Mondays : recovery run 8km meet @ Centennial Beach Parking lot for 6:30pm.
Tuesday : time trials located @ Line 1 and 5/6 SR. 6:15pm distance = 19.5km note~Shawn "Lightning" Patton came close to breaking club record last night. Awesome job Shawn!!!
Wednesday : run/ Speed Work drills with Kevin O'Neill. Meet Kev the Runmaster @ Running Room 6:30pm
Wed + Fri mornings : 6:15am open water swimming. Meet in the Marina parking lot @ Centennial Beach. This is not a Club sanction event.
Friday evenings : Open Water Swimming @ Centennial Beach 7 pm. This is not a Club sanction event.
Sat. : Bike ride details to be posted by Ted Read on distance, meeting location and route.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Barrie TC in Guelph
Victorious! The Baydogs without question made a positive impression at Guelph. We heard others say underneath their breath how as a Club, we looked smart. Our Camaraderie more than anything was our trump card. Thank you all. The banner, the new uniforms, made a huge splash. All together our attendance was 24. That represents 33 % of the paid membership. Impressive! Next year I have a strong feeling this number will be more like 66%. To see all the photos please visit the gallery on our web page. What's next hop the Team Baydog Bus to Goderich. In a few years will be in a position to hire our own Team Cook.
Saturday, June 19, 2010
70.3 MOOSEMAN - June 6th
Hello Baydogs,
Just a little feedback of my tune up race 70.3 Mooseman.
What a good way to start the season!
Good training day but very wet!
Though mentally when the weather isn't there but it looks like a good review from last year as all my races were all wet, so deja vu!
It starts to rain on the beach for the swim and never stopped.
Was actually cool on the bike and try to think about something else than I was freezing specially in the long long long descent.
(the official put a speed limit 30mph - one very twisting long technical descend - the longuest in my life I never saw!!! and wet pavement)
Was OK though on the run because it cools me down as I'm a heat machine!
My wisdom and safe mentra was PACE (as a friend - Yes, Joe you are my friend and thanks for your wisdom advise :))) and I did repeat it often even out high voice (just not enough in the first hill of the bike!)
SWIM
Good time, good feeling but wasn't able to catch a fish to draft - OK as training race.
Got a gel just after, before the bike.
Water 69degres F - perfect
BIKE
Challenging, technical rolling steep hills bike course, same difficulty as Muskoka 70.3 but more steep hills.
2 killer hills to do twice - 2 loops.
The first one very steep 3 step climb (I did stop on the third and last little plateau to catch my breath, to let decrease the acid and to save the back for the second loop and the run - it pays back!) and the other one long constant.
The plateau are not long enough to remove the acid and to gear down to accelerate for the next step climb.
I could feel the left side lower back after the first hill - I did attact it too agressively, so I went easy because I definitly want to have a good run.
I pace myself after, went well.
Felt good, didn't bunk and the stomac was feeling great starting the run.
Was cool so not a good test for hot weather :(
RUN
I got the run of my life in a triathlon:)))
Constant pace, each time I pass on the mats (my friend check my splits live on the internet)
Good constant pace for the double loop - I cut it in 4 parts mentally was better because of a double loop.
I was a good customer at the aid stations.
Got a gel every 40min (as per usual), taste some pretzels sometimes.
Gatorade sip every 10min (as per usual) and at the aid stations as well.
My favorite - 2 pieces (1/4) of orange, one in each hand, so I got one between each aid station, work well.
The transition area through the finish was a real swump like a military boot camp!
So you can picture it!
I smiled at every picture!
I got a massage after the race - lower back was OK.
A very good prep for Placid (hills, 2 loops, scenic view - same design outdoor, lake, river, vegetation...)
Best time ever on hill cool course. :)
I really have fun.
Stayed there 3 nights in a B&B in Newfound Lake, NH. (2hres north of Boston)
Lovely place, good environment to focus there as well as Holiday time.
I am pleased with my times as a training day and more with my run one because of the constant pace and good feeling I had all the way.
I need to improve my transition as I took my time to refuel and focus.
The only dark spot, NO roll down in my age group that day!!!
