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The Border Watch : October 22nd 2013
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34 - The Border Watch, Tuesday, October 22, 2013 34 SPORT VISIT US ONLINE borderwatch.com.au BONUS $100 COLD HARD CASH WHEN YOU CONNECT ANY HANDSET TO ANY OPTUS PLAN OVER 24 MONTHS Terms and conditions apply. Available to approved customers only. See in store for details. 627147 Mount Gambier Your Premium Optus Dealer Ph (08) 8724 6800 A DESIRE to lose a bit of weight for a healthier lifestyle led Yana Sim to her current sporting vocation. Sim lifts weights, heavy weights and she s on her way to the national championships next year in Melbourne, just 12 months since starting out and with only two competitions under her belt. A 315kg total, a com- bination of dead lift, squat and bench press, at her last competition in Mildura qualified Sim for the nationals and she said she handled the weight easily. "My dead lift was a 135kg which I did incredibly easy," Sim said. "I probably could have loaded the bar another 20kg. "My squat was 117.5kg and I did that really easy as well." Sim is so confident she s aiming to break a national record at her next event in February before heading to the national championships in March. "The squat target is 150kg and the dead lift is 167kg," she said. "They are big weights but they re in sight, it s what I m training hard for. "I m aiming for a 400kg total at the national championships." With just 200 female power lifters in Australia Sim now finds herself high up the ranking and is looking to inter- national competition in the future. "Hopefully the next two competitions will give me a ticket to com- pete internationally," she said. "Iwanttogotothe worlds next year which would be a phenomenal effort and I want to be ranked number one in Australia, which is not out of my sights." It has been a whirl- wind rise to the top of the sport for Sim who began personal training around a year ago just to lose a bit of weight and keep fit. She said she soon discovered she could lift heavy, competition standard weight and became addicted to "lifting iron." Anditisafarcryfrom her profession as a sales manager for Carlin and Gazzard, but she says her workmates have accepted her choice of sport as has her husband. "At first I don t think my work mates took it too seriously, but as time has passed, over the last few months I ve improved and gained medals at both events, they ve become really supportive," Sim said. "My husband is becom- ing more supportive because he is directly involved. "With the food, the high protein I have to consume it s not just me, it s everyone around me that has to be involved. "It s a whole lifestyle change but I love it." STRENGTH: Yana Sim balances her day job as a sales manager with her love of lifting heavy weights. TRIUMPHANT: Kerry Pedlar has achieved the ultimate goal after completing the 42.2km Melbourne marathon. MOUNT Gambier marathon runner Kerry Pedlar has returned tri- umphant from the recent Melbourne marathon. After setting a goal time to complete the full marathon of under four hours, an illness the week leading up to the event caused her to revise that goal to four hours 15 minutes. "The week before the event I spent three days in bed with a heavy head cold," Pedlar said. "I had concerns as to whether I d even be able to compete. "On the Friday I decided I was still going to run and I had to adjust my goal time." But on the day Pedlar managed an impressive four hours, not far off her original goal. "I was pretty happy with that in the end," she said. Pedlar said she decided to run the marathon to tick it off her bucket list. She said she had run many half marathons but never a full mara- thon and the Melbourne run seemed to be the one to do. And while the dis- tance of 42.2km was much tougher than the 21.1km distance she was more accustomed to covering, Pedlar said she was relieved to have achieved her goal. "You can t compare a half marathon with the full marathon," she said. "It s like the difference between C grade or A grade sport. "AttheendIfelta lot of emotions -- relief, elation, excitement. "I remember at the 32km mark my knee started hurting and it was interesting to watch people pull out or stop and walk. "Everyone was suffer- ing but I didn t stop, I was determined to get through after all the hard work." The hard work lead- ing up to the event included a training program laid down by Pedlar s brother, who she said had completed 11 ultra marathons, plus some help from training partner, 60 year old Robert Thompson, who completed the course in three hours 43 min- utes. Pedlar said she has no plans to contest another full marathon but is con- centrating more on her latest sporting endeav- our of golf, although she hasn t given up on running altogether. "I ve just taken up golf so I plan on trying to get my handicap down," she said. "As far as running goes, I might stick to doing half marathons." Pedlar happy to achieve her goal TREVOR JACKSON Sim eyes national record Rivalry continues From back page "To have won the last with Bill present and the first since his pass- ing is something really special," Lines said. "I didn t get to see Bill race but I spent a fair bit of time with him after last year s event," he added. McFadden, who rarely missed a podium last season, appeared slightly disheartened when pre- sented with the runner-up trophy with victory narrowly escaping his clutches. "I thought I had a better car than Steve but he drove a great race," McFadden admitted. "He could have put me in the wall a couple of times on those restarts when I got around him but he drove really clean," he said. "There is nothing wrong with running second with Steve, he is a great driver." While the field of 22 cars was comparatively small to the WSS meets that are yet to come, it was a crucial run for Lines and perhaps the victory will provide the edge heading into summer. The WSS schedule begins on Boxing Day at Adelaide s Speedway City, with drivers venturing to Borderline Speedway on December 28 for the third round. WHEN YOU BUY THE BORDER WATCH Simply collect the tokens in The Border Watch each day for the week, present them at the Crouch Street 24 Hour Service Station and SAVE! HOW TO SAVE 4¢ PER LITRE FROM YOUR WEEKLY FUEL BILL! To redeem your vouchers you must purchase a copy of Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday's The Border Watch. Inside each paper will be an individually numbered token. 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