Marathon Effort by our Athletes June 14, 1999 Navy's best runner… WO Rick Bromley No.59 Picture: ABPH Jon Gageler Navy athletes have won several events in the ADF National Half Marathon. The overall winning time of 63.17 minutes for the 21 kilometre event was run through Sydney streets by Kenyan Stephen Kiogora. Overall winner in the ADFsection was Army's PTE Andrew Baron who finished 19th in 73.04 minutes. Navy's star runner, WO Rick Bromley (HMAS KUTTABUL), tipped the Kenyan win but Bromley fared better than he had expected, winning his age division for the over 40s with a time of 75.35 minutes. Rick came 34th in a field of around 4,000. He was also a member of Navy's team "Old Salts" which won its category. Other team members included CPO Andy Horsburgh who came 43rd with a time of 76.55minutes and CMDR Frank Kresse finished 252nd in 87.24minutes. Rick also won the 1998 ADF Marathon in Adelaide. ABRO Louise Ryan (HMAS WATERHEN) narrowly missed out on first in the women's (ADF) with a time of 92.02 to Army's Lt Ana Duncan (92min). Louise lowered her personal best by a sensational seven minutes. She enjoyed the course coming 416th in the overall event saying her next goal was to break 90 minutes. Louise has been running half marathons for about three years and triathlons for about five - a relatively short time. Her next event will probably be in July on the Gold Coast.