Half Hour Postal Swim

Hi all

Here's something that's a good benchmark for your distance swimming. Every year Shear Magic organise a postal swim, where the aim is to swim as far as you can in 30 minutes. It's swum at your local pool and the distance swum is sent in with the entry. John will organise timekeeping for anyone wishing to do it. We've penciled it in for 18th July, so let John know if you're interested.

Regards
Tony

Lloyd Elsmore Maintenance Closure

Hi all

The dates for the annual pool maintenance closure at Lloyd Elsmore have been set. The pool will be closed from:
Monday 25th July - Sunday 7th August 2016

Our arrangements for training this year will be a little different from previous years. We've booked Sundays at Papatoetoe as usual, but we are making no arrangements for Monday or Wednesday evening training. Mondays at Manurewa are not available now and we felt attendance at the Wednesday evenings at Papatoetoe wasn't worth it.
So...
No weekday training Monday 25th June - 5th August.
Sundays 31st July & 7th August 8:00 - 9:00 am training  at Papatoetoe Centennial Pool.
Normal training resumes Monday 8th August

Tony Shacklock
for the Committee

Upcoming Pool Meets

Hi all

In case you missed the email from NZ Masters about upcoming pool competitions, here it is. You'll notice that the NZ Masters website has more convenient access to the pool meet documents, now.

Dear Masters Swimmer We have already had two great pool competitions this year - the North Island Short Course Championships in Taupo in May, and the Auckland Short Course Championships in June.  There are more pool events to look forward to as many swimmers build towards the World Masters Games being held in Auckland in April 2017. Hamilton Mid-Winder Long Course Meet The welcome return of this event which has been very successful in previous years. This is a great opportunity to swim a Long Course event prior to the Nationals in November. Date: Saturday 30th July Venue: Waterworld, Te Rapa, Hamilton Entries close: 14th July Entry form & information: http://www.nzmastersswimming.org.nz/pool/hamilton-masters-mid-winter-long-course-meet.html South Island Short Course Championships This event is once again being held in Ashburton in their lovely new pool. Date: 12th-13th August Venue: EA Network Centre, Ashburton Entries close: 24th July Entry form & information: http://www.nzmastersswimming.org.nz/pool/2016-south-island-short-course-championships.html National Long Course Championships This event will be held at the Sir Owen G Glenn National Aquatic Centre in Auckland - venue for the swimming events of the World Masters Games in April 2017.  This is your chance to swim in the first ever Masters event in the premier pool in the country, and start your build up for the World Masters Games. Date: 11th-13th November Venue: Sir Owen G Glenn National Aquatic Centre, Mairangi Bay, Auckland Entries close: 21st October (late entry fee applies after 1st October) Entry form & information: http://www.nzmastersswimming.org.nz/pool/2016-national-long-course-championships.html Reminder: You must have paid your subscription to your NZMS-affiliated club for 2016 to participate in these events.  Contact your club secretary if you are unsure of your status. Happy swimming Liz Davidson IT Officer - NZ Masters Swimming

Don't Miss Out!

Hi Swimmers and partners

Just a quick reminder to put your name down on the flier to go to the Annual Awards dinner on the 2nd July 2016. We would love to see you all there for a wonderful evening of fun, food and friendship.

This year the dinner is going to be held at Frantalia, located at 32 Jellicoe Road Panmure, which is opposite the Mobil petrol station at the Panmure Roundabout.

There is a car park to the right of the building. Please be there and seated by 7pm so your orders can be taken.

We are going to be seated upstairs in their function room, so when you enter the restaurant, make your way straight upstairs. There is plenty of room for everyone.

What is the price? $15 for club members, $30 for non members.  It is BYO but the club will be shouting some wine. Fantastic menu with gluten free options available.  

It's going to be a great night  -  see you all there.

 

Please have your names in by 26 June so we can confirm numbers with the restaurant.

Listen Up!

Important Message 

Hi all

You will know we've been trying out a mix of two styles of training programmes. The idea behind it was to see if there was benefit in offering programmes to suit those aiming to perform well in competition. However, although some have enjoyed it, we haven't been able to do it without disrupting some of those who normally swim in Lanes 1, 2 & 3.

Overall, we feel that it is in the club's interest to revert to one uniform set of programmes that aim to develop general swimming fitness. We'll start this weekend.

Going forward Deryn and Tony will work together on the programmes, with Deryn writing Mondays and Tony writing Sundays & Wednesdays. We're also looing at other ways of providing competition-oriented training.

We hope this works better, but please give any feedback or ideas you have to Deryn, Tony or any of the committee so we can make improvements as time goes by.

Best regards
Tony
for the Committee

Hamilton Mid-Winter Meet
Yay - this has been resurrected.
Boo - I will be away.
This is a really fun meet to go to so it's great to see it back on the menu. It's run as a long course meet so you can use it as some practice for the nationals or just go along and have fun. Best yet, it's not far from Auckland.
It is on the 30th July so get your entry forms in soon. You can get a form and other info here:
Hamilton mid-winter meet

Race Night Results Up

Yes they are up! If you took part in last week's race night you can now check out your results. There were 14 swimmers practicing their F.A.S.T. swimming and 11 records were broken, 8 to the men and 3 to the ladies. We were all feeling too lazy to do any relays.

Swimmer of the month was dished out but first the wooden spoon was given to team Trubnick/Judelson for having a brand new car break down on the way to Taupo. Probably more of a hard luck story than a wooden spoon, but hey, it means that I escaped having to take it home for a 4th time so who's complaining.

Swimmer of the Month (dun dun duunn) was hotly contested this month. An honourable mention award went to Dawn Walker who swum herself to 2 new individual NZ records at this meet. However, the main award and Swimmer of the Month was Fiona Grigg for smashing out 4 (yes 4!!!) PB's at the north islands and taking a whopping 15 seconds off her 400 Freestyle time. Keep it up Fiona.

North Island Champs and Other Stuff

North Island Champs
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: