BTS Blog 24/1/12

RACE RESULTS

The club champs at Robina proved to be a popular race with approximately 1700 athletes competing. As expected Red Dog and Southbank were hard to beat and we placed third in what is becoming a more popular event on the race calendar.

Thanks to everyone who participated and we'll look forward to going back again next year. Congratulations to those who did pb's on the Robina course and placed well in their category.

We also had Merinda Eckart and Shannon Dooland racing in Sydney as part of the World Champs qualifying series. Merinda backed up her win in Perth with a 4th placing while Shannon was unlucky to suffer a puncture on the bike however he is off to Canberra this weekend for the next qualifying race.

GOOD BYE AND GOOD LUCK

One of our long time members Chris Bierton has moved to Sydney for work. Chris will also be off to the Olympic Games in London where is he one of the event managers for BMX racing so along with his attempts to qualify for the Worlds in Auckland he has a big year ahead.

Chris has been a great member of the squad and has shown that with hard work anything is possible. He'll still be in Brisbane on occasions for work so will no doubt pop in for some training sessions.

On behalf of everyone at BTS we would like to wish him all the best and thank him for all his support over the past few year.

AVANTI PLUS THE VALLEY- WIND TRAINER HIRE

As everyone is aware that Avanti Plus hire out wind trainers to squad members each week. Additionally they also lend skewers,however for the immediate future they can no longer lend out skewers as they are missing quite a few of them.

If you have forgotten to return a skewer after hiring a wind trainer please return them to the shop. From now you will need to bring your own skewers when hiring a wind trainer.

TRAINING

Due to the expected heavy rain tomorrow morning the bike session will be changed to a run still from UQ. It will be a long out and back hill run through St. Lucia and Toowong. If showers were predicted we would still ride however the forecast is for heavy rain forcing the change to a run.

Also due to camp this weekend there is no Friday morning wind trainer, however there is still a swim session Friday morning. For those not going to camp a longer hilly ride of 2-4 hrs on Saturday and longer run of 60 min to 2hrs on Sunday would be a good idea. We are doing some strength work at the moment so a couple of longer aerobic sessions on the hills would be beneficial.

If you're in your first year of training keep the length to 2hrs on the bike and 60 min in the run so your helping your body adapt slowly to the training stress being placed on it.

MONTHLY PRIZES

Thanks again to our fantastic sponsors for providing this months prizes.

Medilight Permanent Hair Removal and Skin Rejuvination most improved female athlete is Claire Schneider for her continued improvements in the pool. Claire has a track cycling background and has been working hard to improve her swim with great effect so far.

Avanti Plus the Valley bike fit this month goes to Tom Verdich who has been training casually for a little while now. However in the last few weeks we have seen him do some great work in the pool and and run to show what he is capable of. Watch this space for some fast times in the future.

The free service also from Avanti goes to Matt Thomsen who completed the last beginner course lat the end of last year. When Matt's fitness matches his determination it will be great to watch. Matt knows no other way than flat out when training in a hard squad session so we look forward to his improvement.

Puresport workout stick packs we'll be giving away a box of workout stick packs at different sessions every couple of weeks. The first one will be tomorrow morning at the run session plus some at camp this weekend.

UNIFORMS

We have some old stock of men's BTS one and two piece tri suits. If you're after a second tri suit to wear in training sessions these are great and we're selling them at $50 for the one piece or $30 for either the bottom or top in the two piece.

Contact suz@brisbanetrisquad.com.au if you're interested. We have more of the new one piece suits from Scody arriving on the 13th of February. We're also looking into some new BTS shirts for members to wear at events and hope to have something available soon.