March 30, 2025 • 13 mins
Olympic swimmer Lewis Clareburt has spent the past three weeks living at altitude alongside several fellow swimmers.
For 21 days, they've stayed in specially-designed altitude apartments set at 3,000 metres above sea level at Upper Hutt's NZCIS facility.
Clareburt joined Adam Cooper to disucuss the time in the altitude rooms, and where his swimming is at following last year's Olympics.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well Wellington Olympic swimmer Lewis Clairebert is these days based
up in Auckland, but these last few weeks has actually
been back at his hometown, spending time at the state
of the art n Z and CIS facility in Upper Huts,
which of course these days is home to the likes
of the Hurricanes and the Phoenix and many other sporting
clubs and athletes coming in and outs. But Lewis and
some of his fellow swimmers have been staying at the
(00:22):
state of the art altitude apartments. There, yes, altitude apartments.
They're dialed in at three thousand meters above sea level,
so he's living in that environment for a few weeks.
And after a bit of an injury. Lewis is also
returning to racing right here in the capital today and
at the same time running a bit of an event
for the swimming community to get involved. It's all at
(00:43):
the Regional Aquatic Center and Kilbernie this afternoons. I thought
it was a good time to catch up with Lewis
on the show this morning after a few weeks in
town here and ahead of the race and the event today.
Morning to you, Lewis, good to chat again mate. Firstly,
how did it all kind of come to be in
terms of heading down this way for this altitude environment.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yeah, well, it sort of just worked out that, you know,
we wanted to come and do some altitude training because
you know, the research shows that it's really good for
sort of my event and during a bit of endurance swimming.
And we had the choice to go to either flag
Staff America or travel all the way back home to
Wellington and come to visit the Indian CIS and do
(01:24):
altitude here and a help I guess, the altitude room.
So we well, I decided that I thought it would
be cool to come back to Wellington and use the
facilities out.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Here and then train in the new pool and the hut.
And it's been awesome.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
You know, I've been here for almost three weeks now,
so this is my last week here and yeah, it's
going to be sad to go actually.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
And so when you say altitude, roommate's actually living in
an altitude almost a flat.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah, So I guess I don't really know how exactly
it works. We've got a bunch of machines that sort
of look like air conditioning units outside the room room
and they helped mimic the room to I guess sit
at around three thousand meters, so I'm not sure exactly
how it works with in the room, but it's pretty
(02:12):
crazy technology and to know that, you know, we have
it here in Wellington is a huge advantage.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
And what's it been like? You know, did you get
used to it? I guess we're adapting to it. To
start with it, I feel like you were you're walking
around in space or anything.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Was it pretty easy to get used to that?
Speaker 3 (02:27):
It should have been a bit of a wild ride.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
So we started I think around two thousand meters and
I was pretty rough for a few days. I got
some pretty gnarly altitude symptoms like inflamed glands and block
nose and a bit of a headache.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
But after, you know, after a little while, I got
used to it and was slowly increased the altitude and yeah,
we're at three thousand meters now, which is pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
How important is that, especially, as you say, for a
midile event like yourself, where you do have to have
that stamina and that edge for such a long period
of time like as it sort of you know, it
has been a game changer with some of your training.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Well we won't.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I won't really see the benefits until you know, further
down the trap. But for me, it's another tool in
the box that I can you know, play into, and
it's something that I've never actually done, so I've never
gone to altitude to see if it is beneficial for me.
It works for some athletes, it doesn't work for other athletes.
I did a blood test at the beginning of the
(03:32):
this trial, and I'll do another one at the end,
and essentially it'll be successful if my red blood cells,
my red blood cell count has increased, and I guess
see the factor of the easy other symptom is the
FuMB swimming fastest. So yeah, hopefully it's been successful. I
definitely know that it's been made training a lot harder.
