Zoom Tri Club

Beaulieu or Busst - Claire 2nd lady and 1st 20-24

Well done Claire great racing over the weekend :-) cracking result

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01:32:45

Zoomers At Ironman France

Well done to all the Zoom athletes and support crew out taking on the considerable challenge of the mountains and the 34 degree heat of the Nice weekend. I have spoken to several people that were excitedly tracking the athletes on Ironman Live! JJ and I were exchanging telephone calls and text messages to inform each other of how they were all getting on. Fantastic performances from all of the boys, who I am sure will be along to the pre race pasta party to explain all their tales of the great race.

Andy Downton 11:35:05

Lawrence Down 12:30:46

Mike McCarthy 12:36:55

Steve Holloway 13:08:24 (First Ironman)

Tim Fairbrother 14:11:13 (First Ironman and first marathon)

OK where next :-)

Rob

Claire's Charity Double Ironman attempt

Local Tri Girl Claire Smith is raising money for the Bournemouth Hospital Jigsaw Appeal by attempting a a double Ironman. On Aug 2/3rd I will swim 4.8 miles, bike 224 miles and then run 52 miles within 40 hours. She is taking part on the  Birmingham based raced this summer. Go Girl its a fantastic cause!

Wayfarers Running Relays - Lets put a couple of teams in

WAYFARERS RELAY RACE

ON SATURDAY 26TH JULY 2008 AT THE WAYFARERS SPORTS CLUB, FERNDOWN.

START 3.00PM

TEAM CATEGORIES

 

MEN: 6 RUNNERS, MIXED: 6 RUNNERS,

LADIES: 4 RUNNERS, JUNIORS (14-20): 4 RUNNERS

 

Team and individual prizes

Licence applied for.  Held under UK Athletics Rules

 

A FLAT FAST COURSE ALMOST ENTIRELY ON FOREST TRACKS

(3 MILE LAPS)

A SPORTING AND SOCIAL EVENT

 

CHANGING ROOMS, SHOWERS, LATE BAR WITH CLUB PRICES,

HUGE BBQ, FREE DISCO, SILLY GAMES

 

ENTRY FEE: £3 PER RUNNER

 

OVERNIGHT CAMPING FOR TENTS, MOTOR HOMES & CARAVANS £3

 

Please let me know if you would like to be part of a team entry, sounds like a lot of fun :-)

 

Rob

Steve Birtwhistle - Race report UK 70.3 Wimbleball

I'm going to Clearwater!! (That's the World 70.3 Champs)

Let me just give you a brief race report.

Mass swim start, and it was a bit chilly. I got in the water early and was up near the front, planning on finding some clear water(no pun intended!). They were a long tme getting eveyone in the water, and a lot of the early swimmers started to feel the cold. The water was actually warmer than the air temp, and it felt very nice getting in to start with. At least 10 minutes wnt by before we all got under way and by the end of the swim the cold had taken its toll. The run out is 400m steep uphill, and it took a lot of effort to get up there. I was quick in T1 and onto bike, but it's a bottleneck at the mount line, (they'll have to improve on it really) and hard to get going with shoes on bike. Took me an age to find my legs and get my HR under control. And it wasn't until 20 miles gone by that I started to find a good rythmn and picked up the pace. I was steadily making good progress and was looking at a 2:50 bike split until the last 500m, on a steep last uphill to t2, I wrongly shifted to the small chainring and off came the chain. Damn! Took me a while to get going again, and then 100m from dismount, I avoided another rider only for my shoes to catch on the floor and ovr I went, a very heavy fall, thankfully not too fast, but enough to really shake me up. I will have to bin my tri shoes, they're a write off, my feet are shredded as are my hands and road rash on right knee and leg, hips sore and shoulders sore. I had to stick one shoe down my tri shorts and wheel my bike in, as aero bars had been bent downwards. I was a bit of a mess, blood everywhere! Lots of sympathy support from the crowds at t2 which really helped me, because I could have easily finished there. BUt on I went, and was surprisingly quick in t2, thankfully I saved a water bottle, stuffed up my tri top. I had also lost a bottle of my own psp22 on the bike, popped out of my cage, and lost my glasses on an uphill section, they fell out of my top!! So an eventful bike!!!! Run was tough, really tough, but my hours of running over the Purbecks from Swanage have obviously paid off, I posted very consistent lap times(first lap is a bit longer than 2 and 3). I finished strong, felt really good and was absolutely elated! I don't think there was aybody with a bigger grin at the finish line. I went straight to the medic tent and was patched up a bit and then saw the family who were all delighted.

