This week
- Tuesday 6.00 pm, interval session with Andy, Alice and Rowan outside Freyberg Pool. This week’s session is 1kms at different speeds. The odds are at half marathon pace and the evens at 5km pace.
- Friday 12.27 pm, Kupe Run, a chatty pre-weekend run from the Kupe statue on the waterfront.
- Saturday 8am, Parkruns at Waitangi, Lower Hutt, Ara Harakeke, Trentham, Kāpiti and Greytown.
- Saturday 8.30 am, speed sessions at Karori Park. Contact our club captains, Emma and Bert, or check Facebook for details.
- Saturday 11.00am, Halcombe Relay, Halcombe (details below)
- Saturday 2.00 pm, friendly club pack runs, Mt Cook Clubrooms, Salisbury Terrace.
- Sunday 9.30am, Wellington Masters Road Race, Olympic Harrier Clubrooms, Alex Moore Park, Bannister Avenue, Johnsonville (details below).
Results
WUU2K
Emily Solsberg says, “the WUU2k was out of this world, and it was a perfect day.”
21km – Jonas Lehmann was 2nd in 2:10. James Parsons was not far behind in 2:14.
43km. The women’s 43k was an amazing showing from Scottish women — all of whom were looking really great coming through the turbine. 1st was Michelle Ashley in 4:44:13, 6th was Floortje Kaars in 5:33:53 (3rd open woman), 8th was Emily Solsberg in 5:41:55 and 10th was Emma Bassett in 5:58:41 (in an extremely Emma side note – she stopped mid-race to get her photo taken with the FIFA women’s world cup which was on display at the park near Adelaide Rd) and Laura Bond finished in 6:17:17. James Richardson ran with an injury from Makara onwards and finished 6th man, 1st veteran man in 4:27:40. Matt Mintom was not far behind in 4:32:24. Chris Howard finished alongside Emma in 5:58:40.
62km – Fantastic runs from Ali Wilson, the first woman (9th overall) in 6:49:10, and Mel Aitken in 7:39:37 (1st veteran woman). Calum Murphy 7:34:14 and Charles Navarro 7:34:42 finished mere seconds apart. Gordon Pal finished in 8:29:45.
Marianne Elliot reports: “The Scottish aid station at the Wind Turbine was organised by Mal Kerr and Lindsay Young and led on that day by Lindsay with a strong team of Kyle Malone, Anna Breen, Frank Grieve, John Moulds, Ali Souch, Emily O’Reirdon, Rachel Collingridge and myself. The event organisers told me at the pub later that they heard from a few runners that the Turbine aid station was the best of the day because we gave them such great service (we were refilling people’s flasks and bladders for them while they ate, relaced or whatever).”
Wellington Cross Country Championships
Junior races — Abby Cleland 8th GU10 and Rowan Richardson 22nd BU10 in the 1km race. Naomi Richardson, 16th GU12, Spike Hayvice, 11th BU12, Archie McPhee, 13th BU14 and Ben Cleland, 21st BU14, in the 2km race.
4km race — Heather Walker won the W50 race. Betty Harp was 3rd W60, and Loretta Desourdy and Bev Hodge were 2nd and 3rd W65, respectively. Phil Sadgrove was the sole Scottish entrant in the M60s. Chris Harp was 2nd M65, Paul Rodway won the M70 race, Sam Cleland was 14th in the MU16s, and Tait Keller was 7th MU18.
8km race — It was a 1,2,3 in the senior men for Seamus Kane, Daniel Jones and Niam Macdonald. Rowan Hooper was 3rd in the M35s, and it looks like Alasdair Saunders and Andrew Wharton had a close tussle for 7th place, separated by just 0.1 of a second. Peter Stevens won the M50s race. Alice Sowry continued her strong cross-country season with a 7th-place finish in the senior women’s race. Emily Solsberg and Lindsay Young were 3rd and 5th, respectively, in the W35 race. (Emily was following up after being 5th W40 vet in the 43km WUU2k the day before). Alistair Collow and Leah Holden arrived 30 minutes late and ran their own race in a leisurely fashion.
