In this week’s newsletter: it was a sea of yellow at the Shaw Baton Relay on Saturday with 15 Scottish teams lining up to complete across a range of age categories. We also had eight of our under 10s fly around the 1km lap.

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, Otāki River and Greytown.
  • Friday-Sunday, Rotorua Marathon (60th anniversary and the NZ Senior and Masters Marathon Championships). Across the weekend there is also the half marathon, 10km, 5.5km, the NZ road mile championship and the Runway 5km, which is the inaugural New Zealand 5km Road Championships. All the best to all our members competing. Race info
  • Saturday 2pm, pack runs from the club house
  • 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, Meg and Alistair, or check Facebook for details.
  • Sunday, 8am Xterra Wellington West Wind Farm

If you want your event added to this list, contact us by Sunday evening.

Results

Shaw Baton Relay

  • MU10: Nicholas Cottingham 10th, Heath Cartwright 23rd.
  • WU10: Abby Cleland 10th, Georgie Street 11th, Paola Frey-Campos 14th, Gemma Ferry 17th, Zelda Cartwright 18th, Elliot Blacklaws 19th.
  • Mixed U14: Scottish Junior A 4th (Naomi Richardson, Juliet Street, Rowan Richardson, Ben Cleland).
  • Senior Men: Scottish A 3rd (Joel Carman, Tom Callen, Alistair Richardson, Liam Jones). Scottish B 8th and Scottish C 12th.
  • Senior Women: Scottish A 5th
  • M35 : Scottish A 1st (Rowan Hooper, Nick Horspool, Stephan Day, Chester Holt-Quick). Scottish B 3rd (James Richardson, Andy Ford, Alasdair Saunders, Geoff Ferry).
  • W35: Scottish A 1st (Emily Solsberg, Hinano Andrews, Lindsay Barwick, Mel Brandon). Scottish B 8th.
  • M50: Scottish A 1st(Brendan Thompson, Grant McLean, Simon Keller, Todd Stevens). Scottish B 6th.
  • W50: Scottish A 2nd (Wendy Sanderson, Loretta Desourdy, Terri Grimmett, Marianne Elliott).
  • M60: Scottish A 1st (Pete Stevens, Michael Cummins, Glen Wallis, Phil Sadgrove). M60 Gold 5th, M60 Diamond 8th.

Results

Parkruns

At Waitangi Park Walter Somerville 19:21, Jaime Vessiot 21:29, Emily Solsberg 21:52, Matyas James 21:58, Naomi Richardson 22:13, Nicholas Vessiot 22:59, Denis McCarthy 25:17, Don Stevens 26:04, Kirsty Burnett 30:04, Marianne Elliott 30:06 and Claire Jennings 31:21. At Lower Hutt Geoff Ferry 18:50, Andrew Wells 20:29, Ray Manahan 22:48, Ben Cornelius 24:02, Marketa Langova 28:36, Ian Morton 35:02, Gemma Ferry 49:14 and Megan Ferry 49:15. At Greytown Bert Prendergast 17:51, Ruairidh Nixon 19:06, Gordon Pal 20:06, Malcom Kerr 22:39, Isabel Bridgman 25:49 and Jasmine Smith 27:06. At Otāki River Terri Grimmett 30:27. At Kāpiti Danielle Trewoon 30:45.

Results

Athletics Wellington 2023 Awards

Peter Stevens was awarded Masters Athlete of the Year and Masters Men’s X-Country & Road Athlete of the Year.

Heather Walker was awarded Masters Women’s Athlete of the Year and Masters Women’s Middle & Long distance Athlete of the Year.

Seamus Kane was awarded Men’s Out Of Stadia Athlete of the Year and Senior Men’s X-Country & Road athlete of the year.

Congraulations Peter, Heather and Seamus.

Full Awards list 

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

Join and renew

You can now join and renew for a full season at any time during the year. With the cross country season underway now is a great time. The early bird discount of $20 ends today! Join or renew online.

Volunteers sought for the Medical Research Institute

The Medical Research Institute of New Zealand is currently looking for volunteers aged 16-75 with asthma to take part in a 6 month research study, investigating two different inhaler regimens to help determine the best treatment for mild/moderate asthma. This includes those that just use inhalers around exercise. For more information about taking part, visit the study website https://www.mrinz.ac.nz/currently-recruiting/inform or e-mail inform@mrinz.ac.nz.

Coming up

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.

Race details

Three Peaks, 12 May

From the club rooms. More details to come.

Masters Cross Country Relay, 19 May

Trentham Memorial Park. Walkers start 10:00am (3 laps + 12 km) and runners 10:15am (4 laps of 4km each). Please contact Glen Wallis if you would like to participate (please include your age as some team categories are based on aggregate age).

Vosseler Shield, 25 May

Definitely hills. Maybe mud. Details to come.

Dorne Cup, 8 June

Trentham Memorial Park from 12:45pm. Race details

Wellington Marathon, 23 June

Wellington Marathon (including NZ and Wellington half marathon champs)

Galashiels Trophy/Novice Cup and Cole Land Cup, Eastbourne, 29 June

Details to come.

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