(03:55):
So I've been napping a few more, you know more,
and I've been a little bit more of the far
the pargic that I usually am so and that scenario.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
It's been really good.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Being from Wellington and obviously you know, when you were
still based.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Here, facilities were a b I guessue for you.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
But seeing what's been created out there and Upper Heart
pretty much in the middle of nowhere, right where we're
the nc CIAS campus there is in all the amazing
state of the art facilities. What was sort of going
through your mind when you were looking around seeing it
all there?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yeah, it looks it's amazing and I can easily say
that it's the best facility for athletes, but I've ever
been to in New Zealand. Just the technology that they
have or the you know, the facilities that are available
to the guys that train.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Here, it's I think it's the best. It's a shame
that they don't have a pool in the backyard, but
maybe I can convince them to build gone one day.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
But yeah, like these guys are, they're put itself out
here and it's pretty cool that, like you said, it's
in Goington, even though it's a little bit out from
where I usually were you so lift, But yes, it's awesome.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Yeah, and obvious Hurricanes men and women based there, the
Phoenix men and women based there, a whole bunch of
other teams and athletes that have seemed to be just
coming in and out. What's it like being an athlete
there and just being alongside different athletes from different codes?
Is quite a welcoming environment? Is it a sort of
you know, just a collaborative environment. How have you found that?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
It's interesting.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
You know we sort of get that vibrant aquin with
the High Performance Center right there. You know, we mix
and mingle with all the other Olympic athletes. I think
this is just on a whole new scale just having
team sports here. So obviously, like you said, the Hurricanes
and the Phoenix and a bunch of other teams have
been through since I've been here. It is really cool
and to watch and to learn from, you know, what
they're doing, you know, the Hurricanes guys. You know, the
(05:42):
amount that they're lifting in the gym compared to me
is pretty incredible. So it is nice being you know,
mixing and mingling with them and just I guess being
in the atmosphere.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
It's cool.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Do you think other swimmers from say, around the world
could come to New Zealand for this? Like how does
it compare, say, say the altitude staff and then a
pool just down the road.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
How does that.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Compare with sort of you know, some of those options
you talked about yourself in America. But what you know
that might entice them down to New Zealand or rupper
Hup for this.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I definitely think it is an opportunity for international teams
and athletes from swimming to come and visit here.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Definitely that both well.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
I mean the facilities here obviously, but having the altitude,
I think it's another option. Traditionally there's not many places,
especially on this side of the world, that filmers can
go and train at altitude, well, live at altitude and
train at sea level. So I definitely think it's an
option for athletes around the world, and I wouldn't be
surprised if we start seeing more swimming teams or small
(06:42):
smaller swimming groups come and visit just to have the altitude.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Newsoks he'd be on the Ill Sports Breakfast and we're
back with swim at Lewis Cleaarbert. He's been back at
his hometown Wellington these last few weeks at ends at CIS,
but Lewis has also been heading over to train at
the new nine Ie pool as well, which has obviously
been one long awaited by the community.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Is that Paul got your tick of approval?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Yeah, it's great.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
The accounts will have been so good to us, you know,
they've given us a lunk or set every single morning,
and I guess for the lame space.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
We could have ever wanted. I still need to.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I think I need to buy one of them, one
of the lafeguards of pies, because he has a pie
every morning. So been a bit of banter around that.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Well, you and be having any of those when you're
doing altitude training, right, most definitely not. Yeah, And just
on the back of the Olympics last year, Lewis, we
all know that it wasn't a result that you wanted,
despite placings in the world like that being being pretty
pretty special and pretty decent when you look at the
wider picture. But for yourself, how did you reflect on
last year when you, I guess are able to now
(07:42):
sort of, you know, look back on twenty twenty four
and the wider Paris campaign now that I guess the
emotion and maybe the disappointment is slightly out of the
way a bit more.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah, it was obviously tough at the time, and it
did take me a long time to get over the results,
and I probably I don't think I'm completely over the
results get you know, I knew that I wanted to
keep something and I wanted to have that dream of
being on the Olympic podium whether it happens or not.
