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.