First up:
- The Galashiels and Novice Cup takes place next Sunday morning (not Saturday afternoon), with the first athlete due off around 9.05am. See below for details.
- The club management committee is looking to pay a contractor to coordinate recruitment and participation. If this might interest you, please check the notice below.
This week
- Tuesday 6:00 pm: Interval session with Andy, Alice, and Rowan outside Freyberg Pool. This week’s session is a Pyramid: 500m at 5km pace, 1km at 10k pace, 1.5km at half pace.
- Saturday 8:00 am: Parkruns at Waitangi, Lower Hutt, Ara Harakeke, Trentham, Kāpiti, Otāki River and Greytown.
- Saturday 2:00pm: The Cole Land Cup for walkers, Eastbourne. The Cole Land Cup will be held at 2pm Saturday 29 June. This is due to the unavailability of quite a few walkers on the Sunday. Afternoon tea will be at a local cafe afterwards.
- Sunday 9:00am: Galashiels/Novice Cup, Muritai School. We are trying something different this year. See below for details.
If you want your event added to this list, contact us by Sunday evening.
Results
Wellington Marathon, half marathon, 10km and the kids’ magic mile
Here are just some of the many results that caught our eye:
- Marathon: Ben Twyman 2:36:37, Nicholas Bagnall 2:56:30 (PB and Wellington M50 Marathon title), Ben Wagstaff 3:00:49 (PB? super close to sub-3), Gordon Pal 3:14:04 (PB), Andrew Wells 3:21:35 (a PB?)
- Half Marathon: Beth Garland 1:18:25 (1st), Caleb Hathaway 1:14:20 (PB), Alistair Richardson 1:15:33 (PB), Charlie Hulley 1:26:15 (getting faster than last month), Ben Cornelius 1:27:07, Sierra Ryland 1:44:51, Hinano Andrews 2:01:51 (with a pram).
- 10km: Ollie Palmer 31:47 (1st), Joel Carman (PB and 3rd place), Grant McLean 37:35 (in good form), Hayden Smith 37:38 (on the hunt), Danielle Trewoon 41:53 (looking fast), Isabel Ross 1:11:32
- Kids’ Magic Mile: Gemma Ferry 8:53
Xterra, McKerrows Revenge
A few club members avoided the tarmac over the weekend and made the most of the rain.
- Long Course: Tom Callan won in 1:27:03, Chester Holt-Quick 1:33:47, Ruairidh Nixon 1:47:44, Ali Souch 1:57:38, Alex Kay 2:15:56, Willie Stephens 3:31:12
- Medium Course: Bex Hutchinson won in 1:35:43, Emily O’Riordan 2:20:05.
- Short Course: James Parsons won in 26:50.
Parkruns
Lower Hutt Parkrun: Ian Morton 27:15, Megan Ferry 38:23, Gemma Ferry 41:33, Geoff Ferry 41:35. Noosa Parkrun: Rachael Cunningham 25:31. Kapiti Coast Parkrun: Glen Wallis 22:25. Ōtaki River Parkrun: Terri Grimmett 35:48. Waitangi Parkrun: Grant Mclean 18:20, Claire Jennings 31:09, Amanda Broughton 51:13.
Hawkes Bay Half Marathon
Here’s a result we missed last month: Charlie Hulley 1:27:14, a nice negative split.
Done Cup Teams results
Open Women team of Mel Brandon 7, Bex Hutchinson 9, Alice Sowry 18, Emily Solsberg 21, was 3rd. Open Men team of Hiro Tanimoto 9, Joel Carman 12, Alistair Richardson 25, Alasdair Saunders 30, Simon Keller 35, Todd Stevens 36, was 3rd. Senior Women team of Bex Hutchinson 6, Alice Sowry 10, Isla Turner-Holmes 13, Danielle Stevens 16, were 2nd. W35 team of Mel Brandon 1, Emily Solsberg 8, Hinano Andrews 14, Sierra Ryland 15, were 2nd. W60 team of Michele Allison 3, Betty Harp 6, Loretta Desourdy 10, Terri Grimmett 11, were 1st. M60s team of Peter Stevens 2, Michael Cummins 11, Glen Wallis 15, Phil Sadgrove 20, were 2nd. M50s team of Simon Keller 1, Todd Stevens 2, Grant Mclean 5, David Kettles 6, were 1st. M35 team of Hiro Tanimoto 1, Alasdair Saunders 7, Jamie White 10, Hayden Smith 21, were 3rd. SM team of Joel Carman 11, Alistair Richardson 20, Liam Jones 26, Kyle Malone 28, Callum Mallett 37, Liam O’Neill 41, were 4th.
