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ETPA dominate at WSTC!

01.09.10

Ben Pattie led the ETPA charge lighting up the WSTC course on Sunday morning. Ben ran a 17:30 off the bike for 5k taking the overall win by 2mins over some accomplished athletes. Ryan Hurrell also won his age group in his first long course event. Young Ryan, only 17 years, had a great first up effort sealing the win with a solid run off the bike.

Dennis Neal, Cameron Wright, Kellie Pitman and Julie Stevenson all had solid days out. Unfortunately Britta Jensen had a DNF after battling with a virus all morning...bad luck Britta.

In the Short course Sarah Lester again hit the track in fine form, taking the win by over two minutes. Sarah had the fastest run splits for the day in both run segments. Sarah is now only two weeks out from worlds at Budapest, ETPA wish her luck!

Also Dane Heaysman ran the Sandy Point Half Marathon, clocking a time of 86min!

Another great weekend of racing from the ETPA crew, keep up the good work.

ETPA has our first National Champion! John Williams wins the Welsh Cross Triathlon Championship

27.08.10

Firstly let's start with the local events.

Brooks Duathlon

Sarah Lester took out line honours in the most recent Brooks Duathlon series. Sarah ran the first 5k in 18:55 setting up a great ride leg. Sarah, now only weeks out from worlds is starting to fire, we cannot wait to see how she goes!

VRR Half Marathon

Ben Martin also had a great day out at the last VRR half marathon. Ben ran 1:27, which is a PB, to place in the top 10 overall.

Kellie Pitman also continued her run of great form have a solid day out at the VRR half. Kellie also ran a BP and is looking good for her first half Ironman in a few months.

Sri Chinmoy Half Marathon at Como landing

Ben Martin, Keith Ross and Olivia Atanasovska all had great races with Ben and Olivia running PB's on the day.

Coburg fun run

Dennis Neal and Julie Stevenson also stepped out on the race track and ran solid 10k efforts at the Coburg Fun Run.

Rydges Capricorn Half Ironman

In the Rydges Capricorn Half Ironman on the weekend ETPA had a mixed bag of results. ETPA coach Darren Franken won his age group and placed 9th overall, great race Darren. Cam Wright hit a 13min PB, stopping the clock in 5:27 with a solid run leg. Karen Webb struggled with a stomach virus that slowed her progress all day. Karen finished the race with a determined effort. Hard luck stories of the day must go to Dennis Neal and Jarrod Holcombe. Both men recorded DNF's for various reasons. Bad luck boys, redemption is only one race away.

International events

Challenge Copenhagen

Michael Doyle had a great hit out at Challenge Copenhagen. Here's what Michael had to say about it:

"This is a great event by the way. They literally run the race through the middle of Copenhagen, closing the place down for the day. There's no Sunday trading which probably makes it a bit easier, but even so when you close off lanes and whole streets in any city you're going to create havoc. The upside of course is the sheer number of people you get on the sidelines. Such a great, great feeling to have that many people cheering"

Michael's results:
Overall: 11:35
Swim 1:08
Bike 5:36
Run 4:41

Welsh Cross Triathlon Championships

John Williams take the Welsh title!

John Williams 1st in age group! Read John's thoughts on his race in his race report

Its great seeing so many athletes achieving their goals, great work guys!

ETPA local racing results

09.08.10

Stand out performers in the Sri Chinmoy Half marathon at princess park a few weeks ago were:

• 1st place overall in the female category Bianca Share in a time of 1:30:09

• Gary Pitman 20th overall in a time of 1:30:59

Half Marathon

5k event

Sarah POSNER - Female 18-39 0:26:36

Results from the Footscray Cycling Club A-grade scratch race

Three ETPA athletes hit the road in the latest Footscray Cycling Club A-grade race. Dave Edwards cracking his first A-Grade win after making a successful solo attack on the field. Jarrod Holcombe also attacked off the front of the peloton and joining Dave, they held strong and finished over a minute in front of the field that also included Coach Tippett. Here's what FCC had to say about the days racing from ETPA.

Results:

Dave Edwards 1st overall
Jarrod Holcombe 2nd overall
Mat Tippett 6th overall

Results from WSTC Duathlon

Ryan Mannix came in 5th overall in the long course event. Ryan had a great run split after time off from injury. Great effort Ryan! Justin Schweikert also had a successful return to racing with a 9th place. Congratulations also go to Justin on the birth of his first son, Aiden!

