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
Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/darwintriclub
Facebook Group: Darwin Triathlon Club
Blog: http://tribloggingntnews.blogspot.com/

Robyn's E News 23 Nov 09

Hi All,

Friday night's Splash N Dash at the lake attracted a large crowd of competitors and spectators. We all appreciated Kyle Gear's efforts as race director to bring us such an exciting evening of racing. Thanks to Kyle also to the many volunteers who assisted during the event, we couldn't do it without your help.

Our Christmas function is on this Saturday evening. We need you to RSVP for catering arrangements so please get that done today. See attached for more details.


RESULTS:

1. Splash N Dash, Lake Alexander - 300m swim, 2km run, 300m swim, 2km run, 300m swim, 2km run

1 Kyle Gear 38 mins 59 secs; 2 Grant Preddy 39.07; 3 Rob Weatherald 42.33; 4 Michelle Gailey 43.42; 5 Ian Norton 44.11; 6 Blue Watt 44.53; 7 John Thyne 45.42; 8 Mark Anzin 45.46; 9 Luke Collopy 45.54; 10 Ian Pollock 45.59; 11 Pete Brady 46.06; 12 Heath Horobin 46.09; 13 Brian Gallagher 46.56; 14 Jack Forrest 47.30; 15 Leila Duncan 47.46; 16 Tim Lewis 47.56; 17 Ben Brady 48.03; 18 Shaye Hatty 49.03; 19 Lisa Quinell 49.09; 20 Mick Outhred 49.35; 21 Nikki Roddie 49.35; 22 David Croser 49.41; 23 Hollie Goodall 50.07; 24 Tim Green 50.17; 25 Phil Brownscombe 50.40; 26 Scott Bevis 51.09; 27 Ron Griep 51.10; 28 Phil Blumberg 51.29; 29 Kelly Rowe 51.44; 30 Ben King 51.52; 32 Belinda Birk 51.57; 33 Jac Crofton 52.05; 34 Phill Hatty 52.29; 35 Russell Peacock 52.39; 36 Rowan Barrow 53.06; 37 Monica Stewart 53.22; 38 Tom Keeler 53.26; 39 Luke Hanson 54.40; 40 Team Jodie McLeod/Jane De Gault 55.33; 41 Team Lachie Hatty/Bella Hatty/Charlie Birk 55.45; 42 Nelson Rossingh 55.49; 43 Team Bill Piper/ Patrick Chin/Connor McLeod 55.49; 44 Ryoko Jones 57.20; 45 Peta Jeggo 57.45; 48 Robyn Stanley 58.16; 49 Simon Jeggo 58.23; 50 James Lugg 59.07; 51 Karen Lewis 59.15; 52 Justin Tranter 59.42; 53 Christine Friebel 1.01.27; 54 Asha Mahasuria 1.02.07; 55 Shannon McRae 1.02.11; 56 Brooke Bond 1.02.11; 57 Barry Sullivan 1.02.48; 58 Martyna Hluchink 1.03.37; 59 Kristin Porter 1.06.27; 60 Bronwyn Rossingh dnf

2. Ironman Arizona, 3.8km swim, 180km bike, 42.2km run

Male: Jordan Rapp 8.13.35 Female: Samantha McClone 9.09.19

COMING UP:

1. Christmas Function, Lake Alexander, From 5.30pm Saturday 28 Nov 09. See attached - RSVP required for catering.

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. Items for e news or requests for re runs, by tomorrow 9pm please.

OTHER NEWS:

1. Mooloolaba Triathlon is almost fully subscribed.

2. Jerome Bosman's sends a big hello to all his tri club friends. He is finally having some down time after working 12-13 hrs a day for forever (guess we can take his word on that!)

3. There was a bit of unintentional biff happening as competitors rounded Geoffrey the croc on Friday evening. Poor Jodie McLeod copped a hefty right hook which cut her eye and left her pretty shaken.

4. We wish Vincent Gilly a speedy recovery from injuries received in a bike crash last week. Vincent t-boned a car which had run a red light. Broken ribs and other injuries mean Canberra Half won't be happening for him unfortunately.

5. Ali Fitch is sporting a new go faster haircut for IM WA.

6. Looking for an exotic location for a triathlon adventure? Event date has been announced for the inaugural India Triathlon Goa - 14 February 2010

7. Don't forget the date change for our Christmas Splash n Dash at Nightcliff Pool. The traditional combined event with the juniors has been moved to Saturday 5 Dec 09 due to a pre booking at the pool.

Safe training,
Cheers,
Robyn


Robyn Stanley
Darwin Triathlon Club
E News

Club website: www.members.iinet.net.au/~darwintriclub
Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/darwintriclub
Facebook Group: Darwin Triathlon Club
Blog: http://tribloggingntnews.blogspot.com/

Robyn's E News 18 Nov 09

Hi All,

Ready for Friday evening's Splash N Dash? It's going to be a real challenge for some of us (as in me) to get through the 300/2 x 3 format, so please don't eat all the watermelon before I finish.

