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Issue No.139 – June 2006
Welcome to new members
Sarah
Harris who has just completed her first triathlon at Stratford of Avon.
She decided to join husband
Peter Kerry who is an ex footballer in his late twenties and has suffered injuries so has decided to give triathlons a go. He lives in Rendlesham and may have a go at a triathlon late season.
Simon Heath lives in Gislingham and has competed in a few triathlons and has committed himself to a half Ironman in June for his first big race. Sounds like jumping in at the deep end, and we wish him all the best.
Andrew Mackenzie
from
Justin Baillie from Stowmarket. Has done some triathlons 10 years ago then turned to rugby and has come back to triathlons and has entered Culford this year to give himself an incentive to train.
Alice Sheerwin Sally Strange Alexander Jackson Rosie Payne Polly Wheeler who are junior members and joined after the junior training day.
Congratulations to Lee Bark on winning the Waveney Valley Triathlon after a storming bike ride. (see results)
Congratulations to Nigel Powley on winning the T2 sprint duathlon at Earls Colne on Bank Holiday Monday. (Results in next issue of ITCH)
CULFORD TRIATHLON
(Tonya Antonis)
Yes the racing season is upon us again and it's that time of year that I start asking club members to put a little bit back into the club by marshalling at our events. Without willing volunteers we would not be able to run these events. The following members have stated on their membership forms that they are able to help at the event at Culford on Sunday 30th July:
Ian Bliss, Simon Bourne, Dave Copland,
In addition to this Karl Chubb and
Can I please ask for all volunteers to CONFIRM BY EMAIL bubble.squeek@ntlworld.com or by telephone (01473) 412291 Jeff or Tonya that they are still available, and of course any other offers of help NO LATER THAN 25th JUNE in order that I can publish a final list in the next issue of ITCH prior to the event.
Amnesty for Club
Equipment / Videos The club own at least 8 turbo trainers. We know of the
whereabouts of 3. If you have one of the club rollerturbos
or know anyone who has, can you let
There are also several club videos which are loaned out and we have lost track of who had them. If you have one, again could you let one of the committee know.
New Event Tri
Anglia are holding a Novice Aquathlon (Swim / Run) on
Sunday 17th June at the
Senior Training Day Note
Change of Date
The Senior Training Day will now take place on Sunday 18th June
from
John Gabriel writes about Thursday Training
I'm organising a repeat of
last months Turbo / Run session at Greshams on Thursday 15th June starting at 7.00 for 7.15 prompt.
Session will be same as last time (3 x 10 mins turbo
followed by 5 mins run) with the (voluntary) option
of a 4th
interval. Hope to see you there, please
spread the word to anyone who you think may be interested.
Thursday 22nd June -
Both the above events will be based at Greshams
Sports Club,
For further details contact John Gabriel on 01394 278473
Training Events at
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|
Date |
Planned session |
Type |
Time |
Contact |
Notes |
|
1.6.06 |
Town Run |
Hilly |
>1 hour |
John Gabriel |
|
|
8.6.06 |
Off Road |
General |
>1 hour |
TBA |
|
|
15.6.06 |
Turbo / Run |
Efforts |
1 hour+ |
John Gabriel |
Optional easy / hard run @ Greshams for
those without turbos |
|
22.6.06 |
Duathlon |
General |
|
John Gabriel |
7 mile bike : 2 mile run |
|
29.6.06 |
Long Intervals |
Efforts |
45 mins |
John Gabriel |
Off Road |
|
6.7.06 |
Town Run |
Hilly |
>1 hour |
TBA |
|
|
13.7.06 |
Off Road |
General |
>1 hour |
John Gabriel |
|
|
20.7.06 |
Turbo / Run |
Efforts |
1 hour+ |
John Gabriel |
Optional easy / hard run @ Greshams for
those without turbos |
|
27.7.06 |
Short Hills |
Efforts |
45 mins |
John Gabriel |
|
|
3.8.06 |
Town Run |
Hilly |
>1 hour |
TBA |
|
|
10.8.06 |
Off Road |
General |
>1 hour |
John Gabriel |
|
|
17.8.06 |
Turbo / Run |
Efforts |
1 hour+ |
John Gabriel |
Optional easy / hard run @ Greshams for
those without turbos |
|
24.8.06 |
Short Hills |
Efforts |
45 mins |
John Gabriel |
|
|
31.8.06 |
Long Intervals |
Efforts |
45 mins |
John Gabriel |
Off Road |
SWIMMING
We have the
opportunity to have an extra regular swim session at
we can go ahead with the booking if there are enough people interested.
