Napier Harrier Club

Woweeeee! What an absolutely amazing event held down in Waipukurau this weekend!
Great to see lots of Napier Harriers members down there supporting this local event from adults to children and all running/walking abilities.
Well done to the winner and the assist!
Can’t wait for next years event 🙌🏼💪🏼🏃🏼‍♀️🏃🏽👟

Our winner Fiona Hayvice with her trophy for last female standing (she was the overall winner too).

Trophy made from a piece of hardwood claimed from the Tukituki river as well as a rock from the same river that our beautiful running course is set along side. Fiona also pocketed $500 for her efforts.

37 laps and 248km complete :)

The final results for the River Run Backyard Ultra are here. https://www.webscorer.com/racedetails?raceid=370835&did=483726
150 runners took part with the winner completing 37 laps. That's about 248km.

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The River-Run Backyard Ultra is on this Saturday from 9:00am. There is still time to enter, run 1 lap or 24. If you are not running pop down to Waipukurau and watch the event and support the runners. All the info you need is on their website.

River-Run Backyard Ultra JOIN US FOR AN AWESOME WEEKEND OF RUNNING OVER LABOUR WEEKEND 2024 IN THE PICTURESQUE TOWN OF WAIPUKURAU.

Looking for a challenge? The Peak Trail Blazer is coming up soon. There are some new school and general team categories, with close to $3000 in prizes. Check all the info on their web page.
https://www.peaktrailblazer.co.nz/

Many of you may have known Trevor Page or would have seen him walking up and down the Sugar Loaf early every morning.

Inspiring Hawke’s Bay man who walked up his favourite hill every day dies aged 105

Big thankyou to some of our committee members for clearing the Tuesday Tune-Up course today. We have more than doubled the path space in some areas!
Tune up begins on Tuesday 8th with registration starting from 5.30pm! Don’t forget to bring a friend along as well 🎉🏃🏼🏃🏼‍♀️👟💨

Here we go again. Tuesday Tune-Up is back. Starting Tuesday Oct 8 and running for 8 weeks until Nov 26. You know how it goes - turn up from 5:30pm for registration - race starts at 6:00pm. Prices the same $2 for 2km , $5 for 5km or pay for the series of 8 for only $25. The start is by the car park on Embankment Road opposite the Westshore Beach Inn and prizegiving will be in the garden at the Beach Inn.

What a great day for for the final club race of the season. The Memorial Road Race was run over a shorter distance of 21.1km as a solo event, or in teams of 2 or 4. Many thanks to Placemakers Napier for providing the prizes for the top 3 place-getters in the each event. Results are available here.

Placemakers Memorial Road Race 2024 | Race results Race results: Placemakers Memorial Road Race 2024 @ Napier, New Zealand. Saturday, September 21, 2024 10:01 (GMT+12)

Sorry here was a small mistake in the newsletter this week. Mike Blundell was only injured in this horrible accident and is in good health living in New Plymouth.

Napier Harriers Memorial Road Race
(Sponsor - Placemakers)

This coming Saturday is the Memorial Road Race.

This event has been run annually as a memorial for five young Napier Harrier’s club members - Michael Blundell (aged 15), John Dolbel (16), Ronald Gibbons (19), Robert Kingi (20) & William Hughes (21) - who tragically lost their lives in a car accident in 1967. They were returning from representing the club at the Wairoa to Gisborne road relay race.

There are some exciting changes for this year’s event:
Full Distance: Half marathon (21.1 km)!
2 person relay: 2 x 10.55 km
4 person relay: 4 x 5.275 km
Event start time 10.00 am!

This year, due to the shorter distance, the 4 x person relay will also be open to the young guns
in the under 14 years age category!

The course starts on the grass area by Perfume Point and follows the walkway out towards Awatoto, to the turn around point 10.55km out.

There will be the relay changeover points at the 5.275 km, 10.55 km and 15.825 km locations (same location as the 5.275 km changeover).

Prize giving will be at East Pier, after the event.
There will be prize money for the first three places in each category.

Event is open to all (ages 14 and over for full distance and 2 x person relay).

Please pre-enter via webscorer; link:
https://www.webscorer.com/register?raceid=364703

Be there in the morning between 9:15 - 9:30 am to register for the event.

