Race 6 of the Villawood Summer Series, also known as Sponsor’s Day, saw a great turn out of competitors. The cool conditions were a welcome relief to the previous day’s high temperatures but the breeze was possibly just a little bit too cool. The results are now available on the Latest Results page.

Two new tabs have been added to the results file for this month to highlight the performances of our wonderful sponsors in both the long and short course. Remember to support our sponsors when ever possible as without their support the club could not continue to provide events of the standard that we have all come to expect.

Thanks to major donations from Villawood Properties and OPSM Queen Street Bendigo the price of the Tri suits as listed have been greatly subsidised.
It would be fantastic for our members to take up this opportunity to support our club,sponsors and be seen around the country and world in our very on Tri suits (dare I say it Great Xmas presents).

Also a big thanks to our Vice President Mel Wilkie the suits are available to order through Champs Systems (CTRL+click on links below)
some samples will also be available at our first race and our store will be open from now and close on the 1st October.

## If you have any questions please contact Mel matl.wilkie@gmail.com

https://aucustom.champ-sys.com/teamstore/?BTCSpring2017

http://www.champ-sys.com.au/size-charts-all/

The commitee is very excited for the upcoming season! We’ve worked really hard over winter to bring you a new and interesting Season, along with an all new timing system. Starting with race 1 on Sunday the 24th, which is going to be our first Duathlon in many years.

As noted, we have an all new timing system, to bring the club up to date with the latest technology available. This will include real time results, live tracking via Tablets at Race HQ during the races, so your friends and family can check your live results as you race (how fancy!), it will include more relevant split times, with additional timing mats out on the course. Plus all your results, with full splits, will be posted online shortly after the races are completed. The big difference to past years is, for us to be able to offer all these amazing features, you need to register for each race ONLINE, by no later than 7:30pm on the Friday night before each race. This is a big change to how things have ran in the past, but this is inline with all other triathlon events and is a must so that we can obtain the best available timing features to keep the club up to date with the latest technology.

Below is the link to register for Race 1;

https://www.trybooking.com/book/event?embed&eid=310234

And below is the link to register online, as you will either need a full membership, or a One Day Race membership to be eligble to race at any of our races (one day memberships available through the Race Entry Link above);

https://www.trybooking.com/book/event?embed&eid=261924

Please note, due to the different race format for Race 1, the first race will start at 8.00am SHARP, which will be the Senior Long Course Race, followed by the Senior Short Course race at 8:02am SHARP, then followed by the Enticer at 8:05am SHARP, then the Junior races will get under way not long after that. Please listen very carefully to the race director and race announcer on the morning of the race, as we expect with the new timing and different format there may be alot of new information for people to take in.

If you have any questions, or feedback, please feel free to approach any of the friendly committee on Race morning, remember this is your club and we want to hear what you have to say!

Good Luck to everyone for the upcoming season & in particular for Race 1 on Sunday.

Did you know that PRO4MANCE Endurance Sports Nutrition are a sponsor of our club? We hand out pro4mance supplements and energy gels at each race & they are amazing and effective! Have you tried them and loved them? Would you like 45% off all products when you order online?? Use the following code when ordering online and discount will be given at checkout (www.PRO4MANCE.COM.AU) code – BENDIGOTC.

CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS – March 25th

Please be advised that Race 7, on Sunday 25th of March, is the Club Championships.

The Long Course race have be an extended distance, compared to the other races of the season. Swim is 500m, with an additional lap of the bike and an additional lap of the run course added to the race.

The Short Course race distance is unchanged (200m swim, 2 laps of the bike, 2 laps of the run).

Anyone can race in the Club Championship race, but to be eligible to be crowned the “Club Champ” you must have competed in at least 2 races in this current season, or competed in one and been marshall at another race in this current season, ie you must have been involved in 2 club races throughout the season.

Looking forward to an exciting race!

Your committee has been working hard behind the scenes, and are proud to announce the dates for the 2018-19 season!

This year sees the return of the popular duathlon format in September (a great excuse to avoid the pool over winter!), the ever-popular sponsors race and the handicap race.

Dates are as follows:

2018-19 Race Calendar

Race 1 (Duathlon): September 16

Race 2: October 28

Race 3: November 18

Race 4: December 9

Race 5 (Handicap Race): January 13

Race 6 (Sponsors Race): February 24

Race 7 (Club Championship): March 24

Presentation Night: March 31

Write them on your calendar or in your diary, put them in your phone!

