Upcoming Moa Events & Latest News
Thursday 22nd December, 7.30pm
Moa "bike the lights spectacular" around the wonderful Christmas lights in Feilding. We start and finish at 5 Caroline Drive, Feilding. Bring your bike, reflective gear and something Christmassy for supper
FEILDING MOA HARRIERS
present the 16th running of the
ROY LAMBERTON HALF MARATHON
26TH February 2012
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Half marathon walk or Run
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2-person teams event (10.55km each)
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5km run or walk
Start your training now! Meet 6pm Wednesday at Timona Park, Feilding for a group run and some encouragement.
SUCCESSFUL SUMMER FOR MOA'S
In the last couple of months our older members have been busy in a range of events, from Track & Field through to endurance events such as the 60km Kepler Challenge and the Taupo half Marathon. And many of our younger members have been busy in Track & Filed events, both at club and school level, with excellent results coming through. Some highlights include:
NZ Secondary School Champs, 10-11th Dec, Wellington
Stephenie Dickins: 2nd in 300M hurdles and 400m dash (57.81sec)
Kara Macdermid: 2nd in 3000m (10:22) and also the 1500m (4:40)
Ariana Blackwood: 5th in discus and finalist in the 300m hurdles
Nate Levin: 10:22 in the 3km road race
Carlos Lopez-Lozano: 10:19 in the 3km road race
Elizabeth Stannard: 11:04 in the 3km road race (6th place!)
Raquel Lopez-Lozano: 18:10 in the 4km road race
Taupo half ironman 10th December:
Damien Lardner was 1st in the M18-19 grade, 4hrs52min while Deb Lardner was 5th in the W45-49 in 5:25
Kepler Challenge 60km 3rd Dec:
David Walters 6:39:55; Debra Arnold 8:02:52; Peter Griffin 8:37:26
The Goat, Turoa-Whakapapa mountain run, 3rd Dec: Kevin Palmer 3:34:53
last Updated 14th Dec 2011
24th September Feilding Moa Club Road Champs
The Beaconsfield Valley Rd course once again through up some surprises, with sun, rain and wind at various intensities during the event. Congratulations to the following Club Champions:
Boys U14, Karl Werner. Girls U14, Genea Hill
Colts, Niam McDonald. Junior women, Georgia Hill
Women, Wendy Cottrell-Teahan. Men, Nick Johnston
Click here for full Road Champ results
17th September Red Stag Redwood Forest Relay.
Moa women end Hawks Run !
For the last 15 years Hamilton City Hawks masters women team has won the Red Stag Redwood Forest Relay at Rotorua and were favoured to retain the title again this past weekend. However a well prepared team from Feilding Moa Harriers ended this reign, surprising all pre-race predictions by heading Hawks in by nearly 3 minutes.
The 5 x 5km relay attracted 111 run and walk teams from all over the North Island to what is a mostly off-road trail run through parts of the Redwood Forest.
The foundation for the Feilding Moa win was set up from the beginning by first lap runner Wendy Cottrell-Teahan, running a swift 19 minutes 14 seconds to hand a 2:22 lead over to Sandi Pearson. Pearson protected the lead position well, with Melissa Thorne taking over 2:14 in front. Thorne extended the lead over Hawks to 2:16 before handing over to Moa's penultimate team member, Juanita Paterson who with the third best masters women lap of the day, 21:20, provided a lead margin of 4:07 to the final runner Lisa Kuhnert. Despite a good run by Hamilton Hawks final runner, Bridget Ray in 20:30, Kuhnert brought the delighted Moa team home first, clear by 2min 58sec.
The masters men team from Feilding Moa also surprised, taking 3rd place in that grade, although admittedly conceding just over 2 minutes to the Masters Women team.
A close local rivalry this season between Wendy Cottrell-Teahan and Rob Dabb continued, with Rob just edging Wendy out by 2 seconds on his lap.
Feilding Moa team results from the Red Stag Redwood Forest Relay, Rotorua, 17th Spetember.
