Tonight’s swim has been cancelled. Following the recent rain, NCC has issued a swim warning which will be in place until at least tomorrow. Apologies for this – we’ll resume swimming next week (March 1).
Run in Samoa
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
Port Nelson swim, February 15
Turned out to be a great swim. The sea was calm, the sun was out, the current was barely there and the water didn’t taste bad at all. To the delight of some, the reduced field – the lowest this summer – gave the chance to pick up some points. Featured photo: Jude Vincent and Jane Alloway were very happy …
Team Tri cancelled
The forecast is 100% for rain all morning, the ground will be soggy and non-competing team members will be standing around in the wet – not to mention the volunteers, so the event is off for today. We’ll consider a new date in two weeks but confirm this later.
Busy weekend for Nelson triathletes
Team tri numbers for Sunday’s race are slightly down, due largely to conflicting events – Buller marathon, Coast to Coast and the national sprint tri champs in Kinloch. After day one of the two-day Coast to Coast, Flossie Van Dyke (pictured) leads the women’s field by five minutes, with the third placed woman another 43 minutes back. Elina Ussher and …
Port Nelson swim, February 8, 2018
What a great swim. If we get more high tide opportunities, this seems like a popular option – give us your thoughts. After a look at the tide tables, it doesn’t seem that there’s one suitable for another beach swim this season. We’ll definitely put some on the season for next year. We had 156 swimmers, in perfect conditions. Here’s …
Port Nelson sea swim, February 1
It won’t come as any surprise – tonight’s swim is cancelled!!! Low tide is at 5.22pm – and it’s very low, but it’ll be coming in so it’s possible to set courses going south against the flow and coming back wider out. However, here’s the weather forecast for Thursday: “Rain setting in early, with heavy falls. Northerlies rising to …
Super sunny Sunday, January 28
What a day! In Wellington, Nelson swimmers took away 14 medals in the Capital Classic, race three of the Banana Boat Ocean Swim Series. That included two gold medals for Luke Kelly (pictured), overall winner and winner of M20-24, a bronze medal for Sierra Thomas for third woman (and ninth overall in the race) and a gold for first in …
Super sunny Sunday, January 28
Super sunny Sunday, January 28
Port Nelson Sea Swim, January 25
High tide is at 4.23pm, so it’ll be rushing on out. That indicates the short swim heading north first, then returning to the ramp. The long swim starting the same – over to the dolphin, then back to Rocks Rd and return closer to shore. That’s exactly what happened – long swim was about 1450m. 154 swimmers turned up for …