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12 Thursday <strong>January</strong> <strong>31</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />
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•<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Media City2Surf will be held on March 24.<br />
Enter now at www.city2surf.co.nz/<br />
<strong>The</strong>se people are all up for it<br />
City2Surf will mark<br />
its 45th anniversary<br />
on March 24.<br />
Sophie Cornish<br />
spoke to some of<br />
the participants who<br />
have entered from<br />
around the city<br />
Karen Young, Somerfield<br />
– This year’s City2Surf will be<br />
the first ever running event Mrs<br />
Young has participated in. In<br />
June last<br />
year, she<br />
joined the<br />
Energise<br />
Health and<br />
Fitness<br />
running<br />
club and<br />
has been<br />
training<br />
for the<br />
6km event<br />
Karen Young<br />
through<br />
a 12-week<br />
programme.<br />
Mrs Young runs with her club<br />
once a week while trying to fit in<br />
her own training.<br />
“I think it will be achievable<br />
(the 6km),” she said.<br />
GET SET: Mark Winsley with his son Felix and partner Janelle Clark. (Right) – Rebecca Barrell<br />
Mark Winsley, 49,<br />
Bryndwr – Mr Winsley has<br />
tackled the 14km City2Surf<br />
event before, but this year he will<br />
run the 6km. That’s because his<br />
nine-year-old son, Felix, will be<br />
running with him, along with<br />
his partner, Janelle Clark. <strong>The</strong><br />
father and son have been “hiking<br />
around the hills and jogging<br />
around the parks” to prepare for<br />
the event. Felix is not a novice<br />
when it comes to running<br />
events, having participated<br />
in the Kids’ Mara’Fun race<br />
before, which is part of the<br />
Christchurch Marathon. “I<br />
took my neighbours son to do it<br />
(City2Surf) a few years ago– he<br />
was a bit older. Felix watched it<br />
and said I’m going do that papa,”<br />
said Mr Winsley. <strong>The</strong> pair have<br />
been training two or three times<br />
a week. <strong>The</strong>ir training includes a<br />
hike in the weekend and a couple<br />
of runs accompanied by “kicking<br />
the ball around and playing<br />
cricket,” said Mr Winsley.<br />
Rebecca Barrell, 44,<br />
Spreydon – In the past Ms<br />
Barrell has completed the Buller<br />
Gorge Half Marathon. Now she<br />
wants to get back into running.<br />
Ms Barrell has set herself the goal<br />
of completing the 14km event<br />
this year and has been training<br />
using the 10-week programme<br />
offered by City2Surf.<br />
“I walk a lot up the hills, but I<br />
wanted to improve my running<br />
again and I thought this was a<br />
good goal . . . I’ve done 10km<br />
CITY<br />
with Les Mills<br />
2SURF<br />
in the past, years ago, I did the<br />
6km last year with the dog,<br />
so I thought 2this was a good<br />
progression,” she said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> registered nurse has been<br />
running around Hagley Park for<br />
her training.<br />
CITY2SURF<br />
Judith McInnes, 77,<br />
Christchurch Central – Mrs<br />
McInnes, who is retired, says her<br />
participation in the 14km event<br />
is “not a hardcore thing, just for<br />
fun.”<br />
It will not<br />
be her first<br />
time in the<br />
City2Surf,<br />
having<br />
completed the<br />
event six or<br />
seven times<br />
previously,<br />
both walking<br />
and jogging.<br />
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Judith<br />
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