Patrick made the trip to Rimini for the World Duathlon Champs.
After a solid first run and first half of the Bike it looked like a top 10 in hs age group was on the cards, then bang!
These things happen and Patrick has had a fantastic year making 3 g.b teams in his first full year of competition. Roll on the winter and the Swimming Lessons...
Tuesday 30 September 2008
Tuesday 23 September 2008
Lorne Having it Large in Studland (no not the nudist beach)
2nd for Lorne at the Steve Bird Memorial Triathlon held at Studland on Sunday, a great result to cap off a fantastic season that has sen Lorne make leaps forward with his training and racing. Not only that but he also passed his first year at Uni. Give it another 2 years and we might have a driven to tri nutritionalist!
Tuesday 16 September 2008
Backing up at Bala and going up in France
Kate wanted to finish off her season with an Olympic distance time and get the triple of sprint, Olympic and Half Ironman in the same year. So a week after Monaco she backed up with a great result at Bala, 5th overall in the womes race after the bike and sub 2.30 in her first full season...great job.
Pete and I were at the last of our french grand prix races where we needed to win the team race and the other teams to mess up if we were going to get promoted. The three counters for our team were 4th 8th and 13th which gave us the win, but we thought the other teams had raced well enough for us to stay down. Lots of long faces until a maths man somewhere worked it out and we were up by a point. French very happy and fingers crossed a contract for next year...phew!
Not a whole lot of racing left now, a few Driven to tri stalwarts in action next weekend followed by some World Duathlon action, then its a couple of jetsetters with warm weather races, Julie dominating world 70.3s and xterra then time for turkey (the bird not the place).
Pete and I were at the last of our french grand prix races where we needed to win the team race and the other teams to mess up if we were going to get promoted. The three counters for our team were 4th 8th and 13th which gave us the win, but we thought the other teams had raced well enough for us to stay down. Lots of long faces until a maths man somewhere worked it out and we were up by a point. French very happy and fingers crossed a contract for next year...phew!
Not a whole lot of racing left now, a few Driven to tri stalwarts in action next weekend followed by some World Duathlon action, then its a couple of jetsetters with warm weather races, Julie dominating world 70.3s and xterra then time for turkey (the bird not the place).
Monday 8 September 2008
Driven to Tri's Big Weekend
Lots going on this weekend, Julie decided not to take the trip to Monaco, but we still had plenty of athletes out spreading the Driven to Tri word.
First Up were Joyce and Jane at the Lost Sheep half Ironman in Kenmare. Joyce finsihed 2nd overall in the womens race whilst Jane took 10 minutes off last years bike time despite some horrendous weather conditions, full results once they are publised.
At the Cotswolds Tri Mike was really unlucky to puncture on the bike, so unfortunatly a Driven To Tri DNF, but he did have a really strong swim. I finished second after being given a lesson in how to ride a time trial by James Gillfillan. I have to say he was very impressive on his bike.
Out in Monaco Nathan, Kate, Brett and Kevin were all in action. Again i'll update with full results once I have them. Kate was 14th in her age group on her 1/2 iroman debut. Brett took a tumble coming down off one of the cols and is going to have a soar collar bone for a few weeks. Kevin and Natan both had solid races.
Lorne was our only Olympic distance racer this weekend, getting inside 2.10 with a 21minute swim and a 37 minute run. After a tough season with some big weeks lifeguarding down at Bournemouth i'm really glad that Lorne has managed to nail a result, as he says "bring on next season!"
That just leaves Pete who was supersprinting in Strathclyde. 14th overall after missing a wheel as the break went on the bike. Not the result he was looking for, but getting back to form after his crash and should be ready to dominate in France next weekend.
Probably one of our biggest weekends racing so far, well done everyone amazing to see everyone giving it beans and making the new kit look so good. "One Step Closer to World Domination!"
First Up were Joyce and Jane at the Lost Sheep half Ironman in Kenmare. Joyce finsihed 2nd overall in the womens race whilst Jane took 10 minutes off last years bike time despite some horrendous weather conditions, full results once they are publised.
At the Cotswolds Tri Mike was really unlucky to puncture on the bike, so unfortunatly a Driven To Tri DNF, but he did have a really strong swim. I finished second after being given a lesson in how to ride a time trial by James Gillfillan. I have to say he was very impressive on his bike.
Out in Monaco Nathan, Kate, Brett and Kevin were all in action. Again i'll update with full results once I have them. Kate was 14th in her age group on her 1/2 iroman debut. Brett took a tumble coming down off one of the cols and is going to have a soar collar bone for a few weeks. Kevin and Natan both had solid races.
Lorne was our only Olympic distance racer this weekend, getting inside 2.10 with a 21minute swim and a 37 minute run. After a tough season with some big weeks lifeguarding down at Bournemouth i'm really glad that Lorne has managed to nail a result, as he says "bring on next season!"
That just leaves Pete who was supersprinting in Strathclyde. 14th overall after missing a wheel as the break went on the bike. Not the result he was looking for, but getting back to form after his crash and should be ready to dominate in France next weekend.
Probably one of our biggest weekends racing so far, well done everyone amazing to see everyone giving it beans and making the new kit look so good. "One Step Closer to World Domination!"
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