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!!! Pure gold for NZ's Evers-Swindell twins in the womens double sculls.<br>5 NZ crews in finals today, (not bad for a country of 4million) but the twins, unbeated since 2001, were all class and held off the fast finishing German duo.<br><br><br>

As has been noted, most of the distances are fairly well covered now. The possible exception is the "super sprint" of 100m. That would be an interesting ranking and competition event. <br>

Cforce - sorry it was only a marathon I did not a 100k, but the 100k distance is certainly one of my longer term goals. I never checked the calories burnt - probably cos I was too stuffed. Based on what I burnt during a recent 35k training row, I would estimate around 2700 cals for the FM.<br><br>Pa...

Congrats on the excellent marathon time Ash. I am still trying t get my 10km splits into the sub 1:55 range !!<br>We had a FM day down here in NZ on 31 July. About 35 individuals took part around the country and quite a few teams as well. If you check out the FM rankings you will see that 9 of the b...

Buggar, wish I had read this before I attempted my first ever marathon last weekend. I had one sip of drink at 90 mins, no food and no stops. <br>Was determined to break 3hrs. Stretch goal was 2hrs 56m. Result was 2hrs 54m 46s. Last 30 mins was tough. Next time I will be better prepared. Cheers

Interesting results so far. Pity there was no 100m option in the poll. We have a 100m event at every comp in NZ and its great way to end the day. Everyone has a go, really fast event to run, (ie all races between 14 to 20 seconds or so). Exciting and competitive with the main challenge being staying...