Sarah Lester also had a great day out in her first long course event. Sarah came in 2nd overall!

Anthony Kilkenny in his first attempt at long course event also had a solid hit out. Anthony hung tough after a hard first run.

Another weekend of great results for the ETPA crew, well done and keep racing.

ETPA Race Results

27.07.10

Over the last few weekends ETPA have had a contingent of athletes at most races around Melbourne.

Stand out performances again came from Ben Pattie, 6th overall at Knox Duathlon and Megan Carter who took out line honours in the Coburg Half Marathon. Sara Lester placed second in her age group at Knox Duathlon and is now only weeks out from World Sprint Distance Champs. We look forward to seeing Sara in full flight representing Australia shortly

Other solid performance came from some new athletes in the program. Scott Bristow ran a huge PB at Run Melbourne stopping the clock in a 1:39. Kellie Pitman also had a great day out at the WSTC duathlon and is well on track to her first Half Ironman in a few months. Full results below:

Run Melbourne

Alan Hutchinson - 1:38.00 PB
Scott Bristow - 1:39.00 PB

Coburg Harrier's Half Marathon

Megan Carter - 1st overall 1:32:00
Dennis Neal - 1:32:00

WSTC Long Course

Kellie Pitman - 1:27:09

Knox Duathlon

Ben Pattie - 6th overall in Knox Duathlon 1:03:01

Ryan Hurrell - 1:14:50

Ian Ashley - 1:19:14

Sarah Lester - 1:16:42 - 2nd in her age group

Congrats ETPA'rs!

More international and local race results

10.07.10

John Williams again had a solid hit out with a top 20 overall in the Welsh Olympic Distance Championships last weekend.

John has had a big season of racing and is now taking some time off before he starts his lead in for Ironman. Great season of racing John, ETPA can't wait to see what you get up to next season!

Welsh Olympic Distance championships

John Williams 2:31 and finished in 14th overall.

Britta Jensen and, Emma Hardy also had great races respectively.

Gold Coast Marathon

In the half Marathon Rick Cooke turned the clock back having a great run of 75mins. Stuart Moore also ran a PB on the day with a 1:39. Stuart looks on track for a solid IM performance later in the year.

On the local front ETPA have a heap of athlete's racing the Sri Chinmoy Half marathon and 14k event. All athletes ran PB's on the day with stand out performances from Ben and Olivia.

Sri Chinmoy Half marathon

Ben Martin - 13th overall, 1:29:09
Olivia Atanasovska - 17th, female
Zoe England - 2:23:21

Sri Chinmoy 14k

Georgia Vipond - 16th female, 1:12:43

Two ETPA athletes waved the flag at the Taylormade duathlon with some great results. Bianca Share won her age group with two solid run legs. Sarah Lester also had a great day out with a third in her age group. Both athletes have runnig backgrounds and its great seeing them find some speed at this time of year

Taylormade Duathlon

Sprint

Bianca Share - Female 1st in age group, 1:17:37.4

Dash

Sarah Lester - Female 3rd in age group, 0:36:52.0

We also had Darren Brown racing the Hattah Dessert race. The Hattah Desert race is a motocross event that is stagde in a desert and the competitors race over four hours.

Darren had a great day out finishing in 20th position in his category

Hattah 4-hour Desert race

Darren Brown -  20th in category 4:09:45

Well that wraps up another great weekend of racing from the ETPA Crew

Stay tuned for more race results as they become available

Happy training.

Racing results from around the world!

01.07.10

Three ETPA athletes made long trips around the globe to race in the France Ironman and the ETU Long Distance European Championships.

Laura Brown came in 9th in her age group at France Ironman with Sue O'Connor not far behind in 11th respectively in her category.

John Williams again hit the race track hard with a solid day out in the European long course with a 13th in his age group.

ETU Long Distance European Championships

13 John Williams - GBR 08:07:13 01:11:38, 03:42:37, 03:09:22

Ironman France

9 Laura Brown - AUS 8/10/9 01:11:39 06:42:27 04:19:29 12:32:17

All three athletes are now enjoying some time off after hard preparations. Sue O'Connor has also joined the ETPA coaching team and will be driving the ship for female ETPA Ironman athletes in the future years.

ETPA congratulate all three athletes and welcome Sue into the coaching fold with open arms.

Happy racing!

