Junior Challenge

This race was held this afternoon for children between the ages of 6 to 15. They did a 50m swim (actually running through waist high water), then a 1 k bike ride, finishing with a 500m run. There were many children taking part from all over New Zealand. I took this photo from the foot bridge that they put up yesterday over Ardmore Street. Tomorrow the swimmers will run across this bridge to collect their bikes on the other side of the road. The first swim race will start at 6 a.m. (for the full ironman), the last swim race will start at 8 a.m. which will be the half iron man. The race is scheduled to stop at midnight, 18 hours after the start!

The weather today is warm and sunny - BUT - VERY windy. Let's hope the wind will die down tomorrow... one more sleep.