I hear some teaming up is also happening and it will be interesting to see those combinations. Will teams have just one swimmer and one runner or will they go with the 3 person approach and each do 300/2 ??

There is plenty of scope to form teams on the day at rego so come on down if you are still to match up and we will assist. The other option is to just complete as much as you can on your own.

So no excuses, we look forward to seeing you all down at the Lake !

NEXT EVENT:

Friday 20 Nov 09
Lake Alexander
Splash N Dash
6pm

300m swim, 2km run x 3

Roster:

Race Director: Kyle Gear 0437 814 892
Registration: Leila Duncan / Cathy Preddy
Timekeepers: Jane Marie Kerslake / Roger Decurtins
Fruit / Ice: tbc

Note:

1. Torsos must be covered during run leg of event (ie guys need to wear a top)

2. If you are able to assist on Friday, please give Kyle a ring. Or put your hand up at the Lake on Friday.

FOR SALE / WANTED ETC:

1. FOR SALE: Scody Club TRI TOPS & TRI PANTS: Unisex sizing: 1 x Top S, 1 x Top M & 1 x Top L $88; Tri Pants M (Waist 82-87, Hip 99-104) $80; Contact Robyn darwintriclub@bigpond.com


2. FOR SALE: Orca club bathers - 1 x L Mens Jammers $55; 1 x S Mens Bathers $34; 1 x M (12) Ladies One Piece $55. Contact Robyn darwintriclub@bigpond.com

3. ROOM TO RENT: Room to Rent in Parap; Own bathroom, toilet, house fully furnished with pool. $280 per week + expenses. Must love dogs,
Contact Sue 0402 795 558

4. FOR SALE: Club running caps ($13; Junior Girls swimmers in sizes 6,8,10 and 12 ($28); Boys swimmers in sizes 6,8,10,12,14 plus 1 size mens (about a boys 16) ($28). Contact Jodie 0417 829 619

5. FOR SALE: Bike GIANT TCR Aero2 Grey, road bike size 46.5cm (small) suit around 165cm height; Shimano rims, Shimano 105 running gear, aerobars. computer, good condition. $600 Contact Phill 0418 669 964

6. FOR SALE: Bike Avanti Monza - Blue. 51cm good condition Bargain $150.. good intro tri bike; Contact Phill 0418 669 964

7. Polaris Bike box, brand new (new price $750) Sell for $600. Contact Phill 0418 669 964

8. Items or requests for advt re runs for next E News by 8pm Sunday please.

OTHER NEWS:

1. Reminder of date change for our Christmas Splash N Dash from Friday 4 Dec to Saturday 5 Dec at Nightcliff Pool. Date change due to another booking at venue. This is our very popular combined Junior / Senior format and our final event for 2009.

2. I hope you have RSVP'd for our members family-friendly Christmas bash on Saturday 28 November from 5.30 pm. Venue is 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 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!

3. Here's one that's probably not for the clean freaks ... Mens Health is conducting an Urbanathon in Singapore on 31 Jan 2010. It's a 12.5km run with a difference. Runners will jump road barricades, scale a wall, jump into a river, conquer flights of steps and slosh through mud pits to reach the finish line. To sign up go to www.menshealth.com.sg

4. I can hear the wheels turning from here ... how/where/when can we do that in Darwin ?

5. Did you get your response in to the TA survey? Please copy and paste this link into your internet browser http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/survey-intro.zgi?p=WEB229RW473W5U to complete.

6. Voting closes for the Sports Performer Awards at 5pm (EST), November 20, 2009 Did you get your vote in for Ironman Craig Alexander ? You still have time to vote for our dual Hawaii Ironman champion at http://www.performerawards.com.au/ Voting also gives you a chance to win $5000. Winners are to be announced next Wednesday.

7. We are almost out of club items. If you are wanting anything for a stocking filler best to grab it now (see For Sale/ Wanted).

8. I've been a bit slow getting photos up on Flickr from the Wave Pool event. Look for them later today.

YOU KNOW YOU ARE A TRIATHLETE WHEN ...

... the first thing you put in your suitcase before going on a work related interstate trip is your running and swimming gear, hoping you might fit in a couple of hours in the hotel gym or pool or in the local park/oval.
... you can down a cold can of anything wet in 10 secs flat
... you're always wet .... sweat, pool, lake, sea water, shower, bath, or rain

See at Splash N Dash on Friday,
Cheers,
Robyn

Robyn Stanley
Darwin Triathlon Club
E News

Club website: www.members.iinet.net.au/~darwintriclub
Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/darwintriclub
Facebook Group: Darwin Triathlon Club
Blog: http://tribloggingntnews.blogspot.com/