What’s on

Inter-club cross country relay race. PLEASE DO NOT BRING DOGS - not even if they stay in the car. This is a condition of our use of the venue. This is because the venue is a farm.

2016 details: (note the new age for masters women)

The event has three races: the walk, the youngsters race (for those 13 and under), and the relay (for those 14 and over).

• The Whittakers Chocolate Walk: open to walkers of all ages. Starts at 12 noon on the road in front of the field where the relay is held. Distance of approximately 6km. The $2 entry fee per walker will be collected at the start. Late entries will be taken at the start where time allows.
• The Youngsters' Races - open to youngsters 13 years and under. There will be three start times for the following three age groups:
  1. Boys and girls 9 years and under start at 1.30pm; approx 1.2km
  2. Boys and girls 11 years and under start at 1.50pm; approx 2km
  3. Boys and girls 13 years and under start at 2.10pm; approx 2km
• The University Relay - 7 grades; junior men (19 years and under), junior women (19 years and under), open men, open women, masters men (40 years plus), masters women (40 years plus), and open masters (50 years plus). Relay teams comprise 4 persons, approximately 3.5km lap. Starts at 2.45pm with all grades to start together.

Note dogs (loose, on leads, in cars) are STRICTLY NOT ALLOWED on the property. Please leave your canines at home.

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Further details

Interclub cross country races. Walk from venue.
The race starts on grass in front of badminton Hall.

There is usually very limited parking available in the badminton hall carpark. Parking is best on Alexandra Road or Ruahine Street. Do not expect to use the badminton car park or facilities.

Details for 2016:

Time, grade, distance:

• Race 1, 12:40pm: Senior Women, Masters Women 40+, Masters Women 60+, Masters Men 60+, Junior Men (M-U20), non-championship senior men -- 5km
• Race 2, 1:30pm: Junior Women (W-U20), Youth Women (W-U18), Girls (G-U15), Youth Men (M-U18), Boys (B-U15) -- 3.7km
• Race 3, 2:00pm: Boys B-U11, boys B-U13 -- 1.6km
• Race 4, 2.15pm: Girls G-U11, girls G-U13 -- 1.6km
• Race 5, 2:30pm: Senior Men, Masters Men 40+, Masters Men 50+, non-championship senior women -- 10km

Teams

• Senior Men = 6
• Masters Women MW50/MW60 combined = 3
• Junior Women WU20/WU18 combined = 3
• All other grades = 3

All runners count for the overall club award, the Barry Everitt Plate.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

A combination of bush track and sealed road on Mount Victoria. Race headquarters are at the WHAC Clubrooms on Alexandra Rd. All races start on the grassed area opposite Badminton Hall on Ruahine St.

AGE GRADES AND CLUB UNIFORM

NOTE: Age at 31st December 2016, except Masters where age is at 21st May 2016.

As this event is only open to Registered Club Members, the correct club uniform must be worn.

IMPORTANT: Any athlete wishing to compete “out of grade” (e.g. junior in senior grade), must advise such at Race HQ 30 minutes before start time.

ENTRIES

Athletics Wellington is introducing a new timing system for 2016. No more shoe timing chips this year.

Race bibs will be used for each of the 4 interclub races. Athletes must enter the race in order to obtain their race bib. Athletes are encouraged to enter online prior to the race, and if they do so, their race bib will be personalised with their name. Athletes must uplift their race bib from the WHAC clubrooms at least 30 minutes prior to the start of their race.  Their race bib must be worn on the front of their club singlet.

Entries can also be made at the WHAC clubrooms up to 30 minutes prior to the start of the race.

Avoid the long queues by entering online and arriving at the WHAC clubrooms early. Race HQ is open from 11.30am. The race bib will be scanned at the finish to produce the race results. Only those athletes wearing a race bib will have their time and place recorded in the results.

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Further details

This is a great 5-lap relay race, traditionally for the more senior members of the club. It's mostly on flat grass at Trentham Memorial Park (saves our somewhat older joints a bit). Categories/prizes for men, women, mixed, teams with aggregate ages of 250 and 300 or more. There is a walkers event too which covers 3 laps of the 4km course as opposed to 5 laps for runners. The event has a ‘pre-vet’ category which allows teams to have a member in the 30-34 yr age group and also an open category for teams with members less than 30 yrs of age. So basically it’s an all comers event.

Closing date: TBC

Teams organiser: TBC

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