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Issue No.141 – September
2006
PLEASE NOTE – pictures have been
removed from this webpage. Download
the PDF version if you want to see them.
STOP PRESS – since putting the PDF version together, we have learned that
there is now
no swimming Saturday 23rd September due to the school having their own
commitments in the pool
Welcome to new members
Adnan Saith has
moved down from
Alanyah Barton the youngest member of our junior squad who has made her debut at The Framlingham Junior triathlon with a superb 4th place in a very competitive field.
Congratulations
To Lucy Bowditch and Lee Bark; both winners at Culford.
To Nick and Heather Collinson on the birth of their first child; a daughter, Phoebe, on the 12th August.
To Tonya and Geoff on their marriage in August
Orienteering
If you fancy a crack at orienteering there is a ‘Try Orienteering event at Nowton Park Bury St. Edmunds on Sunday 10th September. For more details contact me.
Broomhill Pool Open Day
Broomhill 50m open air pool in
This is the final race of the year that we promote as a club and I ask that those members who have not been able to help at the other events try and make this one. Without willing volunteers we would not be able to promote such well organised and popular events. As with the other events I have taken the following names from the membership list, any further offers of help either on the day or with help setting up on the Saturday will be greatly appreciated. I notice a number of the volunteers have helped at other events so if you are not able to help at the Duathlon please let me know. Some of you have already confirmed your availability for the event, if you haven't I ask that you please contact me by email bubble.squeek@ntlworld.com or by calling (01473) 412291, thank you.
The first competitors start at 08:10am so I ask that all volunteers below arrive at Alton Water Leisure Park in plenty of time listen to the main race briefing at 07:30 am and be in position ready for the start.
Tonya Antonis,
Lee Bark, Jason Baillie, Alison Bestow, Christine Booth, James Boutell, Nick Collinson, Dave Copland, Steve De Boltz, Ian
Duggan, David Fellman, Dave Husband, Jeff Irving, Gary & Emma Matthews,
Simon Palmer, Rob Peevor, Wendy Quantrill, Maria
Reynolds, Susannah Rosenberg, Derrick Smith, Chris Sugars, Lou Tanous, Charlie Tovel, Ross Welton, Richard
Woodward and Paul Wythe.
The following
people have offered to help set up on the Saturday prior to the event, I will
contact you all nearer the date with a time for this. Tonya Antonis, Adrian
Green, Chris & Sarah Harris, Jeff Irving, Sarah Strivens, Nik Bestow, Simon
Palmer and
Culford Sprint Triathlon Dave Copland
Thanks
to all those who turned out to help with the running of this year's Culford
Triathlon. I got to see most parts of
the course during the morning and everything was running very smoothly as far
as I could tell. Finally we got some decent weather after the dampness of the
last couple of years. This was reflected
in the greater number of people who stayed for the prize presentation. Once again, we got the results out within 30 minutes
of the last person crossing the line, in spite of a number of cases needing the
involvement of the race referee.
I
received many emails thanking the club; here's a selection:
"Thanks v much for Sunday - esp. the marshalls
who were great!"
"It
was my first triathlon and I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it in fact so
much that I signed up for the
"FANTASTIC!
What an event; the organization, information and support was superb [...] it's
the little things that make all the difference, being called by your first name
as you start the swim and then finish the run is a nice touch."
"I
must say how well organised and well supported by the marshals it was. You know
it was a pleasure to see the marshals clapping and supporting us and the day I
feel was a credit to them and you."
So we
put on another successful event. But,
I'm slightly sad to find myself closing with the same comment that I made last
year. A number of people agreed to help
but didn't turn up. They agreed to help
when they joined the club and were reminded by Tonya before the event. If a marshal isn't there on the day, it
doesn't mean that the overall marshalling level is down by 3%. It means that one specific job is down by
100%. As a club we need to pull together
to ensure that our races remain highly regarded. If you enjoy racing, it's your duty to put
something back into the sport.
Junior Triathlon
(Framlingham) Simon
Palmer
Thanks to everyone who turned up on Saturday to set out the course. 10 people turned up and we got the course out in under 2 hours – Fantastic!
The race was the biggest ever with 172 youngsters entered
for what should be the best race in the region. (I had to turn away 20
competitors which really distressed me – they are the future of your sport.)
Most competitors and parents were full of compliments and heaped praise on the
organisation; however on the Sunday we were short of 6
I am very grateful for all those who helped on the Saturday and Sunday but would like to single out
- in alphabetical order
-John Gabriel for setting up on Saturday, organising marshals on Sunday and staying to the bitter end in clearing up.
