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Club run / walk from the clubrooms with packs for all ages and abilities.
Thinking of joining? Come along!
All ages, all abilities, all motivations. Join us!
Meet at 1:45, ready for a 2pm departure.
Club run / walk from the clubrooms with packs for all ages and abilities.
Thinking of joining? Come along!
All ages, all abilities, all motivations. Join us!
Meet at 1:45, ready for a 2pm departure.
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!
- Long course (17 to 20+ km)
- Medium course (10 to 14km)
- Short course (5 to 7km)
Note new venue!
Club run / walk from the clubrooms with packs for all ages and abilities.
Thinking of joining? Come along!
All ages, all abilities, all motivations. Join us!
Meet at 1:45, ready for a 2pm departure.
2021 info from Wainui Harriers:
This year’s event will proceed under Covid-19 Alert Levels 1 and 2.
Due to Covid-19 and the potential for changing alert levels, there are some changes to previous years. The information below is the level 1 plan. Only minor changes will be required if we change to alert level 2.
Race Headquarters
Wainuiomata High School, Gymnasium
Parkway Road
Wainuiomata
The Gymnasium is towards the back of the High School by the playing fields. Toilets are available at the Gymnasium. The Gymnasium is only open before races start until 12:45pm. All gear must be taken and left in cars. There will be no afternoon tea or formal prize giving this year. Medals will be awarded at the finish area.
Plenty of parking is available at the High School and along Parkway Road.
All entrants must report to Race Headquarters between 11:30am and 12:30pm on race day to sign in and receive a Race Number to be worn on the front of their singlet.
It is a short 5 minute walk from the Gymnasium to the Parkway Rise Subdivision Car-park where the races start and finish. Entrants are asked to leave their cars at the school and walk over to the start location as there is limited parking available in the new subdivision, please respect the residents of the subdivision.
Competing Grades and Medals
Age is as at the end of this year, 31 December 2021, but age on the day of race for master’s runners.
Grades: Girls and Boys U10, Girls and Boys U12, Girls and Boys U14, Girls and Boys U16, Junior Women and Men U18, Junior Women and Men U20, Open Women and Men 20-34, Masters Women and Men 35-49, Masters Women and Men 50-59, Masters Women and Men 60+.
Medals: Medals are awarded to the first 3 Wellington Inter-Club members in each grade.
Guest medals will also be awarded for non-inter-club members who place in the top 3 in any grade.
Entry Information
Entrants are encouraged to pre-enter on-line by Thursday April 8, 8pm. On the day entries will be accepted between 11:30am and 12:30pm.
Individuals are responsible for entering and paying, clubs will not be invoiced for this event.
Manual timing will be used for this race, timing chips are not required.
On-line entry: on-line entry form
Christchurch Marathon/half marathon/10km/"kids mara'fun", incorporating the NZ Marathon Champs
In conjunction with the inaugural "Queenstown Alpine Grind".
Up-and-down course, laps of 4km with 400m of climbing per lap.
Sign up
Please sign up if you want to compete or can help set up: Maiden and Perston sign up form.
Times:
- 1200: Help set up course
- 1400: First race (kids)
- 15:30: afternoon tea at our new clubrooms! Please bring a plate and BYO drinks.
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.
And one other thing - these races serve as trials for the Shaw Baton interclub relays held at Battle Hill later in April May.
Maiden and Perston sign up form
- Long course (17 to 20+ km)
- Medium course (10 to 14km)
- Short course (5 to 7km)
Club run / walk from the clubrooms with packs for all ages and abilities.
Thinking of joining? Come along!
All ages, all abilities, all motivations. Join us!
Meet at 1:45, ready for a 2pm departure.
- Long course (17 to 20+ km)
- Medium course (10 to 14km)
- Short course (5 to 7km)
The interclub season kicks off with a 4×2km cross country relay. Sign up form for Olympic Harriers members ONLY.
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).
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 2021, OR in the case of Masters, age on the day of the event.
1:00pm
- Youth Girls (GU16)
- Junior Women (WU20)
- Senior Women (W20-34)
- Masters Women (W35+)
- Masters Women (W50+)
- Masters Women (W60+)
- Masters Men (W60+)
1:50pm
- 1km Fun Run (BU10, GU10) – mass start
2:00pm
- Boys, Girls Mixed (BU14, GU14, BU12, GU12, mixed)
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 29 April. 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 and Girls U12.
Contact
Tracy Berghan
Olympic Harriers Secretary
027 414 4398
Contact us form
Sign up form for Olympic Harriers members, relay race ONLY - please sign up by midday Sunday 2 May
The Victoria University Athletic Club invites us to the Victoria University Relay events being held at QE Park on Saturday 8 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. The Boys & Girls Races – scratch races for athletes under 16 years of age, and a fun run for the under 7’s. Athletes 16 years and older run in the junior relay. Prize giving for the scratch races will be held shortly after the under 7’s fun run, just before the start of the relay. In a change from 2020, this year U14 and U16 events will run together.
***Age is taken as at 31 December 2021***
3. The Victoria University Relay – 10 grades with 4 runners per team over an approx. 3.5 km lap.
Race times and event details
12:00 PM Chocolate Walk: 6 km walk on the road; 11.30 registration, 12 noon start
1:15 PM B&G U10: 1.2 km: the start is over the sandhills to the south of the main start/finish area
1:30 PM B&G U12: 2 km loop from the start/finish area
1.45 PM B&G U14 & U16: 2 km loop from the start/finish area
2:00 PM B&G U7: 500 metres fun run “out and back” from the start/finish area
2:30 PM University relay. Ten grades: junior women U20, Junior men U20, Senior women, Senior men, Masters women 35+, Masters men 35+, Masters women 50+, Masters men 50+, Open 60+. Four runners per team, 3.5 km lap. All grades start together. Open 60+ teams can comprise men and women in the same team. Mixed teams can comprise athletes of mixed ages and genders (results in the grade will be recorded but there will be no prizes awarded) 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
PLEASE NOTE: age is taken as of 31 December 2021 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 (this link will be provided in the week before the event). Entries will close 11.59 pm Thursday 6 May.
- 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
New Zealand's premier marathon event