A Message of Thanks From Afar

Malira received this message earlier in the week. It's worth sharing with everyone.


Hi Malira and the gang at Riverton Masters

I wanted to take this opportunity to say thank you to your club for the hospitality and friendship your club extended to me in my recent stay in Perth.
You will recall I was assisting my son with renovations on his house at Yangebup and joined your training sessions for a few weeks. By the third week I was exhausted from the building works as I was starting on the site at about 6.00am and finishing most nights at 7.00 then in bed by 9.00pm.
I am back in Noosa and training but I have lost most of my competitive edge and do not expect to do very well at the State and National Titles to be held in Chandler Aquatic Centre Brisbane commencing this Thursday and finishing Sunday.
I will attend and swim but will mostly enjoy the friendship.

Thank you again and hope to see you in Noosa soon.
Bob Morse
Noosa AUSSI Masters

Osborne Park 400m/800m Report

Saturday 18 April dawned cool and damp with a forecast of possible afternoon thunderstorms. The intrepid Riverton team was hoping that storms wouldn't eventuate and dampen our enthusiasm for the Osborne Park 400m/800m swim at Beatty Park that afternoon. At 1.15 pm, I carried out a local weather check in Willetton by putting my head out of my car window and looking towards the sky. Hearing no thunder and feeling no rain, I thought we would be OK with the weather and set off for Beatty Park for the impending 2 pm start.

The Riverton team

In the club's time-honoured tradition of swim meet reports, it's bullet points from here on in.

THE FANTASTIC

• Damo's 800 m medley swim in a scorching time of 11.41. Magnificent! He looked powerful all the way and couldn't believe the timekeepers when they told him his time. (See pictures below.)
• Damo being asked to compete in a mixed-club, mixed-age-group relay at the state championships.
  

THE NOT-SO-BAD

• Kazza's 800 m freestyle swim in a respectable time of 16.50. We're still aiming for 16.30 by the end of the year!
• Not having to wait around TOO long to swim. The organisers did a good job of getting through the early nominated events.
  

THE DOWNRIGHT FRUSTRATING

• Being the first competitors to arrive at the venue half an hour before starting time and finding 12 other names from the host club are already on the board to swim before you.
• STILL going at 4.30 pm!!! Doing a good job early on meant there was plenty of time for people to swim more than once. I'm sure some swimmers did EVERY possible combination of distances and strokes.
• Kazza being honked at in the car park, turning around expectantly and realising it was only Damo!
  

Melville BACC Report

Well Well Well,

The year is certainly flying by, so stand by for a NO HOLDS BARRED report from the Melville BACC held last Sunday 5th April.

Sunday morning again dawned bright and clear (would not mind some bloody rain for a change!). I left Curtis, Darcy and Bodi (the dog) with their Grandma (God bless her) and headed off to Booragoon. There were 179 swimmers representing 13 clubs. Riverton came 6th in the overall point score with 59 points, which was an AWESOME effort.


A full list of results can be found here


- http://www.mastersswimmingwa.asn.au/events-pool.htm

The Team

As you all know I am a lazy typist so it's bullet points from here on in - ENJOY !

The GOOD

All Rob's swims, just getting faster the less training he does....Also looks great in a blue wife beater !

Lea fronting up for her 100 Free after suffering from a nasty cold all week. Apparently chocolate can cure anything !

Barbara again notching some great times and for providing us with a bag of glucose replenishment !

Kazza tackling some new swims and despite being seeded in much faster heats due a clerical error swam really well.

GP again showing that warm ups are a waste of time

Lee after a hard night pulling beers and dealing with drunken idiots, turned up and swam a solid 50 breast and an excellent breaststroke leg in the relay

Shane managed to finish his 50 fly in a VERY respectable time of 38.7, he has now been BANNED from using fins for fly during training !

Our men's relay team won their race - I have asked Kazza for a more colourful description of this event (See below)

The kids not wrecking the joint whilst I was out swimming.

The BAD

• White wife beaters


• Dimly lit swimming pools


• Why do I ALWAYS need to wee right before every race???


• Shane's jumper


• Shane's sandals


• Shane


• 7 heats of the 200 breaststroke - Shame on you !
  
  

The UGLY

• The guy who walked around in a white wife beater all day flexing his biceps....
  

All right folks next meet is STATE on 16/17 May. I will email all details soon...remember our goal is still 100 club points

Yours in H2O

Damo

Men's Relay Team Report

You’ve heard of the Mean Machine ... You’ve heard of the Awesome Foursome ... But none of those Australian teams can hold a candle to the newest kids on the swimming blocks: the Riverton Rockets! (Not intended as a metaphor for starting off with an almighty bang and fizzling out at the end).

In the el supremo event of the meet – the 4 x 50 metre medley relay – Dashing Damo, Leaping Lee, Racing Robert and Sharpshooting Shane stood ready to take on all comers (Melville to be exact). Damo took the team out to a handy lead in the first leg, shown in the picture below. As Lee and Robert cemented the team’s lead with scorching times in their relay legs, Shane dived in to bring it on home for the club in the final freestyle leg. (See picture below). The Riverton spectators (all 3 of them!) were on the edges of their seats yelling out encouragement as Melville edged up to within striking distance of Riverton in the final 50 metres. Could they possibly snatch victory from the jaws of what-once-was inevitable defeat?!?!? Could the Sharpshooter touch first?!?!? In an absolutely nail-biting finish, Shane (we knew you could do it!) touched the wall a fingertip ahead of his rival. Yes, 0.17 seconds ahead of Melville in a time of 2:13.59!!!