- Results
- Rowan’s photos
- Sharons photos: 4km Vol 1, Vol 2, 1 and 2km, 8km Vol 1, Vol 2, Vol 3, Vol 4, Vol 5.
Manawatu Wanganui Cross Country Championships
Niam Macdonald was 3rd over the challenging 9km farmland course in a time of 33:41.
KBC Nacht van de Atletiek
James Preston was 2nd in the 800m in 1:47.65
Notices
Nau mai
Welcome to new members Andrew Dunne and Tom Croskery.
New club constitution
Consultation is currently open on a draft of our club’s proposed new constitution. Please provide your feedback by 28 July. Our current constitution can be found on our website. A draft of the proposed replacement constitution is available here, and you can provide your feedback here.
Sparkle Fitness: Strong Mums Running Strength Class
If you missed out last time, Sierra’s strength classes are back in Term 3, starting Thursday, 20 July, at St Ninian’s Church, Karori.
Whatever your running ability, these classes are for you if you want to:
- run for years to come
- improve your running form
- suffer from fewer injuries
- improve back and knee pain
Does this sound like you? Then read on for the details:
- Thur 7-7:45pm, 20 July – 21 September (with a 2-week break in September)
- St Ninian’s Church
- BYO mat, towel and drink bottle
- Starting with body weight and stability exercises and progressing to weights
- Female-specific and running-specific strength work
- $200 for 8 classes (8-week term commitment)
- Limited spaces as Sierra will keep classes small so she can give you proper attention and guidance
For more information, email Sierra at sparklefitnz@gmail.com or 021 258 9445.
Athletic Wellington Season Points 2023
Athletics Wellington has a new system for its season competition this year. Runners gain points from their best four results across six races – Shaw Baton, University Relay, Vosseler Shield, Dorne Cup, Wellington Cross Country Champs and Wellington Road Champs. So the Wellington Road Champs is the last chance to gain points and move up the league table.
League tables (currently not including this weekend’s XC results)
Coming up
Halcombe Relay, 22 July
A six-person relay run/walk along 29.2 km of scenic Manawatū rural roads. Feilding Moa Harriers extend an open invitation to other running clubs, social groups from workplaces or other sports to join them in a relay through the quiet undulating roads of the Manawatū countryside. The route encompasses Legs 3, 4 and 5 of the 2020 NZ Road Relays course.
Johnsonville Masters Road Race and Race Walk, 23 July
Race headquarters is the Olympic Harrier Clubrooms, Alex Moore Park, Bannister Avenue, Johnsonville. The race walk commences at 9.30am with 4 laps = 6.4km, and the run starts at 9.45am with 5 laps = 8km.
NZ Cross Country Champs and Cross Country Relays, 29-30 July
The cross-country championships bring together the best distance runners in NZ — and they are also an excellent opportunity for a club weekend away with runners of all speeds and ambitions.
Contact me if you want the registration codes for free entry.
Wellington Road Championships, Wainuiomata, 19 August
The Wellington Road Champs is the last of the four big interclub races for the year. It is an excellent opportunity to run a fast 5km or 10km time with a large pack of runners to pull you along. It is held in the scenic Wainuiomata Recreation Area. The course is an out-and-back road race using a 1.25km stretch of road that is closed to public traffic. The course is largely sheltered from the wind.
Needle Relay, Kilbirnie, 26 August
A short sharp road relay around Evans Bay and Cobham Drive with teams of five, alternating 5km and 3km laps.
Ballantyne Cup and Shirley Barton Trophy, Miramar, 2 September
6km handicapped road race. The Ballantyne Cup (men) and Shirley Barton Trophy (women) are the club’s most long-standing and arguably most prestigious Scottish trophies.
Keep in touch
- If you want to contact anyone about anything, then your first ports of call are our club captains, Emma and Bert, our coaching coordinators, Jaime and Nico Vessiot, and our club president Lindsay Young.
- Public Facebook page. And join the Scottish member Facebook group here.
- Website