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Loaded Hog Autumn Series, weekly through March to 8 April 2008

Loaded Hog Summer Series, weekly from 9 Oct to 13 Nov 2007, fortnightly after that to 26 February 2008

Registration from 5:30pm at the Loaded Hog
Race for walkers - starts 5:45pm
Race for runners - starts 6:00pm

The popular Loaded Hog 5k "Summer" Series began its weekly version on Tuesday, 9 October and winds up on 26 February for a dozen races in total. From mid-November the frequency drops back to fortnightly and the alternate weeks filled in with the Olympic Twilight 5k series.  Registration opens at around 5:30 at the waterfront Loaded Hog. Entry fee of $6 gets you a race to compete in, a complimentary Loaded Hog beverage at the prize-giving in the bar, a chance to pick up a spot prize and share some scintillating conversation. Walkers start at 5:45, runners at 6:00. The start is beside Ferg's Kayaks and the course heads out past Te Papa, down to Cable St, past the New World, around to Oriental Parade footpath to the cone (near the bus stop, about 200m beyond the end of the beach) and returns the same way. When you cross the finish line, please stay in finishing order until we record your number. Toilets are available on the wharf or in the Loaded Hog. This is a great chance to do regular racing, time trials, or tempo runs. You may want to put up the following poster in your workplace, gym, etc. Poster with details

Loaded Hog Spring Series, weekly from August to October 2007

Cumulative results 

Registration from 5:00pm at the Loaded Hog
Race for walkers - starts 5:30pm
Race for runners - starts 5:45pm

Loaded Hog Autumn Series, weekly through March and April 2007

Cumulative Results

Registration from 5:30pm at the Loaded Hog
Race for walkers - starts 5:45pm
Race for runners - starts 6:00pm

Loaded Hog Spring/Summer Series, weekly from 10 Oct to 14 Nov 2006, fortnightly after that to 27 February

Cumulative results

Registration from 5:30pm at the Loaded Hog
Race for walkers - starts 5:45pm
Race for runners - starts 6:00pm

Loaded Hog Spring Series 2006 (August-October 2006)

Cumulative results

Registration from 5:00pm at the Loaded Hog
Race for walkers - starts 5:15pm
Race for runners - starts 5:30pm

Loaded Hog Autumn Series 2006 (January-April 2006)

Cumulated results

Registration from 5:30pm at the Loaded Hog
Race for walkers - starts 5:45pm
Race for runners - starts 6.00pm

Spot prize-giving will be held at the Loaded Hog when all competitors have finished.

Cumulated results of Loaded Hog Series 2 (October-December 2005)

Cumulated results of Loaded Hog Series 1 (August-September 2005)

History of the 5k series

We began these 5k series in the spring of 2000 (August and September), with a double loop course around Thorndon.  In those days the name sponsor was Magills (a now defunct pub on Thorndon Quay).  The idea of the spring series was to get people ready for road racing (such as the road relays).  This course required lots of marshalls because of all the road crossings.  In the autumn, we changed to course to a single out-and-back along the Old Hutt Road - no road crossings.  The idea of the timing was to get people endurance-fit for winter sports (including harriers!). 

That's the way it stayed for several years, except we moved the start out to the end of the retail area (beside the paint shop) to provide a wider footpath with fewer vehicles crossing. 

After Magills folded, Bodyworks took up the name sponsorship for a season. In Autumn 2005, we moved to the waterfront and a new name sponsor (Lifestyle Sports, who still remain as a sponsor) with a course around the Overseas Passenger Terminal and out to Oriental Bay and straight back, starting from the brewery on Taranaki Wharf.  Then in August 2005, we began a longer Spring series under the name sponsorship of the Loaded Hog, an out-and-back course to the end of Oriental Bay starting from outside the kayak and climbing store. The Loaded Hog also provides a congenial location after the race to hold a prize giving and relax while rehydrating.

Jim Kerr is the series organiser. His email address is jimbo@paradise.net.nz.