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Entry for Masters' 8k and 6.4k Johnsonville Road Races, 1 August 2010, posted 25 July 2010 Entry Lifestyle Sports Best Caption Competition (club members only), posted 28 July 2010 Scottish members, get your entries in for the Lifestyle Sports Best Caption Competition, which was included in the latest issue of On the Run magazine (see Karen’s Corner). Entries close on Sunday (1 August) and the winner (along with their caption) will be announced on the website on Friday, 6 August. Remember, the best entry wins a free pair of shoes from Lifestyle Sports of any value! Also, let Grant know if you have not received your On the Run magazine: Grant  Race profile: Athletics Wellington Road Running and Walking Champs, Wainuiomata, 21 August 2010, posted 28 July 2010 This year the Athletics Wellington Road Running and Walking Champs will be held on Reservoir Road in Wainuiomata. This is a closed, sealed, meandering road through picturesque native bush. The course has always been considered a fast course situated at approx 215m above sea level. Because it is in a valley, very little wind enters the valley. Come and join us in a lovely setting, where the only noises you are likely to hear, other than the yelling of the spectators, are the birds and the river below. More | Map  Three Peaks Final Event, 25 July 2010, posted 26 July 2010 Bart Jones reports: After a week of ominous weather forecasts, Sunday turned out to be ideal and what a great event it turned out to be. Some 96 participants enjoyed fabulous running and walking conditions and fantastic sights from the Peaks. As a matter of fact, Todd Stevens, who was on duty as marshal on Odells Reserve reported that many runners “stayed a while” gazing at the views – not bothering to race on until they had their fill of the view.
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Anne Hare revisits scenes of past triumphs in the US and picks up masters places, posted 26 July 2010 Anne placed 4th Masters in the Utica Boilermaker 15k in 59:07 on 11 July. She was 3rd Masters in the Subaru Buffalo 4 Miler in 24:18 on 16 July.
Anne still holds the Open Women’s record of 20:18 in Buffalo back in 1994 – it was the 30th Anniversary of the race this year.
Anne placed 2nd at Utica Boilermaker back in 1995 with a time 49:45.
Mellsop at World Juniors, posted 25 July 2010 Caroline Mellsop ran 10:40.08 in the 3000m steeplechase heats at the World Junior Championships in Canada, narrowly missing out on the finals. Results
Arrival of Liam O'Connor, posted 24 July 2010 Karen Gillespie had a wee boy yesterday, weighing in at 3.2kg (7lb 1oz). Both Trevor and Karen are very proud parents. Photo to follow. Oceania Athletics Championships team announced, posted 20 July 2010 The New Zealand team which was announced on Sunday for the Oceania Athletics Championships. It will contain two Scottish members. Marissa Pritchard is selected for the Women’s Long and Triple Jumps and Tim Hawkes for the Men’s 800m. Congratulations to you both! The championships are in Cairns 23 to 25 September. National Cross Country Championships, Waikanae, 7 August 2010 Those keen on marking the end of the cross-country season are reminded about the NZ champs. Easy to get to and on a course we are familiar with! Entries close at midnight on 25 July. Scottish members named in Wellington Cross Country Team, posted 18 July 2010 Athletics Wellington Selectors have picked 25 Scottish members to represent the Centre in the NZ Cross Country Champs on 7 August (the venue is Waikanae; the same course as used for the Wellington Champs). Here is the full team list: W16 Sophie Pepperell (O), Ariana Harper (S). M16 Kieron McDonald (W), Charles Scannell (W), Shaun Smith (W), Cameron Murdoch (H), Matt Grenfell (T), Nick Lucie-Smith (W), Martin McCrudden (O), Tim Robertson (H). W19 Nicole Mitchell (S), Lizzy Bunckenberg (O), Florence Reynolds (S), Kathryn Bunckenberg (O), Laura Robertson (H). M19 Ryan McAlister (W), Ben Barry (S), Hassan Roble (W), Matt Pavitt (W), Tim Stewart (K), Julian Baker (W), Josh van Dalen (S), Yared Kebebe (W). SW Tina Harris (S), Sarah Gardner (H), Sarah Drought (W), Gabrielle O'Rourke (W), Rebecca Keat (W), Stephanie Mackenzie (S), Elaine Brent (O), Jacinta Swain (H). SM Stefan Smith (S), Hamish Carson (S), James Coubrough (S), Evan Cooper (W), Cary Chaffee (W), Ryan Woolley (S), Brendon Blacklaws (S), Terefe Ejigu (S), Stephen