Ka-blam! Bazinga! Kapow!

Villainous national records were no match for our swimming superheroes at this weekend's North Island Champs.

Wonder Woman (Avy Judelson) orchestrated a stealth attack on the record for the women's 200 Free. She ensnared the record in her Lasso of Truth, found the record to be a lie, and set the record onto the path of honesty with a new time of 2.46

Giles (Captain America) Walker then noticed a dastardly record that had been lying underground for 13 years. Captain America laid his body on the line and dealt the supervillain a swift uppercut in just 32.03 seconds. KABOOM!

Congratulations to Avy and Giles, our 2 latest holders of individual records (to be ratified).

The whole team had a very successful weekend in Whakatane which for all intents and purposes seems to be a very quick pool.

Overall, there were 17 personal bests swum (6 of them by Tanya!) and Fiona and Giles won silver age group medals and Avy a gold age group medals. But, EVERYONE swum extraordinarily well and swum exceptional times. The hard work at training and on technical improvement has really paid off. No one left disappointed and a great time was had by all. Whakatane ran the meet like a well oiled machine and yes please if they want to put their hand up again.

A special mention also to Rachel who smashed out a 6.03 400m butterfly (holy cow!) and Richard who flew up and down the pool for 1500m in just 18m45 (more cows being holy!)

Swim Programmes Freestyle Clinic - Coming To Us!!!

If you enjoyed the butterfly and breaststroke clinic then hang on to your hats. We have a freestyle clinic coming right up. It will be on the 30th of November in our pool and will be 2 whole hours of lovely freestyle learning. It will be for all levels. That means YOU.

Thomas can take 20 swimmers and it is first come, first served.

All details below but ask Giles if you have any questions.

October Race Results, Swimmer Of The Month, November Freestyle Clinic

It's all happening isn't it.

October races might have been a little while ago but the results were worth waiting for. A bunch of new records were posted and times were quick quick quick. 5 men's and 4 ladies records were broken. Check out the results on results pages and records on records pages. Where else would they be?

Swimmer of the Month was also worth waiting for. In fact we have been waiting 6 months for this one. Our very own magical Mike Harrison was selected earlier this year to compete for good old NZ at the WORLD triathlon champs. The long awaited event finally came around in August and a very excited Mike packed his bags and escaped the New Zealand winter for some Canadian sunshine. If you followed his blog you will know how well he did. Great job Mike, we are proud of you!

The wooden spoon has been on short hiatus but was given out this month to none other than.........me! For getting things back to front, or was that front to back. I'm still confused.

The excitement never ends - see below:

***NOVEMBER FREESTYLE CLINIC***

We are looking to run another swim clinic with the assistance of Thomas Ansorg. This will be a FREESTYLE clinic, aimed at technique and efficiency. The clinic is limited to 20 people (only Masters swimmers from South City) and the club will pay 50% of your tuition fee. We are waiting to confirm a few things but the likelihood is it will be a 2 hour clinic, with 30 minute debrief, and you will need to pay $30. This is really excellent value.

We need to get 20 swimmers, and lock in the date so we can get the pool time. The available dates are:

- Sunday 2nd Nov
- Sunday 9th Nov
- Sunday 30th Nov

Start time approx. 6.45am in the water at Lloyd Elsmore.

If you are interested, please talk to, or email Giles (gileswalker@rocketmail.com) with your date preference - if it makes it easier please list only the dates you can make, and then your preference. We will move with a majority vote. Remember first come first served.

(Just for those interested in knowing about date clashes, the Russell to Paihia State Ocewn Swim is Saturday 22nd hence the Sunday 23rd date is being excluded.)