- Sue Hargadon and catering team of Mike Palmer, Oliver Calver for raising £250 for your club by selling refreshments. (thanks for all the donations of cakes) Charlie Stannett for coping with results that were spurious and inconsistent with efficiency and calmness. Graham White for coping single-handed in a pool full of babbling youngsters and parents – it must bring out the teacher in him! (seriously we needed 2 more helpers for Graham and he deserves a CDM for his work)
To Steve De Boltz, Chris Gabriel, Ross Gabriel, Jonny Palmer and Annette White and 3 parents of competitors for stepping in at the last minute to help out in marshalling.
SATURDAY MORNING SWIM SESSIONS resume on
Saturday 9th September at Ipswich High School Woolverstone,
Dates for your
diary:
September 9th , 16th , 23rd , 30th
.
STOP PRESS – since putting the PDF version together, we have learned
that there is now no swimming
Saturday 23rd September due to the school having their own commitments in the
pool
October 7th 14th (followed by 2 weeks off for ½ term) November 4th , 11th
, 18th and 25th .
December 9th , 16th
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January 6th , 13th
, 20th , 27th
February 3rd ,
10th? (to be confirmed by school), 24th .
March 3rd 10th 17th 24th 31st ? (to
be confirmedl).
Easter
holidays.
April 28th
May 5th 12th 19th 26th (to be confirmed by the school).
June 9th 16th
23rd 30th
July 7th
SWIM COACHING
Anyone interested in a coached
swim session at Framlingham College Pool, on a Wednesday evening 8-8.45pm
starting in September/October, cost about £3-4, get in contact with John
Gabriel on 01394 278473 or at jgcoaching@btinternet.com. Coaching will be
delivered by local swim coach Matt Claydon.
Introduction to Pose
Running @ Greshams
Want to run faster, more
efficiently, injury free?
Pose Running could be the
answer to your running problems. It has worked for many triathletes both in
Oleg Timoshin
(Personal Pose Instructor) will be running 2 'Introduction to Pose' sessions at
Training Events at
All senior sessions start
at
Results of Training Duathlon held at Greshams
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Dave Copland |
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Peter Kerry |
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Derek Smith |
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Steve De Boltz |
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Paul Whythe |
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Brian McGeeney |
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Susannah Rosenburg |
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Wendy Quantrill |
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Well done to all our juniors who
competed at Framlingham, some taking part in their first triathlon. Results as
follows:
Girls 8 years - Alanah Barton 4th in 9.23
Girsl 9-10 years - Rosie Payne &
Charlotte Wickens tied for 16th place in
18.04
Boys 11-12 years - Keiran Bliss 16th in 25.03
Girls 11-12 years - Lauren
Clipstone 3rd in 20.22,
Georgina Barton 16th in 26.48 & Sally Strange 18th in 28.55
Boys 13-14 years - Will
Meadows 4th in 25.54, Alex
Jackson 20th in 35.16
Club members William &
Jack Seccombe also competed for Sir Robert Mitcham School finishing 2nd in the Boys 8 years (8.38) and 12th
in the Boys 11-12 years (24.17) respectively.