The next
Saturday swim session is Sat 10th June and these continue each
Saturday through term.
ITC JUNIOR TRAINING
DAY – 20 May – by John Gabriel
26 Juniors aged 8-14 from around
the area descended on
coaches Isabel Smith,
The morning session consisted of Swim & T1 training and the afternoon continued with Cycling, T2 & Running & finished with a ‘Drayathlon’ allowing athletes to put into practice all they had learnt on a short but testing course.
Junior training day warm up with Nigel Dadge
Over the lunch break Club Members Lauren Clipstone & Will Meadows shared their experiences as first time triathletes and Will gave an interesting and very mature talk about his experiences in triathlon since.
The afternoon session was completed by a short presentation
by
A big thank you to everyone involved in making this venture
a success and also to
Look out for some speedy triathletes representing
Transition Training for the younger age
groups
Report of Turbo/Run Training
I was amazed only 6 turned up for an excellent Turbo Run Session on Thusday 18th May. It was a fantastic session led by John Gabriel. It was non competitive, each athlete working to their own level, highly structured and excellent triathlon specific training. The session consisted of 10 minute Turbo, 5 min run repeated 3 times at increasing intensity. A hard session but very good humoured. Fantastic transition training (6 changes of shoes) Steve de Boltz is the man to ask about transitions, he was 10 seconds faster than the rest of us. When we run another session and you do not have a turbo trainer please ask – the club has turbo trainers to lend out.
The session will be repeated in coming weeks.
6 keen
duathletes on a bike run training session
Just a quick update on James and Ben
Powley. Both competed in the Woodbridge Fun Run, running for Ipswich
triathlon Club, this was run in front of big crowds and in a starting list of
over 150 runners.(Sunday 14th May).
James Powley (12 years old) 10th overall
(6th in age) Ben Powley (9 years old) 73rd overall. (7th
in age).
This follows up James winning the January Sports person of
the month for his school. A rare feat for a Year 7 pupil.
This was recognition for his performances in the Suffolk Schools X Country
Champs throughout the winter culminating in a 16th place in the overall Suffolk
Schools trials at Framlingham. James only started running in October last year.
James has already run an 'unofficial' time of 35minutes for 5 miles. Both Ben
and James will be competing in eligible races throughout the year.
Place Name Run Bike Run Finish
1 Tom Lowe 21.06 53.52 21.27 1.36.26
50th Nigel Powley 23.26 1.00.52 25.43 1.50.03
68th Dave Copland 25.23 1.01.46 26.02 1.53.15
118th
155th Will Newland 27.31 1.04.45 32.57 2.05.13
207th Steve Robinson 30.59 1.10.35 33.56 2.15.31
236th Anne Fish 33.43 1.13.46 35.54 2.23.24
241st Helen Farrow 33.15 1.18.23 34.31 2.26.08
244th Grayhame Fish 34.29 1.16.41 37.41 2.28.52Rule
Some people are just NEVER happy ... but more of that later!
Waveney clashed with the infamous
turn-out from the club, and some really good performances.
Lee Bark was overall winner, some one
minute ahead of the next placed finisher.
Sue Rule was second lady home, with Lucy Bowditch coming in
Third - in her first
triathlon. (And to think I was walking Lucy around
transition before the race showing her the ropes!)
Closer to home, the present Mrs Stannett
managed to beat me on the run (okay, just by one second, but a second is a long
time in domestic
politics!) despite
claiming to be injured and unable to run, and came second in her age group - but was still
unhappy with her performance.
