3rd Malcolm HICKS 14:12

PrizeGiving
Special thanks to Malcolm Hicks for sharing with us some of the challenges he has faced in getting to this point in his career and his upcoming plans for Commonwealth qualification.
PHOTOS from Prizegiving

Special Awards for 2013
Most Improved Marathon
Tony Payne 2:27:25 Gold Coast
(1min32 improvement)

Fastest Marathon - Men
Tony Payne 2:27:25 Gold Coast

Fastest Marathon - Women
Maria Kroonenberg 3.14.34 (Wanganui)

Junior Teams Trophy
NZRR Junior Men
Jacques Harsveld, Greg Thurlow, Toby Robinson, Jack Robinson, Jack Armstrong, Thomas Sussex

Novice Trophy - 1st year runner - Senior or Junior
Crissy Sanders

Ngaio Trophy - Most Outstanding Performance from a Junior
Finn Wilson (1st NZ SS XC Senior Boys)

Most Meritorious Performance - Clement's Cup
Malcolm Hicks (NZ XC Champs & Double NZ Champion)

John Silvester Memorial Trophy - Most Valuable Junior Runner (U15 Grades)
Zaria Ireland

Akaroa Baton - Most Meritorious Performance in Auckland or National Road Relay
Malcolm Hicks (1st Wesley Runner to record Fastest Senior Lap in NZ Relay)

Most Improved Runner
Tom Hunt

Groty Trophy - "Greatest Runner of the Year"
Dean Foster (for losing his car at NZRR)

Beige Jacket (Top Junior Run at NZRR)
Jack Robinson

Special Award - Malcolm Hicks
1st Wesley runner to win either the NZ Senior XC or Senior Road Championship

Results
Sat 6 October NZ Road Relay Champs
Venue: Tahake to Akaroa
Senior Men 3rd
Masters Men 7th
Junior Men 9th

**NZRR SM RACE REPORT**

Well done to all on what was a cracking weekend at New Zealand's most legendary relay.

* After being greeted at Christchurch Airport by a frighteningly hairless James List, the team were whisked to our luxury suites at the YMCA for a team meeting run by the Grand Poobah himself, Club President Ian Sussex. Following a stirring address the team did their best to get some shut eye on the eve of the 2013 NZ Road Relays.

* Any hopes for a sleep-in, however, would be dashed in the early hours of Saturday morning with a series of agitated phone calls from a wide awake Malcolm Hicks. If Hicks' aim was to make sure Will had plenty of time to warm up he was successful, and our bleary eyed team watched the sun rise at the sign of the Takahe.

*lap 1 &2: Several hours after our arrival the race kicked off with Will Harris on lap 1. whle to the untrained eye it may of appeared that Will was having a tough day at the office, the Auckland rep unselfishly sacrificed his own performance in a clever bid to fire up the normally unflappable Malcolm Hicks. The strategy worked to perfection and by the time the baton changed hands Hicks had turned scarlet with rage. For the next 32 minutes and 30 seconds Hicks vented his anger on the 10.5km strip of tarmac to record the fastest lap of the day before hanging over to Liam Scopes.

*lap 3&4: At 33 years of age and with a decorated career to his name one might have excused Liam Scopes if he'd sat back, rested on his laurels and cruised through 10km to celebrate his birthday. But this is Liam Scopes - a man who eats pressure for breakfast and takes no prisoners on the road. After a gutsy run holding 3rd place for the Snipers, Scopes passed the flax-stalk to late addition Andrew Haigh, who was promptly overtaken by the flying pakman Nick Pannett. Fortunately losses were contained, and by the time the stalk changed hands to Sam Kidd on lap 5, Wesley was 30 seconds down on Olympian Dale Warrander.

Lap 5&6: Despite his rock'n'roll travel schedule which saw him arrive from the Gold Coast the day before the race Skidd battled hard and kept the snipers withing striking distance of a medal, finishing lap 5 and handing on to our uphill specialist. When it comes to bleeding mustard, no one bleeds more than Andy Small, so after beginning 2 and a half minutes behind 3rd place it was no suprise to see the Deisel Truck barreling around the 14 switchbacks to propel the snipers into 3rd place and put the second medal in two years in sight.

*lap 7: With a haircut what would not look out of place in certain right-wing extremist fractions of Christchuch society there was little doubt that Jimmy List meant business. After driving himself to the start line in his red Mustang the relays Maestro was primed for a trademark Listy performance and he didn't disappoint. While the details of his lap are murky (no witnesses have come forward) based on his description he was lucky not to self combust as he plummeted down the final 4km descent while the rest of the team waited at the pub at the bottom of the hill.

* lap 8: Despite his proximity to the pub, T-Payne had a sobering proposition ahead of him. Lap 8 is regarded as one of the toughest relay laps in the country, and TP had been bleating for weeks that he wasn't a hill runner. After Listy passed the flax-stalk to Payne, the club attorney make a mockery of his self assessment, recording the third fastest time of the day to bring home Wesley's second consecutive national bronze medal.

Special thanks go out to Tom Hunt, our devoted driver who may well have been hammering out one of the laps had he not been sick.

Also who could forget Ian 'big suss' Sussex who organised the entire trip while also managing the 9th place junior team and running in the 6th place masters team - a busy weekend, thanks Ian.

