Racing

We were on the Lake Taupō lakefront late this afternoon and came across these kids competing in a 200 metre run then return via waist deep water in the lake. The air temperature was about 10 degrees!

[Carole G]

They make them tough in NZ, although I see kids in the water, are they in the thermally heated part?

[Dianne]

@yorkshirekiwi nope!!

[Wylie]

oh, dedicated kids! I hope there were jelly snakes at the end for them.

[Maggiemae]

Did they swim or wade - waist deep? What a challenge! What is the world coming to - I have a friend who swims every day of the year - in incredibly low temps!

[Joan Robillard]

Great action shot

[Diana]

What a fabulous action capture, it does sound pretty cold to me.

[Dianne]

@maggiemae mostly wading - seemed that may have been in the ‘rules’.

[winghong_ho]

Lovely capture of the event.

[carol white]

A super action capture

[julia]

Iron men/woman in training..

[Pat Knowles]

Max ran in this race one year when we were there. In fact I just scrutinised this photo to see if I could see Finn….wouldn't that have been a coincidence. He is 11 next month.

[KoalaGardens🐨]

wow

[Beverley]

Brilliant

[haskar]

Nice action shot.

[Babs]

Wow they are brave, must be chilly

[Christine Sztukowski]

Very dramatic