Author: hillcityadmin

Hello everyone,

As its National Volunteers week, I would like to make a special acknowledgement of Lisa Neilson. Lisa makes the finest pots of tea since way back, and is always at the club on a Saturday to help us all out by getting afternoon tea sorted. Thank you Lisa, we really appreciate your endless help.

After a very exciting weekend with Bella Bloomfield and Romain Mirosa doing incredibly well in the Wellington Marathon, both picking up medals in their age groups for the New Zealand Marathon Champs. As well as this Drew Cairney, William Scharpf, Josh Hou and George Bates performed very well at the National Secondary Schools Cross Country Champs in Christchurch.

The second Athletics Otago Childrens Cross Country was hosted by Caversham club on Sunday also, lovely to see many of our smaller but speedy athletes enjoying them selves and picking up some more ribbons for their collection. Well done!

This weekend we are meeting up with the Ariki club at their clubrooms at Bayfield Park at 1.30pm, from there we will head up to Rotary Park for our annual cross country event with them. This is a very fun run, and its handicapped, my favourite! Our club rooms will not be open this day, so if you need a ride to the Ariki clubrooms, please sing out and this can be arranged. Kids can also participate in this run. If you are new to the club this year, and you know your 5km time, please forward it to me to send to the math-magician.

On the 1st July, the Edmond Cup Race is on at Wingatui. Entry is on the Athletics Otago website. Entries close on the 29th June. We are the duty club for this event so we need helpers please with setting up the course, taking it down after and race officiating. Please can you help if you havent already helped with an event.

Thank you

Merrilee:)

Hi everyone,

We had some cracking results at the Barnes Cross Country last weekend, from all age groups. Of note, Stafford Thompson ran super fast to take out the fastest time in the mens race, closely followed by Kirk Madgewick, well done guys!! The kids were amazing as usual also, in the U13 girls race Lila and Anya Rhodes placed first and second, while in the U13 boys race Archie Rhodes, Ollie Oberlin Brown and Fergus Oberlin Brown placed 1st, 2nd and 3rd respectively. Wow!

In the U18 races, Ella Hou came first in the womens race, while Josh Hou, Drew Cairney and William Scharpf placed 1st, 2nd and 3rd respectively. Senior women also dominated in their event too with Shauna Pali 1st, Bella Bloomfield 2nd and Bridget Thompson 4th. Fantastic work everyone!!

This weekend we have a club run or walk from the clubrooms, meeting at 1.30pm to leave in our groups at 2pm. Sarah will be taking the kids out this weekend:)

All the very best of luck to Romain Mirosa who is competing in the New Zealand Marathon Champs in Wellington this weekend, go well Romain!

Coming up on the 24th June, we are meeting up with the Ariki club to have our annual cross country with them at Rotary Park. This is handicap style, and good fun, approx 5km, with a kids event also. We will need an idea of your 5km time please so Mike can do the maths to get your start times worked out, so start thinking about this.

Thanks everyone

Merrilee

Hi everyone,

Hope your week is going well. This Saturday, we have a club run from our clubrooms, meeting at 1.30pm to leave in packs at 2pm please. There will be a kids run too. Bring something to share for PM tea.

All the best to those who are travelling to Christchurch to run the Half or Full Marathon, keep us posted!

Last Saturday, the sun came out just in time for the bus to leave for the Millennium track, everyone that went had a great time. Thank you to Steve Pinker for putting in so much effort to make this so fun:) On Sunday, we hosted the first of the Athletics Otago Childrens Cross Country series, this was a great success, and the kids had a fantastic time. The next in this series is hosted by Caversham Harriers on the 18th June at Corshophine Park. Spread the word about this as it really is a fantastic series. The link to enter is http://athleticsotago.co.nz/Events/Events/race-2-otago-kids-cross-country

Barnes Cross Country: Will be held on the 11th June. This is an interclub, short course cross country, and open to anyone who is registered with the club, either competitive or social registration, also there is a kids race. To enter this event, you must first register with the club, and then enter via the Athletics Otago Site. Dont forget, your competitive race number is the same as last year, so hopefully you have kept this to wear on the day. If not, I will need to allocate you a new number, so please get in touch early to arrange this. Here is the link for the Barnes Cross Country.  http://athleticsotago.co.nz/Events/Events/barnes-cross-country-8 Entries close at midnight on Tuesday so dont miss out!

Athletics Otago Finance Committee: We need to have a representative from our club on the finance committee for Athletics Otago, this is a great opportunity to see what happens behind the scenes in Athletics in Otago, and be involved in some decision making for our running community. It involves a meeting once per month, usually only an hour long, and you do not have to be a finance guru, just someone who is interested in being part of the behind the scenes team for the year. Please let me know if you are happy to be nominated.

