A night with Nathan Fa’avae

November 8, 7.30pm. As the guest speaker at this year’s AGM, Nathan has a free rein to speak about his life and his career. The AGM is in a room adjacent to A block at NMIT (see the accompanying map for venue and parking). The AGM will be the first piece of business. There will be no pressure on you …

Triathlon time

Over the coming months, the club will undertake one of its most ambitious summer programmes yet, culminating in the National Schools Triathlon Festival on February 19, 20. The festival will include the Suzuki Schools Triathlon Championships, the Aquathlon Championships and the Team Tag Championships. To ensure that school triathletes from our region are well prepared, on March 6 we’ll be reinstating the regional …

Sunny Sunday newsletter

Have you been keeping in touch with Ironman World Champs today? Both our Nelson competitors were doing well at noon, with Alan Bryson (pictured) about two thirds of the way through the 180km bike leg and Louise Corbett at halfway. The tracking is pretty sophisticated these days – easy to spend the whole day watching the race unfold. Nelson Tri …

Shoe Clinic Mountainbike Series, Race Three

The weather this season has been absolutely brilliant, although a heavy frost made it a bit chilly to start with. There was some fantastic competition at the front and a lot of satisfaction further back in the field. Here's the results.  (Version five) Nelson Mail story, from the Stuff website. For race photos, click here

Shoe Clinic Mountainbike Series, Race One

Beautiful day at Rabbit Island for the 74 participants. Here's the preliminary results, please email us at info@nelsontriclub.co.nz if you spot any errors click here Nelson Mail story on Stuff

Haulashore Circuit, March 26, 2017

Low cloud and rain, but perfectly flat seas made it a perfect day. Hayden Squance and Luke Kelly did battle with each other and stingrays, setting up a final sprint, which Hayden took by three seconds, setting a new record of 35min 33sec. Luke also broke the old record of 35min 45sec, which he set two years ago. Terry Bone …

Sea swims March 9, 2017

It was an unexpectedly exciting swim, with the current ripping in. Over a short distance, it was a night for the sprinters. Tonight’s results. Results in finish order Here’s some photos. Featured swimmer: Dick Bennison has been the event organiser and leader of the sea swim team for the past four years. Dick is also the president of the Nelson …

Sea swims, March 2, 2017

Another lovely swim. Here’s the results Results in finish order. Here’s some photos Featured swimmer, Jude Vincent. After a season of tight competition in F50-59, Jude clinched the category with a win tonight. Points to date Remember that the figure that counts is the best of 12 swims – in the column on extreme right. Next week’s swim will be a …

Sea swims, February 23, 2017

Another wonderful swim in perfect conditions, possibly about 1700m for the long course. Here’s the results. Results in finish order. Points to date. Note that season points are taken on each swimmer’s best 12 results. Categories are now sorted on this basis, so the column on the right reflects this adjusted total. There are two swims remaining for points to be …