It would be great to have as many members as possible - either participate or come along and support this event. Look for the Napier Harrier’s flag.

Napier Harrier Committee

Photos from prizegiving today. Thanks to Tracey, photographer extraordinaire.

It’s time to party

Haven’t been to a Napier Harrier run lately? This is the perfect opportunity to fit in one more run before the end of the season.

Meeting at 1:45pm this Saturday at the Napier Harriers Club rooms. We will kick off the afternoon with our AGM. Please try to make this meeting, it will only take around 15 minutes and is your chance to help us set up a committee for next season.

Following the AGM we will hold our last run of the season. The world famous Extreme Beep Test, this event is heaps of fun and is for everyone.

We will finish off the afternoon with the Napier Harriers Prize giving and Pizza. Let’s all celebrate the club's achievements.

Coming up
Saturday 21st September – Placemakers Memorial Road Race.
Labour Weekend – River Run Backyard Ultra.

Robert Strong
Napier Harriers Club President

Club Road Champs
We are in to the last two weeks of our regular season
Please try to attend the AGM on Saturday 14th September.
This Saturday we are holding our Club Road Champs on the Moteo Pa Rd course.
This course is based about 2.5km up Moteo Pa Rd from the corner of Swamp Rd at the end of Omarunui Rd. The Moteo Pa course is on a very quiet country road with one hill in the centre of the 5km loop.
Here is the link to pre-register - https://www.webscorer.com/register?raceid=364336

The format for the day is:

1:30 - 2:00 pm - Registration.
2:00 pm - Cubs 1 km
2:15 pm - Seniors / Masters 10 km run
2:30 pm - U12s 2 km, U14 / 16s 4 km
- short course / U20s 5 km

Coming up
Saturday 14th September – Extreme Beep Test & Prize Giving and AGM
Saturday 21st September – PlaceMakers Memorial Road Race

Robert Strong
Napier Harriers Club President

Napier Harriers - Moteo Pa Road Race 2024 Event registration: Napier Harriers - Moteo Pa Road Race 2024 @ Puketapu, New Zealand. Saturday, September 7, 2024 14:00 (GMT+12) - Saturday, September 7, 2024 17:00 (GMT+12)

Cross Country Chaos (Sat 31st Aug)

This event is open to all runners and all ages.
Please invite as many of your friends as possible.
We will meet at Anderson Park near the BBQ tables (look for the Napier Harrier flags) between 1:45 and 2:00pm. The format for this run is similar to the Glow Run where you will have a one-hour time limit to run as many laps of the 2km course as you would like.
At the end of the hour, we will have a small prize giving and a bite to eat.

Prize Categories:
- Most Laps
- Best Dress
- Happiest person
- Most Impressive runner

Also for anyone that is interested, this Sunday Gisborne Harriers is holding the HBG Trail Champs. Check out their page for entry info.

Coming up:
Sunday 1st September – HBG Trail Champs (Gisborne)
Saturday 7th September – Napier Harriers Road Champs
Saturday 14th September – Extreme Beep Test & Prize Giving and AGM

Robert Strong
Napier Harriers Club President

Cross Country Chaos

This event is open to all runners and all ages.

Please invite as many of your friends as possible.

We will meet at Anderson Park near the BBQ tables (look for the Napier Harrier flags) between 1:45 and 2:00pm. The format for this run is similar to the Glow Run where you will have a one-hour time limit to run as many laps of the 2km course as you would like.

At the end of the hour, we will have a small prize giving and a bite to eat.

Prize Categories

Most Laps
Best Dress
Happiest person
Most Impressive runner
Also for anyone that is interested, this Sunday Gisborne Harriers is holding the HBG Trail Champs. Check out their page for entry info.

Coming up

Sunday 1st September – HBG Trail Champs (Gisborne)

Saturday 7th September – Napier Harriers Road Champs

Saturday 14th September – Extreme Beep Test & Prize Giving and AGM

Robert Strong

Napier Harriers Club President

Congratulations to the winning team at this weekends Coopers Challenge. Lockie Kidd, Katie Lindsay, Jack Coombe and Flyn Dobson

Check this out, should be a great run

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