Thats all I think! Feedback welcomed on the content/regularity/etc of these emails,

Merrilee:)

Hi team!

With the Ponydales being cancelled, we have invited all the other clubs to join us at our place for a run and walk this weekend, 20th May. This should be really fun, and a great opportunity to get together with our wider running community. Please bring something to share for afternoon tea, there will be lots of people this week.

There will also be a kids group, thank you to Rebecca who will help me take the kids on their adventure this week.

The Athletics Otago Childrens cross country series starts on the 28th May, this is for primary school aged children. Spread the word about this series, its really fun, and last year there was a great turn out of happy kids giving it a go. Registrations for this is on the Athletics Otago webpage. http://athleticsotago.co.nz/Events/Events/race-1-otago-kids-cross-country As we are hosting the first event, I need some more helpers please. Thanks to those who have already volunteered, much appreciated.

Millennium Track outing- Thanks to those who have put their names, we have 20 keen people to join the fun. This Saturday will be your last opportunity to get on board the bus, so let us know please.

The Balclutha half marathon has unfortunately been cancelled, hopefully we see this return next year.

Club registration- Please if you have not done this yet, get on to it:) Can be done on the Hill City-University webpage.

See you all on Saturday, lets hope for sun or snow, both are equally as fun.

Merrilee

Hi everyone,

Here are the teams for the 2017 Lovelock Relays that are this Saturday, as well as the programme. You will see there are a couple of details missing from some names, could those people (listed in bold) please email me asap so I can fill those gaps and publish before Friday. Thank you.

As we are the hosts of this event, please can everyone bring something for afternoon tea, not necessarily from a packet if possible:) Its a great event, so even if you are not running, come on down and cheer for our teams,as well as the other clubs.

If there is some reason you are no longer able to run,please let us know as soon as possible before Saturday as this will affect the teams. If you are not curently in a team, but would like to be, let me know and we will try to rustle up another team so you dont miss out on the fun!

Dont forget you MUST wear club uniform this day, if you do not have a singlet, please email me and i will get you one to purchase, or you could ask another club member if you can borrow theirs. And also, dont forget your $10 entry each, to be given to your self nominated team captain.

Social

1: Dave Mackle, Cathy Weatherston, Keith Weatherston, Kate Spenceley

2: Christine, Myrtle Rough, Danielle, Sarah Rhodes

U13

3: Guthrie Wakelin, Lachlan Crumpton, Oliver Oberlin-Brown, Fergus Oberlin-Brown (res: Alex Walker)

4: Ella Hou, Rosie Falcous, Amelie Warlow, Emma Neilson

5: Marley Thompson, Lily Falcous, Briar Henwood, Isaac Thompson (res: Esme Thompson)

High School

6: William Scharpf, Campbell Neilson, Matheson Colquhoun, Josh Hou

7: George Hamilton, Ollie Bixley, Alex Warlow, Luke Moffat, res: Sam Bixley

Masters Men

8: Robbie Johnston, Matt Bixley, Eric Scharpf, Warren Scott

9: Dwayne Sheddan, Ian Graham, Richard Fogarty, Jason Henwood

Senior Women

10: Bella Bloomfield, Bridget Thompson, Shireen Crumpton, Hannah Adamson

Senior men

11: Caden Shields, Jared Monk, Sam Bremer, Drew Cairney, Stafford Thompson, Andy Pol

12: Matthew Ogle, Alistair Richardson, Josh Campbell, Chad Butson, Elliot O’Sullivan, Ben Wardhaugh,

13: Oliver O’Sullivan, Murphy ?, Matt ?, Sean Morrison, Connor Shivman, Simon Rhodes (Res: Marcus ?)

Thanks Mike Wakelin for putting the teams together for us.

Programme

Race 1:            1:30 pm – Social/Mixed

Race 2:            2:00 pm – Under 13 / Primary School

Race 3:            2:15 pm – Masters Women (35+), High School Girls & High School Boys

Race 4:            2:45 pm – Senior Women, Masters Men

Race 5:            3:15 pm – Senior Men

3:45pm           Mass Run & Mass Walk

4:30pm          Prize giving

The Prize giving will be held in the Hill City-University Club rooms at approximately 4:30pm.

Please do not be late for your race. Team captains are in italics, please ensure you collect your race pack for your team, issue race numbers and collect entry money to return with race numbers at end of race.

Thanks again, any questions just sing out

Merrilee:)