E News 18 August 2016

E NEWS 18 AUGUST 2016   Are you ready? 11:30pm tonight the Australian men (Ryan Bailie, Ryan Fisher & Aaron Royal) will be in action in the Olympic Triathlon.  Start list here. Good luck guys!   RESULTS: 1.  Challenge Iskandar Puteri, 1.9km swim, 90km bike, 21.1km run Stef Puszka 7th FPro 5:05:12 Billy Lynch 4th M30-34 5:28:35   NEXT EVENT: Sunday 28 August 2016 Duathlon #2 Howard Springs Nature Park  7:30am 4km run, 15km bike, 2km run Online entry now open here Roster: Race Director:  Lisa Payne Registration:     Jo Duncan | Matt Dames Fruit | Ice:         Volunteer required please email darwintriclub@gmail.com  Note: 1.  The Park normally opens at 7:30am but the Ranger has indicated that he will have the gate open early.   COMMITTEE NEWS: 1.  Good news:  Our new equipment trailer is getting close to completion. 2.  Not so good news:  We have been surprised by the lack of response to our call out for volunteers to fill our roster positions.  This is most unusual so we are putting it down to dry season busyness. 3.  We do need to fill those critical positions of Race Director, 2 x Registration volunteers and 1 x Fruit | Ice volunteer for each event. For now, as a priority, we need to fill positions for events up to and including our Christmas Splash N Dash. 4.  The Race Director position has become super easy in comparison to a couple of years ago.  We provide a lot of help, and can even get someone to do the race brief if talking to a crowd isn't your thing! It's basically setting up the course and being on hand during the event to ensure things are going smoothly. 5.  So here we are asking you all to check the Event Calendar and email darwintriclub@gmail.com details of where you can volunteer. 6.  Should this call out fail to fill those positions, we may have to look at doing a draw and allocating a date & position for each member (this won't need to happen if members volunteer at least once in a season & you may as well choose a date that suits). 7.  Our other alternative is to perhaps cancel those events that aren't filled and we definitely don't want to do that! 8.  Our club has always had a fantastic volunteer culture, so we anticipate hearing from each of you and filling that calendar with names asap. 9.  More good news:  We welcomed Tatiane Kelly to the committee in the position of Secretary.   TRIATHLON NT MESSAGE: Desperately Seeking Secretary – Hi all. The Triathlon Northern Territory (TNT) AGM will be held in the next couple of months and I need someone to nominate for the secretary position. Basically the role requires that you take and prepare the meeting minutes, and collect and record the mail. TNT meets roughly every two months – i.e. only six times a year. You will need to be a member. This is your opportunity to give something back to the sport in a minimal but necessary way. Note that you cannot be trapped in the position forever as the Constitution states that a committee member cannot serve for more than two years in a row. If you would like more information on TNT please visit the website www.triathlon.org.au/NT. If you have a question please ask or email Christine Cakebread at bonnie1@internode.on.net. If you are totally awesome and can nominate please let me or the Executive Officer, Megan Pickering - eo@nt.triathlon.org.au, know. Thanks!   OTHER NEWS:   1.  Some happy campers after the Gran Fondo - our fastest members: 120km Male: Aiden Gearney 3:00:05, Glen Scholz 3:00:12, Tom Marsh 3:00:16 Female: Kate Robertson 3:03:17, Jennifer Turner 3:29:35, Vicki Woodrow 3:31:05 60km Male: Alex Baldwin 1:42:55, Kyle Farrier 1:52:22, Michael Mondy 2:10:20 Female: Kim Baldwin 1:42:55, Shellie Ratahi 1:42:56, Lyn Farrier 2:02:37 2.  Glen Scholz is competing at  Rapid Ascent - The Redback getting some training in ahead of Xterra World Championships in October.  3.   Our first junior event is coming up soon.     PIC OF THE WEEK: Cheers, Robyn  Robyn Stanley E News Darwin Triathlon Club