Similarly
Personally I see Waveney as the ideal
start-of-season opportunity to remember how everything goes together - I genuinely
forgot when preparing my kit the night before that I had to do a run after the
bike, and in T1 I managed to get my left & right bike shoes mixed up. But,
before you think it's only Stannetts who make that
kind of mistake... I took a fancy to a wonderful black "Guru" bike in
transition and tracked it down to the
Place Name Swim Bike Run Finish
1 Lee Bark
34 Sue Rule
36
38 Lucy Bowditch
50 Mary Skelcher
54
56 David Husband
74 Michael Stollery
83 Grayhame Fish
85 Julia Yelloly
91
92 Anne Fish
95 Kate Stannett
96 Nik Bestow
105 Wendy
106 Charlie Stannett
138
Sunburn! I certainly wasn't expecting that
in the Welsh mountains when I set off from my brother
Andy's house on race morning. It didn't occur to me to put on the P20 until 30 mins before my swim. Bah.
As for the race itself, it's the first time
I've actually raced that course, if you see what I mean. In previous years I've
ridden the bike at what seemed a "manageable" pace without much
regard for other competitors. I started the bike section this year in a similar
fashion, unsure of how many from my wave were ahead of me. I remember passing a
couple of people in the first few miles. Then from the first climb onwards I
didn't see anyone for ages (if you discount the really stupid sheep, one of
which nearly ended up acting as an emergency stopping device for me + bike).
On to the fast section of the course, about
half way round. A chap called David Gunthorpe came
past me. No surprise there - I'm better
on the hills than the flat. But then a moment later Gareth
I couldn't remember what his running was
like so I could only hope that
he would slow down and I might be able to
catch him. But that wasn't to be. The Blaenavon run features a huge variety of
gradients within the first couple of miles (from "challenging" to
"stupid", mainly) so it's very difficult to gauge whether you're
closing or not. However, every time I caught sight of Gareth, I could see that
he was pulling away. And that's the way it stayed -I wasn't feeling great on
the run (perhaps having given too much on the
bike) and Gareth finished a worthy winner. Except that he didn't. Turns out
he's not a veteran at all. I did think that he was a mighty young looking vet
but, well, that's the way it is sometimes.
So now I have a very handsome stone trophy,
which means that I'll have to do the race again next year, just so I can return
it. Brother Andy had a rather different experience. It was only his third ever
tri, so just completing the course would be an achievement. Sadly, he punctured
just before the second big climb and he didn't have a repair kit with him. But
after walking a little way, he was lost for words as competitor after
competitor offered assistance. One chap threw him an inner tube and another
donated his saddle bag containing CO2 canisters. Being something of a beginner
at cycling, Andy managed to discharge one canister into the great wide world
before getting the second into his tube.
Unfortunately, the tube wasn't entirely
within the tyre at the time, so The resulting
explosion put him back to square 1. When all was looking lost (isn't it always
like this?) the caped crusader, Batman himself* arrived, fixed Andy's puncture
and they finished the Race together. When I was suggesting suitable events for
Andy to enter, I had told him that the normal progression was to start with a
few sprints, ideally somewhere flat-ish. However, if
he wanted something that would give him stories to tell the grandchildren, he
should enter Blaenavon. Now he knows what I meant.
*Actually Mike Griffiths, who raises money
for Aspire by completing all his races in full Batman costume, including Ironman
Lanzarote. Naturally, Mike got a
generous donation from Andy.
1 Phillip Matthews
3 Dave Copland
43 Andy Copland
Men
Winner David
Miller 33.41
26th Mark
Ramsay 39.18
37th
120th
146th Karl
Chubb 47.21
214th Oliver
Calver 50.42
Women
Winner Lotty Badley 39.47
28th Jackie
Chubb 49.33
30th Amanda
Mallett 49.40
520 finishers
Soham
Half marathon Sun 21st May
103rd Sue
Hargadon 2.01.36
Emilie Fisher writes about discovering a
new direction for her talent
I’m really enjoying bike training and even more the racing!
I thought I would have a go at a few time trials as the bike has been my
strongest area in triathlons and I have been doing John Gabriel’s bike plan
during the winter. I am now firmly hooked on all things bike!
Recently I rode in the ‘
I had heard of a road race series down in