KZN Masters Swimming Newsletter 2011/2012 No 2 16 September 2011
KZN MASTERS SWIMMING WINTER FITNESS CHALLENGE 2011
Sunday 14th August dawned and over 52 KZN Masters Swimmers and their friends braved the unusually cold Durban weather, more suitable for Polar Bears in order to swim their fastest at the Gordon Rd School Pool all in aid of raising money for charity. The chosen charity for 2011 was the MOTHWA HAVEN, which is a home for the Aged. In addition to the teams' entry fee swimmers were encouraged to bring toiletries etc. No less than 14 potential new members participated in the relays.
Hank Pike and Caren Jenny Ireland, Joanine Schaanick Sven Dahlmann and Heather
Strydom and Morag Bromfield Goldstein
The winning team of Mark and Julian Taylor, Lwazi Deyi and John Ellis clocked up 6150m in the allocated 60 minutes. Close on their heels were the "Hangovers", Pete and Barbs Lavett (Bowley), "Horse" Stewart and Warren Beuster who swum 6100m. Some teams swum laps of 25m, others 50 or 100m. Some chose to dive in whilst others started each lap in the water.
Hot soup awaited the swimmers and there were also lucky draws. At the end of the morning the swimmers treated themselves to lunch at one of Durban's Florida Rd restaurants.
A total of R1800 in cash, over 250 toiletry items, a stove, curtains, bedding and many other items were collected and given to the charity. Peter Larcombe (KZN Masters Swimming President), Merle Angelos (Vice President) and Loraine Hicks a Committee member handed the kitchenware eg jugs, bowls, cutlery etc that were requested by Mothwa Haven as well as linen, curtains and a braai to Mothwa Haven on Tuesday 12th September.
Merle Angelos David Letchert, Anton Maroun, Cliffie Lyne and
And Rob Letchert who clocked 3rd longest distance
of 5600m
Peter Larcombe, (President) a resident, Susie Olsen (Mothwa Haven) and Merle Angelos. (Vice President) at Mothwa Haven
A big thank you to Peter Larcombe and Merle Angelos for co-ordinating the event.
DOLPHIN SURF SWIM SERIES
Sunday 4th September saw the 9th and final event in the Dolphin Mile Surf Swim Series which is swum during the months of April to September in Durban.
Many Masters swimmers not only took part but managed to complete all 9 events in the series as well as walking away with some of the series age group prizes.
The series was well attended and only one event had to be postponed for the sardines this year. This enabled 9 events to be swum with only 6 counting to complete the series.
Swimmers who completed 6 or more were given a gift for their participation.
Masters swimmers came from as far afield as the UK, Perth and Auckland. Rocco Trollip is back in SA for a few months from NZ and Andrew Stevens was here on holiday from Perth. Annette Thatcher from the UK came to be with her mom.
Many Gauteng Masters swimmers entered as well, Clare Davie (did 4 events), Sam Gunther (1), Guy Harker, Owen Scheftz, Tracy Helps, and Anria Ebersohn all competed in the 7th August event.
Caren Strydom (East Coast) catches a wave Guy and Caren sprinting to the Finish.
behind Guy Harker (Wahoo – Gauteng)
KZN Masters Swimmers results for the series were as follows:
Adrian Schoeman – 5 events – oldest participant, Annette Thatcher – 3 events – until she returned to the UK, Barbara Bowley – 6 events – 1st 41-50, Bev Shuttleworth – 1 event, Brian Stewart – 1 event, Bronwen Griffiths - 4 events, Caren Strydom – 8 events – 2nd 41-50, Dawn Rode - 3 events, Di Hughes – 7 events – 1st 61+ - oldest lady, Graham du Toit – 1 event, Heather Goldstein – 1 event, Jimmy Hughes – 9 events – 2nd 61+, John Harley – 6 events – 3rd 61+, Julian Taylor – 2 events, Les Hadenham – 9 events – 1st 61+,Loraine Hicks – 3 events, Lwazi Deyi – 1 event, Mark Taylor – 4 events, Merle Angelos – 2 events, Nicola Martins – 6 events – 2nd 31-40, Peta Harrison – 8 events – 1st 51-60, Peter Lavett – 6 events – 2nd 41-50, Peter Shattock – 5 events, Rita Townsend – 3 events, Roland Heuff – 1 event, Sue Robinson – 4 events, Sven Dahlmann – 5 events, Wendy Cook – 2 events and Wolfgang Fechter – 3 events
Congratulations to Heather Campbell on organising the series.
