Wayne Parsons

Luke Easterbrook (Caversham) overcame apprehension and inclement weather to win the open men's title at the Barnes Cross-country at Kettle Park yesterday.

Re-arranging the order of its runners proved a master-stroke when Hill City-University dominated the senior men's event at the cross-country relays at the Dunedin Pony Club grounds on Saturday.

Hill City could very well score a rare double in the cross-country relays at the Dunedin Pony Club grounds today.

More than 1000 of the country's top middle-distance runners, coaches and managers will converge on the Taieri Plain tomorrow for the national road relay championships.

He was a champion in 1988, but yesterday's marathon may have been Mike Piper's last time on the Dunedin marathon course.

Shireen Crumpton's golden run continued when she won her first national road race title on the Ruakura course in Hamilton on Saturday.

The Edmond Cup steeplechase has been a feature event among harrier clubs in Otago and, at times, the entire South Island since 1907.