Day (S), Hayden Shearman (S). W35 Vickie Humphries (W), Gabrielle O'Rourke (W), Virny Meijer-Kortekaas (T), Mandy Simpson (S), Teresa Cox (T), Michelle Van Looy (O), Helen Willis (S). M35 Grant McLean (S), Peter Versey (H), Joseph Bulbulia (S), Greg Mitchell (S), Mike Waterman (O), Jim Jones (S), Peter Mackenzie (S), Todd Stevens (S). M50 Paul Forster (W), Vaughan New (H), Tony Price (M), Graeme Lear (S), Mark Handley (O), Paul Sharp (W), Steve Plowman (S). If the Scottish members in the above list are NOT intending to run the NZ Champs, please email Don Dalgliesh (Team Manager), with a copy to Todd Stevens, letting him know. You must enter yourself by 25 July. You will need to pay the entry fee of $35. The Centre will then reimburse the entry fee (provided you finish the Champs) to Scottish in due course, and Todd will then forward the reimbursement onto team members. More
Road Walk Races, QEII Park, Paekakariki, 17 July 2010 Results Melissa Moon sets up massage business, posted 15 July 2010 Melissa Moon, our former world mountain running champion and current stair racer, has set up a new business, Saffron Therapeutic Massage. Here is her business card. Lifestyle Sports
Waterfront 5k Fun Run and Walk Series 2010/11 Calling
all social or competitive runners and walkers: Come on down to Chicago
Sports Café at XTERRA Trail Running, Race 3, Woolshed Run, Belmont Regional Park, 11 July 2010 Rachael Cunningham reports: The 3rd XTERRA trail run was a mixture of bush trails, farmland and several creek/river crossings (shame I slipped and ended up almost swimming in the first creek!) in the Belmont Regional Park. That was a frosty start, but warmed up pretty quickly on the long course climbing up to the top of the trig station. We were rewarded with fantastic views over Wellington harbour. Another fun and well run event from the XTERRA team - the chocolate doughnuts at the finish line were another highlight! Scottish members sighted: Long: Tricia Sloan (first woman), Rachael Cunningham (3W), Jo Badham, Simon Maister, Andrew Kerr; Medium: Sabrina Pick, Susan Joy, Josie Askin, Karen Ward, Loretta DeSourdy, Anna Marshall, David White. Results
Harry
Kerr Centennial Relay, Mt Smart Stadium, Auckland, 11 July 2010
For the third year now
Wellington Scottish Athletics have entered a walking team in the Harry
Kerr Centennial Relay which also incorporates the Race Walking New Zealand
5 x 10,000m Track Walk Relay Championship. The Harry Kerr Relay is held in
commemoration of the historic
occasion of The
team arrived to a warm welcome by hosts Race Walking Auckland at Mt Smart
Stadium around 7.45am. The morning was very cold and a heavy frost had
settled in and around the track. There were already two events happening
on the track, the B Division Walkers had started at 7.30am and Quentin Rew
was attempting to qualify for the New Delhi Commonwealth Games by breaking
88 minutes for 20,000m. (Unfortunately the frosty conditions took their
toll on Quentin and he finished just outside of his target, but was very
inspirational to watch.) As
in past years Race Walking Auckland set a blistering pace as soon as the
gun went off followed very closely by the composite team member. Although missing out on a podium place for the Harry Kerr Relay our valiant team were 3rd in the Race Walking New Zealand 5 x 10,000m Track Walk Relay Championship. The individual times were: Kevin Watson 1:03:49; John Leonard 1:09:01; Terri Grimmett 1:07:24; Phil Grimmett 1:13:35; Peter Baillie 53:29 Brooks Off-Road Half Marathon, Taupo, 11 July 2010 Mandy Simpson reports: It was a nice relaxed 10am start for the half marathon. The course was on woodland trails, forestry roads and hillside tracks and was extremely challenging. In fact, it felt as if we were trying to race a half marathon on the Vosseler course, but with a run up the Tip Track to finish. But it was well worth it for the amazing views. Michael Wray 1:37 (13th), Mandy Simpson 1:59, Gordon Walker (walk), 3:34. Results
Victoria Track Classic, Canada, 7 July 2010 Caroline Mellsop ran 4:33 for a 1500m race in Victoria, BC. This is equivalent to her best for the 1500m and is a good sign for World Juniors coming up where she is running in the 3000m Steeplechase. Results Hit counts and hosting
Number
of visitors since 1 July 2010 has been
Visitors in the year to 30 June 2010 were counted at 80,805, up by 12.7% on last year. That's a hit every 6 minutes and 30 seconds, 24/7!