(08:10):
But I also love this lifestyle and I love the
people that I trained with, and you know, obviously it
was a bit of a roller coaster, but yeah, I
think you have to move on from from those those things.
And I still had such an awesome I still had
such an awesome year last year, Like I started there off,
you know, winning the World Championships, which was something that
(08:32):
I never ever dreamed of getting. So it was overall
still a really good year, but obviously the one that
I really wanted to count, you know, it couldn't get
across the line unfortunately.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
So are you sitting a long term plan now, like
a your site's firmly on Olympics the twenty twenty eighth
or are you sort of taking things year by year? Where
are you sort of out at the moment in terms
of I guess a shorter long term plan.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yeah, I mean my eyes me on LA as a
long term plan. But to be to be honest, like
I'm just at the moment, I'm just day by day,
just trying to get to the next day, especially while
I'm down here in altitude.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
We've got some really.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Cool stuff planned, I think with the high performance funding
that was released I think at the end of last year.
It meant that the funding system changed from a targeted
program to a targeted athlete program, so now US athletes
are individually bonded and supported so as Actually it's actually
(09:35):
worked out really well for me, so now that I
can actually I can choose what I want to do
throughout the year, and you know, I have the resources
that you know, I can use them whatever our way.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
I like.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
It has I guess.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
It's helped me in motivation to choose little things that
are going to keep me going throughout the years.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
And hopefully we can continue that to LA.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I mean Commonwealth Games, there was a little bit of
uncertainty around them, but obviously women has survived the huge
cuts around the Commonwealth Games, and I guess you'd be
sort of eyeing that for next year too, to defend
a couple of your titles there.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Yeah, it's awesome to hear that. You know, the Common
Games is happening again, and we have two major competitions
next year. We have that the obviously the Common Games
and the Pan PACs which are being held in LA,
so both really the great competitions and you know, I've
had great success at the Komwaft Games, so hopefully we
can continue.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
That next year.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
And what are you targeting this year? World's middle of
the year. Is that sort of the next main one
for you?
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Yeah, the major one this year is a World Championship.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
I've really wanted to the last I guess my whole
swimming care go to this competition called the men Ashram
in Europe, and unfortunately it's at the same time as
our New zeal Nationals. But I've managed to get a
dismensation to be able to go and go over to
Europe and and race some of the top guys and
just sort of like suck a unique swimming competition.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
It's like a circuit.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
So yeah, I'm pretty excited to be able to do
that and hopefully obviously be able.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
To qualify for the Singapore over there as well.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
And timing wise, you sort of you know, taking note
of of what times you're swimming or does that sort
of come down the track when you get closer to
those big races and making sure you're peaking.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Then ideally I qualify as soon as possible. But over
around the world and there hasn't been too many times
that have been posted this year. I think a lot
of athletes have held off this after Paris, just taking
a bit more of time to train and I was
hoping to race at the end of February, but I've
(11:35):
had a bit of a shoulder nagel. But I'm actually
racing for the first time this year and Wellington back
at the home pool and Kmmerni, so that'll be my
first opportunity to put a tip on the board. But
it'll just be just to give it my first go
at racing this year. It's been a long time since
I've raced.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
But yeah, yeah, and the race is today.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
I'm sure there'll be some excited people around that are
very please to see a pack at action. And also
you're helping run a bit of an event out at
the Aquatic Center and kil Bernie today as well.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
That'd be awesome.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
I'm pretty excited to see some of the younger swimmers
that are developing, and we're running a bit of a
clinic beforehand, so that'll be cool.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Nice and people are listening and maybe you know family
members of their or because I want to get involved
where we can people find out more and fou on that.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
I think I just got to get a touch with
Capital Film Club. We're doing. I think it starts at
two point thirty, so I can come down.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I'm pretty open with anyone joining and just I guess
getting involved and asking some questions and yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
It'll be cool.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Oh great, that's awesome, and yeah, I'm sure we will
be great for for everyone to see yourself in action.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Hey, wellus.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
It's always good to catch up, mate, really appreciate it,
and I know a lot of people that have enjoyed
having you in town. And then sounds like you've had
a great time here too, so I'm always good to
chat and all the best is always for the few
months and weeks ahead, mate, Go.
