Event results
The best weather in Wellington occurs "on the turn" - at the end of a southerly storm, when the sky clears, the wind drops, and the sun’s hot. And that’s what we had today, with just a hint of a southerly to help the lap 1 and 3 runners.
With the Bays Relay marking the start of the road season, Olympic had a good turnout with eleven teams in the six grades, the most it’s had in recent years. The results featured the Masters Men A team winning their grade, a minute and a half ahead of second placed Scottish A. Also placing were the Senior Men A team (3rd, 21 seconds behind second place Wellington Harriers - could it have been closer if Mike Wakelin hadn’t been misdirected at the end of the third lap?), the Junior Men A team (3rd), and masters women (2nd). (The Junior Women finished second, although the result won’t count because they ran the same runner twice).
There were some great performances - Chris Speakman was second fastest time overall (over all grades) for lap 1 (behind Matt Prosser), plus there were a number of grade fastest times, but I think special mention should be made of the U16, U14 and U12 runners in the junior men’ teams - what a magnificent effort from all of them to compete and finish this race!
Results
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Name | Club/Team | Grade/Division | Lap Time | Lap place | Elapsed time | Team place |
| 1 | Jane Nalder | Olympic | Junior Women | 17:30 | 1 | 0:17:30 | 1 |
| 1 | Moana Burt | Olympic | Senior Women | 16:26 | 2 | 0:16:26 | 2 |
| 1 | Helen Rush | Olympic | Masters Women | 23:24 | 3 | 0:23:24 | 3 |
| 1 | Matthew Prosser | Olympic | Junior Men | 15:12 | 1 | 0:15:12 | 1 |
| 1 | Al Mallard (U16) | Olympic | Junior Men | 18:42 | 7 | 0:18:42 | 7 |
| 1 | Andrew Crowley (U14) | Olympic | Junior Men | 19:51 | 10 | 0:19:51 | 10 |
| 1 | James Faber (U14?) | Olympic | Junior Men | 21:41 | 12 | 0:21:41 | 12 |
| 1 | Mark Anderson | Olympic | Senior Men | 15:54 | 3 | 0:15:54 | 3 |
| 1 | Gordon Blacklaws (MM) | Olympic | Senior Men | 16:15 | 5 | 0:16:15 | 5 |
| 1 | Chris Speakman | Olympic | Masters Men | 15:24 | 1 | 0:15:24 | 1 |
| 1 | Owen Lenihan | Olympic | Masters Men | 19:11 | 7 | 0:19:11 | 7 |
| 2 | Hayley Wain | Olympic | Junior Women | 25:13 | 5 | 0:42:43 | 4 |
| 2 | Esther Martin | Olympic | Senior Women | 21:20 | 6 | 0:37:46 | 4 |
| 2 | Barbara Prosser | Olympic | Masters Women | 22:11 | 2 | 0:45:35 | 2 |
| 2 | Anthony Thomson | Olympic | Junior Men | 16:56 | 4 | 0:32:08 | 2 |
| 2 | Chris Blackford (U14) | Olympic | Junior Men | 18:33 | 8 | 0:37:15 | 9 |
| 2 | Lachlan Rusbridge (U12) | Olympic | Junior Men | 19:39 | 10 | 0:39:30 | 10 |
| 2 | Hamish Rusbridge (U14) | Olympic | Junior Men | 24:47 | 12 | 0:46:28 | 12 |
