A bunch of us made the pilgrimage to Taupo last week to swim up and down a few races at the North Island Masters Champs.
Taupo is a great venue for this meet as it is nice and central so everyone can get there and they have a fantastic facility. Taupo Masters were magnificent hosts and put on a wonderful meet and arranged some brilliant weather for us just to top it off (nudge nudge please hold it again next year!).
Everyone had a great time and the racing was excellent. South City came home with a couple of trophies; yet again we are TOP CLUB, for which we have a nice shield to show off. Just as importantly we retained the Thomas Cup which is a 6 person dash and splash, no age limit. This was an exciting race which came down to the wire but South City pulled it off.
'Star of the Meet' however belongs to Dawn Walker, bagging herself 2 New Zealand records; both in breaststroke - 50m and 100m (we do love our breaststroke don't we?). This is the culmination of a lot of hard work and a 'can do' attitude. You are a SUPERSTAR Dawn.
In other results, Dawn and Mark won their overall age groups and Avy came 3rd in hers. Dave B won the amazing spot prize of a tandem Sky Dive! I can't wait to hear how that goes. Well done everyone.
Some photos from the meet are below. But first, some other stuff.
Auckland Short Course Champs
This is a fun meet and it is coming up soon - June 11th to be precise.Entry forms are with Sally, John, Lapo and Avy. Other details below:
Race Night Results
Results from race night have now been posted. There were 13 racers and 6 records went down. There was no swimmer of the month and apparently I did nothing worthy this month to earn the wooden spoon, and nor did anyone else.
There is one more race night before the Auckland Champs so why not come along and have a practice?
Photos
Now that you've read the other stuff you can look at the photos, in no particular order:
