MAIDEN Gully Primary School are celebrating after breaking two records and walking away with their fourth race win at the 24th RACV Energy Breakthrough event in Maryborough on Saturday.
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The Miss Janey team, made up of 19 students who formed crew and race members, were the overall runner up champion coming second to overall champion Frankston Primary School.
Teacher Paris Craig said the school was the first primary school in the event's history to have ever won the race part of the event four years in a row.
He also said the school broke two event records.
"We broke the fastest lap record and we also broke the most amount of laps a team can do in 14 hours," he said.
He said the school beat the former 2005 record of 383 laps, with 401 laps in the same time frame.
Teacher Jess Kelly said 11-year-old Remi Valentine had been fasted overall in the time trials on Thursday and had secured the pole position.
Ms Kelly said Remi was the first girl in the event to take pole position.
"She did time trials on Thursday to get our grid positions, and that’s where Remi came first and got us into the first position," she said.
"Then we started the actual race yesterday first and fourth."
It’s a great program and it teaches the kids about sustainable living...
- Jess Kelly
Mr Craig said Jack Hickman had been the star of Saturday's race, which started at 6am and finished at 11am, when he broke the record for the fastest lap with a time of 1 minute 35 seconds.
"Then the team broke the lap record as well, the long distance record too," he said.
Ms Kelly said the entire Miss Janey team had worked hard over the weekend.
"There’s a lot of other kids who can ride just as quick, but they’re just quite consistent, these kids can maintain it over a long period of time," she said.
"We’re really proud of them, they’ve worked hard, they deserve the win."
She said the Energy Breakthrough event was a good one for the students.
"It’s a great program and it teaches the kids about sustainable living and about being fit and healthy and the importance of looking after the environment," she said.
"It’s really good, they've worked really hard and we’re really proud of them."
She said the school was also raising money for two charities, the Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation and the Jane McGrath Foundation.
"That’s why our trike is called Miss Janey, we named it after Jane McGrath, so for every lap we do we donate money back to both of those charities."