E News 10 August 2016

E NEWS 10 AUGUST 16 Our duathlon on Saturday attracted a very good sized field of participants and the Knuckey Lagoon Reserve course was judged to be a real winner! We also had our AGM (your new committee is listed below) and we followed up with a delicious free BBQ and we also presented our annual awards for season 2015 | 2016 (listed below). A huge thank you to RDs Lisa Payne and Tony Cox, roster volunteers Rena Walker, Leanne Abel & Vicki Woodrow for  their contribution.  Thanks also to Mel Lind and family for organising the junior dash and overseeing the BBQ, Stu Fitch for his salad pick up service & delivery and to all those who just pitched in and helped including with the setting up and packing away.  Much appreciated. Also appreciated was the support from our Awards Night sponsors - thank you again to Wicked NRG, Cycle Zone Darwin, Cannibal, Gallery 26 and AMart Sports!   Results: 1.  Duathlon #1, 3km run, 15km bike, 1.25km run Male:  Luke Fronsko 48:10  Female:  Kimberlie Baldwin 51:37 Full results here.      2015 | 2016 Awards: Aquathlon Series:  Luke Fronsko | Angela Librio Duathlon Series:    Ron Griep | Rachel McLean Super Sprint Series:  Brett Verity | Catherine Hood Sprint Series:  1 Brett Verity | 2 Luke Fronsko | 3 Jamie Baldwin Womens Series:  1 Rachel McLean | 2 Kimberlie Baldwin | 3 Kylie Scholz Age Group Pointscore Winners: 20-29:  Luke Fronsko | Rachel McLean 30-39:  Heath Porter | Kylie Scholz 40-49:  Brett Verity | Tina Sanderson 50-59:  Ron Griep | Vicki Woodrow 60-69:  David Hancock | Clare Labowitch Most Improved:  Luke Fronsko | Melissa Lind Encouragement Awards:  Chris Monahan | Rena Walker Broken Spoke Award:  Michael Mondy Dag of the Year:  Gary Wall Special Service Award:  Tony Cox Ironman Performance:  Jac Crofton Geoff Simpson Memorial Trophies:  Brett Verity | Kylie Scholz Kerran Mudgway Memorial Club Champions:  Brett Verity | Rachel McLean Age Group Club Champions: 20-29:  Luke Fronsko | Rachel McLean 30-39:  Heath Porter | Kylie Scholz 40-49:  Brett Verity | Melissa Lind 50-59:  Ron Griep | Vicki Woodrow 60-69:  Graeme Parsons   AGM: 2016 | 2017 Committee: President:  Luke Fronsko Secretary:  Vacant Treasurer:  Lisa Payne Permits Officer:  Tony Cox Membership | Communication | Media:  Robyn Stanley Equipment Officer:  Vacant Timing:  Gary Wall Junior Co-ordinators:  Rena Walker | Lyn Farrier Public Officer:  Brett Verity General Committee:  Tina Sanderson, Jessica Fell, Roger Decurtins, Tom Marsh, David Hancock   Coming Up: Sunday 28 August 2016 Duathlon #2 Howard Springs 7:30am 4km run, 15km bike, 2km run Entry opening soon Roster: Race Director:  Volunteer Required Registration:     Volunteers Required Fruit | Ice:         Volunteer Required.   Help!  We need to urgently fill our roster positions for our upcoming events. For our club events to proceed, we must have key positions filled (race director, registration x2 and fruit | ice) and if our members each volunteer for roster at least once a season, we can easily cover our calendar. Please check the 2016 | 2017 Events Calendar here and then email darwintriclub@gmail.com with your preferred event, date and roster position. We are looking forward to being inundated with your emails giving details of where you wish to volunteer!   Other News: 1.  We had Melissa Lind and Graeme Parsons stand down at the AGM and take this opportunity to again thank them both sincerely for their contribution to the running of our club during their time on the committee. 2.  The stork has been busy this week.  Congratulations to John & Brianna Arrigo on the birth of their first child, Harry James and to Tim & Bec Ellison on the arrival of Tiger's little brother, Ace Bravo. 3.  Sending Alan Barrett speedy recovery wishes following his recent surgery. 4.  Dropping in to say hello (and to thaw out) during this past week - Renee de Jong and Marcus Lisle. 5.  Good luck to all our members participating in the Gran Fondo this weekend. 6.  Toeing the start line at Challenge Iskandar Puteri this weekend in Malaysia we have Stef Puszka & Billy Lynch.  Good luck! 7.  Anyone heading for Bali International Triathlon? Don't forget to give us a heads up if you (or someone you know) is racing away. 8.  Well done to those who participated in the Come & Try on Saturday.  We hope you enjoyed it enough to join our club.  It's an easy online process to sign up and you can do that here.   PIC OF THE WEEK: 2016 | 2017 Club events kicked off at Knuckey Lagoon on Saturday Cheers, Robyn Robyn Stanley E News Darwin Triathlon Club