Good Times in Levin

Last weekend's North Island Champs would have to be considered one of the most successful Masters meets in recent times. 129 Swimmers descended on Levin and this would be the largest number of swimmers at a Masters event for quite some time.

South City showed up and had a couple of houses booked at the nearby holiday 'village' of Waitarere Beach; a 'safe swimming beach' though due to thechigh winds it didn't look much like safe swimming while we were there.

Friday night was a long one with a number of events including the 800/1500 Freestyle so it was nearly 10.30 pm before we left the pool. Levin Masters came up trumps again though, providing a variety of soups and buns for the hungry swimmers. Great idea Levin, very much appreciated.

An early start on Saturday morning had me wondering 'why?' but when we were rewarded with a 2 hour recovery period in the middle of the day it was all worthwhile. It was easier to contemplate being able to perform well in the afternoon after a decent rest.

The afternoon session culminated in a number of relays which were so well attended it required 3 heats to complete the mixed freestyle. Finishing up the meet was the all important Thomas Cup which is a 3 man, 3 woman freestyle relay. There was a nail biting finish between Levin and South City. Who won? More on that later.

The evening dine and dance was at the local Cozzie Club with a quite delightful 2 piece resident band who may have been a little confused about what decade it was. Everyone was having a good time but seemed pretty tired; swimming your heart out will do that to you. We lead a bit of a pansy night life really don't we? One day I might try staying up past 10 pm just to see what it is like.

How did we go, swimming wise? Very well indeed with some very fancy times being swum. I know of one of our swimmers who took 4 minutes off his 1500 freestyle time and another of our swimmers who did a PB in every event. Most swimmers swam at least one PB if not more. As for that very important club trophy, the Thomas Cup, yes, we just beat out the home team.

Thanks Levin for putting on a great meet, you can run this one again any time you like. 

You can find all the photos on our Flickr page. A big thanks to Tanya for the wonderful photos.
2015 NI Champs Photos

The whole squad

Thomas Cup team, minus Dan Feisst

Club Night Results, Swimmer Of The Month

There was a good turnout for October's race night and results have now been posted. There may have only been 3 new records recorded but times were very sharp indeed. This bodes well for the North Island Champs in Levin next weekend which we have 14 or 15 swimmers attending.  We even had a relay record go down, the first in goodness knows how long. Good job team

Swimmer of the Month went to Nicole Youman. Nicole went to the Taupo Masters Spring Fling carnival a couple of weeks back and covered herself all over with glory. This was Nicole's first pool meet and she had trained very hard indeed for it. Her times were excellent which just goes to prove that hard work pays off. Great work Nicole!

Race Night this Wednesday

Yep it's time to get your race face on. Come along at the usual time on Wednesday and it won't even cost you a bean. Races we have include:

25 Fly or Free
50 Breast or Free
50 Back
100 Free

If you work hard enough we will give you a Mellowpuff and a cup of juice to wash it down.