Kennett Cup Races July 7 th . A foggy morning cleared for a perfect winter's day for all the races . By mid morning the sky was cloudless , the air was still and coldish , but the sun was pleasant . The course map looked very convoluted due to our having to avoid the soccer pitch( for matches which didn't eventuate) . The new loop must have added some distance because Senior times were about two minutes longer than last year on average. John and Victor had all the stuff ready at 9 am so it was a simple matter for the team to put out the course .Everything was ready well before the first race at 12.40 pm.
Most of the races were well represented, but overall numbers looked a little down on 2011 .There were several of Canterbury and Nelson's best athletes there . Combined fields gave opportunity to watch head- to- head battles.
ChCh Avon had good representation in the male Juniors and Vets , and children ; few Senior males , Junior and Vet Women.
A good chance to see Matt Dryden and Sean Eustace start together . Both are outstanding runners, but Matt being a little older led Sean all the way and scored a top class 3 rd place for himself. Sean won his grade. Cam Avery and Jacob Reese/Jones are also going very well. A plug for the Dryden ' triplets' now because Chris and Natalie are also getting steadily closer to the tops of their grades .
Our kids did quite well as usual : here's the Junior Committee's analysis ..
"CONGRATULATIONS to our 4 new SOUTH ISLAND CHAMPIONS - Laurence Pithie (B10), Harriet Bush (G13), Angus Bailey (B14) and Sean Eustace (M15/16). The full list of CHAV medal winners were:
Matthew Dryden - M17-19 - 3rd
Sean Eustace - M15/16 - 1st
Cameron Avery - M15/16 - 3rd
Angus Bailey - B14 - 1st
Latham Fairhall - B14 - 3rd
Harriet Bush - G13 - 1st
Paige Waddington - G13 - 2nd
Anna Reese-Jones - G13 - 3rd
Chris Dryden - B13 - 2nd
Laurence Pithe - B10 - 1st
Denver Stocks - G10 - 3rd
Thomas Clarke - B9 - 3rd
Rosie Phipps - G9 - 3rd
Easton Stocks - B8 - 3rd
Paige Avery - G8 - 3rd
That's a GREAT EFFORT from all of our medal winners, but whilst the next 3 names don't appear above they also deserve special recognition for showing the biggest improvement this week. No matter where you finish, if you are improving then you are being the best you can be - AND we are still watching you. So AWESOME EFFORT to Robson Foulkes (B8), Jared Neighbours (B12) andNatalie Dryden (W15)."
Only Robyn Perkins of all our female runners took the field .She admitted to being slightly off form after her recent training /racing peak. No wait...Anne Kennedy also ran and won her grade.
There was a good tussle between Nicki McFadzien and Rosa Flanagan (both Uni) .Fiona Crombie withdrew sick.
The biggest field of the day was the combined Vet and Sen Men . Designated 9000m , but probably a little more, with eight hurdles and about twenty rises and falls made this a tough race. The number of times I thought about pulling out ! but the laps went by and the promise of beating Victor , Denis and Dave T kept the incentive there. Iain and Rodger had good runs (both coming off recent half marathons) . Craig had a rare sortie , and Race Director John Gamblin also fronted after an alleged 10 day lay-off. Evans ,Chris and Gary finished the race too. Andrew Reese /Jones looks to be back to his best running and was miles ahead of the rest of us (but didn't lap as many of us as last year) . Richie is fit from Ironman mileage and had a good run.
San Wreford easily won the senior race from Brent Tingay and is in scorching form.
John Gamblin has thanked all the people from CHCH Avon and other clubs who combined to make the day a success. Paul Norton shone especially with the microphone . John McB and Andrew Reese had barely got back from overseas to help out . All the marshals , desk staff and parents too.
Results: Full Results
Go to end of page for a series of photos of CHCH Avon Vets in the race taken by Marty Cole. The shots are taken near the end of the 9000m ordeal, and you can see the strain etched on the faces of the over 50's as the sun does them no favors .
here's a message from the COTY calculators :
" For the calculation of teams(at Kennett Cup) each set of 4 runners from the same club counted as a team.
The Club of the Year competition result was
1st – University of Canterbury on count back
2nd – Christchurch Avon
3rd – Sumner
The combined results after three events
1st – Christchurch Avon on 94 points
2nd– University of Canterbury on 84 points
3rd – Sumner on 82 points "
We have races for three consecutive weekends now .
