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This evening under a clear blue sky with only a zephyr of a breeze and 22 degrees of warmth 800 people of varying abilities competed in the first of the seven event series of 7km walks/runs sponsored by Vautier Pharmacy, a precious friend of ours. As far as I know they all enjoyed their participation and will return to better their new benchmarks established tonight.
This event, according to the organisers, is NOT a race, it just turns out that way.
Not being very interested in the run side of the event I do not know the name of the first finisher but his time was 25.10.
The walkers' result interested me more and the following times were diligently recorded: Diligent, That's a big word, I actually had to look it up in the dictionary.)
1. Dean Cocks 42.10
2. David Jones 44.13
3= Evan Davies 45.19
3= Glen White 45.19
5. Darryl James 45.43 (first lady)
6. Michelle Daly 47.05
7. Denise Brunskill 47.51
8. Kay Davenport 48.06
9. Ross Archibald 48.20
10. John Richdale 49.29
11. Amanda Young 50.17
12. Sharon Wright 50.24
13. Andrus Lei 50.42 ( I bet you can't think up a NEW excuse, Andrus. I have already used them all.)
14. Jackie Welch 57.46
15. Judy Cocks 57.50
16= Rose Kearns 58.04
16= John Kearns 58.04
A great start to another series with several battles looming. Well done ALL.
Cheers, Paul.
For those out-of town walkers, this series of events is being conducted each Tuesday for seven weeks and all of you would be very cordially welcome to compete. It is a great build-up to the New Zealand Masters Games in Wanganui or any other campaigns that you have in mind.
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