Apologies to you all for publishing the wrong start time for the Needle Relay last week.
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 8.00 am, Parkruns at Waitangi, Lower Hutt, Ara Harakeke, Trentham, Kāpiti and Greytown.
- Saturday 8.00 am, Tip Track Marathon and Te Kopahou Thousand (10.00am), bottom of the Tip Track
12 Landfill Road - Saturday 2.00 pm, Ballantayne Cup and Shirley Barton Trophy, Miramar Tennis Club
- 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
World Athletics Championship
James Preston was 6th in his 800m heat in 1:46.84.
Needle Relay
Emma Perron starred at the Needle Relay with a new lap record over the 3km lap of 10.41. She had to work hard because WHAC’s Poppy Healy had already broken the same record just minutes beforehand. The W35s team of Emily Solsberg, Mel Brandon, Mel Aitken, Ayesha Shafi and Lindsay Barwick also broke the course record for M35 teams, with Mel Brandon, 11.04, breaking the 3km lap record, and Ayesha only 1 second behind her.
Other highlights included Scottish contributing 8 of the 16 women’s teams in the relay, a 5km PB for Mal Kerr, a 3km PB for Alice Sowry ripping under 12 minutes, and a couple of strong laps for Jasmine Smith representing two teams. A lowlight was seeing our composite team disqualified because runners from other teams helped it make up numbers to participate.
6.3m kids relay: Naomi Richardson and Juliet Street put together a 2-person team – each running two laps.
21 km adults relay: Scottish M35A 1st in 1:11:25, Scottish M50A 1st in 1:16:30, Scottish SM 4th in 1:16:47, Scottish M35B 2nd in 1:18:58, Scottish SWA 2nd in 1:21:34, Scottish W35A 1st in 1:22:30, Scottish W35B 3rd in 1:29:02, Scottish M50B 5th in 1:29:16 , Scottish M60A 2nd in 1:29:38, Scottish M35C 7th in 1:29:44, Scottish W50A 1st in 1:37:42, Scottish SWB 4th in 1:40:30, Scottish W35C 5th in 1:42:34, Scottish W60A 3rd in 1:46:13, Scottish M60B 5th in 2:03:14, Scottish W50B 4th in 2:06:31, Scottish Composite DSQ.
Hawkes Bay Marathon
Floortje Kaars Sjipesteijn was 3rd in the marathon with a PB of 3:01:46. Sophie Whelan ran a 2-minute PB in the half marathon to finish 4th in 1:26:10. Also in the half marathon were Hannah Stephen in 1:47:37 and Isabel Ross in 2:48:01.
Turkey Trot
Results to come
Manawatū Road Champs 10km
Seamus Kane was 5th in 32:11.9
Notices
Nau mai
Welcome to new club member Amara Rae.
Peter Tearle Bequest
In February 2022, Wellington Scottish received a generous bequest of $83,400 from the estate of life member Peter Tearle.
The management committee are encouraging club members to submit applications for use of the funds, with key criteria being:
- Promote WSAC and encourage membership
- Support access to the sport
- Provide a benefit to WSAC and WSAC members
- Provide an overall social benefit / good
There are no specific directions attached to the bequest. Suggestions on how the funds could be used based on feedback received in May 2022 include:
- Provide financial support for club away trips such as NZRR
- subsidise travel/bus hire to events within the Wellington region
- Provide mentoring and coaching to promising junior athletes
- support the training and upskilling of a broader cohort of officials to help out at events in the Wellington region
This form provides a template for applications, with each applicant being asked to provide:
- What is the opportunity the proposal is seeking to address?
- Description of the intended use of funds
- Explanation of how the intended use of funds aligns with broad criteria
- Promote WSAC and encourage membership
- Support access to the sport
- Provide a benefit to WSAC and WSAC members
- Provide an overall social benefit / good
- A brief outline of how the proposal would be delivered:
- Who will support the delivery of the project?
- How do you intend to make sure the project is successful?
- How will you monitor success?
- Over what period do you expect the benefits to be realised?
Upon receipt, applications will be discussed and — if deemed to fulfil the criteria above — approved by the Wellington Scottish Management Committee.
If you have any questions or would prefer to submit a free-form response, please get in touch with alicesowry@gmail.com (Secretary of the Management Committee)
New Night of Miles organiser
Andy Ford is stepping down from his role organising the Night of Miles track race, which takes place before Christmas each year. Does anyone want to take on this role? It is one of the most fun track events of the year. The organiser needs to be skilled at lolly scrambles, encouraging fun and getting Santa Claus to the start line in shape to race. Contact Andy for details.
Register for road relays.
With around a month left until Road Relays, we are looking for club members planning to come with us to Christchurch to fill in the registration form. If you are paying for your Road Relay contribution, please send this to the usual Wellington Scottish account (38-9005-0501833-00) and reference your name along with RR. See below for more details.
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.
Coming up
Ballantyne Cup and Shirley Barton Trophy, 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.
Hutt Marathon, 17 September
A flat and scenic course along both sides of the Hutt River. You can 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.
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 who 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 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, section captains or the club committee.
- Relay website
- Strava laps Lap 1 and 5, Lap 2 and 6, Lap 3 and 7, Lap 4 and 8
Wairarapa Half Marathon, 14km and 7km, 15 October
Run or walk 1, 2, or 3 laps of a picturesque 7 km course alongside the Waipoua River and Henley Lake in Masterton.
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