Club Champs 2010, date is set – Wednesday 17th February 2010.
Club champs are back, as last year as a stand alone race for a good ol’ battle amongst us RATs! We’ve made a wee change tho – to save us a rather large amount of $$ on Traffic Management costs we decided to substitute the road ride with a MTB ride. The rest is as last year – 750m swim or 2km kayak at the far end of Blue Lake, up the steps, then onto you bike, followed by a run around Blue Lake (1 lap). The MTB ride is going to be pretty straight forward and non-technical to cater for all abilities out there – just down Lake Front road, up Jeff’s Link and back up on Tikitapu Road.
The race is earlier this year, so no issues with light, being cold on the bike and a race after work, we decided to run it during the week as most weekends are chocker blocker with other events. More info closer to the time, but put it in your event diaries! And of course we’ll have some pizza and beers after the race!
Time to work off that Christmas pudding? We’re starting back with our training sessions…
Swim Squad – back on Tuesday 12th January, 6am, Lanes 1 -3
Bunchride – back on Sunday 10th January, 9am @ Avantiplus Cyclezone Rotorua
Aquathon – back on Monday 11th January, 5.30pm @ Blue Lake
Open Water Swims – back on w/e 16/17th January
The Saturday Training sessions with Lawrence are on hold until after IM NZ 10
SUNDAYS at 9am (NOTE NEW DATE & TIME) @ Avantiplus Cyclezone Rotorua.
We have decided to combine the Saturday and Sunday bunch rides into one – Just Sunday at 9:00am weather dependent the day and time should not change going forward into the new year. No slow and fast ride just one for all.
The ride will be 2hrs long (or there abouts) to start with and for as many weekends until everyone gets up to riding longer (then we can add in a coffee and carrot cake stop – yum!) – so that means we will back to Cyclezone in 2hrs this week aka you will have time for xmas shopping after. The pace will be at the slowest rider so noooo body gets left behind the aim of this bunchride is to get as many RATS out riding together as possible, please do not be put off by thinking you will be to slow as you wont be.
Every ride will have a bunch leader (hopefully 2 next year) who will be responsible for the route and pace of the bunch. This person will be a guarenteed started and will be there (or have organised a replacement) so dont leave without them. Going up hills the leader will ride with the slower group of people while the faster cyclists can get some extra training in by doing reps up the hills if they wish. The leader will make sure those slower riders then have time to recover before allowing the pace returns to normal bunch pace. If someone gets a puncture the whole group stops (great for us girls – I had 2 in one ride once and I didnt lift a finger). These rides are a great way to build up distance and bunch riding skills and its just better riding with people than by yourself. You will also learn lots of tri stuff just by talking to the other people on the ride. I certainly have!
Anyone wanting a longer distance can either do an extra hour or so before or after the bunchride if they wish.
We have a new page for you – “Training schedule”…a monthly layout of what is happening in RATs land. This site will be updated every week to add the weekend training sessions, which usually get confirmed by Thursday. The full information on what the sessions are about are still on the ‘Training’ site. So, check it out and come along to this weekends Open water swim at Blue Lake and/or the Bunchride…
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