Masters Women (all 5km): 1st 1:46:17 with Wendy Cottrell-Teahan 19:14; Sandi Pearson 21:55; Melissa Thorne 22:11; Juanita Paterson 21:20; Lisa Kuhnert 21:39.
Masters Men (5km): 3rd 1:48:37 with Sean Kelly 22;37; Gavin Teahan 23:19; Dave Rose 21:30; Bruce Mulcock 21:58; Rob Dabb 19:12.
23rd July NZ Cross Country Champs, Christchurch: Congratulations to Kara and Zia Macdermid on their Gold and Bronze medals!
W16 4km: Kara Macdermid (Feilding Moa) 14m 33s 1, Rosa Flanagan (Cant) 14m 42s 2, Kiri Atkin (Cant) 15m 12s 3.
W12 2km: Ari Graham (Phoenix) 7m 16s 1, Rebekah
McCafferty (Tauranga) 7m 23s 3. Zia Macdermid (Feilding Moa) 7m 25s 3.
EMAIL UPDATES: if you want to receive weekly updates from the club captain, send an email to Rob Dabb
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As you know, Greg Oldridge had a heart attack shortly after the Woodruffe Cross Country race on 28th May. He is fortunate to have come through the ordeal well and even got out for a 40 minute run just 3 weeks later. However, over to the side you can see a pic of his running spikes, sadly found abandoned about 1km from the finish line at Woodruffes. No photoshop or trick photography either! (click it for a bigger pic)
COMPETITION: Suggest a caption to this photo -submit your caption by email to Rob and we will publish these on line. I'll start the ball rolling...
Rob: "Mate, you look terrible"
jp: "Hey there, you needed some fresh air too huh?"
go: “Are you my sole (soul) mate??”
4th June - Hughes Memorial cross country, Hawera
Moa's had a great day of cross country racing! Feilding Moa won the:
- Womens 16 teams - 1st Zia MacDermid, 2nd Elizabeth Stannard, 3rd Giorgie Miller-Thevenard in that race left nothing to chance!
- Women teams - Wendy Cottrell-Teahan, Gemma Cartwright, Katherine Stannard, Kara MacDermid (overall race winner)
- And to cap it off Paul Macdermid, Steve Stannard, Nick Johnston and Dave Walters took out the Mens teams!
See Gavins photos of the race by clicking here
Of the five running races, Feilding Moa athetes took line honours in four of them and their was a great depth of support hence the Team wins. Again a well organised event by Hawera Harriers, a challenging course and good spirit of competition make this a trip worthy of the effort. Will post full results here as they come available.
For other results see the Results tab to the left
Two NZ Marathon Champions from Moa!
Wendy Cottrell-Teahan (W40-44) and Debra Arnold (W50-54) were GOLD medalists in their 5 year age groups at the Athletics NZ Marathon Championship held in conjunction with the Rotorua Marathon on 30th April. Pat Stichbury (W50-54) did the quinella with Deb and made it three medals for Moa's with a silver. And our women were the 2nd placed club overall in the womens grade. Awesome stuff!
2011 Rotorua Marathon results by Moa's (transponder times): Wendy Cottrell-Teahan 3:03:54; Rob Dabb 3:11:00; Paul Bond 3:37:40; Debra Arnold 3:40:46; Dave Walters 3:45:39; Pat Stichbury 3:51:21; James Burnside 3:53:38; Peter Turner 3:54:10; Phil Limsotin (regular Wednesday nite "moa") 4:03:32; Mark Evans 4:08:19; Perry Newburn 4:23:47.
Half Marathon: Simonne Le Quesne 2:15'ish
PLUS a couple of "nearly" Moa's who we hope to see along in the next few weeks: Nicholas Johnston (Bulls) 3:02:24; Struan Webb 3:10:21 - these two guys were 1st and 2nd at the Feilding Half in February.
30 April Shaw Baton Relay, Wellington
Two Moa teams competed with distinction against the Wellington and Kapiti area clubs in this 2 x 2km relay event.