Winner Lee Bark 3.52 32.24 14.37 50.53
3rd Mark
Ramsay 4.59 33.25 14.27 52.51
15th Mark
Bowditch 5.05 36.52 14.46 56.43
22nd Iain
Downie 3.58 37.33 15.53 57.24
30th (Female Winner)
Lucy Bowditch 5.35 37.11 16.33 58.24
37th David
Husband 4.47 39.06 16.13 1.00.06
45th Andrew
McKenzie 5.04 40.35 15.20 1.00.59
48th Anthony
Birt 6.12 39.42 15.59 1.01.53
54th Mike
Stollery 6.22 39.47 16.35 1.01.44
64th David
Clifford 5.10 40.42 17.52 1.03.44
76th Julia
Yellowly 5.22 41.32 18.35 1.05.29
79th Sarah
Strivens 6.27 41.32 17.34 1.05.56
89th Mary
Skelcher 5.20 43.29 18.23 1.07.12
94th Paul
Wythe 6.19 45.20 15.50 1.07.29
98th Amanda
Mallett 6.24 42.27 18.58 1.07.44
107 Jackie Chubb 6.02 45.28 17.00 1.08.30
118 Laura
Williams 6.23 44.45 18.32 1.09.40
128 Chris
Slemmings 5.36 45.13 20.27 1.11.26
130 Karl Chubb 6.44 47.42 17.21 1.11.38
133 Jason Baillie 5.57 46.23 19.45 1.12.57
141 Maria
Reynolds 6.26 45.49 20.42 1.12.57
142 Ron Bareham 7.02 43.37 23.05 1.13.44
162 Jo Montagu 7.18 51.53 22.42 1.21.23
144th Amanda
Mallett 34.37 1.26.28 55.13 2.56.15
151st Laura
Williams 37.38 1.26.12 56.30 3.00.20
155th Tom
Wilmot 37.24 1.28.12 55.22 3.01.07
160th Dave
Fellman 34.43 1.23.30 1.02.03 3.04.16
169th Nik
Bestow 56.11 1.23.02 55.17 3.14.30
Ironman
Four
club members completed this year’s Ironman
Mark found time to hurl
abuse as he lapped Charlie on the three-lap, hilly and very windy (as in “head
wind”) bike leg, yet still got around in an impressive
In the SSS (short stumpy
Stannett) category, Kate knocked half an hour off her IMUK05 time, finishing in
With Nick Collinson
& Derrick Smith doing Nice, and William Catchpole, Rob Peevor & Charlie
doing
Billed as
the largest triathlon in the world, the “Michelob Ultra London Marathon” is
actually two days of different events from “super sprints” through relays to
standard “Olympic” distance events – some of those reserved for elites.
The club was
incredibly well represented over both days, with William Catchpole even
featuring as a centrefold in the Independent’s special results supplement. I know I’ve missed some names but
Here are some words from some of those of us who took part.
William
Catchpole
I was doing it as part of a mixed team relay Olympic distance called "The
Dirty Badgers" albeit wearing
It was my first relay event and I have to say it was great
fun. My friend John Grave has bad knees from playing hockey and has focused on
his swimming so this was an ideal (albeit expensive) opportunity for him to
show his form. His wife Linda Grave is a fitness instructor and was taking the
10k run section with myself on the bike leg. There were two waves in our event with
about 590 teams some other mixed teams and other all male/all female. Lots of
people milling about waiting for their wave and nerves started jangling. It was
clear that there were the serious teams and then the slightly more relaxed
teams looking to complete.
We wanted to do a time of 2hrs and 25 mins - John did a 25min swim and came with
maybe 15-20 swimmers ahead (an ugly altercation with another competitor at the
exit pontoon may have delayed him a few seconds) my target time was sub 1hr
15mins and I made it just despite dropping a shoe trying to be clever on unclipping
when 200metres from T2 - Linda was targeted with a run time of 45 mins and
clocked 46mins.
We had a real contest with Woodbridge Surfers A &
B teams and the A team just managed to catch us in the final lap of the run. Great medal venue crowds etc. Our team came a very pleasing
56 and will be doing it again next year I hope and see if we can move up the
field.
Charlie
Stannett (shown here
chasing
Sunday
morning I just did not want to even start, spent midday sat in an armchair in
the Excel foyer feeling physically ill (not helped by girl throwing up just
in front of me), feeling despondent and actually SCARED of starting and not
being able to finish the swim - and just had to quietly coax myself round to
wanting to star. I was surprised at how
I managed to turn myself around from wanting to go home to wanting to start:
I'm learning more about bullying myself rather than Kate for a change!
But in the end, after an even-more-rubbish than usual swim, I enjoyed the bike;
I was smiling all the way around on the shuffle; and we had a brilliant club
presence (about a dozen or more people, almost all in club strip) &
supporters, with loads of "Come on
Best of all, I somehow managed to come away with two goody bags and a total of
four bottles of Michelob Ultra…
Steve dB (on bike)
After very little sleep, up at 5, lonely breakfast and stroll to Excel for
Emilie
Fisher (& Spencer Wix)
We were both very impressed with the organisation of
My swim was OK (apart from getting punched in the head by another competitor so
that my goggles came off!!). The bike section was fast and flat and I really
enjoyed it, luckily making up some places that I lost in the swim and the run
section was nice and flat. All in all I really enjoyed the race and was 35th in
my age group and did a PB!
Spencer had a great swim, emerging 8th in his wave and had a
good bike section. His run was very good too and overall he was 30th in his
group and 16th in his wave, again having a PB!
Kate
Stannett
London is probably
one of my most favouritest
races. I have been doing it almost since it was a baby. But, take it from me, you can do as many
races as you like but you can still forget where you put your bike!
