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| Nicolette Butler |
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| Sebastien Brachet |
Daryl doing the pre-race briefing thing
Results and Daryl's Race Report
The first race for the 2017/18 waterfront season and about 130 people turned up which isn't too bad. Personally I would have made the first event free and offered two more free ones over the series. But then accountants run the back office for this event so I wouldn't hold your breath.
A nice night from a weather perspective which is sheer luck and not anything organised by Daryl. Expect some crappy events as we trudge through the race calendar. I noticed that there were lots of women participating which is really good. And didn't they do well!
As expected the fine night made the waterfront busy and the only other place that would equal it at this time of the day would be Wellington Railway Station.
The first runner across the line was Japan based Running Shoe Advisor Takehisa Fujiwara in a time of 16.55 which because it is his first waterfront 5km is a PB for him. In fact everybody who competed gets a PB if it is there first time or a SPB if they have participated in previous series. Daryl's computer does not lie.
The results site does not have information on the course record for the Mac's Bar start but the record for the old course that started outside Ferg's Kayaks is 14.38 held by Olympian Julian Matthews.
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| Takehisa Fujiwara |
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| Brad Coleman |
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| Matt Bonner |
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| Cam Forrest |
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| James Marshall |
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| Brendon Thompson |
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| Matt Jones |
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| Josh Jordan |
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| Neil Jorgensen |
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| Liam Harker |
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| Aaron Justin-Glen |
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| Dan Langley |
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| Robert Paternoster |
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| Lindsay Barwick |
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| Karl Jackson |
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| Niam Macdonald |
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| Matt Sutherland |
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| Rob Holmes |
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| Iain Shaw |
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| Marshall Clark |
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| Alex Kay |
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| Karl Woodhead |
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| Michael Gordon-Brown |
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| Dion Gamperle |
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| Lucy Lawlor |
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| James Turner |
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| David Hood |
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| Michael Cummins |
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| Brendan Desmond |
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| Sarah Fountain |
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| Andrew Coleman |
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| Scott Ryland |
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| Kevin Reid |
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| Neil Price |
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| Phil Morris |
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| Nathan Keenan |
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| Matt Womack |
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| James Shepherd |
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| Bex Hutchinson |
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| Emily Pfeffer |
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| This is not Claire Marie Phillips |
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| Reuben Levermore |
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| Bede Van Shaijik |
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| Aria Tongs |
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| Jaime Robinson |
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| Conon Ford |
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| Sarah Roth-Shank |
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| Ben Roth-Shank |
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| Simon Bidwell |
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| Erika Fujiwara |
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| Mary-Ann Moller |
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| Scarlett Anderson |
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| Andrea Adams (Walker) |
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| Portia Barcello |
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| No number but it is.... |
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| Frank Cole |
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| Michael Rimmington |
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| Te nui a Rangi Graham |
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| Evie Burgin |
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| Sir John Hines (walker) |
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| Todd Skilton |
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| Paddy Burgin |
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| Kate Slater |
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| Jacqi Cope |
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| Adam Bennetts |
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| Caroline Fyfe |
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| Alex Campbell |
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| Carla O'Donnell |
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| Simon Gourley (left) and Brett Nicholas |
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| Caitlin Olsen |
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| Rupert Rouch |
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| Caitlin Olsen |
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| Jono Orpin-Dowell |
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| Milena Scott |
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| Milena Scott |
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| Vicky Young |
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| Denise Pilcher |
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| Vanessa Head |
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| Stephanie Mullally |
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| Regan Gunther |
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| Lee Walker |
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| Jo Badham (confirming that she has missed the six o'clock news) |
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| Bridget Murrell |
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| Alison Gilroy |
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| Lauren Darrah |
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| Denise Verbruggen |
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| Natalia Tellechea |
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| Katherine Shufflebotham |
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| Paul Wood - Junior and Senior |
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| Allison Groves |
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| John Palmer |
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| Russell Harding |
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| Adam Lawlor |
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| Alesha Gaiton |
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| Tania Nicholas |
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| Michael Sovik |
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| Clive McGovern |
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| Rhianne Ogilvie |
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| Ed Jordan |
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| Maryanne Palmer |
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| Tamsin Royson |
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| Mel Brooking |
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| Vicky Hodgson and Raphael Solomon |
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| Anna Marshall |
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| Kathy Orpin-Dowell |
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| Joe Antcliff (Walker) |
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| John Leonard (Walker) |
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| Vanessa Smith-Graham |
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| Rebecca Antipas (Walker) |
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| Sue Cuthbertson (Wears the No 1 bib) |
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| Karen Chapman |
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| Daphne Jones (Walker) |
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| A dawdling Ray Marten (walker) |
