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October 13th, 2009 | 
Author: This weekend saw another visit to Stirling University for Fin to take part in the junior duathlon. His Mum decided to take part in the Sprint distant event after a long lay off from multisport events. Fin went off first in a mass start of all the age groups, from tristarts to 15-16 age group. On the first 1km run Fin went off with the leading pack and came in fourth to T1. After a slow transition he was down to 6th. When on his bike he put on a little spurt to put him in front with only a guy from the 13-14 age group able to keep pace. They stayed together for 2 km, when Fin jumped away over the last km. O
nto the final 1km run Fin ran hard to win overall out of all age groups by 19 seconds and in his age group by 27 seconds.
This success seemed to spur Mum, Karen on for her race, she was extremely nervous but settled into the first 5k run quickly and went into T1 in first lady position. On the 20k bike, she was overtaken by a very strong cyclist but managed to hold onto 2nd into T2 (with a very dodgy dismount) but 1min 30 down. Over the last 5k Karen gained ground on the leader and the Robertson support crew knew it would be close but just too much. Karen finished 2nd overall by just 3 seconds but had the consolation of winning the vet40 age group.
This was another excellent event ran by Stirling Trialthlon club and we would recommend their series of events to other club members.
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What a fitting way to close the season and the children’s series in glorious sunshine at the Cleveland Aquathlon.
25 One Life children took to the start line. All doing the swim in a small 20m pool . So small in fact that no spectators were allowed on poolside. The children went through the door onto poolside one minute and emerged minutes later having completed their swim! The run took place around a 400m track under the hot September sun.
First up were the Tristarts. Rhianna Nitsch took 2nd, with Amelia Robertson 4th, Abbie Pearson 5th and Sarah Jackson 6th. Very encouraging performances from our girls with only 13 seconds separating the One Life quartet.
Patrick Lally, fresh from a football game earlier in the day, was the sole One Life representative in the boys finishing in 3rd place.
In the girls Tristar 1 Jill Dickinson showed that she is more than just a swimmer.Not only did she take first place overall, but was the fastest runner as well as swimmer. Rhianna Stoves finished 6th, with Poppy Harris-Pratt 8th and Martha Robinson 9th.
The Tristar 1 boys category has been dominated all season by One Life. This was no exception with the first 3 places once again going to One Life. Jake Duffy finished the season with his 100% record intact coming home first. His strong swim giving him an unasailable lead. Max Pearson put in a great running performance with the fastest run of the day to take second overall. Henry Sanderson completed the One Life clean sweep with 3rd place. Christopher Jackson finished 11th, in an age group he will still be competing in next season.
In the Tristar 2 boys One Life had 8 out of the 9 competitors, but none of them could compete with the very impressive Jack Willis. Toby Routledge finished 2nd posting the fastest swim and runs from One Life. Finlay Robertson gave it his all on the run to take 3rd place and can take heart from the fact he will be in this age group again next year.As will 4th placed Fergus Robinson. Matthew Jackson finished 5th, George Sanderson 6th, Ollie Allcock 7th, Adam Todhunter 8th and William Bell (with the fastest finish of the day) in 9th.
In the Tristar 3 boys Charlie Harris-Pratt became the second One Lifer to finish the season’s series with a 100% record. An impressive run from Charlie where he progressively increased his speed to power clear. James Dickinson finished 7th, Mark Todhunter 8th and George Bell 12th.
Well done to every One Life youngster who has competed this year. The club has grown out of all proportion and is producing competitors the Club and Tynedale can be very proud of.
Roll on winter training and the prospect of an even more enjoyable and successful season next year!
The last 3 weekends have been busy for the intrepid girls. August 30th saw us at Penrith sprint Tri, excellent event for novices or teams, bit hilly on the bike, but most importantly good T’shirt and a pasta dinner afterwards! Following Sunday the 6th September saw us at Cockermouth , another good event for novices over the sprint distance and a chance to win a prize! Week three saw Rose warm-up on the Saturday with the Great North Swim in preparation for Newbiggin on the Sunday. This event was aimed at novice open water swimmers, well you cannot get more novice than Sue! The course was 750M in the sea, a quick flat 20Km on the bike and a pleasnat, almost flat 5Km along the promenade. Well run event lots of support in the water and on the bikes, really would recommend for all levels to give this a try next year. The promeade offers good viewing for spectators, cafe’s and pub’s are open. Competitors got a free cup of Tea and a scone! Good buffet and T’shirt too. OK! I know its not all about the freebies and food…It’s about the personal achievement and Sue cetainly is proud of a sea swim, and if any of you have seen her in the Tarn you would know how scared she is…well was! There are lots of pictures of Newbiggin on their web site, look out for Phil Bell, Jan Oliver (prize winner) Claire Jackson ( also got a prize). Its been a great season and Rose and I have plans for next year, who’s going to join us?
One Life had great sucess in the David Lloyd Aquathon on Saturday 5th September 2009.
