South City Masters - Not Just A Bunch Of Swimmers!

If you thought the pool wasn't so busy for a Sunday today that's because some of our very versatile members were competing in the Panasonic Peoples Tri at Maraetai. Performing very well too as you might expect.

Conditions were perfect and both teams excelled.

The girls Team won their race in the All Women's Division.

Chrissie - Swim 1.5km - 29.14
Jeannie - Cycle 40km - 1.15.52
Rochelle - Run- 10km - 54.10

The mixed Team came 5th Place in the Mixed Team Division

Denise - Swim -  1.5km - 27.58
Adam - Cycle 40km - 1.20.22
Neil - Run - 10km 53.03

Awesome!!! Check out the photos.

Chrissie, Rochelle and Jeannie. Winners! Why is Chrissie's number 56?

Chrissie, Jeannie, Neil, Denise, Adam in lavalava and Rochelle

 

But Wait, There's More!

We had swimmers in the 1km at Sand to Surf also. Who knew? Apparently not me, but fortunately others did and sent the results in, and they are sterling (naturally, being South City swimmers). More guts, more glory, and again nothing but top ten finishing. Results are:

Denise Munday  19m 58     1st in age 
Adam Munday    20m 15     2nd in age 
Diane Lane         27m 08     6th 

And Now For Something Completely Different 
That heading was purely for Monty Python fans. We have stuff. Club stuff that is. Merchandise. Stuff to wear, stuff to put your swimming gear in. There is a new club shirt, not a nightshirt, it's a day shirt but you can wear it at night if you want. There is a gear bag to put your togs in but it's big enough to put your goggles in too. There is also a sports cap but because you will look stupid wearing that with your goggles every order also comes with a swimming cap. 

All this stuff doesn't come free but it may as well do it's so cheap. Cheap as chips. To get your stuff you need to print out an order form and email it or give it to Avy and pay a (little) bit of money. The order form and other details are below but because I can't add documents to the blog (that would be too easy!) take a screen shot and print that out. It's the same thing. 

Sand to Surf Results

The State Ocean Swim Sand to Surf saw South City Masters turn out in force and once again do the club proud. Due to predicted high swells the swim was over the contingency course in Pilot Bay but was still 2.6km. Every club swimmer posted a top 10 (age group) placing - mighty effort indeed! Here are the results in order of age group placing:

Liz Hayes              41m26 1st in age
Avy Judelson         41m50 1st in age
Dan Feisst              36m35   4th in age
Pat Castles             46m48   4th in age
Dawn Walker         41m03   5th in age
Giles Walker          37m26   5th in age
Dave Donaldson    38m13   5th in age
Mike Harrison       39m37   7th in age
David Walker        44m47   7th in age
Dave Bradding      40m24   9th in age

Just one to go - King of the Bays. Then results of the season will be revealed!

Butterfly Clinic Coming Right Up

We've run stroke clinics for breaststroke, freestyle and backstroke and now it's time for butterfly. The butterfly clinic is going to follow a bit of a different format to the other three clinics. This clinic will still be run over 4 weeks, however, over the 4 weeks there will be a series of 16 progressions (4 progressions per week) designed to take the swimmer from zero (drill one) to hero (drill 16).

At each session swimmers will have 5 minutes warm up and then 10 to 12 minutes to practice each progression after an in-water demonstration by the coach. The coach will stay in the water spotting and correcting. This way swimmers can take as much or as little rest as required.

Although the clinic has been largely designed for those wanting to improve their butterfly it is also very suitable as a 'back to basics' refresher for advanced swimmers who want to re-establish good habits and/or learn new drills. There will be no individual stroke correction in this clinic. As with any of the clinics we run the progressions need to be practiced between each session (i.e. before the next session comes around).

Here are the dates:
Sunday 6th April
Sunday 13th April
Monday 21st April (to accommodate those away over Easter weekend)
Sunday 27th April

Please let me know by email if you intend to come. You can email me via the 'view my complete profile' facility on the blog's home page.

Club Night Results, AGM Reminder

Club night results are out. You know by now where to find them - on the Club Night Results page (where they have always been). There were some cracking good times. Even if you weren't there you should check out the times. There were 15 new records set by the 19 swimmers taking part; 8 to the ladies, 6 to the men and 1 new relay record. Excellent!

Both the wooden spoon and Swimmer of the Month awards were given out. Christine Fergusson earned herself the wooden spoon for having a public announcement over the address system for leaving her car lights on. All of Howick probably heard about it. Swimmer of the Month went to Denise Munday who has been putting in the hard yards. It has well and truly paid off. Denise is getting faster with each swim and has been tackling bigger and longer ocean swims.  Well done Denise.

Please remember the AGM on 26th March before training. It is your chance to have a say.