Sunday, October 2, 2011

Riverside Mail October 2011

Another month has rolled by at light speed, daylight savings has arrived and we're now looking forward to the warmer months ahead! This is a great time of year to get your health and fitness up to scratch with the extended daylight hours and summer on its way. This month will see a couple of new faces within the Riverside Staff team, we said goodbye to our awesome receptionist Brody, who has left to pursue other goals, but our lovely Sunday receptionist, Mirella, will be taking over and we also welcome Heidi to a part time reception position, and Rene to the gym. Let's help make the new guys as welcome as possible!

10 Week Weightloss Challenge
The incredible Rachel Hunter of Riverside is gearing up for the next weightloss challenge, which kicks off on Tuesday 11th October. Get ready to get in shape with fitness classes, nutrition and lifestyle advice, team motivation and lots of laughs with a group of people who all have the same goal! This really is an awesome way to kick-start a healthy lifestyle and look and feel great for summer. There are still a few spaces on this awesome programme - please call us today to secure yours on (03) 546
3221, or join right now by clicking the appropriate link below

If you currently have a membership at Riverside:

If you do not currently have a membership at Riverside:

Participants on the 10 week challenge will enjoy full use of the pool, fitness centre, spa, aqua fitness classes over the 10 weeks, as well as having access to the weekly weightloss challenge sessions. Weekly payment option incurs a $25 administration fee.
For more info, please call Rachel Hunter on (03) 546 3221.

Chillout October Kids' Holiday Programme
The October Holiday programme will be running over both weeks of the school holidays (beginning Monday 10th October), and there are still a few spaces available! Children will be taking part in a variety of activities from Ripper Rugby, a Cinema Visit, Chillout Fear Factor, Pyjama Party and lots more! If you are interested in enrolling your child/ren please contact Nicki on (03) 547 0292 or nac@clmnz.co.nz. Details are also on our website: www.riversideswimmingpool.co.nz.

John the Gym Guy's two cents!
This week, we welcome a new staff member to the gym by the name of Rene. Rene has plenty of experience having been in the industry for a number of years, and has a martial arts background. We look forward to having him around the gym.

Don't forget Rachee's 10 week weightloss challenge beginning
next week!
And finally some food for thought:Eat 1 medium muffin = 25min brisk walking to burn off the calories
1 pottle of chips = 1 hour vacuuming
2 slices of meatlovers pizza = 2 hour bike ride
1 Mars bar = walking up 53 flights of stairs
packet of chips = 45 min run
Apple Pie = 1 hour of spin biking
3 glasses of champagne = 40 mins of singles tennis

Enjoy your workouts! John

Swimmagic Swimschool News
Wow, another term is almost over! Where does the time go?? We have had another great term here at Riverside and are seeing some great improvements in everyone's swimming. We would like to say a big congratulations to Maddy Pears who is our instructor of the term. Maddy is always consistent, enthusiastic and does and awesome job! Swimmer of the Term is Ivy Toa - congrats Ivy, you're a little champ! Don't forget that this week is theme week so make sure you dress up. The theme is KIWIANA - we're looking forward to seeing some great costumes!
As always, we are running our popular holiday intensive swimming lessons these holidays (nippers up to squads levels), so contact us today to secure your childs' space and give their swimming a boost these holidays.

WIN a term of FREE swimming lessons!
Simply pay for term 4 lessons in full before the 8th of October and go in the draw to win your childs' next term of lessons for FREE!

As always, if you have any questions, comments or feedback on any aspects of the Swimmagic Swimschool, please don't hesitate to contact Keta on (03) 546 3221 ext. 3, or by email: ketaeverett@clmnz.co.nz.

Riverside Swim Challenge 2011
What a great swim challenge we are having this year. A new Riverside record has been set by Peter Thomas, who smashed the 100km distance in only 8 days! Peter swam up to two times each day, for hours at a time to clock up the 3330 lengths needed to complete the "Professional Player" 100km distance. Peter Was the deserving winner of the $100 Fresh Choice Voucher, which he donated to charity. What a legend!

So far, we have 3 swimmers who have completed the 100km distance, being Peter Thomas, Alice Anderson and John Irwin. There are a few others who are not far off, including Kirstin Ramsay, Bobby Chapagai and Atje Faber. All swimmers who complete the 100km distance will be in the draw to win the $500 of travel from Interislander Ferries. There are currently 11 swimmers who have swum past the 60km distance, 30 who have swum over 30km and 60 people have smashed the 12km distance. It's been great to see so many people exceed their own expectations and continue swimming past their original goal and striving for the next distance tier.

We have swum a total of 85,502 lengths so far in this years' challenge. That's 2,567km - the equivalent of swimming from Nelson, New Zealand to Nelson in Australia! (just west of Melbourne) That's a HUGE distance, well done everyone! Keep up the great work for the last 2 weeks.


Why is Riverside supporting Wales during the World Cup?
We have been asked this a lot over the last few weeks! Ok, so despite Wales being an AWESOME team and country, each of the CLM facilities around the country were allocated a team to support during the world cup. CLM management took into consideration where some of the different facilities staff members were from as well as some other factors. Due to Riverside having the highest proportion of Welsh staff members (Nicki and Jo!), we were allocated with Wales. Not that we're complaining - what a victory over Fiji on the weekend! We hope you're all enjoying the world cup as much as we are. If you need to know anything about the Rugby, Ray (one of our full time lifeguards) is the man to speak to. He's a 100% Rugby nut! Enjoy the games :)

Spring Wheel Women Mountain Bike Courses
Spring is certainly in the air and the trails will certainly be drying out soon! Want to improve your riding skills and confidence before summer? Emma Bawtree of the Wheel Woman mountain bike workshops will be running some more sessions during November and December 2011, focusing on beginner and intermediate workshops. Emma will also be coaching a beginners workshop at Kaiteriteri on October 8th as part of the Nelson Cycle Festival. For more details on these great workshops, click here.

Don't forget that Riverside Pool hire out mountain bikes - great if you want to give this growing sport a go! Riverside team (from left to right) Jo, Mirella, Kelly, Claire and Sandra love getting out on the trails!

Nelson Womens Activator Series Starts this week!
The programme begins on Tuesday 4th October, and is for women wanting to get more active and take part in sport events around Nelson but don’t know how to get started. Gain confidence in the water, learn how to navigate off road mountain bike trails and lots more! Click here for more details.

Run Mahana competition winner: Congratulations Louise Olsen! We wish you the best of luck and hope you enjoy the Run Mahana event on the 26th November 2011. See www.nelsonevents.co.nz for more details on this and other events in the Nelson region.

We love your feedback!
A big thanks to everyone who has filled out a customer survey over the past few weeks. It's great to see what we need to be working on as well as what you like about the facility. We will be closing the survey on the 16th October, so if you haven't yet filled out a survey, just pick one up next time you're at Riverside, or simply click here to fill in the online version. Shouldn't take any more than a few minutes, and your opinions and ideas could really help improve the facility. Thanks!

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