whifftacularI may as well keep with James’s sport­ing spir­it for the day, and tell you about an event com­ing up this week­end that’s aimed at the fairer sex.

The Spe­cial K Triath­lon series is in Wel­ling­ton this Sunday, but, unfor­tu­nately, there are no more spots avail­able for com­pet­it­ors, and no wait­ing list (and I was so keen to com­pete, too). Why tell you then? Well, the event is tak­ing place around the won­der­ful environs of Scorch­ing Bay, so if you want to get out there and cheer the women home, we encour­age you to do so.

Start time is 1pm, map of the course is here. (Look­ing at the map, I sus­pect that if you’re driv­ing, you’ll prob­ably want to be com­ing from the Seatoun side, as opposed to tak­ing the scen­ic route around Evans Bay, where the bik­ing sec­tion will be held. The road will be open to traffic, but cars have a his­tory of caus­ing race event organ­isers all sorts of grief, so why not give them one less thing to worry about?)