Stadium Step Up Challenge

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HAYDEN WILLIAMS
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Girls from the James Hargest Senior Campus College first 11 hockey team with their coach Alison Bishop (bottom row, far right) completed the Fitness Fanatics category course of the Stadium Step Up Challenge.

About 80 people took part in the Stadium Step Up Challenge at the SIT Zerofees Velodrome on Sunday, August 6.

Participants in the Stadium Step Up Challenge run up and down steps completing an indoor course covering most of the interior of the stadium.

The challenge consisted of two categories: Fitness Fanatics, who did two laps of the 2.17km course, and Social Climbers, who went around once.

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Thom Thomson and Marcia Teau-Thomson, both of Invercargill, taking part in the Stadium Step Up challenge held at ILT Stadium Southland and SIT Zerofees Velodrome last Sunday.
Participants warm up before starting the innaugural Stadium Step Up Challenge.
Upstairs Downstairs: participants in the Stadium Step Up challenge running up and down steps.
Niamh Hegan (9), of Myross Bush, swings on one of the ropes featured in the Stadium Step Up Challenge obstacle course at ILT Stdium Southland last Sunday.
Alex Kidd (72) of the Southland Tramping Club was the eldest participant in the inaugural Stadium Step Up Challenge.
Nick Phillips of Winton was the unofficial winner of the Fitness Fanatics category for the first ever Stadium Step Up Challenge. Mr Phillips completed the Fitness Fanatics course (two laps) with a time of about 19 minutes--then went around a second time, completing a total of four laps.
Eilisha Hegan (10), Ciara Hegan (13), and Bronagh and Jeff Hegan, all of Mross Bush, take on stairs.
Aspiring para-athlete Hannah Pascoe completes the tyres section of the Stadium Step Up obstacle course with help from partner Nick Crawford and guide dog Cora.
Hannah Crooks, of Invercargill, runs through tyres in the obstacle course .
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