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Well Wellington Olympic swimmer Lewis Clairebert is these days based
up in Auckland, but these last few weeks has actually
been back at his hometown, spending time at the state
of the art n Z and CIS facility in Upper Huts,
which of course these days is home to the likes
of the Hurricanes and the Phoenix and many other sporting
clubs and athletes coming in and outs. But Lewis and
some of his fellow swimmers have been staying at the
(00:22):
state of the art altitude apartments. There, yes, altitude apartments.
They're dialed in at three thousand meters above sea level,
so he's living in that environment for a few weeks.
And after a bit of an injury. Lewis is also
returning to racing right here in the capital today and
at the same time running a bit of an event
for the swimming community to get involved. It's all at
(00:43):
the Regional Aquatic Center and Kilbernie this afternoons. I thought
it was a good time to catch up with Lewis
on the show this morning after a few weeks in
town here and ahead of the race and the event today.
Morning to you, Lewis, good to chat again mate. Firstly,
how did it all kind of come to be in
terms of heading down this way for this altitude environment.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yeah, well, it sort of just worked out that, you know,
we wanted to come and do some altitude training because
you know, the research shows that it's really good for
sort of my event and during a bit of endurance swimming.
And we had the choice to go to either flag
Staff America or travel all the way back home to
Wellington and come to visit the Indian CIS and do
(01:24):
altitude here and a help I guess, the altitude room.
So we well, I decided that I thought it would
be cool to come back to Wellington and use the
facilities out.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Here and then train in the new pool and the hut.
And it's been awesome.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
You know, I've been here for almost three weeks now,
so this is my last week here and yeah, it's
going to be sad to go actually.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
And so when you say altitude, roommate's actually living in
an altitude almost a flat.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah, So I guess I don't really know how exactly
it works. We've got a bunch of machines that sort
of look like air conditioning units outside the room room
and they helped mimic the room to I guess sit
at around three thousand meters, so I'm not sure exactly
how it works with in the room, but it's pretty
(02:12):
crazy technology and to know that, you know, we have
it here in Wellington is a huge advantage.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
And what's it been like? You know, did you get
used to it? I guess we're adapting to it. To
start with it, I feel like you were you're walking
around in space or anything.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Was it pretty easy to get used to that?
Speaker 3 (02:27):
It should have been a bit of a wild ride.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
So we started I think around two thousand meters and
I was pretty rough for a few days. I got
some pretty gnarly altitude symptoms like inflamed glands and block
nose and a bit of a headache.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
But after, you know, after a little while, I got
used to it and was slowly increased the altitude and yeah,
we're at three thousand meters now, which is pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
How important is that, especially, as you say, for a
midile event like yourself, where you do have to have
that stamina and that edge for such a long period
of time like as it sort of you know, it
has been a game changer with some of your training.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Well we won't.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I won't really see the benefits until you know, further
down the trap. But for me, it's another tool in
the box that I can you know, play into, and
it's something that I've never actually done, so I've never
gone to altitude to see if it is beneficial for me.
It works for some athletes, it doesn't work for other athletes.
I did a blood test at the beginning of the
(03:32):
this trial, and I'll do another one at the end,
and essentially it'll be successful if my red blood cells,
my red blood cell count has increased, and I guess
see the factor of the easy other symptom is the
FuMB swimming fastest. So yeah, hopefully it's been successful. I
definitely know that it's been made training a lot harder.
