Records may go in road relay champs
Records could tumble when 187 teams of eight runners take to the hills of Banks Peninsula on September 14 for the tenth New Zealand road relay running championships. The championships will be held in conjunction with the forty-sixth Takahe to Akaroa relay, which follows a route from the Sign of the Takahe on the Port Hills into Governors Bay and over the Gebbies Pass to finish at Akaroa.
Among the star runners who have been entered by their clubs are the national crosscountry senior men’s champion, Ken Moloney, running for Takapuna, the international marathon runners, Derek Froude and Grant Macky (Wellington) and Don Greig (Bascik New Brighton), and leading women such as Mary O’Connor (University), Sue Bruce (Bascik New Brighton) and Glenys Kroon (Auckland). Slower teams will get under way at 9 a.m., followed by about 60 teams at 10 a.m. and about 90 at 10.30 a.m. An Australian club, KewCamberwell, will come from Melbourne for the event. Each runner in a team will compete over a lap varying in distance
from 6km to 12km. One of the toughest is the uphill run from Cooptown to Hilltop, on lap six of the relay.
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