Wednesday 25 November 2009

Robyn's E News 25 Nov 09

Hi All,

It has been great to see so many of you coming down and "tri - ing" our events. I'd like to encourage those of you who have not yet taken out membership of Darwin Triathlon Club to do so.

If you are living in Katherine or Gove, you are also very, very welcome to join our club. We even have a member who tri's from Groote Eylandt.

Joining up is a simple process these days as it can be done online so why not sign up now at https://www.securedvirtualnet.com/Sma/Triath/ . Once you load the page you will see on the right hand side - select New Membership or Renew Membership. Easy !

Club membership is great value for money and joining up is often the trigger you need to come down and participate more often in our events. It's also a big motivator when you start making those "get fit" type New Year resolutions. We have a shed load of events happening on our calendar, as well as numerous training and social activities.

When you join, how about signing up your friend or partner as an Christmas present ... now there's an idea ! Senior individual membership only $110 and as well as club fees, includes Triathlon Australia m'ship and 24/7 insurance cover for training and racing. Please note that our student membership category is for full time uni students only

COMING UP:

1. Christmas Function, Lake Alexander, From 5.30pm Saturday 28 Nov 09. It's a family-friendly Christmas bash. Please come along to the beachside playground and BBQ area at East Point Reserve (just on from the toilet block) for some pizza, drinks, desert and great company. RSVP to trikylie@aapt.net.au by COB today would be appreciated for catering. All DTC members and their families welcome. Wearing of Santa Clause suits, tinsel and other Christmas-type attire is strongly encouraged! Hope to see you there. Don't forget to RSVP for catering purposes.

2. Junior Aquathlon, Ski Club, 8am start, Sunday 29 Nov 09

NEXT EVENT ROSTER:

Saturday 5 Dec 09
Nightcliff Pool
Christmas Splash N Dash
1km run, 200m swim, 1km run, 200m swim, 1km run

Race Director: Rob Weatherald
Registration: Asha Mahasuria / Karen Lewis
Timekeepers: Jack Pennington / Emma Liveris
Fruit / Ice: Bronwyn Rossingh

FOR SALE / WANTED ETC:

1. FOR SALE: Cannondale 56cm caad 4 R800 colour is sky blue with campagnolo record 10 speed groupset. Bike comes with 2 sets of wheels canpag nucleon with record cassette and mavic ksyrum with chorus cassette price $1700 ono call Todd 0408 279 116

2. WANTED: Road bike in good condition to suit guy 5'11". Up to $2k. Contact Luke 0402 465 550 or luke.collopy@bigpond.com

3. FOR SALE: Club running visors ($8); Junior Girls swimmers in sizes 6,8,and 10 ($28); Boys swimmers in sizes 6,8,10,12,14 plus 1 size mens (about a boys 16) ($28). Contact Jodie 0417 829 619

4. Items for e news or requests for re runs, by 8pm Sunday please.

OTHER NEWS:

1. The closing date for entry to the Crowne Plaza Canberra City Half Ironman has been extended to November 29th, with late entry through to December 3rd if entry does not fill in the meantime. Last Friday, Triathlon Australia requested to use the event as a qualifying event to the Australian Team to the 2010 ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships – next July in Immenstadt, Germany.
This will be the first time this race has been a qualifying event for a world champs team, even though the current course is based entirely on the first ever Long Distance World Championships in Australia, held back in 2006. (For further information on the qualifying procedures see www.triathlon.org.au).

2. The Flickr page is almost 2 years old and now boasts nearly 4,000 images. Would you believe the views are approaching 33,000 !!!

3. Feedback required please. I'm wondering if you all see tri items appearing from time to time in the NT News?? Would you like me to scan and add to the E News?

4. If you are travelling and need a race belt, please contact me as I have some Scody racebelts still available for members.

5. Rowie Eastick has a ton of fun racing in various formats all around Asia. She did an Adventure Race last weekend which was part of the Thailand Amazing Adventure series. These are challenging races - consisting of MTB, X-country running, kayak and swimming - you have to race in pairs (and stay within 100m of each other), and you do not know the order of the legs, or the distance each one is. There are 2 categories; Adventure (Easy) and Extreme (not so easy!), so you are told, for example, that the total distance of the bike for the Adv may be 50km, and for the Extreme may be 70km; but there could be 1, 2 or 3 legs, so when u start at your transition, you don't know how far you're going, or what the next leg will be, or even if its the last leg! You generally don't know you're close to the finish until you see the finish flag! Interesting exercise in pacing, nutrition, fluid rationing, and mental flexibilty! And sometimes, you have obstacles like cargo nets, swimming with car tube etc! Very well run series, with usually about 100 teams competing (across all categories). The one Rowie did on wkend was just outside of Bangkok, and she and her team mate came 1st in the Adv Category Women's (easy!)


See you all on Saturday in your Christmas finery,
Cheers,
Robyn

Robyn Stanley
Darwin Triathlon Club
E News

Club website: www.members.iinet.net.au/~darwintriclub
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