National Academy of Distance Running
Beaches in Nelson
www.nzrunningacademy.co.nz
Address
142 Saxton Rd. Stoke.. Nelson, Nelson.Are you the owner or manager of this company?
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In the past 13 years his runners have collected 250 national medals, including 80 gold, and 10 national cross country and road relay team titles. He was coached by Athletics West coaches Dick Quax, the former 5,00m world record holder and 1976 Olympic silver medalist from New Zealand, and Bob Sevene, who coached 1984 Olympic Women’s Marathon Champion Joan Benoit Samuelson. The 10km time ranked as the 28th fastest time in the world for 1987 and was the third best in the U. Olympic Trials in New Orleans, Lautenslager finished 10th in the 5,00m and missed making the U. He continues to run and train with his athletes, won three gold medals in his age group in the 5,00m, 1,500m, and the 400m at the 2013 New Zealand Masters Track and Field Championships and was named the South Island Masters Track Athlete of the Year and the New Zealand Masters Athletics Middle Distance Athlete of the Year. Nelson has, and is the BEST training environment in the world for runners and other sports in conditioning and training.
Nelson is indeed fortunate to have a talented coach in Greg Lautenslager who I am sure will unearth many young champions of the future in your region. Greg Lautenslager has been the number one reason why I have paid personal attention to Nelson Athletics. The Academy’s Coach and Director, Greg Lautenslager, is a former world class runner whose Nelson based athletes have collected 205 national medals and many New Zealand individual and team titles, and several records. We regard Nelson with its environment, climate, and training facilities and trails to be the best year round place in the world to train.
At this stage I had just been introduced to the sport of running and was competing in both track and cross country meets around the region. Not only did Greg become my running coach, he became a close friend and most importantly, a mentor for my sport and life surrounding it. He has had a huge effect on the numbers involved in athletics in Nelson I remember my first training session with Greg where there were only 5 other runners, all of which were in their teens and now, after only 7 years, over 40 people of all ages and skills train together under Greg. Greg first came out to take over coaching of our group about 7 years ago and since then I have seen Greg give 100 to me and every other athlete who has joined our group. Nearly each day of the week he is collecting kids from school to go for a training run, and taking them home.
The pride and happiness that Greg showed when an athlete performed was truly an inspiration in itself. He has taken me from being a 5. 15min 1500m runner at age 13 to a 3
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