Event results
Incorporating the New Zealand 10,000m challenge (i.e. NZ champs without Auckland and Waikato competitors)
A solid contingent of Olympic runners and supporters (and if you weren’t a part of it – consider it for next time) turned up for the Agency 10k event at Newtown park last Saturday.
With all the runners divided into groups of like ability, the racing started at 4.15pm. Sure, with the afternoon start, funnily enough, it felt like taking an international flight (remember those?) at the end of the day where you spend most of the day just waiting for the right time to leave to the airport, felt like that for the race – hard to focus on doing other stuff, and making sure energy was being conserved and eating the right amount at the right time seemed to be the focus of the day.
Despite it raining all day (as I’m sure you will remember) the rain abated just before most were warming up for the first race, being the C race – and even a good dose of sun came out, making conditions pretty humid, but gratefully received over what was looking to be a very wet event.
With the wind kicking up a bit, for me and others I assume, it was a case of sharing the load with other runners into the wind. Perhaps not the best conditions for running PBs (as a typical Kiwi understatement) but a huge amount of fun all the same – and 10k is certainly long enough for us all to finish with some stories from the race, which were shared immediately after, while watching the next race.
It was fantastic racing with fellow runners, not just from Wellington, but from around New Zealand. A great event – loads of fun, with some great performances by the Olympic team.
See you there next year! The training starts now…
Race report by Darcy
Olympic results below:
- Race 1 = Elite (seeded below 33:00)
- Race 2 = A race (33:00-36:00)
- Race 3 = B race (36:00-40:00)
- Race 4 = C race (40:00+)
Results
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Note sorting by time is alphabetic, not time based (so 1:00:00 comes after 0:50:00 because 1 comes after 0, but before 50:00 because 1 comes before 5).
 Place |
Name | Grade/Division | Time | Grade |
| 2 | Darcy Mellsop | Race 4 | 41:05.65 | M40 |
| 3 | Nic Hankinson | Race 4 | 41:49.72 | 1st W40 |
| 4 | Will Anthony | Race 1 | 30:59.07 | 1st MU20 (event record) |
| 7 | Ryan Mackay | Race 3 | 38:18.24 | MU18 |
| 8 | Simon Angus | Race 2 | 34:45.25 | SM |
| 15 | Michael Waterman | Race 3 | 39:23.42 | M50 |
| 15 | Brad Thompson | Race 4 | 45:57.94 | M40 |
| 19 | Deb Lynch | Race 2 | 37:28.94 | 1st SW |
| 20 | Susannah Lynch | Race 2 | 38:06.94 | 2nd SW |
| 20 | Michelle Van Looy | Race 4 | 47:07.93 | W50 |
| 23 | Sarah Bakker | Race 4 | 48:53.52 | W40 |