Women 19: 3rd overall in 33:32 - Stephanie Dickins 8:23, Elizabeth Stannard 7:57, Ariana Blackwood 9:05, Zia Macdermid 8:07
Girls 13: 4th overal in 37:57 - Zia Macdermid 7:48 (fastest run of all the G13 teams) Jharna Melbourne 9:57, Gorgi Van Leinan 9:14, Jessica Gleeson 10:58.
NEW to 2011....MiniMoa's Begin !
This year we have introduced the Minimoa grade of 8's and under and 11 took part in the inaugural race including several under 5's. They ran about half the distance of the older children and looked to have had a great time. We certainly enjoyed cheering them along.
Race results
See this weeks results below. Within a week race latest results will usually be archived to the Results page as a pdf file.
LATEST SITE NEWS
- Feilding Moa Club Infosheet and 2011 subs see Club Info
- 2011 program and Location map is now online see Club Calendar
WEBSITE NAVIGATION Hint. Take a look around such as the "Calendar" tab for upcoming club events, "Results" for the past 3 seasons and the "Gallery" for photos and links to photo sets
2009 FEILDING MOA Annual Prizegiving
Congratulations to the 2009 winners:
Boys, BA Wilson Cup, KARL WERNER
Colts, Galbraith Cup, FLETCHER HORSFIELD
Senior Men, Lamberton Shield, PAUL WASLEY
Girls, Russell Cup, GENEA HILL
Junior Women, Salisbury Cup, KRISTIE HYDE
Senior Women, Way Cup, SANDI PEARSON
The Handicap trophies represent both consistency
of effort and attendance throughout the season.
2009 Club Champions
Paul Macdermid was clearly out to have his name engraved on the Mens championship trophy, covering the first kilometre of the 10km road race in a blistering 3 minutes 10 seconds with Craig McLean seven seconds back and Maria Bentley on his shoulder.
Positions remained that way to the finish on the Beaconsfield Valley Rd out and back course, which provides an ascent/descent of around 60 metres. Macdermid won in 34 minutes 21 seconds, just over a minute ahead of McLean and Maria Bentley in a smart time of 36:10.
The colts, junior women and women had a combined start in their respective 5km championships.
Fletcher Horsfield led out for the first 5km with Stephanie Dickins best of the rest to half way. Positions soon changed with Wendy Cottrell-Teahan putting in a change of pace from half way, pushing Horsfield all the way to the line but not quite catching him. Stephanie Dickins was the best of the rest in winning the junior womens trophy.
In the under-14 championship, the Macdermid name will be engraved on to two more trophies. Kara Macdermid won the girls grade convincingly in 11 minutes 23 seconds while younger brother Noah took out the boys race half a minute ahead of Karl Werner.
Congratulations to Palmerston North Harriers mens team on fastest time overall and just 25 seconds short of the course record.
And the Flymoa's (Moa womens team) set a new course record
for women, taking over 3 minutes off the
previous best for a womens team. Nick Berry (Wanganui) established a new lap record
on leg 3 of 16:57, a whopping 36 seconds
faster than John Mudgways previous record
(and John is no slouch). Full results on
the Results page
4th July 2009 North Island Cross country.
Read about the three medals to Moa's
in the Results page. Huge fields and quality
running all round so great to see the Moa
singlet to the fore in many of the races.
On overall points Moa were 14th out of 45
clubs participating - ans excellent result
for a small team.
27TH JUNE 2009 MOA CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIP
Congratulations to the 2009 cross country champions:
BOYS UNDER 14: Jack Cartridge
GIRLS UNDER 14: Kara Macdermid
COLTS: Fletcher Horsfield
JUNIOR WOMEN: Stephanie Dickins
SENIOR WOMEN: Sandy Pearson
SENIOR MEN: Paul Macdermid
Conditions could not have been better for the Feilding Moa cross country championships held at David & Andrea Thomson's Kiwitea farm on Saturday 27 June. Rain held off and ground conditions were firm and fast.
