Din Din's

South City Masters is holding a dinner to which everyone is invited. It will be held on Sat 28th May at 7pm, at Spices Thai, 123 Ormiston Road, Botany South (just down from Celsius). Fully licensed & BYO Wine. Menu is below ($32 version – with dessert, no soup). The evening will be subsidized with a rather generous subsidy for club members; so the evening will cost $15 for club members and $30 for non-members.

Please confirm your attendance by May 21st. There will be the usual sheet by the side of the pool at training sessions for you to do this. Anne Legg will be collecting payment in advance (nice one Ann, this makes it easy for everyone). 

Maximum of 45 people, so first come first served.

Banquet Menu

Entree

Chicken Wing

Curry Puff

Money Bag

Chicken Satay

Main Courses

Panang Curry with chicken

Beef with oyster gravy sauce and veg

Pork with chili, garlic and veg

Chicken with ginger and veg

Pad Thai noodle with chicken

Steamed Thai jasmine rice

Dessert

Banana rolls with strawberry sauce, icecream, cream

Filtered coffee or tea

Prince of the Bays - Son of KOB

16th April was the date for the annual King of the Bays swim. Unfortunately the weather was not being kind to the organizers or the swimmers. Nasty wind and rain meant that the normally 2.8km swim was shortened to 1.5km. It was so rough in fact that the organizers didn't even let the swimmers venture out into open water and they only swam twice around the 750m course and even then it was rough. 

Undercover Detective wasn't hang-gliding but did have 360 degree goggles on and saw everything. I don't know how many swimmers were entered (they usually get around 1300) but 651 swimmers cheated certain death and recorded a time. Here’s how our swimmers did.

JASON GRANT                  00:16:48            35th
RICHARD SMITH               00:17:06            40th
DAVID DONALDSON         00:18:20            87th
RACHEL RICHARDSON    00:18:25            93rd
ELLIOT CRAWFORD         00:20:03            194th
LIZ HAYES                         00:20:07            199th
TONY SHACKLOCK          00:21:40            289th
ANGELA TOMLINSON       00:21:45            294th
ANGELA OLIVER               00:22:31            342nd
DAVID WALKER                 00:23:54            408th
BARRY CRIBBENS            00:25:35            484th

What's this? Tony and Angela T 5 seconds apart again. That's the same margin as last time. I'm starting to think this is deliberate and conspired. To quote Angela 'only a fool breaks the 5 second rule'. It's really not necessary guys, it's not like there's food on the floor. To make matters even more confusing Elliot and Liz finished just 4 seconds apart. Now I've heard of tethered cycling but not tethered swimming. I'm sure this kind of thing is against the rules.

Undercover Detective - next time perhaps you could wear your head-mounted waterproof video camera and take some video. Or at least get some photos. I promise that the head-mounted gear won't add any drag and slow you down.

Satellite Spies - Lookout, They're Everywhere

That ocean swim that makes even Chuck Norriss run for the hills was on again today. Yes, The Rangitoto to St Heliers 4.6km swim. Roving Reporter wasn't there but Satellite Spy was and here is how South City members and honorary members did:

Richard Smith 1:01:12 (7th)
David Donaldson 1:09:52
Elizabeth Hayes 1:12:16
Rachel Richardson 1:12:51
Elliott Crawford 1:18:11
Pat Castles 1:22:00
Tony Shacklock 1:22:39
Angela Tomlinson 1:22:44
Mike Wansink 1:23:19
David Walker 1:29:02
Ross Faulkner 1:30:16
Barry Cribbens 1:41:06
  
Brilliant conditions: Partly cloudy, light wind, flat water. South City was well represented with 10 club members swimming. No one won a spot prize though. What's with that? Going on times it looks like a few people were holding hands throughout the race. Are Tony and Angela conjoined twins? They were just 5 seconds apart. I might need a spy-in-the-sky next time to check that one out. You can volunteer for spy-in-the-sky position if you like, it is unpaid but you get to learn hang-gliding.

Didn't they all do well.

Build A Better Mousetrap.........

and they shall come. And they did! 30 Masterful swimmers enjoyed their races on Wednesday with lots of short stuff to keep the sprinters happy. There was 25 Fly or Free, 50 Back, 50 Breast and 100 Free. Some great times were swum and 7 swimmers who had swum the 100 free last round managed to lower their own times and lower their own record or break records set by others in the previous round.

In the Womens there were four (4) record changes as follows:

25-29 age group  Angela Tomlinson reduced her own record from 1.24.32 to 1.22.31
40-44 age group  Elizabeth Hayes reduced her own record from 1.17.47 to 1.15.11
55-59 age group Avy Judelson set a new mark of 1.20.19 from old record of 1.44.15
70-74 age group Cathy Fagerstroem reduced her own record from 2.03.99 to 1.54.28

In the mens there were three record changes as follows:

45-49 age group Michael Harrison reduced his own record from 1.14.60 to 1.09.30
55-59 age group Ron Tomlinson set a new mark of 1.09.47 from the old record of 1.22.70.
65-69 age group Barry Davies reduced his own record from 1.39.77 to 1.38.99 

Checkout the Overall Results page to see what times were swum by whom and then have a look at the Records pages to see who holds what records.

There are now 33 different club record holders. The most hotly contested category is the men's 50-54 age group which now has 5 men holding records. Myself, I think they are just being far too nice to each other and sharing it around. Sharing is caring, so I've heard. Maybe they have a pact; one for me, one for you.....

The next race night is pegged for Wednesday 4th May, 7pm. If you are not the sprinting type and it takes you 20 minutes just to get up on the start blocks then you will like what's in store because I believe it might be the 400 Free (or IM if you are fast enough to finish an IM before 8pm bowls around). This is to be confirmed yet though. So if you like the longer stuff then start dusting off those enduro-goggles.