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Don Jenkin Memorial Swim
Warriewood-Mona Vale Ocean Swim
Sunday, January 20, 2008 |
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31st Warriewood to Mona Vale Ocean Swim, 1.6km (Don Jenkin Memorial Swim)
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Faces from Mona Vale ... .
Faces and water sculpcha from Mona Vale.
Our good cobber, Big Head Greg, is a Mona Vale local. So is Glistening Dave.
Another Mona Vale face.
... and another.
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| Date, times |
Sunday, January 20, 2008, 10am
Registration at Warriewood Beach (8.30am-9.45am)
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| Organiser |
Mona Vale SLSC |
| Major sponsor |
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The Don Jenkin Memorial course, Warriewood to Mona Vale, as swum in 2007 and recorded by the os.c GPS -in-a-prophylactic.
Note the direction of the swell: this pic was taken at some earlier time, thank you to Google Earth, but conditions often are similar at swim time, with a N-E swell, meaning you're into it all the way. |
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| Course |
This is a journey swim from Warriewood beach, north to Mona Vale. |
| Conditions |
Not a long swim, but all straight line swims can seem long. The break at Warriewood at the start can provide particular challenges, with rips, undertoads, gutters and shifting banks. The finish at Mona Vale offers a run in, but a broader break than at the start, again with rips, banks, gutters, etc.
Depending on conditions, it can be a real challenge. |
| Years run, Starters last time |
31st year, proudly, although the club now has honoured one of the swim's founders, the late Doc Jenkin, by naming the swim in his memory. Doc was the bloke in the beach chair responsible for handing out all those spot prizes, probably more than any other swim. Last season, around 558 starters. |
| Prizes |
Medals for places in age groups, Male/Female, plus plenty of good "Mystery Prizes".
Recovery cake: don't shilly shally to get in for your piece, and you can eat it, too.
This is a "Family, Friendly Swim", and they mean it. |
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The shorebreak gives an indication of how lively the break at the start can be. Very lively, indeed.
That said, once through it, it's a straight line, sort of, depending upon what kind of night you've had the night before, perhaps into a N-E swell, until you get to the broader break at Mona Vale at the other end.
This is Glistening Dave's personal swim, at his home beach, so be on the lookout for grumpy bald blokes armed with 12 megapixels.
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| Categories |
- Under 15
- 15-19
- 20-24
- 25-29
- 30-34
- 35-39
- 40-44
- 45-49
- 50-54
- 55-59
- 60+
- Flippers
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All categories separate Male and Female.
Minimum age 10. |
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| Contact, further info |
Email Tony Hilliger |
| Eligibility |
Entrants are restricted to persons who have adequately trained for this event. Entry is at the discretion of the race
committee. Minimum age of 10 years to compete. |
| Water safety |
Mona Vale SLSC
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| Max./Min. ages |
Minimum 10 |
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There can be a crush on the first booey, and oceanswims.com will be there to capture, on cyber film, those who choose not to round it, but to cut it, and plenty have been known to.
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| oceanswims.com says |
Can be a very challenging swim with the different breaks at either end of the course.
It's a good, fun day out.
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| Entries |
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Start |
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U15 |
10am |
10-14 |
$15 |
$15 |
15-60 |
10am |
15-60 |
$25 |
$25 |
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10am |
61-75 |
$15 |
$15 |
NB: For online entries, we accept Mastercard and Visa only. Attempts to enter using any other card will not succeed.
On-line entries close midnight, Friday, January 18, 2008.
Online entries are closed.
Click here to check progress entries on-line (available as entries come in).
Click here to download entry form for more info and mail entry.
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In a journey swim, from Point A (Warriewood) to Point B (Mona Vale) there is plenty of opportunity to while away the time and the distance by creating water sculpcha. Just remember, though, that every bucket of water you drag out of the water on your recovery is a burden on your rotator cuff and your triceps. Moral: get some squad training and some stroke correction. This character doesn't swim tood badly, it seems, yet look at the volumes he's dragging with him. |
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