The open mens 9km race was won by one of our newer members, Paul Macdermid who had to fend off a determined challenge from Steve Stannard. They were neck and neck most of the way and it was only in the final 1200 metres that Macdermid got awayto record a 31 seconds victory. The race for third and fourth was equally close with Rob Dabb just managing to hold back the persistent challenge of Dave Walters over the final 3km.
One of the days best performances was the win by Kara Macdermid in the under 14 girls race. Her time of 12 minutes 9 seconds was exceptional and she should be very hard to beat at the North Island cross country championships in Taupo next weekend. See Results page for full details including sealed handicap placings
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WEEKDAY EVENING RUNS
Tuesday 6.15pm, Manawatu Striders run from the Hockey turf carpark, Manawaroa St PN (turn at the Blue Moon BP garage)
Wednesday 6pm, Moa pack run, 6pm from outside M&J Shoes on Kimbolton Rd, Feilding, now that daylight saving has ended
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MOA'S ON THE FLY
4-5 April 2009...a busy weekend at various events for many Moa's and some very good performances too:
North Island Seconday School Track and Field Champs, Wgtn
Stephanie Dickins came 2nd in the Junior 300m & 800m
Ariana Blackwood threw a 35 metre discus for 4th and lowered
her 2000m steeplechase PB by a good 6-seconds.
Cameron McNaught was 2nd in the Open Boys 2000m steeplechase in 6:26.6. Eilysh Burney represented Wanganui in 800m and 1500m
Look out for these guys going fit and fast in coming weeks in cross country.
Great Forest Event, Waitarere
Marathon: Hayley Atkins 2nd women in 3hr34min47s; Debra Arnold 4th in 3:40.05
Tom Sheehan 3:55.58; John Harding 4:04.45; David Penfold 4:40.16
Half Marathon: Brad Johnson 1:35.03; Lisa Kuhnert 1:43.45; Nicholas Lopez-Villalobos 1:56.16
10km Run: Ulysses Lopez-Lozano 42:43; Carlos Lopez-Lozano 45:55; Raquel Lopez-Lozano 49:59
Hastings Half Marathon
Craig McLean, 2nd male overall and 1st M40-44 in 1:18.52
Feilding Moa 2008 Annual Awards
Club Person of The Year: Greg Oldridge
Since Greg joined the club several years ago he has always been prepared to offer ideas for improvement and back those up by doing more than his share in the background. Greg helped initiate the monthly Moa newsletter and has continued to edit it each month as well as write much of the copy. He also helped get the Wednesday 6pm club runs going and is perhaps the most regular of all attendees. From a handful in the first few months we regularly get a dozen or so athletes out for this enjoyable pack run. I could go on further, about BBQ's and jokes etc... but all in all Greg is a most deserving recipient of this years award and a great example of a true “club” person.
Most Improved Girl: Kaitlin McDonald
Most Improved Boy: Jared Greenfield
Kaitlin and Jared both started the season a it tentatively, coerced no doubt by their parents, and not too sure how they would enjoy the running. But both in their own way have gone from strength to strength during the year so perhaps no coincidence that they also won the respective trophy for overall handicap points. We hope to see you both back next season and see see your ongoing enthusiasm and improvement.
Overall Handicap Points for cross country and road races:
Boys: 1. Jared Greenfield; 2. Tim Sheehan; 3. Carl Werner
Girls: 1. Kaitlin McDonald; 2. Genea Hill; 3. Georgia Hill
Junior Women: 1. Stephanie Dickins; 2. Ariana Blackwood; 3. Kristy Hyde
Junior Men: 1. Cameron McNaught; 2. Nathaneal Robinson; 3. Ezra Robinson
Women: 1. Helen Dickins; 2. Debra Arnold; 3. Wendy Cottrell-Teahan
Men: 1. Paul Wasley; 2. Murray Greenfield; 3. Roy Homewood
Consistent attendance and a steady improvement across the season are required to secure the much sought after handicap Points trophies at Feilding Moa. It can be difficult for the fastest runner in a grade to hold their own on points – as they are constantly re-handicapped on performance. So it is a quite a significant achievement for Stephanie Dickins to win the Moa cross country champs, road champs and the handicap points in the junior women's grade. To cap this off, Stephanie also won the NZ Secondary Schools cross country junior girls title and secured a bronze medal at the NZ Cross Country Championships. A great season.