We managed a
small teamette picture late Sunday after Boo had
scared the pants off us: the picture shows Charlie, Brian, Steve, Kate & Boo – who was bent double in the next shot!
Entries are
already open for next year’s events, on Sat & Sun 4th & 5th
August but note that this clashes with IM70.3
Normally I’d be relaxing immediately after the
Culford Tri but this time I was packing up two bikes on Sunday evening and
getting my race kit ready for an early start the next morning. The flight and
drive to Alpe d’Huez were
uneventful but the end result was that by
Next morning Susannah wanted to do her ascent of l'Alpe before breakfast so I went out with her to check the
bike out and see her off. Now I'm a reasonably competent mechanic but I have to
confess to a nagging sense of doubt as I watched her start a 13km hairpin
descent in the mist on a bike that had been ridden a total of 200 metres since
it had been assembled. She's in here somewhere:
A phone call 30 minutes later from the bottom of the Alpe put my mind at rest. A second emergency phone call 90
minutes after that jerked me into action: she wasn't going to be back in time
for breakfast so could I get her a plate of food before they stopped serving?
Susannah was (rightly) dead chuffed that she got up the whole thing and equally
pleased to have some nosh available immediately.
Wednesday was race day. We drove down to the lake to find
a very professional looking set-up: PA, proper barriers, military-looking types
guarding transition. Race numbers had been allocated according to nationality,
so that meant all the Brits were together in transition - a nice touch.
The swim was a bit of a nightmare for me. After 5 minutes
I had what I can only describe (judging by other people's comments) as a panic
attack: shortness of breath, chest felt constricted, heart
rate up in the stratosphere. I've been swimming open water for 10 years now and
this has never happened to me before. No real idea what caused it but
candidates would be: (1) no time to warm up (I was one of the last into the water),
(2) the lake is at 800m of altitude so slightly less oxygen available, (3)
maybe I set off too fast in the excitement. Anyway, a few minutes of
breaststroke calmed me down and then I switched back to a slightly gentler than
usual crawl for the remainder. Oh, and it’s a lovely clear lake.
Onto the bike. The course takes you on an undulating loop of the lake. We
didn't have officially closed roads but I guess the police decided to keep
motor traffic off the course anyway – good old
After this point, the road goes up. And
keeps on going up. And up. For a long time. The
first half of the climb was good for me - overtaking a steady stream of people.
I did notice that I was slightly slower than when I'd recce'd
the climb back in May. Not sure why that should be - possibly something to do
with preceding it with a swim and 15 miles at race pace. Also, I reckon we had
(mostly) a headwind. At the halfway point, though, it went a bit pear-shaped. I
could feel myself slowing down and I could see lots of people overtaking me. I
guess I should have eaten/drunk more but I was feeling a bit bloated as it was.
Anyway, getting into the town of
I had a short comedy "where's my shoes" moment
in T2 but soon got on my way, only to discover that my legs had locked solid
with cramp. I've had cramp before but not like this. As soon as the road went
even slightly uphill, the legs refused to run. At least I could walk, though.
Got to the turnaround point and passed up the offer of (amongst other things) a
ham sandwich. Was amazed to see how high we were above the town. I hadn't
realised we'd climbed so much and it made me feel better to discover that my
legs at least had a valid reason to complain. The run back down was much more
pleasant. Crossed the finish line, handed my chip over and
headed for a lengthy session at the food tables.
I'm left with a slightly unexpected feeling about the
race. The swim, bike and run parts weren't that good for me. However, I have a
very positive view of the whole thing. That applied immediately after I'd
finished and still applies when I look back now. The organisation was superb,
the location legendary and the atmosphere friendly. I'll be back.
1st Reinaldo Colucci
206th Dave Copland
Wed 10th August
2nd Phil Hetzel 23.51
8th Dave Copland 25.15
21st Anthony Birt 27.29
31st Susannah Rosenberg 33.48
These are the items we have in stock.
If you wish to order something not in stock please tell Heather; she will be placing an order later this summer.
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ITEMS NEW KIT |
cost to club |
cost to member |
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Tri-top male with zip |
£20.90 |
£17.00 |
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0 |
3 |
1 |
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Tr-top male with zip and pockets |
£24.50 |
£20.00 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
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Tri-top female with zip |
£22.00 |
£18.00 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
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Tri-top female with zip, pockets |
£26.00 |
£21.00 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
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Tri-suit male |
£44.00 |
£35.00 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
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3 |
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Tri-suit female |
£48.50 |
£39.00 |
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1 |
2 |
0 |