Awesome results from our Juniors

There are some great stories from the first half of the season.  Our wee team have been on fire with a stack of PBs and Junior Club Records!!

CCAA Quadrathon – 22/11/2025

Congrats to all our young athletes who competed in the CCAA Quadrathon at Nga Puna Wai a couple of weeks back.  Three of our crew managed to get themselves on the podium for their age group  – well done to Neve Majendie, Sam Freeman and Teana Panapa. Neve Majendie and Maddie Sweetman also broke club records in their events.

Athletes competed in four events to compile overall points. Some great results below…

GIRLS (100m, 1500m, LJ, Discus, Shot Put)

10yo Teana Panapa – 3rd overall ; 11yo Maddie Sweetman – 19th (incl club record in discus); Scarlett Liddell – 21st; 13yo Lyla Lawry – 5th; Indie Clark – 9th; 14yo Neve Majendie – 1st(incl club records in shot put and long jump)

BOYS (200m. 800m, HJ, Discus, Shot Put)

11yo Sam Freeman – 2nd; Jack Smitheram – 6th; Joe Dimbleby – 16th (3 events); Lachie Say – 25th (3 events); 14yo Eli Dimbleby – 10th

Club Records

Our team has broken or reset junior club records on an unprecedented 20 occasions this season in their events.  Across individual events, Neve Majendie has  broken 14 yo girls records 15 times across 60m, 100m, 200m, 400m, Long Jump, High Jump, Shot Put, Discus, Javelin,  Lyla Lawry has broken the 13yo girls High Jump record with both Maddie Sweetman (11yo girls) and Teana Panapa (10yo girls) both breaking Discus records for their age.  Our 14yo girls 4x100m relay team which features three 13yo’s – Lyla Lawry, Sienna Jones and Indie Clark have teamed up with Neve to break the club record in this event twice so far this season.  It’s unbelievable to think that we are only half way through the season, and already these young athletes have broken 20 club records.  In previous seasons we would get pretty excited about a single club record getting broken – the mind boggles as to how many more records may fall before the end of the season.  This is a tribute to all the hard work these young athletes and their coaches are putting in.

Colgate Games

We have a squad of 15 athletes heading to Nelson for the South Island Colgate Games in January.  This annual event has been running now for over 40 years for athletes aged 6-14.  This will be a great experience for our team to test themselves against 900 other young athletes from across NZ and from as far away as Queensland, Australia.

Neve showing us her medal from the quadrathon – great stuff

SRC World famous Christmas Handicap Race -Wednesday, 10 December 2025, Hagley Park

Many traditions come with the festive season, for SRC it’s the 5km handicap race.

And, again, there is a twist … it’s not how fast you are but how accurate you are based on your predicted time. If you are more than 3.25% quicker than you say, don’t expect to be on the podium. That’s the qualifying limit to have a counting time. (For those who need some easier maths, it’s about 2 seconds per minute).  

There is more than just bragging rights , there is a trophy up for grabs.

When:  Wednesday, 10 December

Start:   First runner will head off at 5.40pm

Where:  Hagley Park (same course and start as the 5km Series)

Rules enforcer:  David Fitch

Post run refreshments: The Club is shouting pizzas in the park

This event is open to all club members, whanau, and friends.

Enter here with your name and your predicted 5km time for this event.

Entries need to be in by 3pm Wednesday 10th December.

Summer Season

The summer season is starting next week, and all juniors are invited to attend the HAVE A GO session next Tuesday, the 14th of October at 4pm at Ferrymead Park.

The Interclub season starts on the 11th of October. Juniors (7-14 years) please follow the instructions on the Junior page to register for this. Seniors, a reminder your annual fee allows you to compete in the afternoon sessions for just the weekly track fee.

Constitution renewal

It is time to act. Thanks to those who have already indicated they will join us at the Special General meeting on Monday the 13th of October at 7:30pm via Teams. The link for this meeting will be made live next week, and we still need a few other active members (or parents of active members) to join in so we can get this across the line. The link is in the calendar and also here.

Today you get another link to the updated constitution and a request that if you have any questions you, please ask before the meeting. This constitution is based off the Athletics NZ template and has been reviewed by them.

