National Road Relays will take place in Feilding on Saturday, 4 October. You can register your interest here and make payment to attend here.
This week
- Tuesday 6:15pm: Speed session at Oriental Bay, meet outside Freyberg Pool. Details on Stack.
- Saturday 8:00am: Parkruns at Waitangi, Lower Hutt, Porirua, Trentham, Kapiti, Ōtaki River and Greytown.
- Saturday 10:00am: Wellington 10km Road Running Championships, Reservoir Road, Wainuiomata.
- Saturday 2:00pm: Friendly packruns and walks from Wellington Scottish Clubrooms, followed by afternoon tea and drinks. All speeds welcome. Prince of Wales Park, Mt Cook, Salisbury Terrace.
- Sunday long pack runs: These usually leave at 8:30 am from outside Freyberg Pool and some alternative locations around Wellington. All speeds welcome, coordinate on the Facebook page.
Results
Tip Track Marathon
Reports are that this was insanely good fun despite the organisers promising it would be horrible.
- Full Marathon (6 laps): Gordon Pal 05:51:28, Sarah Lee 06:41:06
- Half Marathon (3 laps): Lara Zoeller 02:46:20, Marianne Elliot 02:56:22, Anna Fifield 03:20:44, Kyle Malone 02:13:40
- Two laps: Kirk Fraser 02:25:00
Barefoot Xtrail Skyline Scramble
- Short course: Fiona Hayvice 40:38, Loretta Desourdy 1:07:53.
- Medium Course: Chester Holt-Quick 1:02:43 (1st).
- Long course: Tom Callan 1:41:05 (1st), Matt Adams 1:41:06 (3rd) Thomas Hadley 1:41:06 (4th). That’s fascinatingly close, were you three running as a pack or was this a race? Willie Stephens 3:22:18.
National Road Championship
A result we missed last week: Will Cleaver Paris (aged 16, and coached by Andrew Wharton) ran in the U20 Men’s National Championship Race and came 10th in a PB of 35:14.
Parkruns
Check out all the results here.
Notices
Nau mai
Welcome to new club members Alexandra Burton and Cielo Lazarte
Wellington Masters Athletics AGM
The AGM for Wellington Masters will be held on Wednesday, 17 September at the Waiora Hub, 17 Bannister Avenue, Johnsonville (Olympic Harriers Clubrooms) commencing at 7pm.
The notice for the AGM with all the relevant details can be found on the Masters website.
Ruapehu Trail Camp is back for 2026
8-11 Jan 2026. After the success of last year’s trail camp, we will be running the camp again, using the WTMC lodge at Whakapapa. Expect good runs, good chats, good food, and great entertainment. The cost will be $200 for the full 3 nights, and spaces are limited to 30 people.
We want your running photos
We’re trying to jazz up our social media presence but to do that, we need photos from our running events. If you’re willing to have your pics shared on our public-facing Facebook and Instagram pages, please send them into us so we can show the wider world how fun it is to be a member of Wellington Scottish. Please email us at wellingtonscottish@proton.me or, even better, put them directly into this folder.
The Scottish Mentor Programme is live
One valuable part of being a member of Wellington Scottish is having access to a group of experienced runners, who have been through the seasons and know the running community inside-out. Our mentor programme has been built to help Wellington runners to connect with their community and to find a home in the sport.
Mentors allow prospective and new club members to connect with someone who knows a thing or two about how to get the most out of a membership with Scottish. If you know someone who is interested in joining a running club, but is unsure of how it all works, send them to one of our fine mentors.
Learn more HERE.
Kapiti Half Marathon
Wellington Scottish members get a 20% discount for the Kapiti Half Marathon on 9 November, thanks to Dark Horse Coffee. You must use this link to get the discount when entering. Maddy Watson is also looking for pacers for the event: Half marathon pacers in ten min increments from 1:30 through to 2:30 ad 10km pacers in ten minute increments from 40 mins through to 1:20.
Te Ahumairangi 10000m Festival
And talking of volunteers, we are beginning to plan this year’s Te Ahumairangi 10000m event. If you want to be part of the organising team, please contact Stephen.
Scottish apparel for sale
We are selling club singlets and Early racing singlets that club member John Plimmer manufactures locally. Crop tops, socks, puffer vests, rampant lion caps, technical “Wellington Scottish” short-sleeves, technical “Unleash your inner lion” short-sleeves, long-sleeves and white cotton short-sleeve t-shirts – all in a range of sizes.
Check our clothing for sale on our website
Coming up
13 September: Wellington 10km Road Championships
The Wellington 5km and 10km Road Champs are the last of the big interclub races for the season. They are an excellent opportunity to run a fast 5km or 10km time with a large pack of runners to pull you along. They are held in the scenic Wainuiomata Recreation Area. The course is an out-and-back road race using a 1.25km stretch of road that is closed to public traffic. The course is largely sheltered from the wind.
21 September: Hutt Marathon Events (incl WLG Marathon Champs)
The Hutt Marathon on 21 September 2025 includes 4 distances, a marathon, half marathon, 10km and 5km, plus a ‘Cool Kids’ 1km. Starting from the Petone Rugby League Clubrooms at Hikoikoi Reserve in Petone, the marathon route is two laps of the half marathon course along the flat, scenic River Trail. The event is organised by the Hutt Valley Harriers.
4 October: NZ Road Relays, Feilding
National Road Relays will take place in Feilding on Saturday 4 October. This is the club’s biggest and most enjoyable event of the year. Please keep the weekend free and make sure you can come along. You can register your interest in participating here.
Event details from Athletics NZ
Accommodation will be in two hotels in Palmerston North, for the nights of Friday 3 October and Saturday 4 October. We have a venue booked for our club dinner on Saturday 4 October. Travel to and from Palmerston North will be in a combination of private cars and rental vans.
Payment: We have set up payment options at the following link:
NZRR payments on Gameday
15 November: Te Ahumairangi 10000
Te Ahumairangi Ten Thousand is a fun opportunity for runners to work together in packs and support each other in running fast times and personal bests. It is also an opportunity for road or trail runners who have not run on the track before to try it out in a supportive environment.
17 January: M*A*S*H Backyard Ultra
The mission is simple: run 6.71km every hour, on the hour, until you can’t go on. The second edition of the M*A*S*H Backyard Ultra takes place over Wellington Anniversary Weekend – kicking off 9am, Saturday 17 January. Directed by General Fiona Hayvice, it’s a battle of endurance packed with camaraderie, chaos, and the kind of challenge you’ll never forget.
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 Joel and our club president, Andy Ford.
- Public Facebook page and join the Scottish member Facebook group here.
- Website
Notes about results and upcoming events
- If you want your event added to this newsletter, contact us by Sunday evening.
- We’ll publish an event or 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 attempting and 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.
| Lifestyle Sports is a long-term supporter of Wellington Scottish, providing us with sponsorship in various forms and offering our members a 10% discount. Their store is located in Outlet City in Tawa, near the exit from SH1. They sell discounted running shoes for adults and kids, along with other running gear, and will make special orders – all with our 10% discount added on. If you shop at Lifestyle, please mention that you are a Wellington Scottish member. Let them know that we’re good customers! Lifestyle Sports on Facebook |
| Wellington Scottish have partnered with physical therapy practice Rehab Co., to help keep our runners on the roads and trails, doing what we love to do. More information about this new partnership, including how to book appointments is on our Scottish website. |