Churton Park Community Walkers

Newsletter May 26th 2024

Last week’s walks.

Unfortunately, the weather did not play ball on Wednesday and we had to cancel the walks, however a number of walkers enjoyed coffee at Simmer and a good chat!   Five Thursday walkers (plus Red) strolled around Churton Park completing 5.8km while 13 walkers explored the Miramar Peninsula on Friday on a walk of 13km.

Brian Vincent
Convenor.

Our Sponsors:

We have a number of sponsors which we list on our Home Page and in our Newsletter.  In recognition of the generosity of our sponsors, the committee has decided to also highlight one sponsor each week.  This week we have chosen Shoe Clinic Porirua as our featured sponsor:

Shoe Clinic Porirua, located in North City Shopping Centre, Porirua, are an owner-operated store specialising in shoes for active wear.  They go the extra mile to ensure that their customers get the right shoe for their feet and their activity (in the case of CPCW members, walking!) and that the shoes are fitted correctly.  If you purchase shoes from Shoe Clinic Porirua they will provide you with a discount of $20 and also donate 10% of the cost to CPCW.  They provide a 30 day money-back guarantee on their footwear (Ts & Cs apply - see website).

CPCW encourage you to support Shoe Clinic Porirua - they are longstanding, and very generous, sponsors of CPCW and many of our members can attest to their excellent service.

A reminder about walking arrangements:

After everyone has arrived at the starting location, each group should confirm its leader and also nominate a ‘tail-end Charlie’.  Please remember the medical kits – there is at least one for each group – and a reminder to take photographs. These allow us to record that day’s walkers in each group.  Please forward these by email.

Finally, just a reminder to swap telephone numbers amongst those with whom you travel to the starting point each week. A handy back-up for any late changes to arrangements.

Reminder:   Please ensure that you inform your group’s leader if you leave a walk partway through.

Walk Details for Wednesday May 29th 2024. 

This Week's Walks:  Last week we did not go ahead with the walks due to bad weather.  So this week we will again try and undertake the same walks which had been planned for Churton Park.

Every now and then we have a local walk and this is what is proposed this week with all three walks utilising the streets, tracks and walkways that are spread around Churton Park.  Hopefully some of you may find a walkway that you haven’t used before as a result of these walks.  All walks start and finish at Churton Park New World carpark.  Walks will commence at 9:00am.

PPs:  A 4.42km loop walk with only gentle hills.  You can see the walk here

SSs:  A 6.21km loop walk with one hill of note, otherwise fairly normal grades for Churton Park. You can see the walk here

FFs:  A 7.26km loop walk - again, one hill of note and a couple of others as well. You can see the walk here on MapoMeter and on Plotaroute here

Parking:  Obviously parking is in the New World carpark.  To keep New World happy please park at the south end, preferably in the back rows, or on the road.

Coffee:  We will warn Simmer that a good number of walkers will be calling in for coffee.  Hopefully the timing of the walks may spread us out a bit.  Simmer generally cope fairly well with our numbers.  (Also there is Thyme just down the road.)

Website

When you open the website to view your walk have a quick look at the “Home Page”  This usually has new images each week showing views from one of our walks.

Cancellation

If the walks are cancelled an email will be sent out as early as possible but definitely before 8:00am.

Walk Schedules

You can look at the walk schedule for May 2024 here. 

Photos

Walkers - please try and take a photo of each group on walking days and email them to this link.  Preferably small size (around 450kb).  It has been great to receive a larger number of photos from PPs and SSs - keep them coming, please!

CPCW Photos   

	No Wednesday Walk = No Wednesday Photos
	Thursday walkers made it out and about in Churton Park.  Thanks to Hue Ng for this photo.
	And Jane Gaudie led Friday's walkers out and about on the Miramar Peninsula to answer the question "Does Miramar have hills" - the answer is a resounding "YES!"  It was a calm morning with low, misty cloud:  The males in the early group were captured by Wendy Bentley: "Rub a dub dub, Three men in a tub..."	Whereas the latter group were in a rather more prosaic pose and photographed by Bill Gaudie.

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