Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Club Competitions

All Members Competition (BAR)

After 8 Events

MENS

Pos Name (No. of events) Points Ave. POWT
1 James Dear (7) 69 7.83
2 Dave Jones (7) 58 12.98
3 Rob Hoodless (8) 55 19.92
4 Stu Nisbett (7) 51 17.93
5 Steve Alden (8) 41 24.85
6 David Lashbrook (7) 37 22.34
7 Lawrence Wintergold (4) 33 12.54
8 Jon Webster (6) 28 23.10
9 Andy Heath (3) 10 28.14
10 Mike McLoughlin (1) 9 16.20
11= Callum Murray (2) 4 37.19
11= David Ricketts (1) 4 39.17
13 Mat Record (1) 3 25.74
14= Steve McMenamin (1) 2 36.67
14= Howard Pickett (2) 2 56.48
16= Chris Durrant (1) 1 44.60
16= John Lardner (1) 1 45.91
16= Simon King (1) 1 49.10

WOMENS

Pos Name (No. of events) Points Ave. POWT
1 Rachel Baker (6) 57 27.67
2 Claire Cresswell (5) 37 51.00
3 Lucy Williams (3) 27 48.59
4 Margaret Hollamby (2) 20 18.64
5 Tamsin Douglas-Smith (2) 19 33.27
6 Debbie Nisbett (1) 8 24.84
7 Emma Alden (1) 7 54.81
8 Julie Williams (1) 6 73.30

Club Championships

Sprint Distance - Sussex Triathlon

MENS

1st Dave Jones
2nd James Dear
3rd Stu Nisbett

WOMENS

1st Margaret Hollamby
2nd Rachel Baker
3rd Debbie Nisbett

Olympic Distance - Worthing

MENS

1st James Dear
2nd Rob Hoodless
3rd Stu Nisbett

WOMENS

1st Rachel Baker
2nd Tamsin Douglas-Smith
3rd Claire Cresswell

Best Athlete

MENS

The following have completed the required number and type of events:
Name POWT
Dave Jones 10.47
Stuart Nisbett 12.58
Rob Hoodless 16.27
Dave Lashbrook 18.48
Steve Alden 21.35

The rest of the men and women need to complete more events, in particular a long distance event, e.g. the middle distance tri or marathon to qualify.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Worthing Blow-Dryathlon

James Dear secures a superb third place at the Worthing Triathlon as strong winds and choppy seas force organisers to cancel the swim.

We sort of expected it would happen, but it was still a huge disappointment when the organisers confirmed that the swim was going to be cancelled. Quite a few of us have been training hard for the open water swim and the prospect of having it replaced by another run, well that just sucks… Anyway the decision was made and at 7am the women set off on the 5K run, followed 11 minutes later by the men.

Again their was a huge Mid Sussex Tri Club contingent looking fabulous in the new kit!

In the women’s race Tamsin was first to complete the 5K run in 21:26 closely followed by Rachel with Claire back in third. Out on the bike Rachel showed her strength with a very impressive 1:28:32, which gave her an unassailable seven minute lead over Tamsin going in to the 10K run. Tamsin was only able to claw back another minute and a half on the run which gave Rachel the win by almost six minutes. Claire claimed third place a further 25 minutes back.

In the men’s race Dave Jones set the early pace, coming into T1 first overall with his main rival James Dear 45 seconds behind. The rest of us were pretty close together with Jon Webster, Rob Hoodless and Steve Alden leading the way.

Once out on the bike James Dear rocketed round to record the fastest bike split overall 1:04:28, Stu Nisbett moved up to second in the club with 1:07:27. Unfortunately Dave Jones suffered from a few Paula Radcliffe moments, which ruined his race and parts of the Sussex countryside. Dave Lashbrook and Jon Webster put in some quality rides to keep themselves in contention on the final run.

James’ legend bike split made him first athlete to start the second run, much to the delight of the crowd! Unfortunately he was unable to hold on to first place, but still finished a superb third overall and first for the club by a massive 15 minute margin. Rob managed to reel in Stu to claim second spot with Stu in third, closely followed by Jon Webster, David Lashbrook and Steve Alden. Two of the strongest sea swimmers amongst us, Mat Record and Steve McMenamin came in at 2:34 and 2:47 respectively with John Lardner a further 10 minutes back in 2:58:52.

