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The opening day of the new harriers season. Thinking of joining? Come along!
All ages, all abilities, all motivations. Join us!
Meet at 1:45pm for a 2pm start. Please bring a plate for afternoon tea after the run.
The Porirua Grand Traverse is a vibrant festival of fitness with something for everyone. From the Arena 9k Fun Run/Walk, through to the full 58k Multisport and 48k Duathlon events, and the 10k Paddle, 30k Mountain Bike and 18k Mountain Run, there's a place for you on the start line. Challenge yourself now!
New for 2023: 13km fun ride.
Meet at 1:45pm for a 2pm start.
All ages, all abilities, all motivations. Join us!
2023 details below.
Sign up
Please sign up if you want to compete or can help set up: Maiden and Perston sign up form. Signing up means we can ensure everyone has a handicap time.
Times:
- 1200: Help set up course
- 1400: First race (kids)
- 15:30: afternoon tea at our clubrooms at Waiora Hub. Please bring a plate (cold food please - we can't heat food at Waiora).
Info
Our first club races for the season - the Maiden and Perston. There will be four races: two for the younger kids (700m and 1km), the Maiden (2km cross country for those who have never won a race before) and the Perston Memorial (2km cross country - same course as the Maiden, but for those who have won a trophy before). The course will be the same as last year's, at Grenada North Park.
We will need club members to help set up the course beforehand and pack it away afterwards - many hands make light work!
The Maiden and Perston Memorial races are sealed handicap - the club handicapper has predictions of everyone's times, and the handicap winners are those who beat their handicap times by the greatest margins.
The first trophies of the year are up for grabs too - awarded to both race winners and handicap winners.
These races will be followed by afternoon tea at the clubrooms. Please bring a plate to share. (Cold food only please! We don't have the facilities to heat food at Waiora.)
And one other thing - these races serve as trials for the Shaw Baton interclub relays held at Battle Hill later in April.
The Honest 10 is a professionally and accurately measured 10km fun run event held once a month on a flat out-and-back course around the Wellington waterfront.
It starts by Freyberg pool carpark (allow plenty of time to get a park), and heads south towards the wind needle and back.
There’s also a 5km option that turns around earlier, with both options finishing back at the start.
Come along for an easy fun run or use it to test yourself over an accurately measured course – all welcome!
Registrations: From 8am
Start Time: 8:30am*
*Optional 8:15 start time if you think you would be over 65 minutes.
Entry
- $10 for 10k
- $5 for 5k
21.1km, 10km, 5km, 2km on gravel forest trails
Meet at 1:45pm for a 2pm start.
Thinking of joining? Come along!
All ages, all abilities, all motivations. Join us!
- Long course (20km)
- Medium course (12km)
- Short course (7km)
2023 details below.
Sign up form for Olympic members: sign up form
The interclub season kicks off with a 4×2km cross country relay.
New for 2021: MM60 and MW60 grades and electronic timing.
Venue
Battle Hill Farm Park – Pauatahanui, Paekakariki Hill Rd, Porirua, Wellington. (6km north of Pauatahanui General Store). Coming from Wellington, exit the SH1 motorway at Pauatahanui.
Distance
2km laps - cross-country
Course
Grass, gravel tracks, mostly flat to undulating with one sharp uphill and downhill. Log jumps and a water jump. Course marked with red and white flags. Go through ‘gate’ when two flags are set together or up to 5 metres either side if flags set alone. Failing to follow correct course may result in disqualification.
Race times
PLEASE NOTE: Age is your age as at 31 December 2023, OR in the case of Masters, age on the day of the event.
1:00pm (4 runners per team)
- Youth Girls (GU16)
- Junior Women (WU20)
- Senior Women (W20-34)
- Masters Women (W35+)
- Masters Women (W50+)
- Masters Women (W60+)
- Masters Men (W60+)
1:50pm (mass start)
- 1km Fun Run (BU10, GU10) – mass start
2:00pm (4 runners per team)
- Boys, Girls (BU14, GU14, BU12, GU12, Mixed U14, Mixed U12)
2:50pm (4 runners per team)
- Youth Boys (BU16)
- Junior Men (MU20)
- Senior Men (M20-34)
- Masters Men (M35+)
- Masters Men (M50+)
Come and try cross country running
The Relays are open to teams from Schools, Colleges and Recreation Runners who are welcome to enter in age/gender grades as above.
Entry protocols – race rules
- This year we will be using electronic timing.
