It’s race week!

This week

  • Tuesday 6.00 pm, interval session with Andy, Alice and Rowan outside Freyberg Pool. This week’s session is a pre-race taper.
  • Friday 12.27 pm, Kupe Run, a chatty pre-weekend run from the Kupe statue on the waterfront.
  • Saturday 8.00 am, Parkruns at Waitangi, Lower Hutt, Ara Harakeke, Trentham, Kāpiti and Greytown.
  • Saturday 12.30pm, Wellington Road Championships, Reservoir Road, Wainuiomata.
  • Sunday long pack runs — usually, these leave at 8.30 am from outside Freyberg Pool and some alternative locations around Wellington. Contact our club captains, Emma and Bert, or check Facebook for details.

Results

James Preston selected for World Championships

Congratulations to James Preston, who has been selected to represent New Zealand at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest.

Athletics NZ statement: “New Zealand also boasts two men’s 800m representatives in Brad Mathas, who set a PB of 1:45.75 in Pfungstadt in June, and New Zealand champion James Preston – one of three New Zealand athletes set for their World Championships debut in Budapest.”

Run the Forest 21km, Rotorua

Mel Aitken was 2nd in 1:43:26

Honest Ten

Tim Hodge was 2nd in 33:44

Lower Hutt Park Run

Meg Ferry ran her 250th (!!) Parkrun on Saturday.

Mukamuka Munter

Results to come

Notices

Nau mai

Welcome to new club member Nicola Hankinson.

Register for road relays

With around two months left until Road Relays, we are looking for those club members who are planning on coming with us to Christchurch, to fill in the registration form. If you are making a payment for your Road Relay contribution, then please send these to the usual Wellington Scottish account (38-9005-0501833-00) and reference your name along with RR. See below for more details.

Singlets

Available now: all sizes of early style singlets — XS to XL. Plus a full range of sizes in the other style, both male and female. Please be in touch well before an event if you need one. All singlets are $50. 

Scottish clothing

There are a few odd sizes of Scottish clothing available (leftovers/ non-collected items from previous orders). On offer: 

  • Tracksuit tops (hooded and no hood)
  • Yellow hoodies
  • Black long sleeve t’s
  • Polo shirts
  • Black T-shirts (streetwear)
  • Yellow T-shirts (running / walking wear)
  • Crop tops (small fit only – free to a good home). 

Let Heather know if you’re interested – maybe something to wear while cheering teammates on at the road relays, or to wear on the podium? 

OR let Heather know if there’s interest in other Scottish gear, keeping in mind that generally we need 10-15 orders of any one item to make screen printing affordable. 

Wanted: storytellers / storytellers-in-waiting

From Lindsay: What makes Scottish so great? (Aside from all of you, of course.)

Our stories. Our tales of triumph, tribulation, training, tenacity, trails, track, and tarmac (look, Emily, I was paying attention to those last three Ts!). Our episodes of euphoria, energy, enthusiasm, effort… I probably need to give up on the alliteration now.

The point is our club is bursting with funny, inspiring, wise, and encouraging stories to tell, whether from our training, our races, or the times in between. And stories were made to be shared with fellow club members, friends, and beyond the club so that people know who we are and what we’re all about.

Which brings me to this notice. I’m building a new (volunteer) crew to tell our rampant stories and looking for lions to join.

Two of our storytellers-in-chief (Stephen Day and Simon Keller) are keen to pass the baton for the Scottish newsletter, website, and On the Run. And with Lucy’s move to London and my lack of time to run our social media accounts alone, our Insta has been far too quiet for a bunch of lions.

It’s a fair bit of work, so I’m keen to bring together a few people (about five or so) into a marketing and communications sub-committee. I’m happy to lead it (unless someone else would like to!), and we’ll share the work around to work with people’s skills, interests, and time.

You do not have to be experienced in marketing and comms (but great if you are). You just need to be keen to tell our stories through our various channels, up for learning a thing or two, and able to commit between 5 and 10 hours a month.

The things we’ll be looking after are:

  • Members’ weekly newsletter
  • Website content, including On the Run
  • Social media (currently Facebook and Instagram)
  • Linking in with Hinano on event/race promotion
  • Anything else we might want to try

If you’re keen, let me know. I’d like to have a few people in place by early September so we can get organised before Road Relays.

Contact Lindsay

Coming up

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.

Information & Entry, Map, Detail, Kids Detail, Turkey Trot

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.

The walkers will hold a race on a shorter circuit (flatter) at the same time. It will not be a handicapped race.

Race details

NZ Road Relays, Loburn, 30 September

It’s that time of year again when we start to turn our minds to the National Road Relays. For new runners to the club, this is possibly the biggest running event in the club running calendar and an awesome weekend away with friends and family. For those that assume this is just for the faster runners, this is not the case. We generally take over 100 runners to Road Relays each year and last year won top club, thanks in part due to our sheer weight of numbers on the start line.

The committee has decided to keep the costs in line with last year’s event by subsiding race entry, accommodation, and minibus hire, meaning the costs will be as follows:

  • 1 runner — full: $150
  • 1 runner — no dinner: $110
  • 1 runner — 1 night: $100
  • Supporter — $100 (everything but entry fee)
  • 1 runner — race and van hire only $60

If you would like more information on the road relays, please chat with some of your club members, your section captains or the club committee.

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