| 2 | Chris Jordan | Olympic | Senior Men | 15:05 | 2= | 0:30:59 | 3 |
| 2 | Chris Mahoney | Olympic | Senior Men | 17:13 | 7 | 0:33:28 | 5 |
| 2 | Peter Jeromson | Olympic | Masters Men | 16:22 | 2 | 0:31:46 | 1 |
| 2 | Paul Smith | Olympic | Masters Men | 20:51 | 12 | 0:40:02 | 12 |
| 3 | Claire Fraser | Olympic | Junior Women | 20:01 | 3 | 1:02:44 | 2 |
| 3 | Cathy Rush | Olympic | Senior Women | 22:16 | 7 | 1:00:02 | 7 |
| 3 | Marilyn Daly | Olympic | Masters Women | 21:46 | 3 | 1:07:21 | 2 |
| 3 | Lyndon McGaughran | Olympic | Junior Men | 15:56 | 1= | 0:48:04 | 2 |
| 3 | Miles Denton (U16) | Olympic | Junior Men | 18:55 | 9 | 0:56:10 | 9 |
| 3 | Joel Speakman (U16) | Olympic | Junior Men | 19:11 | 10 | 0:58:41 | 10 |
| 3 | David Blackford (U14) | Olympic | Junior Men | 20:33 | 12 | 1:07:01 | 12 |
| 3 | Mike Wakelin | Olympic | Senior Men | 15:09 | 1 | 0:46:08 | 2 |
| 3 | Steve Tait | Olympic | Senior Men | 17:40 | 10 | 0:51:08 | 6 |
| 3 | Barry Prosser | Olympic | Masters Men | 16:34 | 2 | 0:48:20 | 1 |
| 3 | Mike Binkhorst | Olympic | Masters Men | 19:37 | 11 | 0:59:39 | 11 |
| 4 | Jane Nalder | Olympic | Junior Women | 15:02 | 1 | 1:17:46 | 2 |
| 4 | Nicki Auckett | Olympic | Senior Women | 24:44 | 8 | 1:24:46 | 7 |
| 4 | Marilyn Daly | Olympic | Masters Women | 18:38 | 3 | 1:25:59 | 2 |
| 4 | Matt Singleton | Olympic | Junior Men | 14:24 | 5 | 1:02:28 | 2 |
| 4 | Tim Wakelin (U?) | Olympic | Junior Men | 16:52 | 9 | 1:13:02 | 9 |
| 4 | Anthony Gardner (U14) | Olympic | Junior Men | 17:34 | 11 | 1:16:15 | 11 |
| 4 | Cameron Archibald (U14) | Olympic | Junior Men | 22:26 | 12 | 1:29:27 | 12 |
| 4 | Jerome Sheppard | Olympic | Senior Men | 13:41 | 5 | 0:59:49 | 3 |
| 4 | Miles Coverdale | Olympic | Senior Men | 15:55 | 10 | 1:07:03 | 8 |
| 4 | Mike Rodden | Olympic | Masters Men | 14:08 | 1 | 1:02:28 | 1 |
| 4 | Mike Burkinshaw | Olympic | Masters Men | 19:41 | 13 | 1:19:20 | 13 |
| 5 | Olympic | Junior Women | 17:49 | 4 | 1:35:35 | 2 | |
| 5 | Sheryne Beeby | Olympic | Senior Women | 18:20 | 6 | 1:43:06 | 7 |
| 5 | Jean Skilton | Olympic | Masters Women | 22:39 | 2 | 1:48:38 | 2 |
| 5 | Matt Parker | Olympic | Junior Men | 14:15 | 3 | 1:16:43 | 3 |
| 5 | Simon Hay (U16?) | Olympic | Junior Men | 16:22 | 10 | 1:29:24 | 10 |
| 5 | Cole Skilton (U14) | Olympic | Junior Men | 17:45 | 11 | 1:34:00 | 11 |
| 5 | Nigel Hay (U14) | Olympic | Junior Men | 19:24 | 12 | 1:48:51 | 12 |
| 5 | Ethan Kurukaanga (U12) | Olympic | Junior Men | 19:25 | |||
| 5 | Mike Waterman | Olympic | Senior Men | 13:15 | 3 | 1:13:04 | 3 |
| 5 | Peter Ferguson | Olympic | Senior Men | 14:47 | 9 | 1:21:50 | 8 |
| 5 | Gary Dick | Olympic | Masters Men | 14:03 | 1 | 1:16:31 | 1 |
| 5 | Tim Dravitski | Olympic | Masters Men | 21:05 | 14 | 1:40:25 | 13 |