Feilding Moa Athlete earns another National medal
At the NZ Road Champs on 6th September Wendy Cottrel-Teahan was second in the Masters Women 35-39 race over 5km in a time of 18 minutes 34 seconds. This adds to her similar placing at the NZ cross country champs earlier in the season.
13th September 2008 Marton-Wanganui Relay
Moa had four teams participate in the 66.37km journey from Marton to Wanganui via the Turakina Valley, Kaungaroa and Fordell.
There was intense rivalry the whole distance between Peter Griffins "Motormoas" and Bruce Mulcocks "Mowers", with the lead being exchanged several times. On the penultimate leg, Peter Griffin showed true team captain spirit by turning a 1min21sec deficit into a 1:06 lead. Young Raquel Lopez then did her job by staying ahead of Cath Laird over the final leg to record a well deserved fourth place overall for the Motormoas. See Results page for more detail
MOA'S WIN MEDALS AT 2008 NZ CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPS 2nd August
Feilding Moa was well represented at the NZ Cross Country Champs held at Waikanae on Saturday 1st August. Highlights included a silver medal to Wendy Cottrell-Teahan in the Masters women 35-39 grade and a bronze to Stephanie Dickins in the Girls 14. For full results see the Results page.
19th July 2008 Manawatu-Wanganui Cross Country Champs
Held at Waikanae in conjunction with the Wellington Champs, Feilding Moa was well represented and were successful in taking a number of championship titles. Highlights from the wet day included:
- David Martin leading the sprint start of the large number of 9 year olds on their 1.5km race - and staying in that position until the finish in a superb time of 5:17
- Wendy Cottrel-Teahan leading the Masters Women 6km for all but the final hill, finishing second overall (1st AMW) by just 5-seconds
- Stephanie Dickins gaining 60-70 metre over the last 400 metres to take 2nd place overall in the G13 and win the AMW title
- Cameron McNaught defeating some key rivals to narrowly win the AMW title - and finishing ahead of Melissa Moon as well!
28th June 2008 Club Cross Country Champions found
While everyone else had wind and rain, Moa's found a patch of sunshine at the Thomsons Donkey farm, Kiwitea. Congratulations to this years Cross Country Champions are:
Men: Andy Martin
Women: Wendy Cottrell-Teahan
Junior women: Stephanie Dickins
Colts: Cameron McNaught
U14 Girls: Georgia Hill
U14 Boys: Tim Sheehan
22nd June 2008: Wellington Marathon
Debra Arnold won her age group and Lisa Kuhnert in her first marathon was 10th women overall.
Dave Walters 3:08.55; Lisa Kuhnert 3:39.11; Debra Arnold 3:47.21; June Grey 4:03.37; Debbie Lardner 4:04.03; John Harding 4:15.04; James Burnside 4:37.40
21st June 2008: NZ Secondary Schools Cross Country
Stephanie Dickins won the Year 9 race at New Plymouth by a 2-second margin from a starting field of 150.
Other Feilding results:
Junior Girls 3000m: 84th Eilysh Burney 13:05
Senior Boys 6000m: 95th Cameron McNaught 22:37; 114 Sean Bell 23:06; 121 Nathanael Robinson 23:13
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Wednesday 6pm Moa weekly pack run Timona Park, Feilding next to the Athletics Club gear shed (access from Simon St off Kimbolton Rd). All welcome. Our motto: "leave no one behind"
Thursday 5:45pm Running with Rob:Note new time and venue for the "daylight saving" months. Athletics Track @ massey University at the same time as Masters Athletics. Focus is on interval training and tempo runs to improve 5k to 1/2 marathon performance. Training tips shared. All levels of ability are catered for.