Club results as follows:

Name Time PosOA 5km run Pos 43km bike Pos 10 km Pos
James Dear 2:03:50 3 0:17:15 14 1:04:28 1 0:40:32 30
Robert Hoodless 2:18:20 53 0:19:42 74 1:13:39 52 0:43:38 66
Stuart Nisbett 2:18:58 55 0:21:17 139 1:07:27 8 0:48:18 138
Jon Webster 2:19:23 58 0:19:35 69 1:14:39 60 0:43:55 71
David Jones 2:19:56 61 0:16:29 1 1:19:49 109 0:42:32 50
David Lashbrook 2:21:37 67 0:21:18 141 1:11:36 31 0:47:19 119
Steve Alden 2:24:45 85 0:20:03 83 1:18:40 93 0:44:38 80
Mat Record 2:34:08 147 0:21:20 147 1:22:27 146 0:48:19 140
Rachel Baker 2:47:24 206 0:23:04 192 1:28:32 193 0:53:50 202
Steve McMenamin 2:47:32 207 0:22:50 188 1:25:07 168 0:56:44 218
Tamsin Douglas- 2:53:11 218 0:21:26 155 1:37:29 227 0:52:24 188
Smith
John Lardner 2:58:52 223 0:23:19 203 1:40:40 234 0:51:03 176
Claire Creswell 3:18:28 243 0:28:45 250 1:39:54 230 1:07:59 236

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

BAR after 7 events

MEN

1st James DEAR 59 points
2nd Dave JONES 52
3rd Rob HOODLESS 46
4th Stu NISBETT 43
5th Steve ALDEN 37
6th Loz WINTERGOLD 33
7th Dave LASHBROOK 32
8th JON WEBSTER 21
9th Andy HEATH 10
10th Mike McCLOUGHLIN 9
11th Callum MURRAY 4
David RICKETTS 4
13th Howard PICKETT 2
14th Chris DURRANT 1
Simon KING 1


WOMEN

1st Rachel BAKER 47 points
2nd Clare CRESSWELL 29
3rd Lucy WILLIAMS 27
4th Margaret HOLLAMBY 20
5th Tamsin DOUGLAS-SMITH 10
6th Debbie NISBETT 8
7th Emma ALDEN 7
8th Julie WILLIAMS 6

Record turnout for 100 TT

5 members of Mid Sussex Tri Club took part in the centenary 100mile TT at Dial Post. Scorching temperatures did not prevent most posting PBs. Stu sprinted away to top spot at 4h19m and everybody was under 4h50m.

I have not reported on the 10, but the results and cumulative points are below.

10
James DEAR 21.37 -10
Dave JONES 22.24 - 9
Stu NISBETT 22.50 - 8
Loz WINTERGOLD 23.01 - 7
Rob HOODLESS 24.08 - 6
Dave LASHBROOK 24.14 - 5
Jon WEBSTER 25.24 - 4
Steve ALDEN 25.30 - 3
Callum MURRAY 27.07 - 2

Rachel BAKER 28.09 - 10

100
Stu NISBETT 4h19m - 10
Dave JONES 4h26m - 9
Dave LASHBROOK 4h36m - 8
Rob HOODLESS 4h42m - 7
Steve ALDEN 4h49m - 6

Monday, June 30, 2008

James and Rachel storm the '50'

9 MSTC members did the SCCU 50 mile TT yesterday, as well as old friends like Doug Fox and Helen Bullimore. James Dear ran away with the men's event as expected - 1h55m and Rachel Baker was the fastest MSTC lady in 2.42. Loz just beat the 2hour mark, whilst of the newcomers to this type of pain, Dave Jones did 2.06, and Dave Lashbrook an exceptional 2.14, with Jon Webster 2.20. Steve Alden beat his PB with 2.18. Rob Hoodless recorded an impressive 2.08. Claire Cresswell put in another consistent performance for a hard earned 2.48. Well done to all.

Men

1. James DEAR 1h 55m 42s 10points
2. Loz WINTERGOLD 1h 59m 45s 9
3. Dave JONES 2h 6m 9s 8 PB
4. Robert HOODLESS 2h 8m 42s 7
5. Dave LASHBROOK 2h 13m 57s 6 PB
6. Steve ALDEN 2h 18m 42s 5 PB
7. Jon WEBSTER 2h 20m 34s 4 PB

Women

1. Rachel BAKER 2h 42m 37s 10 points PB
2. Clare CRESSWELL 2h 48m 50s 9 PB


BAR POINTS AFTER 5 EVENTS

MEN WOMEN

1. James DEAR 49 Rachel BAKER 37
2. Dave JONES 34 Clare CRESSWELL 29
3. Rob HOODLESS 33 Lucy WILLIAMS 27
4. Steve ALDEN 28 Margaret HOLLAMBY 20
5. Loz WINTERGOLD 26 Tamsin D-SMITH 10
6. Stu NISBETT 25 Debbie NISBETT 8
7. Dave LASHBROOK 19 Emma ALDEN 7
8. Jon WEBSTER 17 Julie WILLIAMS 6
9. Andy HEATH 10
10 Mike McLOUGHLIN 9
11 Dave RICKETTS 4
12 Callum MURRAY 2
12 Howard PICKETT 2
14 Chris DURRANT 1
14 Simon KING 1

