Scottish

With a gold and two silvers in the championship grades, Scottish again won the Top Club award. The Senior Women's A team defended their title against a strong challenge from Wellington Harriers with a 91-second margin. The Senior Men's A team was second to Bays Cougars (with a 4:38 margin), while the Junior Men's A team was 86 seconds behind Wesley.

The Masters Women's A team were coming second at the start of lap 4 when their runner collapsed two thirds of the way through lap 4. Jane Baxter was ambulanced to hospital and Jenny McDonald took over for the remainder of her lap after a delay of six minutes and then ran her own lap (in the fastest W35 time). Jane has recovered well. Despite the delays, the team went on to record the second fastest time for the grade, but the rules state that a team with a replacement runner is not eligible for a team award or a team placing. Well done to Diane Morgan and other members of the women's team (and the coach of the Southern Stars) for giving Jane first aid and getting the ambulance there quickly.

The Senior Women's B team recorded fifth place in the SW grade (and incidentally finished ahead of the Scottish M50 team by 16 seconds). Two lap records were set by Scottish runners: one by Melissa Moon on lap 8 as a W35, the other by Terefe Ejigu on lap 4 as an M19 (fastest over all grades). Tim Hodge also broke the M19 record for lap 3 with a time of 31:19 for 10k, but Hawks' Jake Robertson set a new record one and a half minutes after Tim (with 31:08).

Conditions were overcast, with a slight north-westerly - excellent conditions overall. Club Patron Alan Stevens first attended the Akaroa Road Relay 50 years ago. This year, 92 people ran in 12 teams for Scottish. The senior laps are 9.6/10.4/10.0/9.1/11.1/6.9/9.6/9.9=76.6, while the junior race has laps 4.8/5.7/10.0/9.1/7.0/4.1=40.7. Some of the finishers in the counts below were DQd or otherwise made ineligible for placing.

Photos (Sorry, I can't find the complete results on the ANZ website any more)

Scottish results

Lap	Name	Time	Ave min/k	Grade Place	Overall Place
Senior Women				16 finishers
SWA
1	Anne Hare	36:07	3:46	1W35	61
2	Sally Anderson	39:41	3:49	1W35	62
3	Helen Anderson	38:23	3:50	1W35	47=
4	Alice Wilson	35:27	3:54	2SW	37
5	Bernie Portenski	41:40	3:45	1W50	70
6	Katie Urquhart	31:34	4:34	1SW	49
7	Suzanne Cookson	33:39	3:30	3SW	28
8	Melissa Moon	36:34	3:42	1W35	14
	W35 record to Melissa on lap 8	4:53:05		1SW

SWB
1	Rebecca Grainger	41:13	4:18	7SW	100
2	Lotty Baldry	44:35	4:17	5SW	95
3	Cara Billen	42:08	4:13	4SW	78
4	Karyn McLean	40:00	4:24	5SW	73
5	Mari Manger	46:50	4:13	8SW	114
6	Jackie Mexted	35:56	5:12	6SW	80=
7	Tina Harris	36:24	3:48	5SW	51
8	Nicola Prendergast	45:37	4:36	9SW	81
		5:32:43		5SW

SWC
1	Emily Solsberg	42:34	4:26	9SW	109
2	Kate Hadfield	52:18	5:02	12SW	129
3	Belinda Wofford	54:56	5:30	7SW	134
4	Della Laird	51:25	5:39	13SW	128=
5	Hilary Phipps	54:22	4:54	12SW	134
6	Pip Thomson	47:46	6:55	14SW	133
7	Jasmine Brown	42:27	4:25	10SW	88
8	Karen Gillespie	46:33	4:42	11SW	89
		6:32:21		14SW

Masters Women (W35)				6 finishers
W35B
1	Diane Morgan	47:08	4:55	10W35	124
2	Christine Jones	50:50	4:53	2W50	124
3	Andrena Patterson	47:36	4:46	10W35	115
4	Brenda Burke	45:28	5:00	11W35	112
5	Robyne Blackford	54:37	4:55	2W50	136
6	Venessa Green	43:47	6:21	11W35	123
7	Clare Hunt	49:58	5:12	13W35	105
8	Loretta DeSourdy	54:14	5:29	1W50	109
		6:33:38		5W35

W35A
1	Robyn Stansfield	43:05	4:29	7W35	114
2	Helen Willis	45:17	4:21	5W35	100
3	Pam Graham	43:31	4:21	1W50	89
4	Jane Baxter	49:49	5:28	13W35	126
5	Jenny McDonald	43:36	3:56	1W35	84
6	Betty Harp	38:59	5:39	6W35	106
7	Bev Hodge	37:37	3:55	3W35	59
8	Michele Allison	43:16	4:22	5W35	69
	Replacement on lap 4	5:45:10		no place

A Grade Men				12 finishers
SMA
1	Rees Buck	30:12	3:09	1SM	27
2	Todd Stevens	33:55	3:16	3SM	29
3	Scott Ferguson	32:51	3:17	3SM	5
4	Ben Revell	29:48	3:16	1SM	3
5	Nick Buck	34:56	3:09	4SM	31
6	Grant McLean	27:22	3:58	1SM	27
7	Kees Keizer	28:02	2:55	2SM	2
8	Glenn Hughes	34:12	3:27	3SM	3
		4:11:18		2SMA

