December 2007 was the end of the first full year of XLR8. The individual winners and the Club winners are posted on the TYM website. Congratulations to Howick Pakuranga for taking out the overall top club award as well as the 12 & under and 13-15 age groups. North Shore won the 16 & over category. Great showings also from COAST, West Auckland Aquatics, Capital and Watties Swim City.
The new base times (1,000 points) have now been calculated and will be used for the 2008 competitions. The website calculator may take a few days to be upgraded. On the chart below the times indicated in red are improvements on the previous year (click on the image for a full-size version):
Although there seems to be alot of red, remember it only takes one swim to be faster than the all-time 10th fastest for the system to 'go red'. That shouldn't be too difficult; its not going to occur in every event every year but a significant majority of events should improve.
XLR8 contains 113 events each for girls and boys across 7 age groups. The 2007 results have produced improvements in 78 events for boys but only 54 for girls. This is very similar to the 2006-07 change:
2006-07 saw 81 boys events and 63 girls events improve.
The first year of seting 'base' times was 2006 and used times from NZ Nationals from 2005 and as far back as reliable records existed. In the two years of calculations since then only 8 boys times remain to be improved but the girls lag behind with a whopping 28 2006 standards still to be removed.
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