G
6:48:39 BLAIS GENEVIEVE BARRIE ON CAN W40-44 Swim 2K 37:21:00 1:57/100m T1 3:49 Bike 3:40:19 15.3mph T2 3:53
Run 2:23:17 10:57min/mileThursday, June 17, 2010
Club Open House Friday Jun 18th
Interested in joining the Barrie Triathlon Club ? Come out this Friday June 18th to the East Bayfield Community Centre Activity Room #1, on Livingston St., Barrie, On. Starting at 6pm is a Open House for you to drop in ask questions and get specific Information to your schedule. 7pm our Club Meeting begins. Merrell Baydog T-shirts for sell $20. Memberships $ 40.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Binbrook Race Report by Josef Polcz
Binbrook race Sunday June 13, 2010
I started preparing for my race when I got home from my grandfathers funeral Friday night, so I went out for an easy 5k run with my wife Joanne. There is nothing like getting all your training and fitness in the last min before a race! but that is how my less is more training plan works most of the time.
I was planning on going for a easy ride Saturday morning too, but when I got up it was pouring rain and it wasn't looking like it would let up, so I canceled my ride and decided to relax the rest of the day doing nothing, which is fine because i don't want to over train before a race, and with my 1000m swim on Monday and my 5k run last night I was more then ready to race! ;)
I went to bed at 10pm and set my alarm to wake me at 4am. When the alarm went off I quickly jumped out of bed and started running around! No! this is not part of my less is more training? i just had to pack all my gear up and threw it into my bag, grab my bike, bike shoes and helmet then threw everything into the car. Then I grabbed a few things to eat, like a banana, some stroopwaffles and gulped them down as I headed out to the car. before heading out to the hwy I stopped at Tim Horton;s for some coffee and a bagel with cream cheese for the road.
It was a 2 hour drive to Binbrook which is located south west of Hamilton. The weather was overcast and foggy and when I got to the race site there was a light misting going on. The grounds where soaked from rain and everything was just soggy with puddles everywhere! Perfect for a race! lol.
It wasn't cold out, but it wasn't warm either, by the time the race started the weather was looking better, the rain/ drizzle/ misting had stopped but it was still overcast.
After I parked I grabbed my bike and gear and racked it after finding out what my race number was, I then went to pick up my race kit/shirt and number, I was # 124. I then went back to my bike set up and laid out my stuff, attaching my bib # to my race belt and now I was all set. I then headed down to the beach where the swim start was and ran into a few friends including Jon Dow from the Barrie Tri club. He and I were the only representative of our club at this race. I also met up with other friends including Adam, Carrie and Kent. Kent was doing the race announcing for the day.
After a quick chat, I went to check out the water. I decided I wasn't using my wetsuit for this race and wanted to make sure the water temp wasn't to cold. I was pleasantly surprised to find the water was just right! they announced the water temp as being 73F which is perfect for swimming without a wetsuit! I went in the water and did a little warm up swim of maybe 200m then stood around waiting for the start of the race.
The Race...750m swim, 27km bike, 6.5km run
And were off, I started my swim on the outside right from the start, to stay clear of all the bashing. I don't like bashing, so I don't mind swimming a little more distance to stay clear of it. for the most part I had a clear lane and as I eventually cut over I grabbed onto some swimmers toes for some drafting. things got a little tight around the first turn buoy where you are almost standing up straight as you take the turn around with the current of all the swimmers wake, then I got more free lanes and was clear swimming until the last 100ms when some woman swims from behind me, then almost through me when as I was taking a stroke my hand coming over hits her goggles behind me but she kept swimming through and passes me. I shake my hand off and continue swimming until I get to the beach. As I stand up in the water to run out and up into transition I give my hand another shake and notice I'm bleeding! I then realize when I smacked the woman swimmer her goggles must have cut me? Oh well! I continued on.
I ran through transition to the bike area which was a good 300-400m away and quickly throw on my bike shirt race belt, bike shoes helmet and gloves. I un-rack my bike and run with it to the mount line and start my bike ride. T1 time was 2:10.
