V8 Supercars: submissions close today

Well, we’d have to say we’re prob­ably veer­ing on the ‘no’ side of the fence with regards to the V8 Super­car race being held in Wel­ling­ton, for the purely selfish reas­on that it’d make get­ting into the Cent­ral Pub­lic Lib­rary on the week­end in ques­tion an abso­lute night­mare (oh, and the rates hike, and the […]

More Energetic Stuff!

I may as well keep with James’s sport­ing spir­it for the day, and tell you about an event com­ing up this week­end that’s aimed at the fairer sex. The Spe­cial K Triath­lon series is in Wel­ling­ton this Sunday, but, unfor­tu­nately, there are no more spots avail­able for com­pet­it­ors, and no wait­ing list (and I was […]

Rugby Registration Day for Kids

Just a quick note for any­one with under 13yo kids who might want to play rugby this year – regis­tra­tions for Wel­ling­ton Juni­or Rugby is this Sat­urday (Sat 26th). Juni­or Rugby is non-con­­tact, non-tackle, and is graded to take weight and age into account. There’s more info on the game on the WRFU web­site, includ­ing […]

Calci Kids Kiwitri 2005

Well, hav­ing popped down to Kil­birnie pool on Sunday morn­ing for the tra­di­tion­al swim­ming les­son for the 5yo, and a splash around with my 2yo, I was a bit taken aback to find half of Wel­ling­ton con­greg­at­ing in the park, hav­ing just fin­ished their 8km Round the Bays run (my lack of blog­ging it did­n’t […]

Island Bay Trolley Races

The Island Bay Fest­iv­al wraps up this week­end with one of the high­lights being the Ribble Street Trol­ley Derby on Sat­urday after­noon. The Trol­ley WOF’s have already been sor­ted, so you’re too late if you want to join in the racing, but there’s plenty of danger and excite­ment to be had even just being a […]

The Beige Brigade hit the Stadium

Well, we’ll be head­ing off to NZ v. OZ one-day crick­et match tomor­row not only to see (hope­fully) a hard-fought con­test between the two best one day crick­et sides in the world at the moment, but also to see how much of the facial hair and lock-teas­ing action that graced last night’s fest­ive twenty20 game […]

Karapoti Classic

Those of you who like to get out in the fresh air on your moun­tain bike should take note that this year’s Kara­poti Clas­sic is on 5th March, and entries are clos­ing soon. There’s two races – the 50km Clas­sic, and the 20km Chal­lenge for those who might not quite feel up to the big […]