Monday, June 2, 2008

3 age group victories at Ardingly

What a result for Mid Sussex Tri Club. Dave Jones finishes 5th and wins his age group. Rob Hoodless and Margaret Hollamby also win theirs. I am sure this is a first for the club. We would have won the team prize if there had been one, with James Dear 7th and Stu Nisbett 15th.

14 members completed the event with some seriously good performances. Dave Lashbrook continues his improvement and finally beat Steve Alden by a narrow margin with Jon Webster and a rapidly improving Andy Heath close behind. Well done to Callum Murray on completing his first ever tri, and also to Simon King with a strong performance.

On the ladies front it was good to see Debs back in action, but it was Rachel Baker and Margaret Hollamby who took the honours. Well done to Clare Cresswell with another gutsy performance and is improving all the time.

RESULTS
Men
1. Dave Jones 5th 10 points 1.09.01 4.56%
2. James Dear 7th 9 1.10.07 6.22
3. Stu Nisbett 15th 8 1.12.58 10.5
4. Rob Hoodless 19th 7 1.13.52 11.9
5. Dave Lashbrook 36th 6 1.17.40 17.7
6. Steve Alden 38th 5 1.17.47 17.8
7. Jon Webster 43rd 4 1.18.30 18.9
8. Andy Heath 46th 3 1.19.09 19.9
9. Callum Murray 144th 2 1.35.01 43.9
10Simon King 164th 1 1.38.24 49.1

Women
1. Margaret Hollamby 83rd 10pts 1.26.05 15.19%
2. Rachel Baker 108th 9 1.29.19 19.51
3. Debbie Nisbett 129th 8 1.33.18 24.84
4. Claire Cresswell 198th 7 1.46.01 41.86


Overall Classification after 4 events

MEN
1. James Dear 39points
2.= Dave Jones 26
2.= Rob Hoodless 26
4. Stu Nisbett 25
5. Steve Alden 23
6. Loz Wintergold 17
7.= Dave Lashbrook 13
7.= Jon Webster 13
9. Andy Heath 10
10. Mike McLoughlin 9
11. Dave Ricketts 4
12. Callum Murray 2
12= Howard Pickett 2
14= Chris Durrant 1
14= Simon King 1



WOMEN
1= Lucy Williams 27
1= Rachel Baker 27
3= Margaret Hollamby 20
3= Claire Cresswell 20
5 Tamsin Douglas-Smith 10
6 Debbie Nisbett 8
7 Emma Alden 7
8 Julie Williams 6

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Weekend Roundup

This weekend we had Steve Mac flexing his Muscles of Steel, Dave Jones on a mission in Austria, James Dear caught speeding on the A3, Stuart battling the elements in Shoreham and some knights of the sore saddle riding through Wessex.

First we kick off with DJ who set off for Austria last Thursday to compete in the Ironman 70.3 (that's half ironman to those who don't know). He had a decent race finishing in 4:48:36. I will try and get an interview with him to find out more.
Full results here.

Steve Mac took part in the Muscles of Steel olympic distance tri at Dorney lake and was well pleased with his time of 2:35:24, so much so that he went out on a celebratory binge and got hammered afterwards! Later this year he will be competing in Livers of Steel and is hot favourite to take the title!

James Dear turned out a respectable 21:11 at the RTTC National 10 Mile Time Trial Championship on Sunday. Unfortunately for him the cream of British time trialling also turned up and put in some awesome rides to leave him in mid table. His teammate Michael Hutchinson won with a stonking time of 18:07!

Monday was wet and windy for Stuart Nisbett's race at the Brighton Mitre 10 in Steyning/Shoreham. He battled the elements to record 23:18, which was good enough for 3rd place on the day. It's not that an impressive time on paper (or computer screen) but it was like riding a carbon bucking bronco out there!

Brad, Ian, Andy Taylor, Kev and Nigel all took part in the Tour of Wessex over the weekend. Sounds as though it was wet and windy, sunny, wet, wet and a bit more wet. Kev was the only one who magaed all three days, not sure what happened to the others. I hear that they are all still alive though and Kev's bottom is making a good recovery :-)