Starship Swimathon
It's been a while since I posted ... are regular updates on regular training really very interesting? I'm not sure. Anyway, as I've just done an actual event, it seemed like time for a report. A few months ago, a group of Wellington/Nelson swimmers thought that we really needed a challenge and a long swim to celebrate the start of summer and the end of a year that hasn't been easy for anybody. Of course, it's been a lot easier and less disrupted for us in New Zealand than for swimmers in most other parts of the world and I think that swimmers here - whether pool or open water - are really very grateful that we're able to train and be together every day. So, we were looking for an event, and the suggestion emerged that we should look at the Swimathon in Auckland on 28 November. This is a great initiative, and has a pool version and an open water version. In the open water version, the goal is to swim a mile on the hour, every hour, for twelve hours. The fundra