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Clovis Mpundu completed his 50th parkrun milestone on Saturday. Photo: Dave Petrusma.

Castlemaine Parkrun celebrates eighth year of running milestones

Parkrun Castlemaine is settling into its eighth year and completed 344 parkruns this week.Saturday saw 117 participants welcomed to the Botanical Gardens course including...
Runners-up at the Diggers Rest tournament were fathers and sons Peter and Chris Brain and Paul and Lachy Darroch.

Busy week for Castlemaine bowlers

The Castlemaine Bowling Club congratulates Jack Taylor on reaching the Semi Final in the State Novice Singles.Jack was the representative for Bendigo Campaspe Region...
Castlemaine's Division 1 side went down in their match at home last Saturday, but the Division 5 bowlers had a win over Marong on the local greens. Photo: Max Lesser.

Big weekend for Castlemaine bowlers

Castlemaine Bowling Club were well represented on Sunday at the Champion of Champions event at Eaglehawk Bowling Club. Club Champions Greg Brain and Tricia...
The Barefoot Bowls competition was a great success.

Harcourt bowlers on a roll

It was a mixed bag of results for Harcourt Weekend Pennant last Saturday: Division 7 just went down by three points at home to...
The local girls squad were all smiles as they headed off Monday. Photo: Max Lesser.

Local girls cricket side shines at tournament

A team of girls from Castlemaine this week represented the region in the Western Victoria Girls Shield January 17 to 19. The team was...
It was a very warm morning for runners at Castlemaine Parkrun event #340 on Saturday, and everyone was grateful for the shade our beautiful gardens offer in summer. The warm weather didn’t stop Patrick Smith however, who was first across the line in 18:40, followed closely by Kyan McGill with a new PB of 19:30. Karina Taylor was the first female finisher in a time of 25:14. Parkrunner, Nathan Rice, who tried to sneak in late to avoid notice, was caught in the act, and awarded his 250 milestone ‘stone’. He then had to run through the tunnel of love in recognition of this great achievement. Nathan has been a Parkrunner since January 2016, so it has taken him just seven years to reach his semiquincentennial. 246 of his runs have been at Castlemaine, the others being at Goldfields Reservoir, Kennington Reservoir, Campaspe and Torquay – I’m sensing a water theme here! In addition to his commitment to running, Nathan has also managed to volunteer on 21 occasions. All in all, a fantastic effort. Well done, Nathan. Joining Nathan in the tunnel of love was junior parkrunner, Sebastian Collie who celebrated his tenth parkrun, also a great achievement. It was the week for personal bests as well, so congratulations go to Glen Sheppard (26:19), Brianna Jury (31:59), Greg Taylor (32:47), Liza Shaw (36:05), Lachlan Morgan (36:17), Emma Morgan (40:19) and Parker Williams (47:35) who all achieved PBs despite the hot conditions. No matter what the weather, the welcome is always warm at Castlemaine, and we extended that warm welcome to visitors from Lilydale, Canberra and Rosebud, and also to first timers David Scott, Lainie Sutton, Judd Pratt, Alexandra Squires and Libby Pratt. As always grateful thanks go to the volunteers who make the event happen each week. This week’s volunteers were: Run Director, Michael Constable, ably assisted by Ronder Clayton, Dianne Cox, Jane Harding, Peter Hill, Stephen Walls, John Willis and Robin Murdoch. You can see just how many jobs need to be done to keep parkrun ‘running’ each week, so please come along and offer your support by popping your name on the roster, or register to run/jog/walk the gorgeous 5km course by logging on to www.parkrun.com.au/register and collecting your unique barcode, so you can join us every Saturday morning in the Castlemaine Botanical Gardens at 8am.

Nathan clocks up 250 run milestone at Castlemaine Parkrun

It was a very warm morning for runners at Castlemaine Parkrun event #340 on Saturday, and everyone was grateful for the shade our beautiful...
Medal winners on the day were (L-R) Richard Ruddick, Mick Goritchan, Max Elson, Greg Brown, Jamie Griffin and James Dolphin. The winners are pictured with Stan Smith (centre).

Castlemaine Rifle Club stalwart honoured

Castlemaine Rifle Club members contested the fifth stage of the Club Championship on Saturday. The club also had special medals struck to commemorate life...

Men’s and Ladies bowls champs crowned

During the break Castlemaine has crowned two new Club Champions, Greg Brain and Tricia O’Shea.

Video: Speed boats zoom around Lake Eppalock

A huge crowd of 1500 spectators turned out to enjoy the annual Eppalock Gold Cup boat race.
A couple of members of the Scott family, who did so much to assist over the New Year weekend, dressed in the blue ‘parktalker’ tops. An open invitation to chat along the way!

Parkrun double header to welcome in the new year

Castlemaine Parkrun has established a tradition of running their normal Saturday event, and backing that up with another on Christmas Day and New Year’s...
Castlemaine Warriors and Campbells Creek went head to head in the 11 Under final. Photo: Max Lesser.

Close contests in CDNA Twilight finals

After another great season of twilight netball, the Castlemaine District Netball Association capped off 2022 with some really close grand final action just prior...
Nordic Pole Walking volunteers Graham Bradshaw, Ruth Hay and Liz Citroen welcome interested community members to join them.

Nordic New Year

Bookings are now open for Dhelkaya Health’s weekly Nordic Pole Walking classes in 2023.The classes will be held on Monday morning and Thursday evening...
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