My Favourite Nomads Minute

At the anniversary dinner we asked you all to come up with your best memories of the club. Here are all of the replies.

My favourite Nomads minute is about 85m of any of my 100m freestyle races.
Nick Andrews

A recent one was definitely the final Saturday afternoon relays at the Glasgow Masters. A big turnout and 5 Nomads teams all winning medals. Great fun.
Iain Teaz

My favourite Nomads moment was Alli Teaz (now McKinney) winning the 100 backcrawl at the Incas Meet at Stirling. It was the year I joined, 1981. Sub 70 seconds swim (low 69 in fact), great race, and great atmosphere. Inspirational at the time for the new boy i.e. me!
Jonnie Burke

It is impossible to think of just one moment! There have been so many good times (most of them hazy!) and so many great friends. If I have to keep Jimmy happy and pick a swimming moment, I would go for one of my best backcrawl times at the Perth Masters, which proved you can swim after 2 rolls and square sausage and a shot on the flumes!
Gillian Dorricott

Our wedding. Norrie and I met through Nomads and I remember our fantastic wedding day, where our wedding party was entirely our dear Nomads friends and almost all Nomads were there to help us celebrate the day in style!
Audrey and Norman Williamson

My favourite Nomads minute is any minute spent in the pool with my ladies, ahem!
Nick (I must get out more) Andrews

From a swimming point of view it has to be any of the freestyle relays that Jonnie Burke, Mark McKinney, Paul McKinney and I swam between 1986 and 1988. We usually won, in fact I think the only defeats were suffered were to Paisley in the Scottish finals of 86 and 88. I always love (and still do) the team events and think we definitely conformed to the adage that our total was always greater than the sum of our parts!
Iain Teaz

My favourite minute happened at training one Wednesday night in Scotstoun. Jimmy lives in Newton Mearns, as did I at the time, and he had experienced a power cut just before he was due to come down to training. At training, in between pouring insults onto club members, Jimmy asked if the power cut had affected me. "No," I said, "but what about your watch?" I asked, motioning to his digital watch. As Jimmy gazed down to check his casio hadn't been affected, he immediately realised his folly. Screaming obscenities, he ordered me not to waste his ... "time !
That's it! (Mibbies you just had to be there...)
Doug McLean

If this has jogged your memory email your favourite minute to info@glasgownomads.com and we’ll stick them on the website.