I have never raced this race before so I had no idea what to expect for the bike ride. I was told it was flat with some small hills. I didn't want to ride to aggressive, and the fact the roads were still slick, I went with a see as I go attitude and paced myself accordingly, but was keeping my eye on my bike computer to keep my speed above 30km/hr on route. For the most part the roads were flat with gentle grades upwards with some easy risers and only a couple of short low grade down hills where I could take a break from peddling for about 10 secs each time. The ride is an out and back around the conservation area with several right hand turn on the out and left hand turn on the way back that we had to be cautious on as the roads were wet. When I came in to the dismount line, I un-clipped my shoes and coasted in towards the dismount line and well before the dismount line I jumped off my bike and ran to and over the dismount line into T2 to rack my bike, but as I dismounted I heard some guy yell out " Nice dismount! now that's how it's done! " I laughed as I ran with my bike to T2 .... I finished the 27 km bike in 50:39 for a 32km average.
I racked my bike and changed into my running shoes and started out on my run with a quick T2 transition of 1:22......As I ran out of transition onto the run path I tried to tip toe through the soggy muddy grass, but with each step and the long journey through the water soaked grass it was useless to try to keep my shoes from getting wet, but I still made the effort to jump over the bigger mud puddles along the run route.
The run took up around the lake along a grassy trail which was quickly becoming a muddy trail with all the runners ahead and behind me. The grass trail turned into a gravel trail then through some wood trail where we had some slippery muddy hills to go up and worse coming back, had to go down. The run took us out 2 km out before the turn around where we came back the same way. When we got back to the transition area, we continued across the soggy wet grass acroos the swim start beach and finally onto a paved path and out to the other end of the park for 2.5 km, then back before coming to the finish. I ended up running for the most part only walking a couple of times going on the uphills. I finished the run 6.5km in 43:35 which I was quite pleased with.
I finished my race in a total of 1:53:31 and was 6/16 in my age group. 123 overall. I highly recommend the Binbrook race.
I would also like to give a shout out and congrats to Jon Dow who had a great race finishing 13Th over all and taking 3rd in his 20-24 age group! With a time of 1:28:51 Way to go Jon!
I started preparing for my race when I got home from my grandfathers funeral Friday night, so I went out for an easy 5k run with my wife Joanne. There is nothing like getting all your training and fitness in the last min before a race! but that is how my less is more training plan works most of the time.
I was planning on going for a easy ride Saturday morning too, but when I got up it was pouring rain and it wasn't looking like it would let up, so I canceled my ride and decided to relax the rest of the day doing nothing, which is fine because i don't want to over train before a race, and with my 1000m swim on Monday and my 5k run last night I was more then ready to race! ;)
I went to bed at 10pm and set my alarm to wake me at 4am. When the alarm went off I quickly jumped out of bed and started running around! No! this is not part of my less is more training? i just had to pack all my gear up and threw it into my bag, grab my bike, bike shoes and helmet then threw everything into the car. Then I grabbed a few things to eat, like a banana, some stroopwaffles and gulped them down as I headed out to the car. before heading out to the hwy I stopped at Tim Horton;s for some coffee and a bagel with cream cheese for the road.
It was a 2 hour drive to Binbrook which is located south west of Hamilton. The weather was overcast and foggy and when I got to the race site there was a light misting going on. The grounds where soaked from rain and everything was just soggy with puddles everywhere! Perfect for a race! lol.
It wasn't cold out, but it wasn't warm either, by the time the race started the weather was looking better, the rain/ drizzle/ misting had stopped but it was still overcast.
After I parked I grabbed my bike and gear and racked it after finding out what my race number was, I then went to pick up my race kit/shirt and number, I was # 124. I then went back to my bike set up and laid out my stuff, attaching my bib # to my race belt and now I was all set. I then headed down to the beach where the swim start was and ran into a few friends including Jon Dow from the Barrie Tri club. He and I were the only representative of our club at this race. I also met up with other friends including Adam, Carrie and Kent. Kent was doing the race announcing for the day.
After a quick chat, I went to check out the water. I decided I wasn't using my wetsuit for this race and wanted to make sure the water temp wasn't to cold. I was pleasantly surprised to find the water was just right! they announced the water temp as being 73F which is perfect for swimming without a wetsuit! I went in the water and did a little warm up swim of maybe 200m then stood around waiting for the start of the race.
