While many people were enjoying brunch and family time on Mother's Day, a few hundred people battled the drizzle and themselves competing in the last of this year's Barfoot & Thompson People's Triathlons at Mission Bay.
For Aucklander Chiara Chiusolo, competing in her first triathlon, this was fulfilment of a journey that started in lockdown a year ago.
"I decided I wanted to challenge myself, to run a marathon or swim in the ocean," she said. "And I've lost 30kg along the way."
Chiusolo hadn't been following a strict training schedule, but had bought a "nice bike" and cycled to work every day and swam in the ocean regularly.