- Team relay entries must be submitted online by club officials via the online link (this link will be provided in the week before the event). Entries will close 11.59 pm Thursday 27 April 2023. Olympic Harriers members register your interest with this sign up form.
- Please use timing batons provided by the race host.
- Club teams to wear race letter/numbers as allocated by your club on the front of singlet. Visiting teams please indicate race number to be used on the entry form.
- Non-club teams will need to supply letters and/or numbers for respective teams.
- No runner may run more than one lap for any A and/or B team across all grades and races.
- Next lap runners must enter the start line from the side access, NOT VIA FINISH CHUTE where runners are finishing.
- First Aid available.
- Toilets available, no changing facilities, come prepared.
- ABSOLUTELY NO DOGS ARE PERMITTED AT BATTLE HILL FARM PARK
- Results will be posted on our results page.
- Winning team members - please remain for prize-giving which will be immediately after each relay race.
- Trophies: Shaw Baton Trophies for:
- Shaw Baton trophies for:
- Senior Men
- Senior Women
- Masters Men 35+
- Masters Women 35+
- Masters Men 50+
- Masters Women 50+
- Masters Men 60+
- Masters Women 60+
- Junior Men U20
- Junior Women U20
- Miniature batons for winning team athletes of above races
- Medals for U10 boys and girls scratch race
- Medals for winning teams in Boys U16, Girls U16, Boys U14, Girls U14, Boys U12, Girls U12, Mixed U12 and Mixed U12.
Contact
Tracy Berghan
Olympic Harriers Secretary
027 414 4398
Contact us form
Details for 2023:
New for 2023: there is now a relay for boys and girls grades. Some times have changed.
Sign up form for Olympic Harriers members, relay race ONLY - please sign up by midday Monday 1 May
The Victoria University Athletic Club invites us to the Victoria University Relay events being held at QE Park on Saturday 6 May. Registered athletes and social members of clubs are eligible to compete in the following events:
1. The Whittaker’s Chocolate Walk – open to walkers of all ages. Distance of approximately 6 km. Walkers must estimate their time with the winners being the walkers who are closest to their estimated time. Prizes for first female and first male.
2. Scratch Race for Boys & Girls U10 – a scratch race (i.e. mass start) over 1.2 km for athletes under 10 years of age. Registration on the day. Please find the registration table when you arrive at the event and sign up before the start of the race.
3. The Boys, Girls & Mixed Relays – 4 runners per team over a 2 km (approx.) lap. All grades start together.
- U16 Boys, U16 Girls, U16 Mixed
- U14 Boys, U14 Girls, U14 Mixed
- U12 Boys, U12 Girls, U12 Mixed
4. A fun run for Boys & Girls U7 - an out & back fun run from the start/finish line over approx. 300 metres.
5. The Victoria University Relay – 11 grades with 4 runners per team over a 3.5 km (approx.) lap. All grades start together.
Race times and event details
12:00 PM Chocolate Walk: 6 km walk on the road; 11.30 registration, 12 noon start
1:00 PM B&G U10: 1.2 km: the start is over the sandhills to the south of the main start/finish area
1:15 PM B&G U16/14/12 relays: 2 km loop from the start/finish area
2:10 PM B&G U7: 300 metres fun run “out and back” from the start/finish area
2:30 PM University relay. Eleven grades with 4 runners per team, 3.5km lap. Junior women U20, Junior men U20, Senior women, Senior men, Masters women 35+, Masters men 35+, Masters women 50+, Masters men 50+, Masters women 60+, Masters men 60+, mixed. Four runners per team, 3.5 km lap. All grades start together.
Prizes will be awarded to the winning team in each grade with the prize-giving to start as soon as the final runner completes the event
*Mixed teams can comprise athletes of mixed ages and genders (results in the grade will be recorded but there will be no prizes awarded)
PLEASE NOTE: age is taken as of 31 December 2023 or, in the case of Masters, age on the day of the event.
Electronic Timing Batons and Changeover:
- Team members must run with the baton in their hand
- Next lap runners must enter the changeover area via the side access chute, NOT VIA THE START/FINISH CHUTE
- Baton changeover must take place WITHIN the allocated changeover zone
NOTE: ABSOLUTELY NO DOGS ARE PERMITTED ON THE FARM AREA OF QE PARK EITHER LOOSE, ON LEADS OR IN CARS SO PLEASE LEAVE YOUR CANINES AT HOME!
Entries, fees, rules and other information:
- Team relay entries must be submitted online by club officials via the online link.