The event kicked off with an Aquasplash. One Life was represented by Roisin Lally who had a great race finishing in 2nd place.
One Life had three competitors in Tristart. Abbie Pearson, Amelia Robertson and Patrick Lally had a very exciting race finishing in a hotly contested 3rd, 4th and 5th overall.
Tristar 1 was the largest group of the day. Max Pearson, Rhianna Stoves and Poppy Harris Pratt all excelled on the run. Max was overall winner closely followed by Rhianna and Poppy.
Finlay Robertson and Fergus Robinson competed in the Tristar 2 event and following the trend of One Life victories Finlay came through as overall winner.
Charlie Harris Pratt rounded the morning off in One Life style, and maintained his 100% record, by taking the Tristar 3 competition in one of his closest races of the season.
Patrick defies the searing heat to prove One Lifer's are made of stern stuff !
Check out Patrick Lally holding up the leaning tower of Pisa !
Patrick deserves a medal for putting on his onelife hoodie in 40 degree temps, just for the photo!
Quietly confident
Nick experiences the 'after carnage' and reminds himself never to volunteer for the first swim leg again...
Sally bringing home the bacon
Fantastic performances all round ! Well done ladies
The birthday boy and head supporter
Where's your team kit Parker & Palmer ???
Love the new pumps........
Richard streaks home
Martin & Tim post run
Gerry gets stuck in to the run
Four teams of four travelled to Nottingham for this prestigious and very popular event which is run in relay format, everyone taking turns to swim 500m, cycle 15km and run 5km all in and around the lake at Holme Pierrepiont. The ladies and mixed teams race in the morning and the open and men’s in the afternoon. The weather was near perfect, bright, warm with a light breeze.
Our Vet 40 ladies, silver medallists last year, were after gold this time but had some very stiff competition especially last years winners from Leicester. First swimmer was Angela Wylie who was again given the task of fighting 200 other swimmers off the start. She yet again handled this well handing over to Maureen Parker who in turn handed to Claire Jackson with Sally Dickinson on the final leg. As Angela left T1 on her bike it could not have been closer with Leicester right along side. Everyone gave there all on the bike staying fractionally ahead of Leicester and Birmingham. Now it came down to the run, who were the best runners? Angela and Maureen ensured they were still in contention as they handed to Claire and Sally, surely no team could have two runners as good, and this proved to be the case as they took over 3 minutes out of the other teams ensuring gold was theirs.
An excellent team performance working very well together.
Before we could catch our breath it was time for the open senior and male veteran teams to race. One Life were fielding three teams, an open team of Alan Copland, Nicola Jameson, Peter Jameson and Brendon Jackson. A Vet 40 team of Martin Bluck, Brian Palmer, Tim Wylie and Richard Parker and a Vet 50 team, Nick Speed,
Gerry Huddlestone, James Dickinson and Barry Jameson. Alan, Martin and Nick were the sacrificial lambs going in the mass swim start. There was a strong international presence such as Dan Brook, Will Clarke and Spencer Smith, this meant even Alan was beaten up in the swim and not allowed his usual clear water. As the last swimmers exited the water there was little time between all the One Life teams. Next onto the bike which is a flat, fast course consisting of three 5 km laps of the lake. We have several strong riders who completed the course in exceptional times, averaging over 28 mph. The three One Life teams remained very close until the Vet 50’s had the misfortune of one of their team doing an extra bike lap which dropped them out of contention. The Vet 40’s also had a close shave when Martin’s tribars came adrift almost sending him into the lake. With a bit of skill and luck he stayed upright and managed to cycle the next lap holding onto the offending bar to try and stop it going into his wheel. (Well done Martin). Out onto the run and the race was now between the Vet 40’s and the open team, with Alan running the first and the final leg for an injured Brendon. It was close for a while but the Vet’s proved the stronger on the day. All the team members did extremely well and they did the club proud.
As team captain of the Vet 40’s I must give a special mention to Martin and Brian who are relatively new to the sport but raced as strong as anyone on the day acquitting themselves very well. It was for me the most enjoyable race of the year. Thanks to everyone, especially our support team of Angela Speed, Sophie, Phoebe, Dominic, Milly Dickinson, Judith Jameson and birthday boy Sean Wylie.
Tim
Date 10.08.2009
Timed cycle ride from Hexham Hospital mini roundabout to Corbridge car park roundabout and back again TWICE!
Aim: To complete second loop as negative split.
RESULTS
Name Hexham 1st lap Hexham 2nd lap
Sue Bell 23.18 23.09
Alison Mitch 20.54 19.44
Sandra Tompson 20.23 19.41
Antonia 20.13 19.47
Louise 19.53 19.16
Charlie Harris Pratt 21.06 20.27
Ian Robertson 20.39 20.28
Dave Watchorn 19.49 18.10
Mike Pinkney 17.29 17.33
Ian Pratt 19.32 18.46
Rob Pughe 16.26 16.39
Well done to everyone who completed the task. Sadly I was not one of them!
See you on Monday 24th
Rob