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Wellington Waterfront 5k, Spring Series - Race 9, Queens Wharf, 30 September 2008

Race 9 in the spring series of 5k races was a rough day to start with but we ended up with perhaps the best racing conditions of the series so far this spring – a light southerly to help blast home with. We had just 59 participants with many recording series PBs as a result.

Walkers: Glenn Burrell again used a late start time as motivation towards catching the field and recording a fast time – his race walk winning time being 22:32. Second home and first woman was Alison Samson who posted 30:56 and next home were the Grimmetts with Terri recording 31:43 and just a few metres back was Philip in 31:46.

Runners: First home tonight, just missing breaking into the 15 minute something times was Hayden Shearman who recorded 16:07. Second place went to David Carrigan in a Lifetime PB time of 16:20 and in third place, having his first run back on the waterfront in a season was Matt Singleton who ran 16:45. Fastest woman tonight was Bernie Portenski, as she did a last tune-up run for this weekend’s assault on yet another NZ Road Relay Championship Masters Women’s title for the Scottish women’s team. Bernie’s time was a series PB for her of 18:29. Second place went to fellow team-mate Betty Harp in 20:40 and third place went to Karen Gillespie in 21:00.

Just one Lifetime PB noted but I feel sure there were actually more – however, my records are not conclusive enough to note them accordingly. So if you did run/walk a LPB tonight, do drop me an email and I shall have the results amended to show this. Well done to the 27 participants who did, however, show a series improvement…

Thanks again to tonight’s officials - Dan Powell, Todd Stevens and the Scottish Senior Women of Jane Loughnan, Bernice Cavanagh, Carline Thomas, Michele Allison as well as Christine Jones (turnaround) helped also by David Lonsdale.

IMPORTANT NOTE:

From next Tuesday onwards – 7 October 2008, the race times will change as the advent of daylight saving allows us to move the start time later in the evening. New details are:

REGISTRATIONS FROM:          5:30PM onwards at The Chicago Sports Bar, Queen’s Wharf, Wellington

WALKERS/RUNNERS:              5:45PM for all walkers and anyone who feels they will run around 26 minutes or more for the 5k race. It is preferred if you start at this time to help keep the race within a manageable time space – I suggest also that it makes for better racing for those runners joining the earlier start time.

RUNNERS RACE:                      6:00PM for all runners – expecting to run 26 minutes or less

Jim Kerr
Race Series Organiser
Wellington Scottish Athletics Club

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