WORLD MASTERS 2012 in Riccione in Italy
The Worlds Masters website is up and running, and is full of photos and information about the gala and Riccione and the likes. They will also include travel and accommodation options on there soon. The web address is www.finamasters2012.org and it looks as if entries will also be done online as soon as they have it sorted out. There is also a gala programme to plan your events.
If there are any KZN Master Swimmers keen on participating please contact our President, Peter Larcombe so he can put you in contact with others who are going. or 084 4100113
SNIPPETS
· Our condolences to Terry Thompson on the passing away of her mother in Zimbabwe and to Michelle Bloxham on the passing away of her mother in Pietermaritzburg.
· We wish Adrian Schoeman a speedy recovery after his recent operation. Glad to see you in the water the other day.
· Congratulations to Michelle Bloxham on winning her category in the 70 km Lassen Series road cycle race held in Camperdown recently.
· Congratulations to Bill Cordell on winning a golf tournament at Zimbali recently.
· Thank you to Sven Dahlmann of Wardell Accounting for sponsoring our KZN T Shirts at Nationals. Please contact Sven at Wardell Accounting for any accounting advice, business plans, personal and company tax forms, pastel sales and support etc Contact Sven at 0846801112 or . or Craig at
· Thank you once again to Sven for organising the Steak and Ale restaurant in Umhlanga sponsorship for many discount vouchers that we handed out at the last gala
GALA 11 SEPTEMBER AT GORDON ROAD
Bernie Camody (Seals Rep)& Peter Larcombe Record Breaker Debbie Wade (Nortjie) Record breaker Mike Cameron
& Dawn Blakeway
NEXT GALA
The next gala is the SA Masters Swimming Short Course Championships (KZN Region) on 23rd October at the Seals Pool Centre in Pine Street, Pietermaritzburg. Entry forms have been distributed.
SOME OPEN WATER SWIM DATES
22nd October. Sun City Swim 3km and 1500m
20th November. Albert Falls 1000m
3rd December. Capital K. 10km
4th December. Capital K 3km and 1km
OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER
1 Alan Bartholomew 1 Lesley Taylor 5 Rosemary Clark
3 Brad Toerien 1 Barbara Leiman 29 Sue Robinson
6 Jimmy Hughes 10 Morag Bromfield
9 Dawn Blakeway 12 Sven Dahlman
10 Terry Thompson 13 Graham Robinson
11 Willij Kokott 14 John Harley
11 Graham du Toit 16 Heather Campbell
17 Mike Cameron 17 Michelle Bloxham
31Bev Shuttleworth 18 Mike Bath
20 Colleen Bailey
22 Susan Warden
29 Bill Cordell
Cheers for now
Always remember “Fun, Fitness and Fellowship”
The Cycling Turtle
KZN MASTERS SWIMMING ASSOCIATION COMMITTEE 2011/20112
President: Peter Larcombe 084 4100113 Vice - President: Merle Angelos 082 5331199
Treasurer: Sven Dahlmann 084 6801112. Secretary: Nicola Martins 083 7984292
Registration/Gala Secretary: Les Tooms 031 4673223 Gala Co-ordinator Heather Campbell 082 3207083.
Communications: Ann Gray 082 8280401
Records Clerk: Colleen Bailey 084 4444842 Equipment/Points: Les Hadenham 082 5749872
Committee Member: Loraine Hicks 071 1507943
East Coast Rep: Rosemary Clark 083 7509888 Highway Rep: Heather Goldstein 084 2064484
Seals Rep: Bernadette Camody 083 4450578