Perfect conditions (although a little cool). A field of 35 swimmers, who raised an incredible $1800 for the Prostate Cancer Foundation. Here’s the results BlueSept300918

Another beautiful day at Rabbit Island. For photos, click here Results, click here

In between each fortnight of rain over the past month, there have been three perfect Sundays. On each one we held a race in the Shoe Clinic Brooks Duathlon Series. Although the course was a bit wet in places, that didn’t dim the enthusiasm or the enjoyment. Will O’Connor and Fran Harris took out the top places in the long …

Shoe Clinic Brooks Duathlon Series Race three of the Shoe Clinic Brooks Duathlon Series is on Sunday. The rain looks like it will hold off for the morning and the course should be in good shape, despite the recent rain. If you haven’t yet entered, it’s not too late. See the entry website, click here There’s plenty of spot prizes, …

Earlier rumours of bad weather were burned away by the hot sun and perfect conditions prevailed for the 13 competitors in the kids micro race and the 68 in the longer races. Featured photo: Fran Harris, winner of the women’s section of the long race. Photo: Janice Coyle Here’s the results Kids results Here’s the photos by Janice Coyle Story …

Great day – great course. Featured image – Hogan Ward was the winner of the micro race for 5-12-year-olds. Eleven kids took part in the micro race over 600m/1.3km/600m and then 56 competitors raced over the short medium and long course. Here’s the results. Here’s the photos by Janice Coyle There’s a story on The Nelson App – download the …

This series is close now, with races on April 22, May 6 and May 20. Because so much of Rabbit Island cannot now be used because of the Great Taste Trail, or is unsuitable because of logging or biosolid spraying, we’ve revised the fomat. In a departure from the format used for the past 13 years, we’re now using short …

What a wonderful day. Everything you want to know about the race will be here over the next couple of days. To get you started, here’s the results. It was a close-run thing in the points race for schools, with Waimea Intermediate winning by one point from Waimea College. Here’s the points table. Link to event photos by Janice Coyle …

Despite all the damage at Rabbit Island and the confusion caused by the cancellation, the event was a great success for the small but perfectly formed field that took part. Although it wasn’t about winning, in the team tag event the Ruby Bay Racers (the Squance family) came in first, ahead of Little Big Boys (Wayne Leighton, Jobe McAuley and …

The Samoa Swim Series has been a favourite winter destination for many of our club members in recent years. But that’s not all the team at Samoa Events have on offer. How about a winter escape from June 28? Check out the Samoa Run Series: www.samoaevents.com/run-festival-2018