Race Report - Fun Tri Challenge - 26/06/10

26.06.10

The wintery conditions weren't enough to deter 9 superstars in the making as they tackled ETPAs Fun Tri Challenge on the last Saturday in June. Participants were met with cool temperatures and showers as they arrived at Victoria University's sports complex. Most participants were products of ETPAs Junior Development Program, which runs at Elite Swimming in Pascoe Vale in conjunction with the school term. Adam Marcina and Tyler Forster were completing their first ETPA event, and fit in perfectly with more experienced athletes. Ceza Conner did exceptionally well after only experiencing triathlon for the first time a few weeks ago at an AASC program run by ETPA at Bellbridge Primary School.

If you have a child who is interested in triathlon but has nowhere to start why not contact ETPAs junior coach, Jamie Edwards at jamie@etpa.com.au to see if he can help.

John's Ironman Austria 70.3 report

21.06.2010

ETPA athlete John Williams recetly had a succesful day at the Austria 70.3. He wrote a short report of his race:

Ironman Austria 70.3 - 30/7/2010

I choose Austrian 70.3 as my first 'Ironman' branded event mainly as I fancied a trip into Europe and the weather in the UK is...err...rubbish at best!
Also, at the back of my mind I fancied giving the full IM a crack in 2011. By doing the 70.3, you were given a code to guarantee entry to the next years Ironman. Which I did...

SWIM

Pretty disappointed with this on reflection. Nothing to do with my training, just piss poor time management on my behalf. I was the last competitor in my age-group (25-29) to get into the water as I couldn't find the day bag bin...ended up handing it to some Italian fella and pegging it to the lake. Basically, it's split into two lakes and includes a 250m run in-between.
Was looking at a 30min flat swim, but with the amount of bodies in front, I struggled around in 33:50.

T1

A joke. My first ever split transition experience...4:55min. Enough said.

BIKE

Felt very controlled on the bike and with a big winters worth of mtb'ing and a trip to Nepal, I felt pretty strong. The middle distance race I did in the UK was a 52 mile and completed that in 2:30:30. Which at the time felt very good. With this in mind and the extra 4 mile including 3 climbs, I was looking at a >2:45 but surprised myself by getting around in 2:35. With hindsight, I could have pushed harder and tried to get the sub 2:30...

T2

1:45 - Time flies...

RUN

I probably over cooked the fluids on the bike as I came off feeling slightly bloated. Not sure if it was down to the Infinit I was using or the quantity of fluid...
Anyhow, with HUGE crowds lining the run course, it's hard not to get carried away and my times reflected this. The first 5.8km was done in 20:08, I paid for this with a pretty tough 5-6km in the middle of the run. With 5km left, I started to pick the pace up and felt a load better. The 3 loops of the tennis stadium are awesome, it's an instant lift. I missed a couple weeks of running due to a hip injury in the build up, so wasn't confident on beating my Half IM run of 1:37 and was looking at sub 1:40 as a realistic target. Turns out I got in at 1:35. A PB nonetheless!

OVERALL

I was aiming at a sub 5hr Half and got under at 4:53. Looking back at my times, I'm pretty pleased, but I know I can go substantially quicker. Hopefully a sub 30min swim is achievable, as is a sub 2:30 bike and a run in under 1:30 is very close.

Next 70.3 I'll be aiming at a finishing time of 4:45 (or a 4:40).

Looking forward to next years debut at Ironman already. Pah!

Congrats John, great effort!

11.06.2010

ETPA has again started winter off with a bang! Leading the way in the Austria 70.3 a few weeks ago, John Williamson had a solid day out with a 4:52:00. John is not far away from ETU long course title in a few weeks so he raced on very fatigued legs, great work John.

On the local scene, Ken Purves and Dennis Neal both ran marathons with Dennis running a 3:04 to place in the top ten overall at the Sri Chinmoy running festival. Ken ran the great Ocean Road Marathon, which is a brutal event, in a time of 3:56:14 for the 45k event.

A heap of athletes ran the 21.1k event and the shorter events at the Sri Chinmoy festival. Standouts were Ben Pattie and Sarah Lester who picked up places in their respective events.

