The forecast looks to be improving marginally as the day progresses, by 1pm should have very light easterlies and by 4pm slightly more from the north-east.
Just spoke to Johnno: his IT Band (for those of you non running-inclined, that's the tendon-y thing that runs down the outside of your leg from your hip to your knee) has seized up on him making it almost impossible to run downhill, painful to run uphill and okay to jog on the flat. So they spent a fair bit of time walking considering he said it played up from halfway across the first beach, Richardson's beach. Thinks he'll be alright for Wellington though!