Sat 14 September Wesley Honeypot Mile
Venue: Epsom Methodist Church Hall
Conal Wilson took out this years Mile, 4m46, in a close battle with Michael Dawson and Andy Stewart. "Conal got it by a chest hair" according to Maria Kroonenberg, the official finish line photo finish operator. (She has great eye sight!) Next home and first Master was the President. First junior runner was Zaria Ireland in 5m51 and then Olly in 6m08. Joshua Rowbotham again cleaned up his ever slowing father with a 4 year old record time of 9m29 an improvement of 4.5 minutes from the Beehive at the start of last year - how fast can this boy go?

Saturday 7th September Athletics Auckland Road Relay Championships 2013
Venue: Mt Smart Stadium
Some fine performances by Wesley runners over the weekend. A demanding course and some excellent results all round. Top effort by the junior men teams running over a tough course with more kms than they would normally race.

Junior Men 2nd & 3rd
Masters Men 1st
Senior Men 3rd
BU15 13th
GU15 6th

31 August NZ Road Championships
Venue: Dunedin
Wesley's own Malcolm Hicks continues his great run of form by winning the NZ Championship and making a rare double of the the cross country and road titles in the same season. Not bad for a track runner! Awesome.

Results - Senior Men 20-38 Sun 18 August Auckland & Wesley Road Champs
Venue: AUT, Mt Albert.
Congratulations to our silver medalists Tony Payne SM and Conal Wilson MU18.
FULL RESULTS
VIDEO of MU18 & Senior Men

Sat 10 August Wesley King of Mt Eden
Venue: Melville Park Club Rooms
Zaria Ireland was first to the top closely followed by Sam Parr. Andy Small was first senior. Thanks to the Haigh duo for organising this fun event.

Sat 3 August NZ XC Champs Hamilton
Malcolm Hicks has won the 2013 NZ Cross Country Championship. Always at the head of the field it wasn't until about 1km to go in the 12k championship that Malcolm put the hammer down to shake the leading four runners apart. His final break was up the tight steep hill 750m from home and clearing away on the downhill and sweep around to the finish straight. Checking with Barry Magee (Wesley club member for 50+ years) he confirms that Malcolm is the first Wesley runner to win this title in our 80 year history - awesome! and our congratulations to Malcolm. Proud parents & Granddad were on hand to enjoy the moment.

Congratulations also to Liam Scopes(17th) & William Harris(23rd) who also won gold medals in the Auckland 6 Senior Man Team (along with Malcolm).

Other results; Zaria Ireland was 2nd in the U13 Girls. Heidi Robinson 17th GU15, Conal Wilson 9th in the MU18, Finn WIlson 5th in the MU20 and Tom Hunt 32nd in the Senior Men.

EVENT PHOTOS from Scottie
Venue: Spa Park, Taupo
Congratulations to Zaria Ireland 2nd in the GU13 and William Harris 10th in the senior Mens.
Thank you to everyone that pitched in to help on Saturday. Although the weather impacted on the numbers it was still a very successful and fun event.
OneK Results 2013

Thanks to our generous sponsors; House of Chocolate, Ollies Burgers and Ice Cream, Smiths Shoes.

15 June NZ SS XC Champs - Christchurch
Another National Title For Wilson & Wesley.

Finn Wilson won the Senior Boys NZ Secondary Schools Cross Country Championships held on a fast, undulating and challenging Halswell Quarry course in Christchurch on Saturday 15th June.

Finn follows up his 3rd place result in 2012 with a very impressive controlled performance in this years 6000m championship. With a huge field of 245 athletes on the start line for the Senior Boys race, Finn positioned himself perfectly and was in a lead pack of 10 – 15 runners over the first 2km lap. By the end of lap 2 Finn was very well positioned and sitting in the top 3 before making what turned out to be a smart and decisive move with just over 1 km to go. Heading into the long up hill portion of the final lap, Finn increased his tempo and as a result opened up a gap on the chase pack which was not to be closed, crossing the line in 18:09.00. Finn was also named in the NZ Secondary Schools Athletic Association’s Senior Cross Country Team to compete in the Australian Championships in Launceston Saturday 31 August, Sunday 1 September 2013

Other notable Wesley athlete performances coming from Conal Wilson (Year 11) 25th place Senior Boys, Andrew Stewart (Year 12) 38th place Senior Boys, Heidi Robinson (Year 9) 21st place in year 9 Girls

Wesley athlete results
Finn Wilson 1st Senior Boys
Conal Wilson 25th Senior Boys
Andrew Stewart 38th Senior Boys
Troy Lonergan 64th Senior Boys
Michael Dawson 95th Senior Boys
Alex Beddoes 120th Senior Boys
Morgan Cadell 125th Senior Boys
Laura Stewart DNF Senior Girls
Heidi Robinson 21st Year 9 Girls

8 June 2013 - GP Race 3

Full Individal Results
Junior Teams Results

6 June Auckland SS XC Champs - St Kents

2.8km Junior Girls
Heidi Robinson 1st  9:55

16 May Auckland S.S. Duathlon Champs

Pakuranga & Howick Realty Cross Country

Venue: Lloyd Elsmore Park, Cascades Road,

Pakuranga

Full Results Click Here

Venue: Ceramco Park, Glendale Road, Glen Eden