Excitement builds for ACT Junior Championships Canberra Sprint Coach, February 7, 2024 The 2024 ACT Junior (U14-U18) Athletics Championships are being held at Woden Park, from 16-18th February. The best talent in Canberra will be on show as athletes chase an Australian Championship qualifier as well as a podium finish. FAST Running will be well represented at the three day event. With Nic, Josh, Daniel, Grace, Mathias, and Siena, all keen to compete for glory and a new Personal Best. Training this week has focussed on competition phase with everyone running high quality repetitions . Nate in particular continues to demonstrate he’s in career best form in the lead up to Nationals. The purchase of new starting blocks by FAST has meant that members don’t have to fight over the ageing equipment on offer at the track any longer. Members can focus on their start and not slipping or injury. There’s been detailed analysis on everyone’s performance out of the blocks which has resulted in slight tweaks that have generated increased power and explosiveness in the first 30m Time trials at training are showing just how much faster each athlete has become this season already There is a Summer Series meet being held this weekend and folk are keen to get some further race practice in before the finals in a week’s time. FAST Track News Ginninderra AthleticsSprintingWoden Athletics
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Alumni Alumna: Santal Tacconi March 23, 2015February 8, 2024 Santal Tacconi trained with FAST to improve her Football. Santal was a multi-talented Athlete who over summer participated in Little Athletics and Futsal. Santal initially as an U13 tried her hand at the 800m and Discus at the 2013 LAACT State Championships. The following year it was the 200m Hurdles… Read More
FAST Track Jeremy drops Championship qualifier November 30, 2017October 30, 2023 Today Jeremy Maranan ran a new personal best in the 100m Div A race at Athletics ACT Summer Series in Woden having already competed in the 100m Hurdles just moments earlier. Jeremy finished second overall in the 100m and his time of 11.29s was an Australian Junior Championships Automatic Qualifier…. Read More