Wednesday, 25 January 2012

Feb 8 th 2012 update

Just a general update of coming events and recent results .

January 17 th update

Just an update with some new results , upcoming events etc

January 4th 2012- Update.

Happy new year to all readers near and far.
Quite a bit of news : Track results, upcoming events and miscellaneous observations etc.

December 18 th update .

Some more track results , upcoming events calendar and social news (with photos)

Just a few more track and miscellaneous results . Some race entries . Also a list of running quotes reproduced from a runners website somewhere (irun).The whole list is very long but worth scanning (see below)

Nov 16 Update .

Just some small items of news and current list of upcoming events .

Race Report from Robyn Perkins -Nov 14

Queen Charlotte Ultra Marathon - 11-11-11

This is an inspirational account. Robyn had a major setback which would have deterred lesser mortals...

Nov 8 2011 Update

A few more results coming through .
First up , Rodger Ward completed the New York Marathon .

October 29 update

A few results are trickling in and Track season has started . Upcoming events (see below )

Update- October 16 th

Please refer to the Oct 7 update for list of upcoming events .

Greymouth 2 person Relay - Only Iain and I from CHCH Avon went over to the Coast for this race on Sat 0ct 15 . We drove there in the morning , raced , won the O/50 division , stayed a night and drove back on Sunday morning . Only ten teams in the main afternoon race, but many participants in the various morning races .

Oct 7 update .

Just a short account of the Club Prizegiving on Saturday 1 Oct.
Also , a collection of Upcoming Events and a few photos from National Road champs at Wellington.

Update - Sept 27 (Takahe report below)

Ultra distance running seminar.

Special guest speaker is Vajin Armstrong who will just have returned from representing New Zealand in the 2011 Commonwealth Ultra Trail Running Championships. Vajin is also winner of the 2010 Kepler Challenge and 2010 Motutapu Marathon.

Junior Mens NRR Report ~ Craig Eustace

NZ Road Relays – Hunua, Auckland (Sept 3 2011)We arrived in Auckland just before lunchtime on Friday. After a short discussion our itinerary was prioritised. Perhaps a case of not letting truth get in the way of a good story, but the men were outvoted 5 to 7 (i.e. 5 women to 7 men) and the Newmarket shops were stop number one.

Loop the Lake - Race Report from Dave H in Brisbane

Dave didn't wear his CHA singlet and he's joined a jogging club , but he's still registered with us so we'll print his story.

News Update ~ Sun Sept 11 -- 2011 .

A huge field of runners gathered at Governor's Bay on Saturday morning (10 Sept ) for the 50 th running of the Methodist Club's handicap 10 km .A mild morning and the promise of

Club of the Year ~latest standings.

Following Canterbury Road Champs on aug 6 th , we maintained a slender lead over Sumner Club . Once

Kennett Cup Report ~Mike V

Saturday 25 Jun 2011. The biggest unknown in the weeks before Christchurch Avon's hosted race was : will the weather be OK ? This assumed more importance this year because the Sports House was unavailable to us after the earthquakes .In the past this had been our headquarters and shelter from the elements

Wellington Marathon report ( Jun 19th 2011)~ Robyn Perkins

I have a rule about only doing a marathon once. The exception is my home marathon, Christchurch. This year I chose Wellington as my daughter is at university there.

The race started at 7.30am. I woke at 5am and chowed down a bagel with cream cheese and jam. I couldn’t tell what the weather was

Misc news ( Jun 22nd 2011)

Conditions were cold and windy (said our well -travelled Club Prez ) in Wellington on Sunday 19 June.
He went just to watch the marathon. We had four runners there .

SBS Marathon Race report ~ Richard Seigne.

SBS Christchurch (Lincoln) Marathon June 5^th 2011

I had a peek of the new Lincoln based course the week before the race and confirmed my suspicions from the map, an exposed, very flat and rather dull course – as long as it’s not windy it should be fine…

15 minutes or so into the race a southerly front hit, wind, rain – “glad I’ve got my long sleeves on” a neighbouring competitor remarked eyeing up my CHAV singlet. In the end running conditions were not as bad as in ‘09 – horizontal sleet, I survived that in a CHAV singlet – the spectators and the Marafun runners probably had the worst of it. read more