SLIP ALTERS COURSE

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33929, 23 August 1975, Page 16

SLIP ALTERS COURSE

Th* big slip on the Summit Road caused by haavy rain has caused the United Harrier Club to alter the route of the anuat Port Hills inter-club relay race today. The slip—so yards wide and 100 yards long—near the Rapakl Saddle, has blocked the second lap of the 22-mlle. five-lap race. This win now be on the flat around the base of the Port Hills. It is believed te be the first time in the history of harrier racing in Canterbury that a course has had to be changed at the last minute because of such an obstruction.

The race manager, Hr Daidd Cutting, said: “The road along the summit by the Sugarloaf is just a torrent of mud and water. Ne vehicle or harrier could get through.” Mr Cutting said the race would be run in reverse. The first lets will be whet was fonnerlv the fifth from Tennyson Street to Heathcote. The second

lap will be wh»t was formerly the third lap. ending at the Redcliffs shopping centre. The third lap will proceed from Redcllffs to Sumner and back, and the remainder of the race will be along the normal fourth and fifth laps back te the start RICORO SHTRIfiS Entries for the race are a record. Fifty-seven teams from 14 clubs have entered, nine more than last year and making a total of 285 runners in the senior event. A composite team from the Olympic club composed all from one family will run. It will be the Canterbury cross-country international, John Sheddan. and his wife, Allanah, hl* two brothers. Craig and Warren, and Craig s wife Cheryl. More than 50 men tn the veteran (over category are running. More women than evet