By David Bennison
Thank you to everyone who made the trip out to Pegasus Town last night for our first race. I want to apologise again for the confusion over the swim course.
The first thing I did when I got home is look up the description on the website and I got it wrong, the distances and description on the site were correct so next time we are out at Pegasus Town I will make sure we follow the course correctly! For those that were wondering what the accurate distances were for the course that I sent you on. The super short course was correct, the short course was 530m and the long course swim was 900m.
Despite the weather we had 114 people line up for the start of race one (one of our smallest fields in two years) and as one competitor pointed out to me, while it was cold if we had been over at Corsair Bay the weather would have been far worse! We hope that apart from the cold air temperature everyone enjoyed the chance to race in the warm fresh water lake.
Results Summary
Long Course Swim 900m
Men: 1st Zac Barber 12:42, 2nd Jack King 13:37, 3rd Paul Brady 13:56
Women: 1st Kerry Newton 13:57, 2nd Kath Atkin 14:00, 3rd Liz Beaglehole 14:30
Short Course Swim 530m
Men: 1st Steve Marshall 7:34, 2nd Stephen Gellen 9:31, 3rd Chris Hutchinson 11:57
Women: 1st Melanie Isherwood 10:46, 2nd Tessa Shankie 11:53, 3rd Leanne Foote 12:22
Super Short Swim 400m
Men: 1st Joseph Hutchinson 9:11, 2nd Scott Blair 10:02, 3rd Mike Pacey 11:47
Women: 1st Rebecca Kiesanauski 33:56
Long Course Aquathon 530m swim - 5km run
Men: 1st Rob Creasy 26:44, 2nd Heath Eckersley 30:40, 3rd Matt Mace 31:02
Women: 1st Julia Grant 29:29, 2nd Jaye Atkin 29:40, 3rd Laura Wood 30:12
Short Aquathon 400m Swim - 3km Run
Men: 1st Nigel Shatford 21:58, 2nd Noel Dew 25:46, 3rd Steve Hammond 25:55
Women: 1st Kiri Atkin 20:09, 2nd Melanie Jane 23:17, 3rd Ella Harris 21:22
Kayak/Surf Ski 5km
1st Hayden Lockie 29:10, 2nd Glen Menzies 29:41, 3rd Lisa Speirs 35:26
Multisport Aquathon 3.5km paddle - 5km run
1st Murray Johnstone 44:36, 2nd Anna Akers 59:00
SUP
Men: 1st Dan Smith 24:02, 2nd Andrew Taylor 24:42, 3rd Wayne Simmons 25:53
Women: 1st Lucy Hodgson 31:15, 2nd Sharon Pruton 32:35
5.5km Run
1st Rainer Pye 21:53, 2nd Peter King 28:09
3km Run
1st Jacqui Frizelle 18:24
We did have a box of Cadbury Crunchies which we were going to give to the winners of each race this summer, however some people helped themselves to these during the race so when we went to get the box there were only 3 left in there! So as a result there won't be any Cadbury Crunchies to give to winners this summer!
A full copy of the results are available to download from our website www.surfnturf.co.nz/results.
One final thing that might put a smile on your faces, after you all left last night and we started to pack all our stuff back into the trailer (in the freezing cold) just to top off the night all the sprinklers around us decided to turn on and soak us for 15 minutes!
Next weeks race is back at Corsair Bay where the course will be a simple triangle like we are used to! We would appreciate it if you are able to pre enter to save us time on the night. We have to manually enter all the late entries into our laptop before we can start the race so if you pre enter we can do this the night before. If you haven't already entered for race two then you can do so now from our website www.surfnturf.co.nz/enter
Event Photos
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