Recreational / Social walkers Catering for:
- General fitness
- All Terrain
- Ultra Distance
- Race Walking and those competing in competitive events including club, province and national representation.
Winter Season Walking Group ( April – end – September).
Tuesday Group will meet at Centre City New World by the Ride on Toys at 5.30pm
If anyone is interested then please contact Shona at 021 335 225.
Summer Walking Group (October- end March)
Tuesday Group will meet on the corner of Queen and Duke street at 5.30pm. This corner is the first intersection heading up Leith Valley once you turn up from the Willowbank Dairy.
Summer Walks
Summer walks take place every second week in the summer at different venues around the city and beyond. Summer walks begin at the conclusion of the Caversham Harrier Winter season normally early October until late March.
If anyone is interested then please contact Keiran at 4894027 or e-mail keiran.columb@gmail.com
Health and Safety Rules Walkers
Group Rules Walkers:
- First Aid Kits and Cellphone should be taken for each Group. Responsibility Group Leader
- Head Counts are to be done prior to leaving and during the walk. Responsibility Group Leader
- All members shall keep with the pack and must not leave without the consent of the Group leader.
- Group Leaders must report any accident/incident to Keiran .
This must be entered onto the Health and Safety Checklist Caversham H & A Club. Follow up is essential and must be recorded on the sheet. - Group Leader must appoint a “Tail end Charlie” for each group.
- Three Groups Fast/ 8.5 Minutes/KM Medium 10 Minutes/KM Slow 12 Minutes/KM
Approximate Time Walking Fast Group 1hr 40 m Medium Group 1hr 25 M and Medium/ Slow Group 1hour - Remember when walking on rural roads a ways walk on the side facing on coming traffic. (Exception Blind Corner)
- If any walker does have a Heavy/Serious fall it is recommended that they don’t continue and the “Group Leader” is to arrange someone in the group to go and get a car and decide what is the best solution for the injured person . No injured person is to walk back “alone” to the clubrooms
- All walkers are to take responsibility as the Group Leader is normally in the front and cannot see if anyone is in distress behind him.
- While sometime we always get a little ahead in the group from time to time it is important to stop and let others catch up.
However if you find yourself continually strugglin to keep up its best to drop down to the next group. You are always welcome to return to the faster group when you feel you are up to it.
Walkers Packs
The Walkers meet on Saturday afternoons, often at the clubrooms, and sometimes at other venues along with the club’s runners, and walk for 1 ½ hours or so. Several packs are formed consisting of walkers with similar abilities, from social/recreational walkers to race walkers. Often the packs set out together and split up at various points along the route, with the faster groups going further. You decide where you fit in, and after building up fitness and stamina, can graduate to a faster pack. An experienced walker will be the pack leader, responsible for the route and keeping the pack together. It is a fact that as we are located on the top of a hill, at some stage some hill walking will be involved!
Some prominent current walkers/pack-leaders with our packs are:
Kieran Columb, Shona McDonald
Anne Watkins, Lara Findlater, Kirsty van Royen, Janice Hughes, Angela Hawthorne, Phil Bray, Wendy Shanks, John McDermott, Rhonda Bazsika, John Stinson, Fiona Turnbull and Jo Little. Wendy Crawford , Angela Campbell, Patsy Mason, Sandra Winton Mel Porteous and Brian Watkins
Walking Events
In addition to Saturday pack walks, the Club participates in the walks which are part of the Athletics Otago Winter Programme. These include:
Shunters and Grunters Relay Winding Vine Relay
Hyde Railway Station to Waipahi Portobello to Port Chalmers.
Emerson Marathon
Half marathon walk
10 km walk
Race Walking Rules
When walking in Athletics NZ events, formal race walking rules are adhered to. Generally race walking is conducted as part of the Track and Field programme at the Caledonian ground in Dunedin; the races are held on the track itself or specific road courses, usually no more than 2.5 kilometres in length. These events are overseen by Athletics NZ qualified referees and formal race walking rules observed
The Caversham Harrier Club has developed is own set of rules for events conducted by the Club. These are for recreational walking events and recognise the fact that race referees cannot observe all of the course all of the time.
To see these rules.
Caversham Harrier and Athletic Club walkers rules
Links:
Race Walking NZ
Dunedin Marathon
Walking Access NZ
Nordic Walking
Racewalking
Walking NZ
NZ Walks Info
Wonder Walkers NZ
Enquiries please contact – Keiran Columb email: keiran.columb@gmail.com