{"id":11022,"date":"2021-08-04T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T06:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beckenham.school.nz\/?guid=646b96711698a1751c5635aab1dff880"},"modified":"2021-08-04T18:05:51","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T06:05:51","slug":"duathlon-information-for-year-5-8-competitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beckenham.school.nz\/index.php\/kauri\/duathlon-information-for-year-5-8-competitors\/11022","title":{"rendered":"Duathlon Information for Year 5 &#8211; 8 Competitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;This message is for those with children who have entered the school duathlon. Please share this post with your duathlete.&nbsp;<\/p><p><\/p><ul style=\"text-align: left;\"><li>Our duathlon is this coming Tuesday afternoon, starting at 1:30.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Duathletes can wear their house top and will need a warm jacket for before and after their event. For those who need them, please to remember their inhalers.<\/li><li>Children are to bring their bikes to the bike-stands which will be by the Norwood entrance to the park on Tuesday morning before school. Year 7 &amp; 8 will need to be extra early, as they will need to do this before getting to the hub at 8:30 for tech.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Children need to lock their bikes and take their helmets with them to their hub.<\/li><li>Duathletes eat lunch at 12:40 and then unlock their bikes.<\/li><li>The daily notices will tell them when to meet at the cricket pavilion.<\/li><li>Parents are welcome to support their children. Please stay on the park near the finishing area, to avoid getting in the road of the competitors.<\/li><\/ul><div>We need the support of some adult helpers to run this event. <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/GbJhQCza5W4N5jDJ9\">Please fill in this form if you can help out.<\/a><\/div><div><br \/><\/div><div>The course description is below. It would be a great idea to practice this before Tuesday. Please email&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:nicky.dunlop@beckenham.school.nz\">Nicky<\/a>&nbsp;if you have any questions about the course.<\/div><p><\/p><h4 style=\"text-align: left;\">Run 1 (1km)<\/h4><div><div><ul style=\"text-align: left;\"><li>Start on park, out from the adventure playground<\/li><li>Follow the marked course on the grass towards school and on around the park<\/li><li>Run along the fenceline of the park and down the hill towards Eastern Tce.<\/li><li>Once on Eastern Tce run towards Fisher Ave, along Fisher Ave to Norwood St and down Norwood to the park entrance.<\/li><li>Run into the park to the bike racks which will be on the right near the park entrance.<\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-3mTmwFa5eLY\/YQor_IezVPI\/AAAAAAAAg9A\/Nv0pJH2U2zcQ2EkoYga8w2QffNdlPC2eQCLcBGAsYHQ\/s1156\/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-08-04%2Bat%2B5.23.11%2BPM.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1058\" data-original-width=\"1156\" height=\"586\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-3mTmwFa5eLY\/YQor_IezVPI\/AAAAAAAAg9A\/Nv0pJH2U2zcQ2EkoYga8w2QffNdlPC2eQCLcBGAsYHQ\/w640-h586\/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-08-04%2Bat%2B5.23.11%2BPM.png\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><br \/><\/div><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><h4 style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">Bike: (1.8km)<\/h4><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"><ul style=\"text-align: left;\"><li>On bike follow the garden loop track to the main path<\/li><li>Stick to the <b>right-hand side <\/b>of the path<\/li><li>Ride along the gravel path in front of school and around to the path that leads down to the ponds, before the adventure playground.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Turn left onto the path that goes above the ponds<\/li><li>Ride to the hairpin bend that takes you back up to the park.<\/li><li>Follow the gravel path towards the adventure playground and on around in front of school.<\/li><li>At this point there will be bikes going both ways - <b>stick to the right<\/b>.<\/li><li>Keep following the gravel path up to where it branches off toward Norwood Rd<\/li><li>Loop back onto the garden path <b>for a second full lap<\/b>. (repeat what you have just done)<\/li><li>At the end of your second lap, hand your bike to the marshalls who will lay it on the grass<\/li><\/ul><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-gk3_0ZEM59M\/YQosWYmBEeI\/AAAAAAAAg9I\/K0VbZeFc9Q0UrJG8HOScuSIbMOZjDuG4QCLcBGAsYHQ\/s1322\/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-08-04%2Bat%2B5.29.05%2BPM.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1016\" data-original-width=\"1322\" height=\"492\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-gk3_0ZEM59M\/YQosWYmBEeI\/AAAAAAAAg9I\/K0VbZeFc9Q0UrJG8HOScuSIbMOZjDuG4QCLcBGAsYHQ\/w640-h492\/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-08-04%2Bat%2B5.29.05%2BPM.png\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><br \/><\/div><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><h4 style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">Run 2 (1km)<\/h4><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"><ul style=\"text-align: left;\"><li>Run out to Norwood St and turn right heading to Fisher Ave<\/li><li>Run down Fisher to Eastern Tce<\/li><li>Run down Eastern Tce to the park entrance.<\/li><li>Run up the hill and follow the cones to the finishing chute which will be in front of school.<\/li><\/ul><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Uks4RTveGaA\/YQosnZ6O2WI\/AAAAAAAAg9Q\/lYuT6niIw5oiL_ENeg7EOI87hb3jb4GKACLcBGAsYHQ\/s1300\/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-08-04%2Bat%2B5.34.50%2BPM.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1070\" data-original-width=\"1300\" height=\"526\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Uks4RTveGaA\/YQosnZ6O2WI\/AAAAAAAAg9Q\/lYuT6niIw5oiL_ENeg7EOI87hb3jb4GKACLcBGAsYHQ\/w640-h526\/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-08-04%2Bat%2B5.34.50%2BPM.png\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div><br \/><div><br \/><\/div><\/div><div><br \/><\/div><\/div><div><br \/><\/div><\/div><div><br \/><\/div><\/div><div><br \/><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;This message is for those with children who have entered the school duathlon. Please share this post with your duathlete.&nbsp;Our duathlon is this coming Tuesday afternoon, starting at 1:30.&nbsp;Duathletes can wear their house top and will need&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kauri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beckenham.school.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beckenham.school.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beckenham.school.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beckenham.school.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beckenham.school.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11022"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beckenham.school.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11434,"href":"https:\/\/www.beckenham.school.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11022\/revisions\/11434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beckenham.school.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beckenham.school.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beckenham.school.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}