After a two week Christmas break Canowindra Swimming Club resumed on January 4, but before the report on that some news on Canowindra Swimming Club's Carnival on Sunday February 3, 2008.
Nominations are called for, the Business House relay, a fun event that pits Canowindra personalities against each other and the clock.
The Business House relay works like this: gather a team from your workplace, sporting group, gym class, school class... whatever, swim a timed lap of freestyle add the times together and that is your nominated time for the relay.
It is the team that swims closest to their nominated total time not the team that touches first that wins the relay.
Also you can swim, or walk, or dog paddle, with whatever aids you like just as long as you 'swim' to your nominated time you will come out the winner.
So whether you want to swim in flippers, full scuba gear or a pink fairy outfit complete with wings, tiara and a fluffy pink tutu, gather a team, time your lap of freestyle, add them up and enter your team.
The Business House relay is usually run about 3pm with teams gathering about 2:30pm so they can get the pink fairy outfit ready.
Meanwhile improvers from Friday January 4 were led by JP Curran making a welcome return to swimming club and practice makes perfect as JP lowered his 33m breaststroke by 5 seconds and his 33m freestyle by 4 seconds which made him too fast for the spoon final.
Another swimmer whose speed was too much for the spoon final was Adelaide Ellis who also lopped four seconds off her previous best time.
Not content to speed over just one lap Adelaide also took 9 seconds off her best for the 66m freestyle and 3 seconds off her best in the 66m backstroke. Training is obviously paying off for Adelaide.
Matt McLean and Jack Knight took 2 seconds off their best for the 33m breaststroke while Josh Flannery and Brocke Harvey-Dale lowered their 33m backstroke by 3 seconds.
Josh Flannery took another spoon home as he won the 33m freestyle 'spoon' final with a swim of 27 seconds, he must have enough spoons for an afternoon tea set by now.
Butterfly was also on the improvers list as Tim Middleton smashed his time by 3 seconds in the 33m fly while Peta Edwards massacred her 66m butterfly time by 13 seconds.
Joe Coady continued a dream run in his first Canowindra Swimming Club season as he smashed his 66m freestyle time by 9 seconds while Josh Flannery took 7 seconds off his previous best for the 66m freestyle.
Kim Dale showed that Brocke got her swimming talent from her mother as Kim lowered her time by 2 seconds also in the 66m freestyle.
As usual the relay was the last event of the night and the winners in lane one were Adelaide Ellis, Stewart Russell Samantha Flannery, Jake Wythes, Curtis Hughes and Tim Middleton.
A final reminder about the business house relay, you don't have to be fastest, you just have to swim closest to your nominated time, so grab a group of six together and nominate for the relay for the 3rd February.