In this week’s newsletter: the club has a new national champion, astonishing efforts from the inaugural Faultline Ultra, and an update on the marvellous Martin brothers.
This week
- Tuesday 6.00 pm, interval session with Andy, Alice and Rowan outside Freyberg Pool. Check Facebook for details.
- 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, 1pm onwards, Shaw Baton Relays, Battle Hill, Pauatahanui (contact your team captain before Thursday for a place in a team).
- 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.
If you want your event added to this list, contact us by Sunday evening.
Results
Christchurch Marathon and NZ Half Marathon Championship
- Marathon: Mel Brandon was second overall in 02:48:19 (5 minute PB), Luke Norman broke 3 hours with 2:58:26. Mel Aitken was 7th in 03:00:26.
- Half Marathon: Hiro Tanimoto was 8th in 01:09:33, Ollie Palmer ran a 01:10:37 PB (and described it as a training run). Simon Keller won the NZ M50 title in 01:18:20, Denis McCarthy’s PB of 1:24:05 edged out Brad Wong, who ran 1:24:42. Karl Jackson at 1:26:05, Iain Shaw at 1:31:11 and Emma Jackson at 2:15:59.
- 10km: Gerard Gordon 42:16
Faultline Ultra
- 160km: Fiona Hayvice was 5th in 25:38:59, and Nicola Hankinson was 6th in 26:35:27. New club member Callum Mallett made it to 83km before withdrawing. The Scottish relay team “Powered by Sausages” of Karen Jenkinson, Kath Littler Don Stevens and Marketa Langova finished in 27:29:09.
- 100km: Gordon Pal finished in 18:26:55.
- 50km: Chester Holt-Quick 4th overall in 4:34:00.
- 24km: New club member Beth Garland was 1st in 2:00:57.
- 12km; Robert Naulls 1st under 20 and 3rd overall in 1:04:20.
- 6km: Hinano Andrews and Amanda Broughton both ran 34:07.
Parkruns
A Parkrun PB for Guy Dryden of 19:35 at Waitangi Park. Also at Waitangi Park were Nicholas Vessiot 19:41, Paul Rodway 26:35, Claire Jennings 31:17 and Amanda Broughton 45:49. Ben Cornelius 19:45 at Lower Hutt, Chris Howard 24:14 and Emma Bassett 33:43 at Cornwall Park, Geoff Ferry 19:52 at Dunedin, Danielle Trewoon 21:06 at Kapiti Coast, and Glen Wallis 22:29 at Ara Harakeke.
Honest Ten
Stephen Day (me) was 1st in 36:09.
Martin brothers update
Alex Martin is in his first year at McNeese State University on a track scholarship. Last weekend (14 April), Alex broke a 52-year-old school record in the 800-meters when he clocked a 1:49.07 at a meet to win the event. That broke the old record of 1:49.12 that was held by McNeese Hall of Famer and Irish Olympian, the late Fanahan McSweeney.
This has put Alex No 1 in the 800m in the Southland Conference, eighth in the region and 45th in the NCAA East region. It has also put him No 1 in the U20 800m ANZ rankings, and has now met the Worlds U20 800m qualification standard for the championship being held in Lima, Peru in August. He’s waiting to hear about selection, but still has a few more races to go for the US outdoor track season.
Alex winning the 800m at the SFA Carl Kight Invitational, Texas 1:49.07.
Joe Martin is in Year 12 at Wellington College where last year he broke the school record in the U16 800m, which had been in place for 12 years.
At the recent NZ Secondary School North Island Track & Field Champs, Joe got two new PBs to end the season. He won the Senior 800m in a new PB of 1:54.65 and came a close 2nd in the Senior 1500m with a time of 3:58.59. Joe was also part of the Wellington senior boys winning 4×400 relay team. Joe had the fastest 400 split in 49.814.
Notes about results
- We don’t have AI software or professionals scanning through results. We don’t aim to report every club member’s results — just those we find out about.
- We’ll publish a result and what makes it special if we’re told about it. So let us know what you, your friends, family members and teammates are up to. It is especially important for coaches to let us know when your athletes are achieving their goals.
- If you don’t want your name published in the newsletter or on the website, please let us know so we can omit you from the results.
Notices
Welcome to new members
Nau mai to our new club members Christina Needham, Ben Wagstaff, Alice Carlson and Roderick Carlson.
Join and renew
You can now join and renew for a full season at any time during the year. But with relays and cross country coming up, now is a great time. Join or renew online.
SparkleFit Squad
Sierra is running a beta-testing version of SparkleFit Squad. Don’t miss out on this. For only $100 you’ll get:
- an 8 week group running training plan
- options in the plan to train with your cycle
- fortnightly online Q&A sessions
- access to a private Facebook community group for further questions and support.
The Squad will start on 27 April, so hurry and join now.
Sierra will be testing out her processes and the programme design. So now is the chance to try it out for minimal investment. What have you got to lose?
Coming up
Rotorua Marathon and associated events, 3-4 May
This year is the 60th anniversary of the Rotorua Marathon, and will also host the New Zealand Senior and Masters Marathon Championships. Catering for runners and walkers of all levels the event offers no less than six race options across an attractive two-day programme. These include the full marathon, a fast and exciting new course over the half marathon distance, a 10km race, a 5.5 km race, the NZ road mile championship and the Runway 5km, which is the inaugural New Zealand 5km Road Championships.
University Relays, 11 May
Cross-country relay at Queen Elizabeth Park, Paekākākriki. This year the host club, Victoria University, has added the Wellington Mixed Relay Championship, to the programme. This new format promises to be an exciting new challenge for clubs.
Vosseler Sheild, 25 May
Definitely hills. Maybe mud. Details to come.
Keep in touch:
- If there is anything you want to be added to the Scottish Newsletter or if your results have been missed, please email the Scottish Marketing and Comms crew at wellingtonscottish@proton.me.
- If you want to contact anyone about anything, your first port of call is our club captains, Meg and Alistair, our coaching coordinators, Jaime and Nico Vessiot, and our club president, Andy Ford.
- Public Facebook page and join the Scottish member Facebook group here.
- Website
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