Wellington Scottish Athletics Club / December 2019
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Coping with Christmas songs by pretending they are about running
- Wellington Scottish Athletics Club
- Simon Keller Christmas is a wonderful time of the year, and all that. It tends to involve Christmas songs, however, and when you hear them over and over, they can become quite annoying. Growing up in Melbourne, we used to make Christmas songs more interesting by singing them with a New Zealand accent. (Jungle all […]
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Ten most suspicious Scottish results in 2019
- Wellington Scottish Athletics Club
- Readers claimed our previous list of ten great moments was tainted by controversy. Well, there is little more controversial in the world of New Zealand distance running than the continuing domination of the sport by New Zealand’s top club. So today, we expose the ten most suspicious performances by Scottish athletes in 2019: Hamish Carson […]
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Ten great moments in distance running (and walking) 2019
- Wellington Scottish Athletics Club
- It’s cheap journalism to indulge in end-of-year lists. They don’t require any research, interviewing or fact-checking. You just draw up a list of stuff that already happened, put numbers beside each item and defend any errors of omission as opinion. But, if it’s good enough for the Herald, the Spinoff and Letsrun, it’s good enough […]
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Weekly News 16 December 2019
- Wellington Scottish Athletics Club
- Our weekly newsletter will be taking a Christmas/New Years break next week and through much of January. Have a great holiday everyone. Options for the week Tuesday 5.30pm, Waterfront 5km, Outside Mac’s Brewbar on Taranaki Wharf. Come and run, volunteer or support 🙂 Wednesday 6.15pm, Newtown Park Track. Meet 6.15pm for 6.30pm start, lead by […]
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Newtown Park, Melrose, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Weekly News 9 December 2019
- Wellington Scottish Athletics Club
- Entries for the seeded races at Night of Miles are due by this Wednesday 11 December – that is for the walkers’ mile, open women, open men and masters men and masters women races. Anyone wanting to compete in the Kids Chocolate Fish Dash, the All-Comers Social Mile (against Father Christmas), Mile Relay or any […]
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Shirley Barton Trophy and Ballantyne Cup Results 2019
- Wellington Scottish Athletics Club
- The winner of the Shirley Barton Trophy is Kath Littler – the first time she has run as far as ten miles! Bill Wang won the Ballantyne Cup – a remarkable achievement after he also won the Tanadees Cup a few months ago. Many people claimed they took a shortcut on the way back. They […]
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Weekly News 2 December 2019
- Wellington Scottish Athletics Club
- Options for the week Tuesday 5.30pm, Waterfront 5km, Outside Mac’s Brewbar on Taranaki Wharf. Come and run, volunteer or support 🙂 Wednesday 6.15pm, Newtown Park Track. Meet 6.15pm for 6.30pm start, lead by Andy and Rowan, shorter distance track reps. Saturday, 8.00am, Lower Hutt 5km Parkrun, Porirua 5km Parkrun, Kapiti Coast 5km Parkrun. Saturday, 6.00am, […]
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Newtown Park, Melrose, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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