Results from all event can be found below

Austria 70.3 results

• John Williamson 4:52:00

Great Ocean Road 45k event

• Ken Purves 3:56:14 (42K, 3:26:18)

Marathon Results

Dennis Neal 9th overall 3:04:32

• Ben Pattie 2nd overall 1:18:55
• Jarrod Holcombe 1:23:00
• Andrew Killer 1:30:06
• Jonathon Stiberc 1:35:10
• Aaron Freeman 1:39:23
• Britta Jensen 1:41:22
• Ian Ashley 1:41:31
• Stuart Moore 1:43:23
• Alan Hutchinson 1:43:36
• Karen Webb 1:46:50
• Kellie Pitman 1:48:10
• Cam Wright 1:48:11
• Olivia Atanasovska 1:52:44
• Zoe England 2:21:05

4k event Results
• Sarah Lester 2nd overall 15:55

Sri Chinmoy Half Marathon
• Travis Atkin 7th overall 1:21:17
• Adrian Ball 2nd in his age group 1:27:37

Press release - Half Price Musculoskeletal Screening Assessments for Tri Vic Members

Ironman Australia results

Ironman Australia signals the end of another season for domestic Triathlon. ETPA had a dozen full program athletes racing. Darren Franken again set the benchmark with a 9:17 overall coming in 2nd in his age group. Dane Heaysman also had a solid day out with a PB time of 9:57.

First timers, Peter Sutton, Justin Schweikert, Alan Hutchinson and Daniel Harrison all had great days out. Daniel Harrison was a standout with a 3:54 marathon. Daniel had a broken prep but showed typical ETPA commitment and ended up with a solid time for his first Ironman event.

Deb Rielly and Tony Durand, from our Bass Coast region again put in solid efforts all day. Deb again placed in the top ten in her category!

Some more established ETPA athletes also raced. Ken Purves, David Beitzel and Ron Ziessler all had hard days at the office. Unfortunately David snapped the chain on his bike which ended his day and Ken had stomach problems which hindered his progress. Ron again had a solid swim leg and hung tuff all day for a solid outing.

Ian Ashley also had a solid day out with a PB time of 13:16. Ian unfortunately had a replacement bike on the day after he cracked the frame on his old bike less than two weeks before the race start.

Full Program athletes

  

Cameron Wright also made trip across Bass Strait for the Coles Bay Tasmanian Long course. Cam stopped the clock in a 3:09 overall.

Congrats all!

Cape Paterson Tri results

14.03.10

Once again the team up at Bass Coast Barracudas turned out a stellar day for racing with the last event of their 2009/2010 season Triathlon Series. ETPA athletes competed over all distances and had some fantastic outcomes with a 1st place overall from Jarrod Holcombe in the Long course event. Congratulations also go out to Jamie Edwards on a top five finish and Zoe England with a 30min PB. ETPA had a great day with strong overall placing in both long and short course event.

Olivia Atanasovska also waved the flag high for our venue based athletes. Olivia took out the long course event in an impressive time of 2:02.

Full results can be found below

Cape Patterson Short Course Results 14/3/10

Cape Patterson Long Course Results 14/3/10

Venue Based Athletes:

Long Course

ETPA pulling out PBs in NZ!

09.03.10

Two ETPA'ers made trip across the Tasman for last weekend's Ironman New Zealand. James Monahan and James Duncan both turned out PB's on a tough day for racing. James Monahan was the star performer on the day with a 30min PB. James put in a solid 8 week lead-in and all his hard work paid off. James ran a 3:30 marathon off the bike to stop the clock in 9:41:19.

James Duncan also had a great outcome on the day. James came off a hindered twelve months with injury, but with the usual ETPA determination James excelled.

Full results:

Complimentary Open Water Swim Clinic for Tri Vic Members

06.03.10

Nuna Tri Club and ETPA, in conjunction with Triathlon Victoria are pleased to announce the latest benefit for Triathlon Victoria Members.

This one off swim clinic open to all Tri Vic Members at no cost will include:

• Correct warm up strategies for Triathlon Swimming
• Water position and sighting buoys
• Deep water race starts
• Race day swimming strategy - benefits and limitations

For more details CLICK HERE!

ETPA junior tri training is back for 2010

19.02.10

Tuesday and Thursday nights are now ETPA junior Tri nights. Starting at 6:30pm and going through to 8pm each evening the junior Triathlon program aims to prepare kids for the riggers of competition. For further information on junior triathlon go to the Junior Tri page or contact our junior coach, Jamie Edwards at jamie@etpa.com.au

Geelong Ironman 70.3 results

07.02.10

Free Physiotherapy for Tri Vic Members 

ETPA, NetworkMultisport and Triathlon Victoria in conjunction with one of Melbourne leading Physiotherapy organisations, Physiohealth, are providing free physiotherapy treatments for all Tri Vic Members at Geelong 70.3.

