This week

  • Tuesday 6.00 pm, interval session with Andy, Alice and Rowan outside Freyberg Pool. This week’s session is 500m reps at 10km pace, 1.5/2km reps at 10km pace, and 500m reps at 5km pace.
  • Wednesday 5.20pm, Athletics World Championship 800m, Round 1, James Preston, Budapest.
  • Friday 12.27 pm, Kupe Run, a chatty pre-weekend run from the Kupe statue on the waterfront.
  • Friday 6.50pm, Athletics World Championship 800m, Semifinal, James Preston TBC, Budapest.
  • Saturday 8.00 am, Parkruns at Waitangi, Lower Hutt, Ara Harakeke, Trentham, Kāpiti and Greytown.
  • Saturday 10.30am, Turkey Trot Walkers Race, Kilbirnie Wind Needle
  • Saturday 12.30pm, Children’s Needle Relay, Kilbirnie Wind Needle
  • Saturday 1:30pm, Needle Relay, Kilbirnie Wind Needle
  • 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

Wellington Road Championships

1km: Rowan Richardson 4.27, Nicholas Cottingham 4.30, Abby Cleland 5.30.

2km: Naomi Richardson 8.02.

5km: Ayesha Shafi 18:38, Michele Allison 21.52 (1st W65), Chris Harp 22.02 (2nd M65), Betty Harp 22.09 (1st W60), Melissa Moon 32.44, Maria Williams 23.45, John Skinnonn 23.58 (1st M70), Karyn McLean 24.55, Richard Mercier 24.59 (3rd M70), Sam Cleland 25.56, John Gardiner 26.11, Loretta Desourdy 26.36 (2nd W65), Ian Morton 26.49, Bev Hodge 28.50 (3rd W65), Claire Jennings 30.04, Bob Stephens 31.28.

10km: Seamus Kane 31.33 (1st SM) completed a perfect season, winning all interclub races for 2023. Bert Prendergast 32.42 (4th SM), Joel Carman 32.52, Niam Macdonald-Joslin 33.06, Rowan Hooper 34.00 (2nd M35), Kristian Day 34.18, Alasdair Saunders 34.36 (4th M35), Geoff Ferry 35.17 (big return to form), Paul Barwick 35.38, Simon Keller 35.41, Andrew Wharton 35.43, Dion Gamperle 35.47, Emma Perron 35.47 (2nd SW), James Parsons 36.12, Peter Stevens 36.16 (1st M50), Grant Mclean 36.29 (2nd M50), Andy Ford 36.48, Ed Whiting 37.09 (3rd M50), Andrew Kerr 37.14 (4th M50), Genevieve Coffey 37.14 (4th SW), David Kettles 37.26, Kyle Malone 37.28 (PB), Jorge Murcia 37.39 (PB), Liam Jones 38.00, Jim Jones 38.03, Nicholas Bagnall 38.42 (the seven-year PB streak comes to an end), Ali Campbell 38.47, Floor Kaars Sijpesteijn 39.41 (PB, 1st W35), Sarah-Grace Breen 39.50, Matthew Murdoch 39.58, Anna Hooper 40.21 (3rd W35), Sophie Whelan 40.24 (great run!), Kasey Mackinnon 40.34 (big PB), Alice Sowry 41.40 (PB), Guy Dryden 41.44, Gordon Pal 42.21, Emma Bassett 42.48 (4th W35), Chris Howard 42.48, Frank Grieve 43.58 (PB), Emily Solsberg 44.06, Matyas James 44.40, Don Stevens 49.28, Kath Littler 53.29, Liam O’Neill 53.57,

Teams: Seamus, Bert, Niam, Joel and Niam won the SM team title. Emma, Genevieve, Ali and Sarah-Grace were the winning SW team. Floor, Anna, Emma and Emily won the W35 Team title. Pete, Grant, Ed and Andrew took all 4 top spots and the team title in the M50 race — with Dave just a few seconds behind in 5th. Rowan, Alasdair, Geoff and Paul won the M35 team title.

IAU 24-Hour World Championships Team Selection

An announcement I missed a few weeks ago. Fiona Hayvice has been selected to represent New Zealand at the 2023 IAU 24HR World Championships in Chinese Taipei on 2-3 December. Sorry Fi — and good luck!

Mukamuka Munter

Kyle Malone was 4th in the Mega Munter in 6:31:25, and Geoff Ferry was 3rd M40 in the Munter in 03:31:28.

Results

Notices

Nau mai

Welcome to new club member Heath Cartwright.

Congratulations to Annette Purvis

Former Scottish Women’s Captain Annette Purvis was elected to the World Athletics Council. Annette is a member of the World Athletics Development Commission and formerly served as Chair at Athletics New Zealand. She is also a Board member of the New Zealand Olympic Committee.

World Athletics statement

Register for road relays

With around 1.5 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 want a few people in place by early September to get organised before Road Relays.

Contact Lindsay

Coming up

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 and 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

Hutt Marathon, 17 September

A flat and scenic course along both sides of the Hutt River. You can just register before 5 September to avoid the late fee. This event incorporates the Wellington Centre marathon championships. There are cash prizes for placegetters in the marathon run, half marathon, 10km runners and walkers. There are also a 5km fun run and Cool Kids Kilometre.

Informaiton and registration

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 a fantastic 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.

Keep in touch