A mild-blue-sky summer's day greeted runners and walkers, for race 2 of the Sri Chinmoy Auckland Series 2023, held at the peaceful, evergreen Lovelock Track, War Memorial Park, Mt Roskill on Sunday 26 February 2023.

Jason Gerritz (1.08.10) won the inaugural Sri Chinmoy 10-Mile Classic (16.1k) from Vincent Sesto (1.10.17) and Shaun Cooper (1.15.55).

Csenge Gyorgyi (1.21.01) was first in the women's 10-Miler ... followed by Lisa Harris (1.21.55) and Kim Dirks (1.26.16).

In the Sri Chinmoy 10 km Race Tom Mowbray (35.28) was just 12 seconds over Ben Evans December 2022 men's course record. Aron Thompson (38.00) and David Mole (44.37) were 2nd & 3rd.

Melanie James (47.27) had a comfortable win in the women's 10 km race ... from Gina Todd (53.21) & Kylie Hogg (1.04.52).

Salesh Srikewal (49.16) and Helen Anderson (53.33) were the respective winners of the men's/ women's Sri Chinmoy 5.6 km Races.

Angela Baird (11.22) was first in the Sri Chinmoy 2.5 km Children's Race, followed by Zaddie Todd (13.32) and Ashley Gerritz (24.30).

Matthew Baird (12.08) won the 2.5 km boy's race ... from Villa Zhang (13.46) and Kasper Kerr & Bradley Gerritz (both 16.16).