Joggers’ club has enviable record
The Burnside Joggers’ Club will celebrate its fifteenth birthday this Sunday. Since its inception the club has not missed a Sunday run from Burnside Park. It was formed by the former Auckland and Wellington rugby representative, Colin Currie, after the 1974 Commonwealth Games. Its membership has been steady at about 100 over the last few years and club members have travelled overseas for marathons and fun runs. Many of the joggers are foundation members. Some of the older regular joggers are Jim (Robbie) Robson, aged 78, Lyndsey Tointon, aged 75, and Neil Smart, aged 73.
The club’s birthday committee has sent out invitations to personalities who attended the first run. It was led then by the triple Olympic gold medallist, Peter Snell, and Included such personalities as Vai Young, Mene and Sally Mene, Warwick Nichol, Joan Harnett, Pic Parkhouse and his daughter Jaynie, Mark Treffers, Graham Dowling, Brian Hastings, Richard Hadlee, Denis Young and lan Penrose. The regular Sunday morning runs are held over five, eight and 12km but many club members run longer distances during the week and regularly compete, in marathons and trlathlons.
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Press, 17 May 1989, Page 32
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