MacKenzie Kuli and Gary Gin. Participants chose between the 10-kilometre course from Victoria Park on the Port Hills to Hansen Park in Opawa and the 1.5km loop course at Hansen Park. After a group warm-up at the 10km start-line,
Press Editor Kamala Hayman sent the walkers and runners on their way, up and around Sugarloaf peak then along the Summit Rd.
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Walkers along Summit Rd. From there they came down the Rapaki Track and across the Heathcote River to the finish line. At Hansen Park, Harold the Life Education giraffe started the 1.5km loop event. Everyone taking part, including dogs, received a medal.
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Amelia Ashton-Jones plans to run along the River Thames in London at the same time as the Run to Remember in Christchurch this weekend.
Two overseas runners with links to Christchurch are running their own Run to Remember on the other side of the world. Amelia-Ashton Jones visited Christchurch on her travels in 2001 and fell in love with the city and its people. She has many Kiwi friends, some in England, who will also run to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the February 2011 earthquake. In recent years, the Run to Remember has also grown to commemorate the lives lost in the March 15 terror attack. The purpose of the event plus the benefits of running were enough to convince Ashton-Jones to start her own version of the run in the United Kingdom.