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.
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Halswell School principal Stuart Cameron and students Ashton Ingram, 11, Lara Lee, 12, and Nathan Allan, 12, are all excited to be taking part in this year’s Run to Remember on Sunday, February 21.
Helping Christchurch’s youth become more active is the main goal of a new Run to Remember offer for schools. Organisers hope the initiative will attract record numbers to the event commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Canterbury earthquakes as well as the lives lost in the March 15 attacks. Halswell School is the first school to offer its students, parents and staff discounted entry rates for the 10-kilometre walk and run though the Port Hills on February 21, thanks to Sport Canterbury and Athletics Canterbury.
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A proposed master plan for Aorangi Park looks to âfuture proofâ the sports grounds for 25 years.
A major overhaul of the Aorangi Park sports hub has been proposed in order to “future proof” the Timaru facility for the next 25 years. An updated Aorangi Park Master Plan, to be discussed by Timaru District Council on Tuesday, identifies a number of issues and proposes a staged approach to any future development. Challenges listed include capacity issues, the desire of Netball South Canterbury to deliver all senior competition indoors, the required replacement of the South Canterbury Hockey turf, tensions between hosting of large events and scheduled indoor sports competitions and the ongoing issue of having enough green space.