It’s Tower Race Day!!
A big thank you to the following staff for volunteering to help on the day –
Anne Milligan; Caroline Anderson; Dave Clemens; Glenna Wong; Janette Nicolle; Jill Durney; Joan Simpson; Julie Lewis; Katherine Doig; Kim Bestic; Maureen Ruki; Rachel Goggin; Romy Forrer; Sue Johnston; Sue Thompson; Terri Elder; Tim Stedman; Wendy Wu.
Special thanks to Romy for all her work making displays and notices and attention to detail planning for the running of the race. And to Kim for using her teabreaks to beautifully hand write the racers’ names on the certificates so that they can be awarded on the day.
Heather Jenks will be awarding the lovely Tower Race Trophy on the lawn in front of the Science Lecture Theatres immediately after the race.
Thanks too to everyone who is covering shifts to allow the volunteers to be away from their posts at this busy time.
So who won?
Fastest male – Thijs Hubbard 1m40s
Fastest female – Ashleigh Hall 2m08s
Best dressed – the whacky team from Electrical and Computer Engineering
Thanks also to the wonderful person(s) who thought to put the furniture back on level 11 after the event. What a lovely surprise to find it all in order when I went to attend to it this afternoon!
Anyone know how it compares with previous times or has the course changed?
Thanks to Alison and her team of helpers who worked together to make the Tower Race a huge success yesterday.
I understand that there were 51 participants which was an increase from the 47 who raced in 2008.
Heather
In case you are wondering according to the Apr Chronicle of last year the 2008 winners were…
Matt Harris 1 min 43 sec
Alicia Evans 1 min 55 sec