TRG have, again, finished with a great result in Division 4 of the Tri Club Championships, following Ballarat!! An awesome result, to finish second, only to Ballarat!! We'll let them have that one!! :-)

Active Tri race 2:

Seeing the Dornom’s back racing tri after lots of adventure racing. Liz 1st and Bern in 2ndSeeing Sharon and Daniel ( son of) racing together in the Sprint event . Finishing 1st and 2nd in their respective age groups Alison Nicolin’ strong run split- 1st in her age group.

Ballarat 70.3

Sarah De Wolf's fantastic race across all 3 legs; 2nd fastest run off the bike she has done in a 70.3 and PB overallAnna and Rosie’s come back races after really 2 years out of competition - both finishing 2nd in AG.So many PB's for many athletes... BUT Callum's 40mins PB- exceptional!5 x 2nd places, plus 2nd TriClub…( Clubs <75 athletes)

Busselton - IM and 70.3

Lou and Char Durand getting to the start line and joining Alex in his first triathlon ever….Michael Beggs fast and 9.30 IM race.Tom Rodgers 1st place across the line In Busso 70.3- smashed the field by 15mins +PB to all IM athletes….

Fantastic results for TRG at the first two Active Tri races for the year... highlights include:

Active Tri race 1-

Sizzling performance by Tom Rodgers winning overall Olympic Both Sam and Taylor hitting the draft legal racing circuit – both competitive in AGVicky Jamieson's podium given the conditions of her least favoured leg - the swim

Active Tri race 2:

Seeing the Dornom’s back racing in a tri after lots of adventure racing. Liz 1st and Bern in 2ndSeeing Sharon and Daniel ( son of) racing together in the Sprint event . Finishing 1st and 2nd in their respective age groups Alison Nicolin’s strong run split- 1st in her age group.

Photo credit: Australian Triathlete.

Hawaiian Ironman, World Championships is done for another year. For all TRG athletes it is the end of a massive 10-12months, when the journey began to try and qualify!

Simon Johnson - PB IM time - hit the numbers he was after, and certainly executed a first class race. A reflection of how Simon went about his training since Christmas, working at the small things and learning what he needs to do for this style event. Awesome result!

Rob Hill - probably not the result he wanted, and despite feeling average all day, still held strong - great to see him string another sub 3.30 run split together.

Madi Taylor - really was having a great day out in the swim and bike however the IM gut issues started pretty much straight away on the run. Certainly started out ok but lack of fuel and fluid certainly caused a few issues on the run BUT to her credit did come good and ran home strongly.

Anne Henry - First time in Hawaii is NEVER easy, so much to think about and be distracted by, as well as the massive self doubt one has due to the heat and winds. Anne worked hard and swam really well and really rode a solid race. Despite the heat and fatigue of the run, Anne was moving along nicely. Anne caught up with Madi and then they supported one and other – running down the finish chute together - SPECIAL TRG moment!! Both Anne and Madi agreed without the other, they were not sure how the run would have panned out.

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Great results for TRG athletes in Sandy Point Half... a tough day with a strong headwind on the second half of the run, so great to see some negative splits!!

Celebrating it's 21st year, TRG has established itself as one of the most successful triathlon coaching programs in Australia. Following on from being named as the Australian Champion Club in Category 4 at Ironman Australia, the results during the 2015 - 2016 season speak for themselves! The Annual TRG - Triathlon and Multisport Awards Night was held at The Star Hotel in Clarendon Street, on Friday 17 June. The night was about recognising some of these outstanding performances, in all areas of triathlon, multisport, running, and anything else you can think of! It was a great opportunity for everyone to let their hair down, and celebrate everything that TRG offers - great friends, incredible athletes and camaraderie, that is second to none!

