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It was a bright and breezy morning.



Two walkers and 29 runners set off on the inaugural Capital Punishment, over a route containing some of the longest and steepest climbs in Wellington.



It was quickly clear that New Zealand mountain running representative James Coubrough was a class above the rest as he raced away to a lead of more than a minute and a half by the beginning of the long climb up to Kaukau.



Behind him Hayden Prosser and Adam Carlson battled away for second place, with a group of four containing the fastest woman Demelza Murrihy-Topp, fastest master Barry Prosser, Patrick McKay and Greg Thurlow, just a little behind these three.



By the top Coubrough had increased his lead by nearly another two minutes with a climb time of 13:11. One official noted that he seemed to be running up the hill as if it was flat. Carlson and Hayden Prosser were still neck and neck with Carlson pipping Prosser by 1 second with 15:00 on the climb. Further back Thurlow had turned the tables on the following group and with a time of 15:20 he lead them over the top.



Murrihy-Topp with a climb time of 15:58 was nearly five minutes quicker on the climb than the next woman, Anne Rose. Rose was battling it out with another Prosser, Alana Gould, for the second placed woman. It seemed Gould would make the ground on the downhill stretches whilst Rose would take the uphill. Unfortunately for Rose, the finish was downhill.



By the finish Coubrough had raced away to win in record time (since this is the first time it’s been run!) of 35:57. Hayden Prosser pulled away over the final downhill to finish 4:10 behind, with Carlson another 38 seconds back. Thurlow just held out a strong finishing Barry Prosser by 2 seconds, to finish in 42:33. Barry, 61, was 51 seconds ahead of next master, Mark Handley, who finished in 43:26.



Demelza Murrihy-Top easily won the women’s division in a time of 43:29 from Alana Gould who won the uphill-downhill battle with Anne Rose by 1:51 seconds with a time of 53:03.



Peter Hanson, who will be 75 this year, rounded out the runners field with a time of 1:14:29.



Our two walkers, Gano Siohane and Simone Toeno, who got things underway at the start, also closed things off, finishing together in 1:49:17.

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