2015 BEXI Achievers

Congratulations to the following BEXI athletes who achieved some amazing successes in 2015. We’re all incredibly proud of you!

Overall Achievers 2015

Kelly Therkelsen	Biggest Achiever 2015	Melbourne Marathon – Trained on her own. Never missed a session. Always delivered on her training program. Adopted a super-healthy mealplan. Great attutide, believed in herself. Committed to change her bad habits. Transformed and blossomed in front of our eyes!
Melanie Spong	Best Transformation	Embraced a totally new way of life – lost lots of weight, transformed her life, attends parkrun regularly, initiates meet-ups for running, joins others for training runs (often very early!)
Katie Jacka	Best Beginner Runner	Committed, enthusiastic, embraced running, progressed to intervals, now has sights on half-marathon, involved family in parkrun
Inger DeOliviera	Most Races in a year	Busy mum, commits to training, very reliable, always there, focuses on races, keen to try new events
Paul Rainbow	BEXI Champ	Always there, planning events, taking photos, very reliable, social organiser, motivates people, inspires people, swims with B&B, manages parkrun, embraces our BEXI community
Kelly Therkelsen	November Challenge	Hands-down the one person who has totally embraced this challenge. Trying new recipes, creating new combos, converting her whole family into healthy eating, restocked entire kitched with wholefood ingredients, managed to produce winning family meals, often on a budget (big winner!), embraced the exercise programs, Strength-FIT (with kids), Friday run club. Her body has changed shape in front of our eyes – she looks fitter, healthier and absolutely gorgeous. Kelly has inspired so many – to eat healthy, to run a marathon, to achieve goals. Well done Kelly – we’re so proud of you!
Liza Dukino	BEXI Chief Motivator	Always puts BEXI first, lives and breathes BEXI, supports every event, comes to training regularly (despite living miles away), best refreshment stations ever, organises events for us, ensure everyone is looked after, motivates/inspires team, lives BEXI values, wears heart on sleeve, our BEXI Superstar!

Specific Event Achievers 2015

Kristin Prescott	Sydney Coastrek 2015	Leading the team, organising the training, managing the logistics, motivating the team, drumming up support, flying the flag
Belinda Gremmo | Steve Crosby	Canberra Marathon 2015	Total commitment to training. Great camaraderie/support. Ran together on race day – crossed the line together in 3:58. Awesome time for first marathon!
Amanda Green	Canberra Half-Marathon 2015	100% Commitment. Trained with fast runner, pushed hard in every session. Totally delivered at every training session and then on race day – 1:44 for first half-marathon.
Jonathan Green	Gold Coast Half-Marathon 2015	100% Commitment. Made training a priority in business work-life. Well supported by wife, Amanda. Attended every session. Completed homework runat 5am before heading to work. Achieved goal of  1:58!  Despite having the sub-2hr pacer run past him 🙂
Suzanne Elliott	Gold Coast 10km 2015	Puts a lot of effort into training – when she gets there! Busy mum, high flying executive. First BEXI runner to achieve a negative split at a race – 28:32 | 28:21. Awesome!
Inger DeOliviera	Oxfam 100km	Big dreamer! Never phased by the enormity of huge events. Always willing to try new things. Total commitment, despite having 2 very young kids AND a job that requires LONG hours. You will find her pounding the streets at 4am, just to get her run done. Inger completed a huge number of races this year – Canberra Half, Coastal Classic, Oxfam 100km, City2Surf, Gold Coast Half, Melbourne Half!!!
Tiffany Crosby | Katja Wong | Cass Warner	Ironman Sunshine Coast 2015	Total commitment to training. Focused at every session. Always kept their eye on the end goal. Never faulted. Great camaraderie – always supporting each other. Special mention to Cass who had to pull out due to injury. Very gracious right to the end, supportive and believed in her buddies. There on race day to cheer her buddies for 6-7hrs.
Felicity Douglas	Blackmores Half-Marathon 2015	Tough year. Lots going on with family, work, business. Always remained focused on her health. Encouraged by her BEXI friends around her. Set goals and always delivered. Has inpsired so many! Including her family! Hubby ran Gold Coast Half Marathon with her. Kids regularly join her with fun runs – Bridge Run, Pub Run, Mudge Festival, MS Fun Run, Santa Dash, etc. That alone should bankrupt the family!! Outstanding role model for BEXI community and the wider Northern Beaches community.
Kelly Therkelsen	Melbourne Marathon 2015	Trained on her own. Never missed a session. Always delivered on her training program. Adopted a super-healthy mealplan. Great attutide, believed in herself. Committed to change her bad habits. Transformed and blossomed in front of our eyes!
Peita Hillman | Sam Brown | Nicole Tognetti	Pinkie Triathlon 2015	Having the courage to push themselves beyond their comfort levels. Trying a new sport. Feeling the fear and then doing it. Never letting the fear get in the way of making the start line and achieving success. Very well done!
Michelle Savage	New York Marathon 2015	Keeping her eyes on the prize. Never doubting that she would make the start line. Never doubting that she would finish! Always believing that she would come back home with a huge medal… and all the stories to share.
Katie Jacka | Melanie Spong	5km-FIT Beginners	These two ladies have been hugely inspirational. They joinined our beginners learn-to-run program in Term3 (winter) and formed a great friendship – supporting each other each week, meeting up for training runs, cheering each other at parkrun, encouraging each other to enter different races, committing to join our Run-FIT training. Melanie for joining those training for Blackmores Half-Marathon — meeting at 5.45am. Joining regular Friday run club, etc.