It is always great to have an event to aim for. There is a local 5k run to be held next month rasing money for Care Flight Charity.
further details can be found here http://www.stivesvillage.com.au/whatson.html#Link18
The run is on Saturday 3 September, registration from 10am (race start 11am) at St Ives Village Green, with an entry fee of $10. Enjoy.
If you are training for this run or anyother events and would like some coaching, then please contact me on coaching@trifocus.com.au
The final race of the ITU world champs was held in Budapest over the weekend and this also culminated in the age group races for the world champs.
After a good couple of months of racing Simon raced in his age group for GB, whilst I am yet to find out overall placing, Simon has managed another PB for the year with a 2:01. Well done on achieving such an amazing time.
The Race season in the Northern Hemisphere is in full swing and I have been a little lax in updating progress of the team (too busy prescribing the training). I have also re commenced training the South West pod in Sydney for Can Too for the Blackmores running festival, we will always welcome more people if you want to train, we meet on Wednesday nights in Liverpool and Saturday mornings in Georges Hall.
Due to my delay in updating results below is a summary of recent performances
Eleanor, had a good start to the season with Thames Turbo sprint 1 posting a pb by 3 minutes and has dabbled in a few cycling events, most notably a 50mile TT, where she was second female overall
Ellen, recently competed in the UK middle distance champs at Bala, however treating this as a training racing looking to her full distance tri. It was a good result also considering that for many of the competitors this was a major race on their calendar. What was most impressive was that Ellen posted the fastest run time of the day for females and the 22nd fastest run time overall.
Jackie, raced Liverpool standard distance, posting a 9th in her age and a swimming PB she is aiming for faster times over the coming months
John, after being plagued by injury for a few months, but with the help of some medical advancements in treating Achilles problems, was able to race Austria 70.3, achieving a PB and raced Royal Windsor standard distance achieving a pb of 13minutes. I think one of Johns goals for the remainder of this year is to stay injury free and be able to race fully fit.
Parys, raced her first middle distance tri in Switzerland 70.3, coming 9th in her age. A great result for the first attempt.
Richard, also raced Austria 70.3, carrying a slight strain to the hamstring was given the all clear to race conservatively and managed to achieve a PB, narrowly missing out on sub 5hrs.
Simon, raced the Dambuster standard distance tri. A pleasing performance almost attainging a PB, with a blistering run on what is not considered to be a fast course and is looking forward to the ETU champs in Athlone. Simon also competed in the Crystal Palace sprint Tri, improving on last years time by 1 minute and coming 2nd vet.
Tamsin, raced Switzerland 70.3, coming 11th in her age, but more importantly improved by a massive 30minutes on last year, well done.
It is always pleasing when people race to their potential, with most of the team improving at every race and showing signs of improvements for the remainder of the season.
I am slightly behind on the news! Full congratulations to Parys who took a Silver medal in her age-group & third overall at this year’s ETU Duathlon Chamionships, held in Budapest in May 2009.
Parys had been focussed on this event for some time and the result was a just reward for her consistent hard work ethic and commitment to her training.
Parys, then returned home raced the following weekend & won Crystal Palace Triathlon, great way to start a season.
Parys in action at Steyning duathlon, qualifying for Budapest. Photo courtesy of Sussex Sport photography
