In the 2013 Challenge Wanaka triathlon (where I did the half-distance event) I found out the hard way that I was very susceptible to a cold shock response.

I've decided to remove the forums from the site as they weren't being used.

It took quite a bit of effort to keep the forum software up-to-date to prevent security problems and considering the lack of use I decided it wasn't worth keeping it around.

I have some bigger updates to make under-the-hood soon and it's time to eliminate one of the headaches!

I may restore them some day but for the time being you can keep in touch using .

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You can have an event added to our calendar by sending an email with the details to Dave at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. We'll publish any relevant specialist events (ie running, cycling, swimming) as well as triathlon, duathlon, 70.3 and ironman. If you're not sure, send it through anyway.

It costs nothing to have your event listed here.

We usually only publish events held in NZ but we do sometimes make exceptions for events that are especially interesting and not too far away.

We often add events ourselves when we become aware of them, so before sending all of the details through we suggest making use of our search function to see if we already have last year's event in the system. If we do, just send a note with any updated details and we'll update the existing event.

For new events please include as much of the following info as you can:

• Event name
• Start date and time
• Finish time (or the prize giving time will do)
• Location
• A short description of the event (a few paragraphs is good)
• Link to the event website
• Organiser contact details (name and email and/or phone)
• You can also attach a downloadable entry form. We usually link to online entry and results whenever possible. If entries haven't opened yet, it helps to send a reminder through later so we can link to the entry form, or I can set my own reminder if you can let me know when entries will open.

We are also very keen to publish any event news, results and photos so you can send those through at any time.

Here are some useful places of interest on the web.

Introduction

We value your privacy, and as such we will not share your information with any third party without your consent, except as required by law.

The information you store on this site as part of normal usage can contain:

• User details (name, password)
• Forum posts
• Private messages

This privacy policy also covers information sent to us by direct communication (eg email, telephone, Skype).

The following is a basic outline of how this data is stored and used by us.

Passwords

Passwords are stored in our database in an irreversibly encrypted format, so in the event of a security breach your account details will remain safe.  Due to the encryption process, the only way to recover access if you forget your password is to use the password reset option which is presented in the login module.

If a security breach does occur, we will contact you and request that you change your password anyway, as encryption is never perfect and weak passwords can be prone to brute-force attacks (ie automated guessing).

Direct Communication

All communication with us is treated in confidence and no information will be published or forwarded unless you request it or give us permission to do so.  Please note permission may be implied if you send us information such as news, photos or event results.  Anything not for publication should be clearly identified as such.

Cookies

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We use third-party systems for gathering usage statistics and presenting advertising, and these also use cookies for tracking. Our statistics for both usage and advertising are presented to us in aggregate form and we cannot determine individual usage patterns from this.

Security

All access to this site is logged by IP address for the purposes of fault-finding and investigation of possibly security breaches.  This data does not contain personally-identifying information and in general it is only looked at when a problem has been detected.  During normal operation, access data is kept for a fixed amount of time then deleted.

If a security breach is detected, we will share information with the relevant authorities as part of the investigative process.

Backups And Development Site

We use a private development server, which is only accessible from our internal network, to keep regular backups.  Each backup is a full copy of the site files and its database and we keep our backups for several months.

Our hosting provider also makes backups on their local systems for the purposes of disaster recovery.

The development server also contains a development site which is occasionally rebuilt from our backup as a full duplicate of the main site.  This not only serves as a test of our backup process, but it also allows us to carry out development work and experiments without any risk of causing problems on the main site.

As such you can now be aware that all data you post onto the site (eg forum posts, private messages) are copied as part of our backups.  We only look at this data when necessary to investigate problems.

Complaints

If we receive a complaint we will access whatever data is necessary in order to investigate it.  If the complaint relates to a criminal matter we will pass the data to the relevant authorities for further investigation.

Forum

The forum is a public area and you should not post anything that you don't want to be made public.

We reserve the right to remove or edit forum posts for any reason.

Please note that the forum records your IP address with each post.  This is displayed to administrators.  While the IP address does not identify you personally, it can be used to find you.