Here is the resolution that will be tabled at the meeting – hopefully we will get at least 10 members agreeing to the change! If you cannot attend the meeting but agree to the resolution, feel free to drop Annette an email giving her your proxy vote and indicating your acceptance.

Resolution: Adoption of New Constitution

That the members of the Sumner Running Club resolve to:

  1. Revoke the existing constitution dated [4th February 2008], and
  2. Adopt the new constitution dated 13th October 2025, which has been drafted to comply with the Incorporated Societies Act 2022, and
  3. Authorise the committee to submit the new constitution to the Registrar of Incorporated Societies for approval and registration.

The Season review

It’s a wrap for the winter 2025 season – some great events, all sorts of conditions and a variety of running styles. Thanks to all of you who ran this year. The winter season end of season function will be held at the Elms Hotel on the 15th of October. Be good to see some of you there.

Looking forward to 2026. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy this reflection of the season.

A new era for the club

It is pleasing to report that approval has been given to hold a Special General Meeting via Teams at 7:30pm on Monday the 13th of October to ratify the new SRC constitution. The login for the Teams meeting will be posted closer to the time BUT please put this date in your calendar as we need at least 10 people present before we can approve. Here is a link to the new constitution – if you have any queries please send us an email.

Junior XC Training begins Term 2 – 29 April 2025

How fast has the start to the year gone by! The start to the winter XC season is close and Junior training starts in Term 2.

There are two training days planned, potentially in collaboration with Port Hills. The intended plan is:

  • Tuesday is our clubs training day at Ferrymead with Port Hills Juniors welcome to attend
  • Thursday training will be at Hansen Park where we will have the opportunity to join Port Hills.

Any queries, please get in touch with Ann Wells or sumnerrunningclub@gmail.com

We look forward to seeing you soon!

AC Senior Interclub 10 – including 3000m Championship

08 Feb 2025 – Nga Puna Wai

For any of our Senior Members interested in participating in AC 3000m Championship Race, please e-mail with your name, date of birth and events you would like to enter to sumnerrunningclub@gmail.com by 6pm on Wednesday 05 February. A detailed list of the track and field events on offer can be found here https://athleticscanterbury.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/8th-February-2025.pdf

Reminder for Wednesday 19 February 2025: Special meeting to discuss Club Future

We will be holding a special meeting on Wednesday 19th February at 7:30 pm at CBK Ferrymead (23 Humphreys Drive) to discuss the future of our Club.

This will be to discuss the options as detailed below, any new ideas, and to answer any questions that people may have, ahead of our AGM in April.

It is important to the future of the club that our members attend. We also welcome our past members to join the discussion

Sumner Running Club has been a successful running club for many years now. Members and the club have been successful across a number of races and events over the years including both long form and short form events in road, trail, mountain running, multisport and orienteering. In recent years Children’s Summer Athletics has increased in popularity and now forms 75% of the club’s membership.

Over the last few years adult & children’s membership for winter cross (XC) country and road has been declining to levels that make it impossible to form teams in relay competitions and XC events. The club is not unique in this as a number of clubs are facing this challenge.    While running remains a popular activity for many, the traditional format of running clubs and events is not attracting the participation it used to.

The majority of the current committee has been running the club for the past 5+ years and David has president for 10 years. With little or no interest from other members in joining the committee and or taking over the president role, we now feel it is time to step down. This means that some decisions will need to be made by existing members to determine the future of the club.

The committee needs to comprise of a President, Treasurer and Secretary plus 3-4 other members with more general responsibilities such as uniform, race entries, communication and social media

The committee has identified the following possible options:

1.      A new committee is formed and elected and the club continues in it’s current format with both an adults’ and children’s summer and winter section.

2.      A new committee is formed and elected and the club continues in a reduced format of Children’s Summer Athletics only, with the option to re-open winter membership at a later date if there is sufficient demand.

3.      A merger with another club is explored, ideally one with large Adult membership and small or no Junior Section.

4.      Club is disbanded and wound down  

There may be other options you can suggest which we haven’t yet considered.

Please consider what you would like the future of the club to look like and what you can contribute to the running of the club and we look forward to hearing your views on 19th February

If you can’t attend and wish to give feedback please do so in an email to sumnerrunningclub@gmail.com