- There is no need to pre-enter athletes in the Chocolate Walk or in the Boy’s and Girl’s Races.
- Relay teams who wish to compete in the Senior grade rather than their age grade must declare their intention to do so in writing to the Race Manager prior to the start of the relay
- Clubs will be invoiced for entry fees after the event: $4 per walker, $4 for kids in the Boy’s & Girl’s Races, $40 per team in the Junior relay grades, $48 per team in the Senior/Masters/Mixed relay grades. No entry fee for the U10 and U7 events.
- Runners must wear club uniform with the team race bib as allocated by your club on the front of singlet.
- Runners must follow all instructions from marshals and Wellington Centre officials.
- The course will be marked with a combination of tape, marker poles, arrows, cones and marshals. Where 2 marker poles are placed as a gate, runners must run between the marker poles. Where 1 marker pole is used, runners must run within 5m on either side of the marker pole. Failure to comply with a marshal’s instruction or not following the correct course may cause disqualification.
- Protests and Appeals: IAAF Competition Rules 146 covers protests and appeals. In the first instance, any protest must be made to the Race Referee within 30 minutes of the finish of the race.
- If a runner cannot complete their lap, they can be replaced by another member of the team, but this will incur a 7 minute time penalty.
- The course is not suitable for bare foot running; runners who run in bare feet do at their own risk.
- First aid is available at the Race HQ tent which is adjacent to the start/finish.
- There is no water available and no shelter (unless provided by your club tent) so come prepared.
- Please take caution when driving in the paddock and especially watch out for kids.
Thank you for supporting this event and we look forward to seeing you all on the day. For inquiries please email the event manager: Dave Kettles tea.pots@xtra.co.nz
Meet at 1:45pm for a 2pm start.
Thinking of joining? Come along!
All ages, all abilities, all motivations. Join us!
- Long course (11km)
- Short course (6km)
Meet at 1:45pm for a 2pm start.
Thinking of joining? Come along!
All ages, all abilities, all motivations. Join us!
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.
The Honest 10 is a professionally and accurately measured 10km fun run event held once a month on a flat out-and-back course around the Wellington waterfront.
It starts by Freyberg pool carpark (allow plenty of time to get a park), and heads south towards the wind needle and back.
There’s also a 5km option that turns around earlier, with both options finishing back at the start.
Come along for an easy fun run or use it to test yourself over an accurately measured course – all welcome!
Registrations: From 8am
Start Time: 8:30am*
*Optional 8:15 start time if you think you would be over 65 minutes.
Entry
- $10 for 10k
- $5 for 5k
2023 details below.
Changes introduced in 2022:
- The start line for all races is in the same grassed areaas the finish (mountain biking area). See the 2022 Vosseler course map.
- Junior race is 3.0km. Kids race is 1.1km. To make the event better for these age groups.
- BU10 and GU10 grades added.
- 2022 sees the closure of Alexandra Road from just north of the SPCA to just south of the intersection with Lookout Road.
Venue
Race headquarters are at the WHAC Clubrooms, 164 Alexandra Rd. All races start on the grassed area near the Badminton Hall on Ruahine St
Course description
All races start and finish at the grassy area with the mountain bike skills area. The course covers bush tracks and rocky trails with steep uphill / downhill gradients. The entire race is off road with the exception of road crossings on Mt Victoria.
There are five races run over four distances ranging from 1.1km for boys and girls to 10km for senior and masters runners.
Road crossings are marshalled and subject to Traffic Management controls.
Race times
- 12.40pm -- 5km / 203m elevation gain:
- SENIOR WOMEN,
- MASTERS WOMEN 35,
- MASTERS WOMEN 50,
- MASTERS WOMEN 60,
- MASTERS WOMEN 65,
- MASTERS WOMEN 70+,
- MASTERS MEN 60,
- MASTERS MEN 65,
- MASTERS MEN 70+ ,
- NON-CHAMPIONSHIP 5k MEN 20-59
- 1:35pm -- 3km / 104m elevation gain
- JUNIOR WOMEN WU20,
- WOMEN WU18,
- GIRLS GU16,
- JUNIOR MEN MU20,
- MEN MU18,
- BOYS BU16.
- 2.00pm -- 1.1km / elevation gain 47m
- GIRLS GU14, GIRLS GU12, GIRLS GU10
- 2:10pm -- 1.1k / elevation gain 47m
- BOYS BU14, BOYS BU12, BOYS BU10.
