A new challenge has hit the NZMS swim calendar. We want you to help us swim around New Zealand - yes all 15,134 kilometers of it! To help boost that winter training we are encouraging people to enter the distances they have swum online. We will collate the entries each month, and publish the results. You can even organise a couple of teams within your club and challenge each other to see who can swim the furtherest!

Participation is easy. Log onto the website (NZMS members only), and click on the menu item under the competition menu. Each time you swim some lengths after the 1st May 2008, just add up the distance and submit it online - and that's it.

So what are you waiting for - get swimming, and get involved. See here for more details and the submission form.

The 2007 National (Top 10) Rankings are now available. Click here for more info.

Congratulations to the swimmers who have been recognised in the 2007 FINA Masters world rankings. New Zealand Masters is proud of the acheivements of this group of elite swimmers, many of whom are recognised by FINA as the best in the world in their age group, for their stroke. Full details follow

NZMS publish a bi-monthly newsletter that contains lots of news and updates on what's happening in the organisation. Click the more Info link below to view MasterScrawl online

Have your news published!

Both the NZMS editor and NZMS webmaster are always after good content to place either online, or in Masterscrawl. You may have an event to promote, some club news you want to share, a personal profile, or even photos from a recent meet.

If you would like to share your news with other masters swimmers, then contact the MasterScrawl editor , or Webmaster.

A recent article in “Nutrition Today”, a USA publication, confirms what we all know intuitively – that master athletes are fitter and healthier than their nonathletic counterparts of similar age. The authors reviewed the literature and conclude that, for master athletes.