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Wellington Waterfront 5k, Spring Series - Race 8, Queens Wharf, 23 September 2008

Race 8 in the spring series of 5k races was a fine day initially. However, the northerly kicked in and by race time it was a fairly strong battle home into it. Times were anything from 30 seconds to 2 minutes slower for all – depending upon which level of ability you may sit. In saying that, we had 50 keen participants with a significant number of new registrations to the series.

Walkers: Glenn Burrell returned to the Wellington Waterfront and despite giving all a 3 minute head-start, he caught up and still recorded a very good personal time to win the race walk in 23:07. Second place, also not far off his best, was Michael Walton in 29:38 and third place went to Phillip Grimmett who posted 31:45. Alison Samson made it a double backing up from last week in winning the ladies section with a time of 31:41 – also showing a great walk sprint finish! Second was Terri Grimmett with 32:30 and third place went to Hannah Minot in 37:07

Runners: Young up and coming Scottish athlete Ryan Woolley showed a clean pair of heels to all in the running race as he defied the conditions to run a very nice 16:03 – he also had a strong finishing burst into the teeth of the northerly. Next was daylight with second place eventually going to newcomer Alex Wallace who ran 17:37 and then Mark Anderson claimed third with 17:44. Scottish Harriers sisters were first and second in the women’s race with Bernie Portenski taking line honours in a time of 19:13 and second place went to Michele Allison in a time of 20:07. Just a matter of metres back was young Scottish junior woman Olivia Sullivan who ran 20:09 for third place.

Sadly, we had but one participant claiming a Lifetime PB (lol – first time over the 5k distance officially, I gather) and not one Series PB – but we just put that down to the weather. As I said to many tonight, it was, however, a really great training night for all!

My apologies to all spot prize winners tonight – in my rush to get there, I left them printed out in the printer tray – however, the winners were:

Glenn Burrell; Phillip Grimmett; Damian Walsh; Brian Hayes; John Leonard; Paddy Atkinson; Mary-Ann Moller and Sarah Munn. I shall email you all and check out whether you would like the voucher posted or available at a future race. Sorry for the inconvenience to you all. At least those who were not there can actually receive a prize tonight though! Lucky you!

Thanks again to tonight’s officials - Dan Powell, Todd Stevens, John (The Marshall) Skinnon, Bruce McCallum, Ray Marten, Angus Napier, Phil Valentine (turnaround point official) with further support from Richard Brent and Paul Rodway – our man behind the scenes and the power source who drives our premier running web-site that is Scottish Harriers!

Jim Kerr
Race Series Organiser
Wellington Scottish Athletics Club

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