dec 20, 2022
Milers enjoying breakfast in the “summer” weather after a lap of the Tan. Photo by Andrew Ross. Melbourne’s famously changeable weather delivered a few cold showers on the morning of December 14, but in the end it was dry enough for a lap of the Tan...
