Hi There

Well the season has been going for a month now.

Opening day was held at the beginning of the school holidays as well as the Clubs AGM with a small attendance at the meeting.

Your club committee is as follows

President Peter Wright   073237815

Secretary Averil Edhouse

Treasurer Sylvia Bonne

Committee

Uru Awhimate, Glennis Martin Paling, Maude Medcalfe, Steve Monk, Chris Reynolds,  Meagan Edhouse, David Sparks.

But we would like anybody who wants to assist with the club to come on board. The Club is on a good financial base.

Details will be put on the web site as soon as possible.

Club Membership Fees

These are now due

Contact Sylvia Bonne or bring to Saturday runs

Senior $40

Junior $20

Family would be worked out by Sylvia as per numbers

Please fill in form with all contact details as well as E-Mail address

April Combined Runs

We have had three of these already with good attendances mostly on the day they have been the Awakeri Relays,   the Combined Cross-Country at our course on McKee Rd and Neil Jones relay these were most enjoyable to those who attended. I would still like more people to travel to these events I am sure car pooling could be organized if it was needed to save costs people just need to ask.

The club committee wishes to be come an Incorporated Society

It has drawn up a set of rules and will need people to sign up so it can happen Myself and Sylvia and David have copies these have been circulated but anyone wishing to have a copy please contact the above people. The major reason is for funding purposes for the clubs major events. This is an urgent under taking by the committee.

Rotorua Marathon

To any club member doing this event this year congratulations for doing all the training and hope you have a great event on May 1^st

To the members who helped at the Tarawera Ultra Marathon thank you from the club and Paul Charteris.

Upcoming Saturday runs

May 1^st Cross-Country Runs/Walks 1pm start McKee Rd

May 8^th Cross-Country Runs/Walks 1pm start McKee Rd

May 15^th Cross-Country Handicap day 1pm start

May 22^nd Cross-Country Time Trials 1pm start

May 29^th Cross-Country Champs Combined with Whakatane

McKee Rd 1.15pm start

Committee Meeting 7’30pm May 10^th at Prideaux Park Club rooms

Training Nights

I am working on days that may suit members

It looks like we could have a Thursday night on the track under lights

As well the Rec Centre is available after 6.30pm on a Monday at a cost

Let me know what you think.

Great Mid-Winter Half Marathon July 4^th

Remember this date as members are required to help on this date Let Peter or Sylvia know of Availability

Remember please come along on Saturdays as the club is yours and the more members who turn up makes it all good for the course people and others on the day

PS IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION THAT MEMBERS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT LET ME KNOW

Yours in Running

Bloodied and sore, Galatea farmer Sjors Corporaal wrapped up the North Island Triple Crown trail running series in style yesterday, but not without a few nervous moments.

The 32-year-old took out the 21km The Goat run around the flanks of Mt Ruapehu, with the perilous surface made all the more treacherous by heavy overnight rain.

“You couldn’t tell a slippery rock to land on from a good rock – it was unreal and a bit of a minefield out there and I fell over heaps,” Corporaal said.
Pushed all the way by Wellington’s Rees Buck, the former New Zealand 3000m champion and cross country star, Corporaal eventually came through for his third consecutive win in the event.

His time of 1hr 57min was just 53secs outside Englishman Thomas Owens’ 2005 course record. “If the conditions were as dry as the year he set it, we should have gone under pretty comfortably. We had to take it pretty easy out there but Rees was really good on his feet and he led for a long time. I could tell he was starting to slow down going uphill so I thought I’d stick with him to see what would happen and I eventually made my move in the last quarter.”

Buck finished 2mins 40sec back with Papamoa’s Chris Morrissey third in 2:03:10. Rotorua’s Annika Smail couldn’t complete the women’s Triple Crown sweep after wins in the 18km Toi’s Challenge in Whakatane and the 32km Kauri Run in Coromandel, having to settle for third.
Unheralded Whitianga runner Ruby Muir broke through for her first win, clocking a sharp 2:25:46, with Palmerston North’s Piret Klade second in 2:32:51 and Smail a further 3mins back.

Results:
Men: Sjors Corporaal (Galatea) 1hr 57min 0sec 1, Rees Buck (Wellington) 1:59:40 2, Chris Morrissey (Papamoa) 2:03:10 3, Tom Wu (Auckland) 2:06:26 4, Dan Clendon (Wellington) 2:09:52 5, Colin Earwaker (Rotorua) 2:13:31 6, Karl Dravitzki (New Plymouth) 2:17:33 7, Dennis De Monchy (Tauranga) 2:18:22 8, Allister Adams (Wellington) 2:20.04 9, Bryn Davies (Palmerston North) 2:20:17 10.

Women: Ruby Muir (Whitianga) 2:25:46 1, Piret Klade (Palmerston North) 2:32:51 2, Annika Smail (Rotorua) 2:34:57 3,Rita Homes (Napier) 2:35:41 4, Leonnie Waayer (Wellington) 2:36:36 5

DANIEL Jones defended his Pomona Junior King of the Mountain title on Australia’s Sunshine Coast last month.

One of Whakatane’s prominent runners, Jones finished second in 24 minutes 25 seconds, an improvement on his third overall placing in 2007. This year’s time broke the junior record by 20 seconds.

Other Whakatane runners also had good results – Sjors Corporall was second in the open men’s division and came home in 26.29, Gary Schwass was third in the veteran category at 28.10 and Meagan Edhouse was third in the women’s race recording 32.34.

The event is held in the small Queensland town every year and is the sister-race to the Kawerau King of the Mountain. Runners from all categories compete on both sides of the ditch, vying for a trans-Tasman title.

Eighty-three runners tackled the mountain with some 10,000 spectators cheering the runners on. The race attracts all kinds of festivities, swelling the town’s population. Bands, clowns, side shows and varieties of food and drink make up the easier activities of the weekend.

The men’s winner was Australian Neil Labinsky, who won his second successive Pomona title in a time of 22.56. Labinsky is a regular competitor at the Kawerau race but has yet to conquer the Eastern Bay event.

Jones heads to Switzerland next month to represent New Zealand in the world mountain running championships.