The Race...750m swim, 27km bike, 6.5km run
And were off, I started my swim on the outside right from the start, to stay clear of all the bashing. I don't like bashing, so I don't mind swimming a little more distance to stay clear of it. for the most part I had a clear lane and as I eventually cut over I grabbed onto some swimmers toes for some drafting. things got a little tight around the first turn buoy where you are almost standing up straight as you take the turn around with the current of all the swimmers wake, then I got more free lanes and was clear swimming until the last 100ms when some woman swims from behind me, then almost through me when as I was taking a stroke my hand coming over hits her goggles behind me but she kept swimming through and passes me. I shake my hand off and continue swimming until I get to the beach. As I stand up in the water to run out and up into transition I give my hand another shake and notice I'm bleeding! I then realize when I smacked the woman swimmer her goggles must have cut me? Oh well! I continued on.
I ran through transition to the bike area which was a good 300-400m away and quickly throw on my bike shirt race belt, bike shoes helmet and gloves. I un-rack my bike and run with it to the mount line and start my bike ride. T1 time was 2:10.
I have never raced this race before so I had no idea what to expect for the bike ride. I was told it was flat with some small hills. I didn't want to ride to aggressive, and the fact the roads were still slick, I went with a see as I go attitude and paced myself accordingly, but was keeping my eye on my bike computer to keep my speed above 30km/hr on route. For the most part the roads were flat with gentle grades upwards with some easy risers and only a couple of short low grade down hills where I could take a break from peddling for about 10 secs each time. The ride is an out and back around the conservation area with several right hand turn on the out and left hand turn on the way back that we had to be cautious on as the roads were wet. When I came in to the dismount line, I un-clipped my shoes and coasted in towards the dismount line and well before the dismount line I jumped off my bike and ran to and over the dismount line into T2 to rack my bike, but as I dismounted I heard some guy yell out " Nice dismount! now that's how it's done! " I laughed as I ran with my bike to T2 .... I finished the 27 km bike in 50:39 for a 32km average.
I racked my bike and changed into my running shoes and started out on my run with a quick T2 transition of 1:22......As I ran out of transition onto the run path I tried to tip toe through the soggy muddy grass, but with each step and the long journey through the water soaked grass it was useless to try to keep my shoes from getting wet, but I still made the effort to jump over the bigger mud puddles along the run route.
The run took up around the lake along a grassy trail which was quickly becoming a muddy trail with all the runners ahead and behind me. The grass trail turned into a gravel trail then through some wood trail where we had some slippery muddy hills to go up and worse coming back, had to go down. The run took us out 2 km out before the turn around where we came back the same way. When we got back to the transition area, we continued across the soggy wet grass acroos the swim start beach and finally onto a paved path and out to the other end of the park for 2.5 km, then back before coming to the finish. I ended up running for the most part only walking a couple of times going on the uphills. I finished the run 6.5km in 43:35 which I was quite pleased with.
I finished my race in a total of 1:53:31 and was 6/16 in my age group. 123 overall. I highly recommend the Binbrook race.
I would also like to give a shout out and congrats to Jon Dow who had a great race finishing 13Th over all and taking 3rd in his 20-24 age group! With a time of 1:28:51 Way to go Jon!
Thursday, June 10, 2010
TT Results June 8th
Record turnout. Many new personal bests. Congratulations to everyone.
If you know anyone who would be interested in assisting with the Time Keeping duties we require some volunteers. Please send me an email if you are interested (ijamie63@rogers.com).
Carefully note, next Tuesday June 16th, the Time Trials will be located at a new location. Stay tuned.
Monday, June 7, 2010
Milton Sprint
Does Carlos believe in Team work. I think so. Carlos had an incredible race placing 59th overall out of 488 participants in yesterday's Milton Tri. Carlos chewed up the course in a beautiful time of 1 hr and 41 minutes. Congratulations to Barrie TC members, Doug Austin, Calvin Chu, Matt Doucette, Wayne Hodge, Paul Harber. The Barrie TC would like to congratulate Paula Van Nostrand, and Ryan McDonald (son of Larry McDonald) as well. Hey was the post race meal good or what?
Thursday, June 3, 2010
TT results from June 1st
A new record (again). Twenty-two Club Members for Time Trials. Please check over your results.
We are sourcing out a couple of alternative routes with better road surfaces. Stay turned.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
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