- 2.30pm -- 10km / elevation gain 398m
- SENIOR MEN,
- MASTERS MEN 35,
- MASTERS MEN 50,
- NON-CHAMPIONSHIP 10k WOMEN 20+
Entry information
Athletics New Zealand Sanctioned Event
Only Athletics NZ registered athletes who are financial full competition members in the ANZ ClubNet database are eligible to compete. Athletes must be financial in GameDay by midnight Thursday 25 May 2023 in order to compete.
Race bibs
You must be financial in ANZ ClubNet as stated above to receive a race bib. If you are financial by Friday 20 May, you will receive a personalised race bib. If you are financial after 19 May and up to 25 May, you will receive a temporary race bib, which must be returned after the race. Race bib pick up at the WHAC clubrooms on race day 27 May from 11:30am. No postal or email entries from AW Clubs. Other clubs to email entries to the race director by 25 May.
Athletes must collect their race bib from their club representative at the WHAC clubrooms at least 30 minutes prior to the start of their race. No current bib and timing chip means you will not be recorded in the results. Race bibs will again be used for each of the 5 interclub races. The bibs will have Athletics Wellington timing chips and must be worn on the front of the athlete’s club singlet. Timing chips must be left securely on the front of the bibs.
Entry Fees (Athletics Wellington Members)
AW Clubs will be invoiced after the event according to the number of individuals completing the races.
Entry fees for ANZ Registered Club Members are as follows:
- Boys and Girls U12, U14 and U16 $30.50
- All other grades $35.00
These entry fees include a special traffic management fee of $23.00 per person.
Age Grades and Club Uniform
Age on 31st December 2023; except Masters’ grades where age on 27th May 2023.
As this event is only open to Registered Club Members, the correct club uniform must be worn.
Any athlete wishing to compete “out of grade” (e.g. junior in senior grade), must advise the Race Director, Ian Macfarlane whacracedirector@gmail.com and Daryl Bloomfield daryl@fedude.co.nz by 5:00pm Thursday 25 May.
Team and individual awards
Medals will be awarded to FIRST PLACE in each grade, (*except there will be no medals for non-championship races).
Team Competition winners will receive medals, with number to count in each grade as follows:
- Open Men M20-99 10k only: 6
- Open Women W20-99 5k only: 3
- Masters Women MW50+ combined: 3
- Junior Women WU20/WU18 combined: 3
- All other grades 3
Masters’ runners are eligible for team competition in both the Open grade and their own Masters’ grade.
The Barry Everitt Plate will be awarded to the Club scoring the highest number of points over all grades. This will be based on participation, where every competitor will score points, with 100 points to the winner. E.g., Senior Women, 30 finishers, first place scores 100 points, last place scores 71 points. (The non-championship races will not count towards this Club competition).
Prize giving
Prize giving, following each race, will be near the WHAC Clubrooms; and if bad weather, will be held inside.
Protests and appeals
In the first instance, any protest must be made to the Race Referee, within 30 minutes of the finish of the race. Referee’s decision will be given to the Race Director; any appeal must be made to the Race Director.
IAAF Competition Rules 146 covers protests and appeals.
Health and safety
Marshals
All races are marshalled; marshals are clearly identifiable with orange Hi-Viz vests around the course. If you are injured or observe an injury or problem of any kind, please report to the nearest marshal. All competitors must obey the directions of marshals.
Course Marking
The course will be marked with a combination of the following: tape, marker poles, arrows, cones, and marshals. Where 2 marker poles are placed as a gate, runners must run between the marker poles. Where 1 marker pole is used, runners must run within 5m either side of the marker pole. When running adjacent to roads, athletes must run within the coned off verge area. Failure to comply with a marshal’s instruction or not following the correct course may result in disqualification.
Public Roads
The race includes the crossing of public roads. 2023 agaom sees the closure of Alexandra Road from just north of the SPCA to just south of the intersection with Lookout Road. Marshals will still be placed at strategic points for your safety. However, you must remain alert at road crossings, look yourself, and be prepared to stop if directed to do so by a marshal. Where the course runs alongside public roads, competitors must run within the coned off verge area.
Course Conditions
This is a cross country race and accordingly trails may be loose, steep, slippery, uneven, and have trip hazards. Competitors are responsible for taking reasonable care.
COVID-19
There are no mandatory public health requirements. Spectators and athletes alike are asked to stay at home if they are feeling unwell.
Race Director
Thank you for supporting this event. We look forward to seeing you all on race day. For inquiries, please contact Ian Macfarlane (027) 230 8884, or email: whacracedirector@gmail.com