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Invitation from University Club :
" Subject: John Connor Memorial Handicap Club Race 2012 - Saturday, 14th July
click blue link to enter .................You are invited to the JOHN CONNOR CROSS-COUNTRY HANDICAP RACES John Connor XC is an annual University of Canterbury Athletics Club Handicap Race which has traditionally been run around the Ilam Oval and the banks of the Okeover Stream Like last year it will be held at BURNSIDE PARK. This year we envisage the start finish area being near the parking at the Avonhead Road side of the park. WHEN: Saturday 14th July RACE TIMES: 2.15pm- Race Briefing 2.30pm- Junior Handicap Race over 2km 2.50pm- Senior Handicap Race over 4km YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE REGISTERED TO RUN THIS SO BRING YOUR FRIENDS and FAMILY.It is pretty low key and the handicap means you never know who the dark horse will be to burgle the win and steal the glory!! It is also a handy short sharpening race leading up to Canterbury Cross Country. "
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in results from the recent Gold Coast Half Marathon Rodger Ward was 8th placed 55-59 yr old with 1.30 .41.Andrea Ward ran the 10 km in 1.14.40
Rodger close to the finish of his Half Marathon. A plug for marathon.photos.com where you can buy good quality photos from lots of races.
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Robyn Perkins is doing every race she can find at the moment and it's fair to say she's ' on fire ' .Free entry to the " Tane's Forest " race came her way via a spot prize John Hinton won. John couldn't use it and gifted to anyone in the club : Robyn was the only taker. Here is her race report , and a photo of her looking fit and focussed.
" Escape from Tane's Forest - a 25k trail race
It was a chilled out group which gathered at the OK Corrall at 8am on the last Sunday in June. Very chilled. The ground was white and solid with frost. It had been -2 when I had left home.
All competitors had to show their compulsory gear - thermal layer, gloves, hat, jacket, emergency blanket and a whistle. Most of us were wearing all the extra items, plus extra layers. I think it was the first time I had ever warmed up wearing my down jacket.
With 15 minutes before the start it was time to strip down. I took off my merino leggings, my very snugly jacket and my merino thermal layer. Some went in my drop bag, the top went into my backpack. I gambled on it warming up. I was wearing just shorts, merino tee with armies, gloves and beanie. Damn it was cold.
We set off and it was straight into a hill. A long slow climb, steadily winding around the hillside. I settled into an easy rhythm. I might have had illusions about goal times and places but I needed to see how my body felt after Thursday's effort first. On Thursday I had run 50k along the Abel Tasman track - as you do!
The worst bit was the very raw patch on my neck. Both sides were very chafed from my Camelbak rubbing along my necklace chain for six hours on Thursday. They were about the size of a matchbox. I found if I held my drink tube it kept the pack off the rawness but still allowed me to swing my arms almost fully.
By the way, we are still climbing. It was not arduous, just a constant gradient. Mostly through forest or scrub. I was getting warm and chose to take off my gloves and hat. I did this while running!
At about 6k the short course runners turned right and we long haulers turned sharp left. Straight up. No chance in hell of running. Everyone power walked. It was 20mins of up. Steep steep up.
We arrived at one of the many access roads for fire and water and traversed that for about 500m.
Then we went into the bush. It was much tougher underfoot but so beautiful. Thick beech. Very soft surface with the added thrills of mud, ice, snow, and the constant roots. This was real trail running. By the way, we are still climbing.
I had passed a few people and caught some others. We were quite friendly, introducing ourselves. I was able to keep up with them going up but when we started to go down, I dropped back. My dodgy knees like a bit more certainty underfoot.
I have no idea of the distance. I can't remember. It seems so long ago and it was only this morning!
But then we popped out onto a 4WD track. It was wide, it was relatively smooth, and it was a steady decline. I love this sort of running and I channelled my inner skier, aimed the body downhill and let gravity do all the work. I was flying. I am pretty sure my stride length was a couple of metres.
In no time I caught the group ahead. There were three men and another woman. We are about halfway through the race and we stuck together until the end. I was happy to let the woman (Tina from Wellington) keep the lead. We were making good time and all was going well.
We came back to the checkpoint where we had gone up. This time we went down. Straight down. Damn it was steep and slippery. I gave up channelling my inner skier and went for Buzz Lightyear. There was a lot of falling with style.
It must have been 2k like this but then suddenly there was another woman behind us. I have no idea where she came from but I was not keen to have her pass me. I thought Tina and I were the first two women. I found out about 20minutes later that Fleur Lattimore, a Coast to Coast competitor was in the lead.
We got to the bottom and had to go past the finish to do a 6k loop around the Waimarama Sanctuary. It was beautiful. It was tough. It was technical. At times the track was only a foot wide. We crossed a river about four or five times. We went up. And up some more.