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This week Next Saturday is one of the most enjoyable handicap races of the season - the 9.8k multi-terrain run around Whitireia Park. We start from the beach outside the Titahi Bay Surf Club soon after 2pm (staggered start), cross the peninsular to the Porirua Harbour and then go around the park - track, beach, paddock, cows. At 7.5k is the start of a long grind up to the radio masts and then a scamper through the burbs back to the beach (if you've run hard, you should be staggering at the finish!). The juniors have a road race, while the walkers will set out and cover the area in packs (starting at 1:30). Don't forget to take some food to share - our guests are Kapiti Harriers, hosts of the recent cross country champs. Scenic Sunday Runs: Meet by the Bella Italia at 8am on 10 Nevis Street Petone for around a 1:40 run. We’ll head up Nevis St, over the bridge across SH2 by Petone station then along the new cycle/walkway to Cornish St to link up with the Korokoro track for a loop first towards Stratton St then via Oakleigh Street and back along the Korokoro. Plan is to split into two packs along the lines of Green and Yellow packs. Then after dark on Sunday is the final XTERRA run in the Wainui Mountain Bike Park. Kicks off at 6pm. Annual running of the Masters' 8k (5 laps of a hilly road course for runners) and 6.4k (4 laps for walkers) in Johnsonville. Meet at the Olympic Harrier Clubrooms, Alex Moore Park, Bannister Avenue. Walkers start at 10:45 and runners at 11:00.
Scottish countdown
Guidelines for selection for the Wellington Cross Country and Road Racing Teams for the National Championships, posted 25 June 2010 These guidelines are available here: Cross Country and Roads Pelorus Trust Run and Walk 2010: 5k, 10k, Half Marathon and the Cool Kids' Kilometre, 19 September 2010, posted 6 June 2010 The half is on a scenic Hutt River course. Details are on www.hvmc.org.nz The race director is our very own Ken Howell, wearing his Hutt Valley Marathon Clinic hat. As a prelude to the events on 19 September, the clinic is holding a Brooks/Shoe Clinic 5k series in Petone, on Thursdays through August until 9 September. Registration for the 5k is from 5:30pm, start times are 5:45pm, for walkers and 6pm for runners. Race HQ is Petone Sports and Boxing Club, 24 Marine Parade, Hikoikoi, Petone.
Website Email: xterra@splashanddash.co.nz Times: Registration 7.30am - 8.30am at each event Event 4 - 4.30 - 5.40pm Start Times: All distances - Short/Medium/Long start together- 9am (Event 4 - start 6pm) Running quotes On the agony of the half-mile race: A race is a conversation with yourself, motivational in quality, until somebody interrupts by pulling away from you, and then it becomes an exercise in fathoming limits. Losing is like knowing that, in the movie scene where a thousand die but the hero lives, you’re one of the obliterated . . . the right track term is "running in a pack." That’s us – a band of runners hardly separated. One keeps exhaling humidly on my shoulders. Another’s left forearm hits my right elbow on its backswing. A runner pulls up beside me – the way a freeway driver pulls even in the adjacent lane to take your pulse – and I assess his chances with a panicked glance. Not strictured yet; striding with more ease than I feel; biding his time; relaxed. Working up a freshly adrenalised surge, I gain a quarter-step on him, but purchased with the last of my reserves . . . . Ask any track coach. The half-mile is a race for unadulterated masochists. Neither a sprint nor a distance event, it has the worst qualities of both. It’s not a glorious race either. A lot of people can name a sprinter or miler – Carl Lewis, for example – or a famous miler like Roger Bannister, but can very many name even a single half-miler? It’s not a legendary or even notable feat to beat other runners over 880 yards. At track meets, the half-mile contest is somehow lost between more compelling competitions, an event that unfolds while fans thumb their programmes or use the bathroom. Into this gap of a race, this sideshow, runners in search of a deeper agony than they can find elsewhere. They want to do battle with suffering itself. It’s the trauma they want, the anguished ordeal. It’s the approximately two minutes of self-mortification or private crucifixion. All half-milers have a similar love of pain. So this race is an intimation and an opening. In two minutes’ time, you get a glimpse. - "The Other" by David Guterson Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain, American writer and humorist I cannot overstate the importance of having a vision. It is what you cling to, for dear life, when the project is proving particularly difficult — Sebastian Coe Recent results How to find results: The newest results are put in the left hand column of the home page (here). Generally there will be also a link to more detailed results on this site or off site. Eventually they disappear off the bottom of the page as new material arrives at the top. By that stage, a title and a link is placed in the dated list below. Soon after the month has been finished, this list is copied into Results, a calendar of results, but the list also stays on the home page for a while. If you know the month of the event you are after, click on that month in Results. If from an earlier (October) year, click on the years at the top of the results page. If the result is in the miscellaneous page (small events or small Scottish participation), you search in the current year by date or go to the bottom to find earlier years. (There must be a smarter way of doing this, but I haven't thought of it yet!
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