We hope that you are all having a great offseason, and maybe even getting in a bit of training through the chilly winter months!  We are excited to kick off the new season and will see you all there.

This year, the club is running some untimed duathlons in August, as a practice event to get you back on the bike and running before the season proper.

These will be held at the Bendigo Livestock Exchange, Wallenjoe Rd, Huntly.
Dates: Sunday 12/8/2018 and Sunday 26/8/2018, arrive at 8:45am sharp for a 9:15am start.
Our course has a 1km bike loop and a 0.5k run loop.

Two events will be run, both will be a 1k run, 4k ride, 1k run (2 laps/4 laps/2 laps). 10 minutes after the first event finishes, the second event will begin.

If you’re new to triathlon or to our club, we’d love for you to come along, meet some of the club members and have a go! You can observe the first event, before jumping in on the second event.

Cost will be $5 to cover the use of the venue. Note that these events are untimed, so byo watch.

We’re excited to get the season off to an early start, and look forward to seeing you all there!

We struck it lucky with a beautiful sunny morning for some Duathlon practice!
We’ll do it all again in a fortnights time so pencil it in now!! Big shout out to Troy, Gav, Andy, Floody and Mark for making everything run so smoothly

The first race of the Villawood Summer Series was held on Sunday morning. As with previous years, the first race of the season was a duathlon format of run-bike-run, and competitors seemed quite happy that there was no swim, with temperatures hovering around 4 degrees for the race start!

It soon warmed up though, no doubt aided by some fantastic performances by our athletes. Congratulations to everyone who braved the chilly temperatures!

The short course was won by Floyd Cartner and Clare Montgomery, with Team Webb taking out the team section. The long course was won by Jason Sim and Amy Holmes, pictured with the sponsors of Race 1, Anytime Fitness. The trainers at Anytime have been around the triathlon scene for years and have experience in strength and conditioning for running, riding and swimming. Be sure to head to their Kennington or Kangaroo Flat locations for all your gym and personal training needs.

Thanks must also go to our fantastic volunteers who made the race possible: Michael Gibbons, Mark Lees, Lyn Sebire, Roy Preece, Dugald MacKenzie, Trinity Sanderson, Jason Carroll, Greg Croft, Jay Sanderson and Vicki Lane.

All of the results are available here:

• Long Course
• Short Course
• Enticer
• Superkids

Some additional photos are available below. We look forward to seeing everyone for Race 2 on October 28!

The day for Race 2 dawned cool and crisp, and athletes shivered as they walked over to the pool to start. They soon warmed up as the racing heated up!

Long course winners were Adam Fleming and Alison Cartner with Nathan Mills winning on handicap. Short course winners were Simon Brown and Terri Gadsden-Brown, with Team Webb taking out the teams competition and Lyn Sebire winning on handicap.

Results are up and available on our Results page. This race was sponsored by OPSM, so why not pop into their store on Queen St and say hi.

Thanks to our fantastic volunteers Mark Lees, Murray Hide, Liz Riddell, Adrian Ryan, Dale Lowe, Trinity Sanderson, Donna Todd, Andrew Johns, Janine Holland and Graeme Holland for giving up their time so that everyone could race.

We look forward to seeing everyone for Race 3 on November 18!

Photos are available below – with many thanks to Emily Ryan for providing them!

To celebrate the fantastic season of 2018-19 and the conclusion of our Villawood Summer Series, we held our Club Presentation Night at the GPO on March 30th.

Club President Mel Wilkie and Vice President Damo Hughes presented trophies, medals and prizes to the club champions across long and short course, male and female and in each age group.

Our champions were well-looked-after by our sponsors, with our Aggregate Champions in the Long and Short Courses winning a $175 voucher for Reilly’s Home Appliances, and our Male and Female Long and Short Course Champions each winning a $150 voucher for OPSM.

The full list of winners is below.

(Sophie Hawken finished 1st in the Club Championship Race for the women but was ineligible for the championship as she had not completed enough club races during the season. Likewise Coby Henderson finished 3rd in the Club Championship Race for the men but was ineligible for the same reason.)

Congratulations to all of our Club Champions for the 2018-19 season and we look forward to seeing you in September for our first race of the 2019-20 season!

Our 2019-2020 race calendar has been released, and the site has been updated with the new dates. Keep an eye out for club membership for the season opening soon, and remember to block these dates off in your calendar!