We hung around for the roll down and to see James Gilfillan get his cheque for 6th place. He was little disappointed with his race, but he ran strongly and his goal is to go long this year and qualify for Hawaii, so not a bad result. Fraser Cartmell and Bayliss were awesome. I saw them on the run and they were flying and looked so fresh, unbelievable athletes. So then came the roll down, 7 slots were up for 35-39, and 4 were taken and they rolled down to 10th place, which was me and of course I snapped up the chance! It was my goal for the race. I was out for 5 hours, but I'll settle for what I did on the day given the circumstances. Lessons learned? - Don't get in the water too early when it's cold. Don't get my feet out of shoes too early! Try not to crash! Learn to suffer a bit more when running! But all in all, it's a hell of a race. All the pros say it's the hardest race on the circuit and maybe that's why there's not many turn up to do it. But I recommend it to anyone, it's a real test of endurance and epitomises what triathlon is all about. My hat off to the pros and maximum respect to everyone who takes it on. I'm not sure if I'll go back next year, but sub 5 is there for the taking. Just looking forward to the New Forest middle now for that distance, and obviously will be up for Bournemouth Oly in July.

Steve Birtwhistle

Well done Steve good job on achieving this years major goal :-) (Rob)

 

Mountain Mayhem and the Southwater Relays

Morning All,

 

Chris Courage has asked me to contact you and ask if anyone would like to join his team to compete in the Mountain Mayhem, Mountain bike race this weekend. It takes place in Ledbury nr Wales. Please contact Chris for details or check out the website http://www.mountainmayhem.org/

 

This is the last call for members wishing to take part in the Southwater relays, September 7^th 08. Yes it’s the same day as Ironman UK. Here are the names I have down so far. If I have not had word from you directly by the end of this week, I will assume do not want to take part as we need to get our entries in. If you have already established a team please let me know otherwise I will be making the teams up.

 

Southwater Relays 2008

John Harrison

Lawrence Down

Tim Townsend

Tim Fairbrother

Andy Downton

Mike McCarthy

Steve Birtwistle

Jacks Howe

Rhona Copp

Jenny Julian

Ed Morton

Stuart Glenister

Robbie Ryan

Julie Griffiths

Stef Middle

Rob Griffiths

Steve Barratt

  

Cheers

 

Rob

Free pass to the Results Tri Aquathlon at Canford School 20th June

Hi everyone

I entered the Results Tri Aquathlon a few months ago.  It is a series of two races.  The first was in May which I completed and enjoyed.  It's a great venue, with the outdoor run taking place in the school's grounds which are beautifully landscaped.

Anyway, having injured my knees through a bout of over training, I won't be taking part in the second race on Friday 20th June.  The race starts at 7pm and the distances are 400m swim and a 5k run.

If anyone would like to take my place (no charge), let me know (julie@zoomgb.com) and I'll arrange the transfer with Michelle at Results Fitness.

Happy training,

Julie xx

Zoom Athletes in World Sprint World Champs Vancouver

Just had notification that Jenny Julian came 4th in her age group (25-29) missing a medal by 20 seconds, David Bourne was 16th and Keith Mahon 20th both in the (45-49) age group. In what turned out to be really awful conditions with water temps at 12 degrees and pouring rain all three put in great efforts. Fantastic first age group champs for them all well done, you rock!

Rob :-)

Weymouth Tri - This Sunday!

After my e-mail in the week I have had a number of people text me to let me know they are racing on Sunday so good luck and Go Hard to Clare Busst getting ready for her first effort at 70.3 later this year! Dr Dave, Stu, Luke, Gavin, Paolo. Remember dont go too hard to start lets build to that negative split :-)

Have a great race, if you are not racing, please take the opportunity to go down and show your support I am sure it would be much appreciated by all the competing Zoomers!

Rob

Simon Posts Great time in Ironman Brazil!

Well done to Simon Mortimer who posted an excellent Ironman time down in Brazil. Simon has thrown down the first Ironman gauntlet of the summer with this 10:23 clocking.

 

Ironman Brazil - Florianopolis

M 45-49, 8th out of 108 competitors

Overall 138th out of 1200

      Time        Age group place     Overall place

Swim  01:25:07   49             659

T1    00:09:31                   78

Bike  05:19:15  9               162

T2    00:03:20                    7

Run   03:26:30  2                53

Total 10:23:43

 

Way to go Simon :-)