Soon it was Tina, Chris (from Nelson) and me. We had lost the other woman. My Garmin was ticking off kilometres but still we seemed to be heading away from the finish. I had been warned this was a brutal loop. Tina asked if I wanted to pass her. I said, no way. She had done all the work and I was happy for her to take the finish ahead of me. I added that if she was a guy then I would have had no qualms about pipping him at the post.
I might add this was the furtherest Tina had ever run before.
She was so grateful and from then on we became a very supportive team keeping each other going. Because going is what we were still doing, and still going up. Finally we reached the downhill. It was 2hours 51minutes since we had started. Our last marshall said there was 10 minutes to go. The three of us wanted to break 3 hours. We hammered it as much as we could but we were back into this very steep narrow goat track down. A lot more Buzz going on. How I didn't injure myself is a goddamn miracle because I was taking massive risks leaping and bounding down places old ladies should take a lot more care.
This was starting to remind me of a piece of string. Where was the bloody end? My Garmin had clicked off 25k ages ago. But then we were down and into frozen grass. 100m and we shot under that finish chute. Tina was about a second ahead of me.
The time was 3.01. I could not have given it any more. My tee shirt was totally soaked from sweat yet there was still thick frost on the ground. My Garmin measured 27k.
Now I am fed, watered, showered and dressed in clean clothes. Soon I will walk the 3k into town for the prize giving / dinner function. I was worried that I would have no one to sit with but I have my new friends.
Final results were 3rd woman overall, 2nd in age group."
It was a chilled out group which gathered at the OK Corrall at 8am on the last Sunday in June. Very chilled. The ground was white and solid with frost. It had been -2 when I had left home.
All competitors had to show their compulsory gear - thermal layer, gloves, hat, jacket, emergency blanket and a whistle. Most of us were wearing all the extra items, plus extra layers. I think it was the first time I had ever warmed up wearing my down jacket.
With 15 minutes before the start it was time to strip down. I took off my merino leggings, my very snugly jacket and my merino thermal layer. Some went in my drop bag, the top went into my backpack. I gambled on it warming up. I was wearing just shorts, merino tee with armies, gloves and beanie. Damn it was cold.
We set off and it was straight into a hill. A long slow climb, steadily winding around the hillside. I settled into an easy rhythm. I might have had illusions about goal times and places but I needed to see how my body felt after Thursday's effort first. On Thursday I had run 50k along the Abel Tasman track - as you do!
The worst bit was the very raw patch on my neck. Both sides were very chafed from my Camelbak rubbing along my necklace chain for six hours on Thursday. They were about the size of a matchbox. I found if I held my drink tube it kept the pack off the rawness but still allowed me to swing my arms almost fully.
By the way, we are still climbing. It was not arduous, just a constant gradient. Mostly through forest or scrub. I was getting warm and chose to take off my gloves and hat. I did this while running!
At about 6k the short course runners turned right and we long haulers turned sharp left. Straight up. No chance in hell of running. Everyone power walked. It was 20mins of up. Steep steep up.
We arrived at one of the many access roads for fire and water and traversed that for about 500m.
Then we went into the bush. It was much tougher underfoot but so beautiful. Thick beech. Very soft surface with the added thrills of mud, ice, snow, and the constant roots. This was real trail running. By the way, we are still climbing.
I had passed a few people and caught some others. We were quite friendly, introducing ourselves. I was able to keep up with them going up but when we started to go down, I dropped back. My dodgy knees like a bit more certainty underfoot.
I have no idea of the distance. I can't remember. It seems so long ago and it was only this morning!
But then we popped out onto a 4WD track. It was wide, it was relatively smooth, and it was a steady decline. I love this sort of running and I channelled my inner skier, aimed the body downhill and let gravity do all the work. I was flying. I am pretty sure my stride length was a couple of metres.
In no time I caught the group ahead. There were three men and another woman. We are about halfway through the race and we stuck together until the end. I was happy to let the woman (Tina from Wellington) keep the lead. We were making good time and all was going well.
We came back to the checkpoint where we had gone up. This time we went down. Straight down. Damn it was steep and slippery. I gave up channelling my inner skier and went for Buzz Lightyear. There was a lot of falling with style.
It must have been 2k like this but then suddenly there was another woman behind us. I have no idea where she came from but I was not keen to have her pass me. I thought Tina and I were the first two women. I found out about 20minutes later that Fleur Lattimore, a Coast to Coast competitor was in the lead.
We got to the bottom and had to go past the finish to do a 6k loop around the Waimarama Sanctuary. It was beautiful. It was tough. It was technical. At times the track was only a foot wide. We crossed a river about four or five times. We went up. And up some more.