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MOA'S on the fly 2011
Send any race results from outside events to Rob to include in this column
2nd Oct New Plymouth Half Marathon
2nd woman, Gemma Cartwright 1:30:35
18th Sept, hatuma half marathon
Juanita Paterson 1:39:35; Brad Johnson 1:39:40; Kevin Palmer 1:39:45; Simonne LeQuesne 2:04:14
3rd Sept Kinloch Off-road half marathon
Peter Turner 2:01:51; Bruce Mulcock 2:02:57; Simonne Le Quesne 2:29:16
10km: 1st woman Melissa Thorne 49:10
14th August Wesley relay, Mangere
A 4X5KM ROAD RELAY Pak'a'Moa team of Jonny Mckee 15:49, : Joshua Hughes 17:31; Rob Dabb 18:39 & Matt Sweetingham 18:19 ran 1:10:18 for 2nd across the line but were disqualified for being too fast. (Matt and Jonny were Pakuranga ringins)
19th June Wellington
Marathon: Perry Newburn 3:55:27; Pat Stichbury 3:36:24; Debra Arnold 4:06:09
Half Marathon: Gemma Cartwright 1:28:34; Kevin Palmer 1:42:25; Claire Booker 1:54:16
10km: Wendy Cottrell-Teahan 39:38; Andrena Clarke 45:02
5th June Aurora Marathon (Hutt Valley)
Debra Arnold 3;49:25; James Burnside 4:08:02; Pat Stichbury 4:19:47; Perry Newburn 4:24:26
15th May Feilding to Palm Nth half marathon. Gemma Cartwright 1:29.57; Charlotte Wall 1;42.0; Matthew Schipper 1:43.40; Liz Orr 1:44, Bruce Mulcock 1:44.02, Kevin Rolls, Debra Arnold, Perry Newburn,
Simonne Le Quesne 2:07.10
Bunnythorpe to Palm Nth 13km
Rob Dabb 50:30 (2nd), Juanita Paterson 57:50 (1st women), Lisa Kuhnert 58:48, Melissa Thorne 60:08 (2nd and 3rd women), Kevin Palmer, Peter Turner, Chris Kirk, Deb McNaught. Team Phillipa Evans/Mark Evans/Jack Cartridge
7th May T42 off road marathon
Debra Arnold was 1st in her age group and 5th woman overall. 4hr25min
16 April Porirua
NZ Mountain running Champs: Wendy Cottrell-Teahan was 3rd in the Masters women race, securing another medal to add to the Gold in the W35-39 Mountain run champs in 2009.
2nd April Great Forest runs, Waitarere
Marathon: Deb Arnold 3:35:42; Pat Stichbury 4:23:47
HalfM: Wendy Cottrell-Teahan 1:24:36 (1st woman); Gemma Cartwright 1:27:57 (2nd woman); Adrian Henderson 1:34:26; Peter Turner 1:43:49; Kevin Palmer 1:45:19
10km Run: Lisa Kuhnert 42:46 (3rd woman); Melissa Thorne 45:16; Charlotte Wall 45:17
8th January 2011
55th Waiouru to Taihape road race This classic 20 mile race has been organised for the past 55 years by local jeweller Doug Bond, now 86, who was awarded a Queens Service Medal in 2006 for a lifetime involved in community sports. The winners trophy reads a bit like a who's who of great New Zealand runners, such as Ray Puckett, Bill Baillie and Jeff Julian. Julian holds the race record set the best part of 50 years ago at 1hr 40 minutes - thats 2 hours 13 minutes marathon pace. This years fastest time was by Brian Garmonsway of Trentham in 2 hours 6 minutes. Moa & associate runners to finish were:
Robert Dabb 2:18:47, Gemma Cartwright 2:36:05, Debra Arnold 2:43:14, Kevin Palmer 2:44:47, Peter Turner 2:45:22, Perry Newburn 2:49:05, Marian Hilder 2:51:19, James Burnside 3:03:26, David Penfold 3:11:22.
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26th May 2008,
Launch of the 'Feilding Moa Harrier Club' website.
