TEN-MILE ROAD RACE AT LOWER HUTT

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 94, 15 January 1936, Page 5

TEN-MILE ROAD RACE AT LOWER HUTT

Work-out For Runners

A 10-mile road race for amateur runners will be held in conjunction with Un,, sports meeting to be conducted at tbc Lower Hutt Recreation Ground next Monday evening. The race is being held both,as the initial slep toward (he establishing of a provincial 10mile championship and to provide a preliminary work-out for those runners entering for the marathon nice to bo held at Wellington in February. Entries for next Monday’s race are being sought from all over New Zealand. and present indications are that a large field will face the starter. After running one lap of the Recreation Ground, the course will take the runners through the -Myrtle Street entrance along to Laing’s Road, down the main road to a point 12 chains past the Taita Hotel, where the runners will turn and follow the same course back to the ground, finishing with one lap. The race is to start at 7.30 p.m. Entries close with the secretary’of the Wellington centre on Friday next. The marathon race is to be held in conjunction with the Wellington provincial championships on February 15; entries will ’close with the secretary of rhe Wellington centre on February 1. Among the starters will be, it is expected, the famous Auckland runner, J. W. Savidan. From the Basin Reserve the course will lead along Cambridge Terrace to Wakefield Street and then along the waterfront to the Hutt Road, which will be followed to I'etone. Here a deviation may be made to take the runners via Waiwetu to the Taita Hotel. The same route will be followed back to the Basin Reserve. If no deviation is made at Petone the course will follow the main Toad.