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For Zeus Gallardo, running a marathon is as much about discovering new places as it is about competition.

Despite record entries, no firm favourites have emerged for today's Dunedin marathon and associated half marathon fields.

Melbourne runner Owen Piper got a pleasant surprise when he scheduled a New Zealand holiday this month.

When Dunedin brothers Keith and Ian Johnston compete in the Dunedin marathon on Sunday it will be in memory of their father.

Finance Minister Bill English says it's too early to be sure about the extent of an economic recovery and more rapid growth is needed to absorb jobs that have been lost.

Trudging through fresh snow, with clear blue skies and picture perfect mountain ranges as a backdrop, I zip up my jacket and take a deep breath.

Fiona Crombie (Canterbury) took full advantage of a slow first half to power away over the final lap and win the senior women's national road title in Dunedin on Saturday.

Auckland's Danielle Trevis may have received the wrong wardrobe advice but remembered to pack a top performance to win the junior women's national road championship title.

Kim Hogarth (Nelson) turned the tables on several pre-race favourites to win his fifth national title for the year, the senior men's national road title, in Dunedin on Saturday.

Former Otago runner Andrew Davidson is favoured to complete a prestigious double when he contests the national road championships in Dunedin today.

Amelia Kinnard will become the third St Hildas Collegiate School multisporter in 10 years to represent her country when she competes at the world championships on Australia's Gold Coast next week.

Members of the Wanaka Camera Club consider themselves ‘‘amateurs'' in a ‘‘fledgling'' group, but their interest in photography and the skills learned and developed during the past two years are to be shown for the first time at the club's inaugural exhibition next week.

A rural fire exercise held at the Otago Conservancy Rural Fire Centre in Clyde was a ‘‘modified scaling'' of the two major wildfires north and south of Alexandra in February, 1999.

Starting a film society in Cromwell is just the first small step towards realising a dream for film industry specialist PKay Maracin.

"Make a difference over a cuppa'' is the slogan behind a service focusing on the needs of elderly people set to be launched in Queenstown and Wanaka next week.