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Report by: Jane Pali

This Saturday the club will be open for a run and walk leaving at 2pm.

For those of you entered in the Port Road Race all the very best – please see the Athletics Otago site for start times and info.

I desperately need 3 marshalls on the day – please email me if you can help.  :|.

As I emailed last time Prizegiving is coming up on the 1st October. Could all trophy winners from last year return their clean cups to Sue O’Sullivan ASAP (if no one is home please leave in the entrance) or bring them to the club on Saturday.

Congrats to all who competed in the Moro Marathon. In the paper I mentioned Rozie for completing the half walk in under 2hours The Face for running his first full and Morris who took 27 minutes off last years time but you all did amazingly well just to finish!!

Well thats all for now folks

Jane 🙂

Report by: Jane Pali

Hi Everyone

We have a very busy month coming up and I ask you to put the following in your diaries now!!

10th Sept: Club run and walk leaving our rooms at 2pm.
Plus entries for the Port Road Races close today.
Please put your name in the entries book or email Mike ASAP : reader.wakelin@xtra.co.nz

17th Sept: Port Road Races
Plus clubrooms will be open for those not competing.

18th Sept: Gut Buster (Baldwin Street race)

24th Sept: Club run and walk leaving our rooms at the earlier time of 1pm (due to RWC)
Plus Hill City (Dunedin) Athletic Club Inc AGM at 2.15pm

Then on the 1st Oct we have the Closing run and walk
Plus Winter and Summer Prizegiving

9th Oct: Hill Free Half Marathon
Merrilee still requires helpers – please email her if you can help : merrileecowan@hotmail.com

And that folks will be the end of the Hill City Winter Programme 2011!

I would like to take this opportunity to thanks those of you who have helped over the season.

Whether as a marshall, a kitchen hand or vacuuming the rooms etc, I thank you all.

Many hands do make light work so I urge you help your club when you can.

Thats all for now

Jane 🙂

Report by: Jane Pali, Club Manager

This Saturday the Clubrooms will be closed as the Peninsula Relay is being held and many of you are competing.

The relay starts at John Wilson Memorial Drive at 11.30am. For anyone not competing you may wish to support.

One of our teams – maybe even be a driver or Marshall – we need 7 volunteers at least please.

Last weekend we had club members competing in the NZ Road Champs in Wellington.

• Congratulations Rozie for winning the SW 10km Walk title in 50:01.50.
• Alex Gorrie won Bronze in the M19 8km race in 25:52.10.
• Christina Taylor was 4th in the W19 5km in 18:36.06 and
• Joe Beamish 11th in the M16 6km race in 20:59.28.

Also over in Canberra Shauna Pali and Laura Carruthers represented NZSS in the Australian XC Champs. Shauna was 6th in the U20 6km in 22m31s and Laura ran the U18 4km in 15m29s.

Well done to you all.

Please also read Merrilee’s email below and offer your support.

Thanks all
Jane:)

The Hill Free Half marathon is quickly approaching on the 9th of October so its time to round up some helpers please!

To make the days events a safe and enjoyable as possible, i will need at least 40 volunteers on the day to help with water stations, marshalling, registrations, setting out the course and packing up at the end among other things. So please make yourself and/or family members available. I need people at the Outram Hall from 7.45am, we expect to be finished by 1.30ish.

The prize giving is separate this year due to limited space in the hall, and will be held at Nellies bar in Mosgiel at 3.30pm, so come along and enjoy the warmth and a cold one too.

If you are planning to enter, you will need to find someone that can help in your place, or volunteer to help on the Saturday with late entries and registrations at the clubrooms between 3.30 and 5.00pm.

Please email Merrilee Williams hillfree@hillcity.org.nz, or phone 488 4587 to volunteer, I will allocate jobs in the next couple of weeks and email them out. I would also like to have a meeting for marshalls on Saturday 8th October to make sure everyone knows where they are, and what they are to do.

Thank you very much

Merrilee

Report by: Jane Pali

Hi All,

Well done to all those who competed in the Clyde to Alex road race on Saturday 6th August. This event incorporates the Otago 10km Champs for SM, SW & MM.

Congratulations to Shireen Crumpton who won the SW title and Kerrin Williams who won the MM35 title. Other race winners on the day were Rozie Robinson – 10km walk, Barbara Patrick MW60 10km and Sam Bremer M16 6km.

Last Sunday in bitterly cold/blizzard conditions some brave souls competed in the other age group Otago Road Champ races.

Congratulations to the following title winners – W19 Rebekah Greene, M16 Sam Bremer and M14 Ruben Scarlet-McRae.

Peninsula Relay

Anyone wishing to compete in the Peninsula relay on Saturday 27th August must email
Mike Wakelin by 9pm this Thursday evening.

Email reader.wakelin@xtra.co.nz

This Saturday a Club run and walk will leave our clubrooms at Logan Park at the normal time.

Hope everyone is keeping warm!

Bye for now
Jane 🙂