The new season of the Stroke & Stride Series will commence this week with the first event in the eight race series. The 26th edition of the world's most popular swimrun series is held each fortnight at Auckland's Mission Bay through the summer months with events comprising a sea swim followed by a road run along Tamaki Drive.
There is $10,000 prize money to be won by the top athletes through the season.
This season is set up to be the Clash of the Champions. In one corner is the reigning New Zealand Swimrun Champion Jay Wallwork while in the other is Brent Foster who is the current Stroke & Stride Champion.
The Stroke & Stride has an Adults Only rating with the youngest competitors being 13 years of age, from there on the hard-fought age group competitions are contested by athletes right through to their 70's.
All the events are held at New Zealand's favourite beach and contested over a variety of distances with swims between 500 metre and 1000 metre while runs are between 3 kilometre and 5 kilometre.
The first event is scheduled for Tuesday, November 4 with a 6.15pm start time. Then four months later the final will be held on Tuesday, March 17th and this event will double as the 2015 New Zealand Swimrun Championships.
2014 / 2015 Stroke & Stride Series
- #1 Tuesday November 4 2014
- #2 Wednesday November 19 2014
- #3 Wednesday December 3 2014
- #4 Tuesday January 20 2015
- #5 Tuesday February 3 2015
- #6 Tuesday February 17 2015
- #7 Tuesday March 3 2015
- #8 Tuesday March 17 2015
Further event information and all previous results are available on the official Stroke & Stride website: swimrun.org