ULTRAMAN 2021 – 8, 9, 10 MAY
515km

Triathlon is a sport and lifestyle with endless opportunities and for me ive always strived for a new challenge, having competed competitively over the last 7 years I’ve been continually building volume and distance into my training and racing, from club races, Olympic, half iron, and full ironman distances.

It only made sense after recommendations from coach, Jason Shields “thrive endurance” a previous competitor of Ultraman to also nominate myself and compete in the 3 day multi-sport event. Held in Noosa covering 10km swimming, 421km cycling and 84.3km running.

Having followed previous year’s UM events, I had a fair idea what I was getting into, so in may 2019 I applied for the event and in July that year I accepted a spot, including athletes from all over the world, and also a number of professionals. To my disappointment the 2020 event was cancelled and finally after two years of high volume training I made it to the start line in may 2021, we had lost all internationals due to covid restrictions, but the race still went on.

The race requires a crew and vehicle to assist with nutrition, first aid and encouragement as the entire event is self navigated by athletes. With only assistance from crew. My crew was my mum, dad and wife Leanne, along with local nipper, and local paddler, 14 year old Donald from Noosa SLSC.

So at the crack of dawn sat morning we all set off, 34 paddlers and 34 athletes all keen to take on this mammoth multiday event. After finding my comfortable pace and position my paddler directed me around the 10km swim course and after taking nutrition at 4 and 7km I was more than happy to exit water in 7th place and take on a Vegemite sandwich before heading out on bike for 140km. Holding a steady pace on bike I maintained my position to finish day one in 7th place, in 7hrs 52min.

Day 2 commenced on bike, having to ride the hills of Noosa region with 280km, and a long day in the saddle. With a police escort out of Noosa in order of day one placings, I was able to get a solid start and by 100km mark had found a comfortable spot in 4th place, all of a sudden some electrical issues with gearing occured on bike causing me to drop back to 10th and make some changes to gearing for the last 150km, I was able to fight back and again finish the day in 7th place, 8hrs 27min.

Day 3 double marathon 84km run and the final of the event, the one i was looking forward too, starting in 7th place I had a goal to pick up two spots and end in top five. I had a solid run plan, body was in fairly good condition and I was aiming to run around 7hrs which would be an average of around 5min/km. My run started faster than planned and before I knew it I was at turnaround point in second place in 3hrs 22mins, I had faith in my body and kept to plan in an aim to catch the lead runner and by 50km I had done just that, once in the lead i had my crew keep me feed and hydrated and updated me on the lead. With 21km to go i had extended the lead to 10mins from the second runner and was happy to keep the pace, no need to over do things, by the end I was happy to take win by 12mins and finish the day in 6hrs 57mins, with a total for race being 23hrs 17min 26sec, 3rd overall. I couldn’t be happier.

My ultra ultimate race was complete, I couldn’t be happier, have to thank my super crew, coach Jason, old army mates Troy, Aaron & Phil who supported, UM support staff and all the other amazing athletes who completed the event of a lifetime, as for returning to do again,
let’s leave it as a maybe.

Here’s our COVIDSafe Event Checklist which we are required to make available on our website.

Bendigo Triathlon Club COVIDSafe Checklist

You have an opportunity to upgrade your tri game with a new Bendigo Tri Club trisuit this season. We have been working with a new supplier, and are happy to let you know that we are working with Cannibal, an Australian-owned company, making the suits here in Australia. Club members who already own Cannibal gear have testified to its quality.

There are two suit choices, a sleeved suit and a sleeveless suit.

Here is an example of the mens’ and womens’ sleeved suit:

And the Bendigo Tri Club design:

And here is an example of the mens’ and womens’ sleeveless suit:

And the Bendigo Tri Club design:

The sleeveless suit will be priced at $194, and the sleeved suit will be $239 – you can add your name to the back of the suit for an extra $20. We get a great discount for ordering as a group which you will see on the order form.

The best way to have a good look at the suits and to check your sizing is to go to Cannibals site https://cannibal.com.au/.

Please fill out the order form below and return it to Mark Lees at markandhelenlees@hotmail.com and remember to add a note if you want your name on your suit.
Payment will be made to the club directly with instructions to follow.

The sooner we order as a club, the greater chance we may even have them for our December race, so please return your order by Thursday the 28th of October!
If you have any questions, please email Mark on the above email address.

Order form for Sleeved trisuits
Order form for Sleeveless trisuits