(03:55):
So I've been napping a few more, you know more,
and I've been a little bit more of the far
the pargic that I usually am so and that scenario.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
It's been really good.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Being from Wellington and obviously you know, when you were
still based.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Here, facilities were a b I guessue for you.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
But seeing what's been created out there and Upper Heart
pretty much in the middle of nowhere, right where we're
the nc CIAS campus there is in all the amazing
state of the art facilities. What was sort of going
through your mind when you were looking around seeing it
all there?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yeah, it looks it's amazing and I can easily say
that it's the best facility for athletes, but I've ever
been to in New Zealand. Just the technology that they
have or the you know, the facilities that are available
to the guys that train.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Here, it's I think it's the best. It's a shame
that they don't have a pool in the backyard, but
maybe I can convince them to build gone one day.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
But yeah, like these guys are, they're put itself out
here and it's pretty cool that, like you said, it's
in Goington, even though it's a little bit out from
where I usually were you so lift, But yes, it's awesome.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Yeah, and obvious Hurricanes men and women based there, the
Phoenix men and women based there, a whole bunch of
other teams and athletes that have seemed to be just
coming in and out. What's it like being an athlete
there and just being alongside different athletes from different codes?
Is quite a welcoming environment? Is it a sort of
you know, just a collaborative environment. How have you found that?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
It's interesting.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
You know we sort of get that vibrant aquin with
the High Performance Center right there. You know, we mix
and mingle with all the other Olympic athletes. I think
this is just on a whole new scale just having
team sports here. So obviously, like you said, the Hurricanes
and the Phoenix and a bunch of other teams have
been through since I've been here. It is really cool
and to watch and to learn from, you know, what
they're doing, you know, the Hurricanes guys. You know, the
(05:42):
amount that they're lifting in the gym compared to me
is pretty incredible. So it is nice being you know,
mixing and mingling with them and just I guess being
in the atmosphere.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
It's cool.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Do you think other swimmers from say, around the world
could come to New Zealand for this? Like how does
it compare, say, say the altitude staff and then a
pool just down the road.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
How does that.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Compare with sort of you know, some of those options
you talked about yourself in America. But what you know
that might entice them down to New Zealand or rupper
Hup for this.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I definitely think it is an opportunity for international teams
and athletes from swimming to come and visit here.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Definitely that both well.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
I mean the facilities here obviously, but having the altitude,
I think it's another option. Traditionally there's not many places,
especially on this side of the world, that filmers can
go and train at altitude, well, live at altitude and
train at sea level. So I definitely think it's an
option for athletes around the world, and I wouldn't be
surprised if we start seeing more swimming teams or small
(06:42):
smaller swimming groups come and visit just to have the altitude.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Newsoks he'd be on the Ill Sports Breakfast and we're
back with swim at Lewis Cleaarbert. He's been back at
his hometown Wellington these last few weeks at ends at CIS,
but Lewis has also been heading over to train at
the new nine Ie pool as well, which has obviously
been one long awaited by the community.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Is that Paul got your tick of approval?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Yeah, it's great.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
The accounts will have been so good to us, you know,
they've given us a lunk or set every single morning,
and I guess for the lame space.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
We could have ever wanted. I still need to.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I think I need to buy one of them, one
of the lafeguards of pies, because he has a pie
every morning. So been a bit of banter around that.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Well, you and be having any of those when you're
doing altitude training, right, most definitely not. Yeah, And just
on the back of the Olympics last year, Lewis, we
all know that it wasn't a result that you wanted,
despite placings in the world like that being being pretty
pretty special and pretty decent when you look at the
wider picture. But for yourself, how did you reflect on
last year when you, I guess are able to now
(07:42):
sort of, you know, look back on twenty twenty four
and the wider Paris campaign now that I guess the
emotion and maybe the disappointment is slightly out of the
way a bit more.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah, it was obviously tough at the time, and it
did take me a long time to get over the results,
and I probably I don't think I'm completely over the
results get you know, I knew that I wanted to
keep something and I wanted to have that dream of
being on the Olympic podium whether it happens or not.
(08:10):
But I also love this lifestyle and I love the
people that I trained with, and you know, obviously it
was a bit of a roller coaster, but yeah, I
think you have to move on from from those those things.