Soon it was Tina, Chris (from Nelson) and me. We had lost the other woman. My Garmin was ticking off kilometres but still we seemed to be heading away from the finish. I had been warned this was a brutal loop. Tina asked if I wanted to pass her. I said, no way. She had done all the work and I was happy for her to take the finish ahead of me. I added that if she was a guy then I would have had no qualms about pipping him at the post.
I might add this was the furtherest Tina had ever run before.
She was so grateful and from then on we became a very supportive team keeping each other going. Because going is what we were still doing, and still going up. Finally we reached the downhill. It was 2hours 51minutes since we had started. Our last marshall said there was 10 minutes to go. The three of us wanted to break 3 hours. We hammered it as much as we could but we were back into this very steep narrow goat track down. A lot more Buzz going on. How I didn't injure myself is a goddamn miracle because I was taking massive risks leaping and bounding down places old ladies should take a lot more care.
This was starting to remind me of a piece of string. Where was the bloody end? My Garmin had clicked off 25k ages ago. But then we were down and into frozen grass. 100m and we shot under that finish chute. Tina was about a second ahead of me.
The time was 3.01. I could not have given it any more. My tee shirt was totally soaked from sweat yet there was still thick frost on the ground. My Garmin measured 27k.
Now I am fed, watered, showered and dressed in clean clothes. Soon I will walk the 3k into town for the prize giving / dinner function. I was worried that I would have no one to sit with but I have my new friends.
Final results were 3rd woman overall, 2nd in age group."
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" Club Connect 2012 Registrations Close in 7 days (Friday 6 July) – Register now
" Dear Christchurch Avon Athletic Club Members,
The Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team invites you to our next event: the Sri Chinmoy 5km, 10km and Children’s 2.5km on Sunday 29th July 2012 at Sumner Esplanade, Christchurch.
This event is an addition to our current 2012 race calendar. The updated calendar can be found online at nz.srichinmoyraces.org/races/christchurch.
We welcome participants of all ages and abilities.
Event Details
- Registration opens at 8:15am. Race starts at 9:00am.
- The course is a fast and flat 2.5km out-and-back along the Sumner Esplanade starting from the clock tower.
- All events are open and medals will be awarded to the first 3 male and female finishers in each event.
- There will be a spot prize draw and a post-race breakfast provided by The Lotus-Heart Restaurant.
" Club Connect 2012 Registrations Close in 7 days (Friday 6 July) – Register now
Entry
- Enter Online (please note that online entries close at 9pm on Friday 27th July.)
- Reply to this email by 9pm on Friday 27th July letting us know which race you would like to enter, and you can pay (cash only) on the day without incurring a late entry fee. If you are entering friends this way, kindly also provide us with their email address and date of birth.
- On the day entry is available from 8:15am and will incur a $5 late entry fee.
Please note that all entries must be recieved by 9pm on Friday 27th July. Any later entries will incur a $5 late entry fee.
| Event | Under 20 or Student | Adult | 60+ | Late Entry |
| Kids 2.5km (U13) | $7 | N/A | N/A | +$5 |
| 5km (13 years+) | $14 | $18 | $14 | +$5 |
| 10km (15 years+) | $14 | $18 | $14 | +$5 |
Happy training and we hope to see you soon!
It’s just five weeks until the Athletics New Zealand Club Conference, Club Connect 2012 on 3 – 5 August. A reminder that your club needs to register for the conference by Friday 6 July. That’s just 3 days away.
A registration form can be found on the Club Connect 2012 Web page . The conference programme is shaping up nicely and there will be a very interesting and useful line-up of topics and speakers. We encourage your club to be there!
As part of the Club Connect Conference, there will be a Conference Dinner on the Saturday night. We’re opening it up to anyone in Hamilton for theAthletics NZ Cross Country Champs and any other Athletics supporters. This was a very popular and enjoyable occasion at last year’s conference in Christchurch and we have lined up another very entertaining guest speaker in Eric Rush for this year’s Conference. Not only is Eric a NZ Seven’s Legend, he is also a successful business owner and qualified barrister, and he’s got some very amusing stories to tell. Tickets are just $50 for a quality buffet dinner and a most enjoyable evening. Ticket numbers are limited, so it will be a good idea to get in early. If you are attending the Conference, you still need to order your dinner tickets. A Dinner Booking Form can be found HERE. If you cannot download the form please reply to this email, requesting a Dinner Booking Form.
Kind Regards"
Brett Addison (Ath NZ)
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Richie (50)
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Mike (56)
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Vic( 53) and Dave (54)
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Chris (55) and Denis (59+)
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Andrew (U50)
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Rodger (59)
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John (53)
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Iain (59+)
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missing : Craig , Evans and Gary.
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