SMB
1	Martin van Barneveld	31:16	3:15	5SM	31
2	Tim Prendergast	35:37	3:25	11SM	37
3	Karl Daucher	35:12	3:31	13SM	26
4	Peter Wrigley	36:05	3:58	11SM	43
5	Ben Winder	36:11	3:16	11SM	39
6	Clive Cooper	28:43	4:10	7SM	35
7	Stephen Day	31:14	3:15	14SM	15
8	James Coubrough	35:56	3:38	9SM	10
		4:30:14		10SMA

C Grade Men				24 finishers
SMD
1	Dave Hatfield	36:32	3:48	10M40	66
2	Mark Bradcock	49:57	4:48	34SM	119
3	Colin Maclachlan	46:48	4:41	22M50	111
4	Mike Wells	47:38	5:14	27M40	118
5	Andrew Bates	41:25	3:44	24SM	67
6	Dean Madsen	36:37	5:18	15M40	86
7	Api Williams	35:32	3:42	10M40	42
8	Paul Brydges	44:18	4:28	29SM	75
		5:38:47		17SMC

SMC
1	Mike Frith	40:43	4:14	31SM	95
2	Matyas James	43:27	4:11	31SM	85
3	Adrian Shields	45:00	4:30	16M40	105
4	Jim Kerr	51:45	5:41	29M40	130
5	Ewan Gestro	43:22	3:54	27SM	80
6	Neville Henderson	33:43	4:53	24SM	68
7	Stu Beresford	37:08	3:52	25SM	56
8	Bruce Lake	46:47	4:44	33SM	91
		5:41:55		19SMC
Open Masters over 50				12 finishers
SMA
1	Mike Wespel-Rose	39:14	4:05	10M50	83
2	Richard Brent	40:19	3:53	4M50	65
3	Ross Lake	44:40	4:28	20M40	102
4	Paul Rodway	40:37	4:28	10M50	78
5	Ken Howell	47:08	4:15	18M50	118
6	Phil Valentine	39:24	5:43	17M50	108
7	Rupert Watson	37:40	3:55	10M50	60
8	Bob Stephens	43:57	4:26	14M50	72=
		5:32:59		7M50

Men 19 and under				18 finishers
M19A
1	Nathan Bramley	17:35	3:40	12M19	12
2	Nico Labbe	19:40	3:27	3M19	3
3	Tim Hodge	31:19	3:08	2M19	2
4	Terefe Ejigu	29:08	3:12	1M19	1
5	Cameron Goldsmid	23:10	3:19	5M19	5
6	Matthew Thomas	14:16	3:29	3M19	3
	Terefe set an M19 record in lap 4	2:15:08		2M19

M19B
1	James Glass	16:54	3:31	7M19	7
2	David Reynolds	21:14	3:44	8M19	8
3	James Baigent	40:28	4:03	20M19	68
4	Dominc Channon	30:23	3:20	4M19	6
5	Sam Argue	24:13	3:28	9M19	9
6	Josh Notman	16:42	4:04	15M19	16
		2:29:54		9M19

Photos

Here are some photos of the SW, W35, M50 participants. If you have other digital photos from other grades, please send me them. Photos by Chris Hare, the Andersons and Paul Rodway.

Senior Women B at the Sign of the Takahe: back row, Mari Manger, Karyn McLean, Jackie Mexted, Nicola Prendergast, Cara Billen, Lottie Baldry, and in front, Rebecca Grainger, and Tina Harris

And their rivals, the Masters Men 50 team: Ross Lake, Richard Brent, Ken Howell, Mike Wespel-Rose, Bob Stephens, Phil Valentine and in front Paul Rodway (missing is Rupert Watson)

SWA Anne Hare at the start of the 9:15 wave, leading the charge up the hill

Anne Hare nears the end of lap 1

The SWA Anderson changeover at the end of lap 2: Sally to Helen

Alice Wilson (SWA) just under the speed limit on lap 4

Bernie Portenski hands on to Katie Urquhart in Cooptown

Matthew Thomas approaches the end of the junior men's race in Cooptown

W35B Robyne Blackford nears the end of lap 5

Venessa Green of W35B at the end of lap 6

The loneliness of the long-distance runner: Melissa Moon waits for Suzanne Cookson in Dauchaville

Nicola Prendergast sets out on lap 8 for SWB

With just one lap of the Akaroa Domain to go, Melissa Moon anchors the SWA team to victory

Gold medalists, SWA: Anne Hare, Alice Wilson, Suzanne Cookson, Katie Urquhart, Bernie Portenski, Melissa Moon, Helen and Sally Anderson

Our juniors at the prize-giving with silver medals around their necks: Tim Hodge, Nico Labbe, Terefe Ejigu, Cameron Goldsmid, Matthew Thomas, and Nathan Bramley

Our silver medalist senior men's team: Scott Ferguson, Kees Keizer, Nick Buck, Glenn Hughes, Ben Revell, Grant McLean, Rees Buck and Todd Stevens