And I still had such an awesome I still had
such an awesome year last year, Like I started there off,
you know, winning the World Championships, which was something that
(08:32):
I never ever dreamed of getting. So it was overall
still a really good year, but obviously the one that
I really wanted to count, you know, it couldn't get
across the line unfortunately.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
So are you sitting a long term plan now, like
a your site's firmly on Olympics the twenty twenty eighth
or are you sort of taking things year by year? Where
are you sort of out at the moment in terms
of I guess a shorter long term plan.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yeah, I mean my eyes me on LA as a
long term plan. But to be to be honest, like
I'm just at the moment, I'm just day by day,
just trying to get to the next day, especially while
I'm down here in altitude.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
We've got some really.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Cool stuff planned, I think with the high performance funding
that was released I think at the end of last year.
It meant that the funding system changed from a targeted
program to a targeted athlete program, so now US athletes
are individually bonded and supported so as Actually it's actually
(09:35):
worked out really well for me, so now that I
can actually I can choose what I want to do
throughout the year, and you know, I have the resources
that you know, I can use them whatever our way.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
I like.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
It has I guess.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
It's helped me in motivation to choose little things that
are going to keep me going throughout the years.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
And hopefully we can continue that to LA.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I mean Commonwealth Games, there was a little bit of
uncertainty around them, but obviously women has survived the huge
cuts around the Commonwealth Games, and I guess you'd be
sort of eyeing that for next year too, to defend
a couple of your titles there.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Yeah, it's awesome to hear that. You know, the Common
Games is happening again, and we have two major competitions
next year. We have that the obviously the Common Games
and the Pan PACs which are being held in LA,
so both really the great competitions and you know, I've
had great success at the Komwaft Games, so hopefully we
can continue.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
That next year.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
And what are you targeting this year? World's middle of
the year. Is that sort of the next main one
for you?
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Yeah, the major one this year is a World Championship.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
I've really wanted to the last I guess my whole
swimming care go to this competition called the men Ashram
in Europe, and unfortunately it's at the same time as
our New zeal Nationals. But I've managed to get a
dismensation to be able to go and go over to
Europe and and race some of the top guys and
just sort of like suck a unique swimming competition.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
It's like a circuit.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
So yeah, I'm pretty excited to be able to do
that and hopefully obviously be able.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
To qualify for the Singapore over there as well.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
And timing wise, you sort of you know, taking note
of of what times you're swimming or does that sort
of come down the track when you get closer to
those big races and making sure you're peaking.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Then ideally I qualify as soon as possible. But over
around the world and there hasn't been too many times
that have been posted this year. I think a lot
of athletes have held off this after Paris, just taking
a bit more of time to train and I was
hoping to race at the end of February, but I've
(11:35):
had a bit of a shoulder nagel. But I'm actually
racing for the first time this year and Wellington back
at the home pool and Kmmerni, so that'll be my
first opportunity to put a tip on the board. But
it'll just be just to give it my first go
at racing this year. It's been a long time since
I've raced.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
But yeah, yeah, and the race is today.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
I'm sure there'll be some excited people around that are
very please to see a pack at action. And also
you're helping run a bit of an event out at
the Aquatic Center and kil Bernie today as well.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
That'd be awesome.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
I'm pretty excited to see some of the younger swimmers
that are developing, and we're running a bit of a
clinic beforehand, so that'll be cool.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Nice and people are listening and maybe you know family
members of their or because I want to get involved
where we can people find out more and fou on that.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
I think I just got to get a touch with
Capital Film Club. We're doing. I think it starts at
two point thirty, so I can come down.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I'm pretty open with anyone joining and just I guess
getting involved and asking some questions and yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
It'll be cool.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Oh great, that's awesome, and yeah, I'm sure we will
be great for for everyone to see yourself in action.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Hey, wellus.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
It's always good to catch up, mate, really appreciate it,
and I know a lot of people that have enjoyed
having you in town. And then sounds like you've had
a great time here too, so I'm always good to
chat and all the best is always for the few
months and weeks ahead, mate, Go.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Well, legend chas Adam for more from News Talks, there'd
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