Notes about results
- 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
Recruitment and participation coordinator
Wellington Scottish Athletics Club is seeking to contract a dynamic, people-focused individual to lead recruitment and engagement, focusing on athletes in the 18 to 35-year age range.
The successful candidate will ideally have a background in sport—preferably athletics—and a proven ability to develop and deliver programmes to increase participation and engagement.
The Management Committee of Wellington Scottish Athletics Club is seeking applications from both club members and friends/acquaintances of club members who have the right attributes to succeed in this role.
Applications close on Monday 8 July, and should be sent to the committee with the following:
- A cover note outlining why you are applying for this role
- A summary of your relevant skills and experience
- A one-page action plan outlining your proposed approach to recruitment and participation targets outlined in the attached role description
A panel including the President WSAC and two members of the committee will review applications and arrange interviews with shortlisted candidates.
- Download the role description. Wellington Scottish Athletics Club – Recruitment and Participation Coordinator.pdf
- Applications are to be sent to andrew.james.ford79@gmail.com
Senior men’s A team captain
Hamish Carson is taking on the Senior Men’s A team Club captain role, focusing on developing a competitive Senior Men’s A team. The club management committee is working with Megan Ferry (Women’s Captain) to identify someone to take on the Women’s A team role.
Nau mai
Welcome to new club member Simon Reynolds.
Coming up
Galashiels Trophy/Novice Cup and Cole Land Cup, Eastbourne, 30 June
The Galashiels and Novice Cup takes place next Sunday morning, with the first athlete due off around 9.05am.
For those who haven’t run this race before, it is an open handicap over a 4.9km course that is a mixture of pavement and bush trail with one small rise after around 1.5km.
Further details can be found on the website, including the history behind the race.
Galashiels Trophy and Novice Cup – Wellington Scottish Athletics Club
For those heading out there, we are proposing car sharing – please use the poll on Facebook to note whether you can give someone a lift or need a lift – or if you’re not on Facebook reply to this email. We are suggesting meeting out the front of Wellington Station at 8am to head over there en masse.
We meet at Muritai School from 8.30am onwards – you can leave bags there whilst you are racing.
If you ran at Wellington Marathon and don’t fancy racing – or if you want an extended warm-up / warm-down – there are a number of Sunday long run options in the area.
An area has been booked at Day Bay Pavilion from 10am or so until 11.45am for a post-race coffee and cake and the prize giving.
We are looking for volunteers to help with marshaling – please let Andy and James know if you are able to help.
3 Peaks Event 2, Tour De Brooklyn and Karori, 7 July
Starting from the Scottish club rooms, Prince of Wales Park, and tackling the Brooklyn Wind Turbine, Wrights Hill and Johnston Hill. More information is is on our Scottish website.
WUU2K, 13 July
The Wellington Urban Ultra Marathon (WUU2K) is a trail running event. The WUU2K offers three categories for participants: a 21km half trail marathon, a 45km trail marathon, and a 65km ultra trail marathon.
Athletics Wellington Cross Country Champs, 21 July
Harcourt Park, Akatarawa Road, Upper Hutt. Races start from 11.00am. The course will be based on a 2km lap, which will be the same as used last year. The lap has a mixture of flat and undulating cross country running, and is suitable for spikes. Each lap crosses a tarsealed road twice. More information is on the Athletics Wellington website.
National Cross-country Championships 2024, Napier, 3-4 August
This is a great opportunity to have a fun weekend away with other club members, compete in one of the national championship events, watch the other senior events unfold, and participate in the mixed relay on Sunday, 4 August.
This is one of the main club away trips that we promote during the harrier season, and the club will subsidise entries and transport.
The NZXC includes events for juniors, seniors, and masters over a variety of distances up to 10 km (for the senior men). Whilst there isn’t yet any information available regarding the course or schedule, we are reliably informed that it is a proper cross-country course with ups, downs, mud, and obstacles.
The weekend away will be good value because we arrange car-pooling, and stay together in group accommodation. There will also be an opportunity on Saturday night to have a group meal and some beverages (but not too many, as the relay is on Sunday morning)
Please register your interest now and book yourself away that weekend. We recommend that you plan on departing Wellington around midday Friday so that we can issue your race pack to you on Friday evening.
Needle Relay, Kilbirne, 17 August
There are three distinct events, open to both registered and social members of clubs: the Walker’s Turkey Trot; the Children’s Needle Relay, and the Needle Relay. Each event starts on the footpath by the wind needle.
Wellington 5km Road Champs, Wainuiomata, 31 August
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 us 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