However, Tony has ridden up on his white steed and written a piece on the recent Roskill meet held last weekend, complete with photo. What would we do without you Tony? Here it is:
Auckland Short Course Championships 18th May 2013
Eighteen of our swimmers competed very successfully at the Auckland Short Course Championships hosted by Roskill Masters Swimmers at the Cameron Pool. The meet was very well organised, the racing was exciting to watch and the atmosphere was great.
Many of us achieved personal best times, which is always satisfying. There were a couple of incidents of people slipping on the walls during turns and a pulled muscle or two, but overall we all enjoyed it.
There were a couple of notable achievements: Fiona Grigg has been improving steadily over the few years she’s been swimming seriously, and to prove the point she swiped a whole 10 seconds off her previous best 100 m freestyle time. Well done!
As many of you know, Deryn has been working on a training plan for over a year aimed at breaking the NZ age group record for 100 m breaststroke. She treated the 50 m breaststroke as a warm-up and came within a gnat’s whisker of the NZ record. Despite her being a little annoyed at not trying harder, it set her up well for what was to follow. In the 200 m breaststroke she smashed the NZ record by nearly 12 seconds (with 3:12.92) – a fantastic achievement. But did she have enough left for the 100 m? She proved she did without any shadow of doubt by taking nearly 5 seconds off that record too (1:28.65). It was a job very well done, making all those watching very proud!
We didn’t manage to retain the Joan Monahan Relay trophy (Mixed 200 m Freestyle), but that didn’t seem to cause much distress – there’s always next year…
At the presentation after the meet many of our swimmers won ribbons for points in their age groups. All in all, it was a great meet for South City.
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| What a good looking bunch! |