Simply come down to the ETPA tent after the race and present your Tri Vic or NetworkMultisport Membership Card and you will receive your free treatment.

This initiative is only possible with the generous donation of staff and expertise from Physiohealth. Physiohealth have six clinics across Melbourne and may be contacted on 9379 3716, or visit their website at http://physiohealth.com.au

ETPA hits the track running

15.01.10

Stand out performances from Jarrod Holcombe in the Cape Paterson Long course, 3rd overall, and James Duncan, 6th overall, ensured the ETPA flag was waving high at Bass Coast two Sundays ago.

Other notable performances on the day were a return to racing for coach Tippett on his new Orbea Ordu Time Trial Bike, and an impressive first place overall in the female event for Karen Webb. Anna D'Alberto also had a great day of racing coming in second overall in the girls.

Cape Paterson Long Course Results

Cape Paterson Short Course Results

ETPA also smashed out some great times in the Olympic Distance event on the weekend with Darren Franken stoping the clock in a 2:05 to take first place in his age group.

Other notable performances were Debbie Rielly taking out 4th position in her age group and Kelly Farrell taking 20mins off her PB over the distance.

Next Stop for ETPA is the Geelong 70.3 on the 7th of Feb. All athletes are looking in good shape and we hope to see some big PB's on race day

Stay tuned to ETPA for more results.

Ironman Western Australia results

17.12.09

Ken Purves and Peter Keighery have great days out at Florida

07.12.09 

Ken Purves smashes his PB over the 70.3 distance stopping the click at 4:41 with Peter not far behind in 4:44

A great day for both well done!

Below is a quick wrap up of the event from Ken

Ken Purves Florida 70.3 world titles report

Pre race: The flight was dam long. 22 hrs of pain! By the time we arrived my neck was out and my back was very sore. This was due to holding Oskar for hrs at a time while on the flight from Melbourne to LA and lugging backpacks all over the world.
As there was the left over of cyclone IDA, there was no chance to swim as it was a washing machine. So what would I do different? I would have arrived about 2 days earlier as the first day & a half I wasn't much chop. I went for a ride and run but didn't feel right at all. By day 3 (the day before the race) I was starting to feel better and went for a controlled ride and felt better but not great.
Like most "first races of the year, train as much as possible in the heat. Us Melbournians (well me) just doesn't handle to heat / Sun on the run too well

RACE DAY: Well I haven't slept much for the past few nights (Oskar's time zones are still a little messed up and he was in our room - not great when he is awake at 2am and wants to play)
I'm quite excited but feeling quite sluggish and very heavy in the legs. As they have changed the swim from the ocean to a canal, we are placed in the water individually and off we go. I had a solid swim and was happy although I don't know my exact swim time as the transition (T1) is built into the swim I think. If this is the case I swam a sub 30 which is a PB.
Out of the water and into transition, I get the assistants to rip off the wetsuit and away I go. I have nothing in my transition bag so all I need to do is jam my wetsuit and goggles in and just drop it while I'm on my to my bike. So for me this was a quick transition.
On with my helmet, race belt and sunnies and off I go.
Onto the course you hit the bridge within the first 2 minutes. So my pre race plan was to use this time to settle my HR and climb the bridge under control without being slack. I did this and from there I started to pick up the pace.
By about the 10 K mark no one had passed and the whoosh - some guy on a yellow Trek went by like I was standing still - I thought to myself, count how many go past. Only a couple more until I get to the freeway then all of a sudden peleton after peleton went past me and without a word of a lie, I would say at least 30 - 40 riders in each group. It was a joke even to the extent that we the draft busters went past me I screamed at them about the pack of cheats.... they just nodded their heads and rode off. Pistol Pete even had two people comment about the Aussies and that we ride a fair race! At the turn around some of my nutrition came back up so I just sipped on some red bull (which I have been doing during my training). This didn't really help too much and it came back up again a few more times. I thought bugger this and lifted the tempo a bit and started to catch a few groups and had to make a few big surges to go past them and make sure they didn't come with me. With about 10 - 15 K's to go, I caught a group of about 40 and it took me about 5 K's to get through / past them as there was quite a few turns. I got past them and off over the bridge and into transition.... as I get over the there was a guy riding a bike with one leg (and no prosthetic ---- Yep, One legged x 90 K).

Could I have ridden faster - 100% Yes ... what would have the affect been? I have no idea.

Did I draft - NOT A CHANCE. I stayed away at that may have cost me some time.

So off