Frankston to Portsea Road Race 55km/34 miles
April 9th 1988
Report by Kon Butko
| 1. | Alan Farley | 4:07:01 |
| 2. | Kon Butko | 4:18:01 |
| 3. | Howard Ross | 4:21:41 |
| 4. | Phillip Dodin | 4:44:20 |
| 5. | Peter Armistead | 4:47:40 |
| 6. | Ken Hough | 4:59:40 |
| 7. | Reg Williams | 5:04:55 |
| 8. | Patrick Parsons | 5:08:34 |
At 7am, eight runners set out from Frankston for the 34 mile journey to Portsea. Conditions were ideal although we did get a bit of a head wind.
Alan Farley of Frankston led from start to finish with a four-way tussle amongst Peter Armistead, Phillip Dodin, Howard Ross and Kon Butko for second place.
In the absence of Peter Armistead’s manager [Ross Shilston] who went back home for breakfast after two hours, Peter couldn’t hold himself back and took off after Alan, but suffered a little later. Incidently, Ross is the same manager who fell asleep during the night while managing Peter and Kon Butko on several other ultra runs. These two will need to take a close look at their manager for future races. Maybe they can reverse roles for the next ultra.
Ken Hough, Patrick Parsons and Reg Williams ran steadily together until the last few miles when Ken took off to break five hours.
Now Geoff Hook, we better see you next year since we have supplied certificates as you suggested!
The date will be about the same next year.