Since we started running our King and Queen of the Mountain race on Matariki Friday, it has grown every year as an event and as a celebration of our community - athletes, volunteers, young and old - all coming together to run up our maunga.

Owai had lots of success at the 2024 Auckland Marathon and Half Marathon on 3rd November. In the marathon, Joel Bickers ran to a superb...

The King/Queen of the Mountain is one of Owairaka’s longest running events. Blue skies and cool temperatures this year - good for records!

Congratulations once again to Konoka Azumi. Hot on the heels of her Tarawera success, she won the Northburn 100K, in a time of...

Konoka has had a some stellar results over the last few years but winning the TUM 100 miler a couple of weeks ago is an incredible...

Race report by Joel Bickers The feeling on the startline of a race will always make me uncomfortable. It’s the anticipation of the...

Three teams, two podiums, some unfinished business...our NZRR teams report back from the weekend in Canterbury. Senior Men's Team by...

Nick Moore on the National Road Champs, 10th September 2023, Massey Campus, Palmerston North

Thanks everyone who came along to run up our little maunga, eat soup and spend their Matariki holiday with us. What a race. For the men...

Bathurst was a dream / obsession that started sometime in 2019 way before COVID. Hearing that the World Cross Country Champs were coming...

1st October 2022 Traffic Management issues meant that there was a late change to the relays this year from the historic Takahe 2 Akaroa...

Recreating 1971's 100x1 mile world record relay at the Lovelock Track - a dawn to dusk celebration of Arch, of Owairaka Athletics & of...

There's a long standing tradition of holding Owairaka club races on public holidays - so what better way to mark our brand new public...

Sunday 15 May 2022 It was dark, cold and damp when the small field started warming up for the one-off Christchurch Reboot marathon. Covid...

The end of Cyclone Dovi also marked the end of the Athletics Auckland Track & Field Champs this year. Conditions were accordingly wild...

Legendary running coach Arch Jelley joined Owairaka in 1959, and started his coaching journey at the club the next year in 1960. Arch has...

New Zealand Cross Country Champs 2021 - race report by Nick Moore

New course record holders Nick Moore, who ran the mountain in 16:53, and Sophie Broome, whose time was 22:25 After a torrential downpour...

Last Sunday Keith represented NZ in the 2021 IAU 6H Virtual Global Solidarity Weekend at the Lovelock Track, completing a huge 76.6 km...

At this year’s North Island Colgate Games in Inglewood, Taranaki, five young athletes proudly represented Owairaka Athletics, and came...