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8 October, 2023
Slink Pies emerge Queens of mountain races
CARLY Isaac is the queen of the world’s smallest mountain after lugging a 20kg bag fastest up the hill on Saturday. The Boort A Grade netballer finished 49 seconds ahead of her rivals when Wycheproof’s King of the Mountain event made a return...
CARLY Isaac is the queen of the world’s smallest mountain after lugging a 20kg bag fastest up the hill on Saturday.
The Boort A Grade netballer finished 49 seconds ahead of her rivals when Wycheproof’s King of the Mountain event made a return for the first time in 35 years.
And there was a touch of revenge in the result. Among rivals unable to catch the’ vice-captain were competitors from Nullawill who had snatched premiership honours against the hometown Magpies only a fortnight before.
Carly’s Queen of the Mountain victory was one of three for the day, also winning the 1km mountain dash and teaming with fellow Boort netballers Jo Isaac, Emma Darker and Georgia Haw to take out the women’s wheelbarrow relay.
She made it up the mountain carrying the bag filled with weights and wool in five minutes and four seconds.
“I signed up for the race on grand final night,” said the Pies’ agile centre.
“We’d been training around the netball court and the trotting track with a bag for a couple of months and pushing a wheelbarrow around before to see how things went.
“The races were definitely a lot of fun and there was a big crowd from Boort at the top of the mountain cheering us on at the race finish. That helped a lot after a tough start at the bottom of the hill ... they were yelling loudly.”
Carly had been aiming to finish the premier women’s race in under five minutes.
“That will be next year’s goal,” she said after finishing more than 200 metres clear of the other 26 competitors in the top women’s event.
Her time in the mountain dash was three minutes and 43 seconds while the relay team, with Emma given the gruelling final 250-metre leg, finished in four minutes and two seconds.
Wycheproof Narraport Football Netball Club revived the King of the Mountain and estimates more than 3000 people attended the event. Melbourne’s Tom Rodgers won the men’s title. “We will definitely be going back next year and improving our times,” Carly said.