Goal Completed!

Kristy Jennings
12/02/2019

Andy did it, he completed the 2.5km swim around Ruby Island! Conditions weren’t favourable with wind creating choppy white capped waves. The brave Andy continued on when others would have given up and I am very proud of him for finishing. Below is a post-race overview written by Andy. The Ruby 2019 “I’d been looking…

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Fast Friday Social Race Series starts 1st Feb 2019!

Racers Edge
30/01/2019

Fast Fridays is back with late night social racing hosted at Cardrona Bike Park & supported by Racers Edge & B.Effect Brewing. The 6-round series is hosted for business teams & open age individuals who want to start their weekend with some hot laps. Fast Fridays combines TGIF late night openings & social Pint Club with timed races…

New Zealand Athletes

Less than 1 week to go!

Kristy Jennings
22/01/2019

With less than 1 week to go until our 2.5km swim challenge ‘The Ruby’, we are tracking well towards making our goal of completing the event. Andy has been putting a lot of effort into gettinghimself into the lake as often as he can and with a variety of people. This hashelped his familiarity with…

New Zealand Athletes

Cold water shutdown

Kristy Jennings
26/11/2018

Everyone deals with swimming in cold temperatures differently, so it seems. It depends on a number of factors, one of which is the amount of body fat a person has. Being on the leaner side my body tends to shut down when the water temperatures are low. For me this firstly results in my fingers…

New Zealand Athletes

It’s all in the Head

Kristy Jennings
19/11/2018

Our journey has been continuing on towards our goal of swimming The Ruby, a 2.5 km swim around Ruby island, Lake Wanaka in January 2019. Up until now Andy and I have ticked off a number of important milestones. We have discovered together just how buoyant a triathlon wetsuit makes you in the pool (which…