running in hamilton new zealand

trolling.... www.nzrun.com is your best bet, but I would say the key difference is hills, Dunedin has heaps Hamilton has none, there is good running in both places probably more runners in Dunedin than Hamilton especially in the 19-26 age bracket. The great thing is no matter where you go everyone will be happy to train with you and make you very welcome so get amongst it

Hay,

I'm from Hamilton, and ran there for many many years.

Nice place to train, the uni is kinda close to the track (2 miles) which is a great stadium. If you are clocking alot of miles then no worries, the town is small with the main feature being the river right through the center seperating the town. The river has about 13 miles of paths, (pavement) which are great for running on, not much traffic and great to run next to the beautifull Waikato river. The club is called hamilton city hawks, they are a real good outfit, very welcoming. Every Thurday is a great tempo run round the lake and river which is the meat and potato of the training, although the start of that run would be a good 5 miles from Uni Dorms. Track stuff is wednesdays, Lots of hot girls to meet and good compitition all year around.

My advice, if you have it, take an extra $400 us and buy a cheap car when you get there. The best training is out in the hills of Surrounding the city and the price of a car in NZ is cheap as, and the freedom it will provide is worth it.

http://www.hamiltoncityhawks.co.nz/

Also go to

www.nzrun.com

get on the msg board and try to track down Corey, under the screen name Corsta, he is the local pied piper for distance runners.

Good luck man, Have a nice cold Tui for me!

You forgot to tell him about the bloody cold miserble foggy winters !

I've lived and run in Dunedin for 5 years, and only travelled to Hamilton, but from where I stand the key things Hamilton offers are a slightly warmer climate, and closer proximity to bigger centres and better racing. Dunedin offers better training terrain, trails, hills, track, better University scene, you most definitely wouldn't need a car in Dunedin, and a busier club scene than Hamilton.

I was on holiday in NZ a couple of years back and I enjoyed running around Hamilton, even did the excellent 'Round the Bridges' race.

I found running along the river very pleasant and also a good place to do some speedwork, etc.

I wouldn't fancy running up the big hill in Dunedin though, although I felt that the university scene in Dunedin was better.

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I grew up South of Hamilton in the Pine Forest Area around Tokoroa and Putaruru.

This is where Lorraine Moller and John Davies did there training.

Fantastic privately owned forestry roads(some Bitumen)and little or No traffic.You will rarely do the same run twice once you know the area.

A fantastic area to Do long runs and plenty of Hills and of course drinking water.

Access was easy a few years back.

Present owners are Carter, Holt,Harvey and I know that they still allow hunting in the forests.

If you decide on that area give them a call and enquire as to access for running.

You will not get Better.

Unfortunately"Google Earth's" images of this area are poor.

Snatch

I went to new zealand (north island) for 3 weeks and hamilton was the only place that wasn't hilly that I ran.

Go for dunedin, the depth of runners there is getting pretty strong at the moment at hamilton is not the best place to live and running along the river everyday will get boring quickly. there are ALOT of ast guys in the lower south island at the moment and they're all good-sorts down there.

what you want to do is get onto the site about 3 others have said too -

www.nzrun.com

. Go to the message board there and you will get all the info u need to make a decision thats best for ya.

I've been to New Zealand in July...you don't even HAVE winter.

foggy wrote:

You forgot to tell him about the bloody cold miserble foggy winters !