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Photo Essay: Les Mills' New Quayside Auckland Gym Opening
Photo Essay: Les Mills' New Quayside Auckland Gym Opening
By Alastair Thompson
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Invited guests at the opening of Les Mills in Britomart on the Auckland Waterfront.
As an enthusiastic customer of the local Les Mills establishment in Wellington I was delighted to receive an invitation to a party celebrating the opening of a brand new Les Mills gym on the Auckland waterfront last Thursday.
What follows is a few snaps taken at the red-carpet opening before I had to duck out and return to the capital.
First the view from Quayside of the new Britomart Les Mills (which opened at 5.30am yesterday).
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The new gym is set out at ground level and below sloping back from quay. The exercise spaces are spread out horizontally with a corridor running from the entrance at the corner - to the group fitness area at the far eastern end.
In between are rows of shiny new exercise equipment on split levels.
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Near the entrance is a room full of brand new bikes for the RPMer.
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At the far eastern end a group fitness area…
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…complete with a new set of weights for the bodypumpers.
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Back near the entrance are the shiny new changing rooms (this is inside the mens).
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In the weights room I spotted owner and founder Philip Mills talking to Air New Zealand CEO Rob Fyfe…
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… and taking photo calls (this one with Councillor Cameron Brewer).
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Family were in attendance (from left Phillip, his nephew & Florence and Les Mills).
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And MPs (Nikky Kaye on the right).
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The crowd assembles and the formalities begin….
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A video is shown to the guests…
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CEO of Les Mills NZ Reece Zondag speaks.
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Followed by Carrie Kepple, the new Manager of the new Les Mills Britomart.
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And a final photocall.
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ENDS
Alastair Thompson
Scoop Publisher
Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.
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