Congratulations to the following athletes who won awards:

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Congratulations to the athletes who have finally finished their season, following Ironman Asia Pacific Championships... well, with the wind, rain and undulating course it was a tough day!. Big field of 1600 starters

First timer Ian Lack did amazingly well 10:06, 11th in AG (200 starters), 92nd over the line and that was with suspect calf. From what I hear, a few falls to the ground in the last 3km including in the finish showed he gave 120%. Top result for a first time IM.Tony Ryan, 11:50. Despite limited running going in, raced confidently. Steady all day 23rd in his AG out of around 90 starters, strong bike and run and really that was so solid considering.Darrel Thomas, in 12 months, around 1 hour off his time finished in 12hrs today. PB on the bike, swim and run. 100th in AG – up from 250th last year at IM Melbourne. An impressive result.Margaret Mielczarek - new to the squad and finished in 12.38. 28th in AG. Has come such a long way in a short time. So happy with the fact she got back around 25 places after the swim. Lou Derrick, as I said, entered this to do with kids and ended the last one standing. Built from surgery and around 8 years out of the sport – great swim, 6th out of the water and then hung tough on the bike and ran so consistentlyNeil Gilbert had a cold going in. He was looking in good form after swim and bike and was sticking to his usual pace up until the 30km mark. I am still awaiting confirmation of his finish. Hoping all is ok!

Joe Margheriti raced 70.3 his 6th for the season. Well deserved, will be his spot on the Aussie World 70.3 team. Today despite NOT being his fastest, was still impressive – in a field of around 1300, he has come 135th, 23rd in AG (150)

Basically top 10%. This would have to have been the slowest 70.3 race I have seen in a while. Of note only 10 males broke 4.30, 10 girls only broke 5hrs!

Callum Crawford in Eagleman- so having a 3 week OS trip and is starting with a 70.3 in Maryland USA. He finished 11th in his age group. Times did not look overly fast especially on the run as temp hit mid 30s..Now he can get to relax and enjoy his well earned break.

Bern and Liz were also in Port Maquarie for an adventure race, Geoquest, with Bern being part of the team that finished first!

Outstanding results at Port Macquarie saw TRG - Triathlon and Multisport win Number 1 Club (Clubs under 75 members). This is based on all athletes racing on the day. What makes this result even more special is the fact that we were up against all the local NSW clubs that dominate at this IM event.

What was also exciting was seeing Jordy Wright take out 1st AG athlete overall and in the top 10 across the line!!

Also Madi Taylor and Anne Henry both finished 2nd in their respective age groups and gained a spot to the IM World Championships in Kona.

First timers in IM, Callum Crawford and Kate Lister both finished in the top 10 in their age groups.

Equally impressive results in Bussleton 70.3! All 3 TRG athletes finished in the top 20 of their AG, this is the biggest 70.3 in the country and a credit to their hard work, with Joe and Mary achieving PB for this distance.

Ironman Australia

Port Macquarie 70.3

Busseltion 70.3

Xterra Championship 2016 saw Declan Jeffery and Virginie Bernard head up to Callala NSW.

Unfortunately an accident the weekend before saw Chris Dimos break a collar bone and is now out for the next 6 weeks+ ( he has been the undisputed AG champ for the past 2-3 years)

Declan – still not 16 had to compete in the 16 –19 AG in his first Championship Xterra event (1.5km swim/30km mtn bike/ 10km trail run). An event we planned to take him up to 3hrs - nutrtion and pacing would be critical. Declan's performance on day saw him execute a race that showed he is ready to take on the best age groupers going around in about 2hrs 40mins,

Declan finished 1st in AG out of water (5th fastest AG), 4th AG athlete off the bike (sat in 3rd place in his AG), then finished as 4th age group athlete across the line and 3rd in his age group.

The 2 boys who beat him finished in 1st and 2nd place across the line, out of all age groups. Both from New Zealand; one of the boys was 1st place at WORLD xterra championships, for the 16-19 AG and the young lad in 2nd place is the NZ age group champion! Not bad competition!

Declan was crowned Australian Xterra champ and offered a spot to Maui!!!

Virginie’s performance was equally impressive!! After a win at Run the rock last weekend, she went in with some confidence on the run As the first AG female out of the water (win a wetsuit for that!), Virginie led from start to finish in just over 3hrs. She is now Victorian Cross tri champ, Australia cycle cross champ, Australia Xterra Champion…

And of course,

Winner of 12km run the rock 2016… !

What a weekend of racing! From an IM in South Africa that saw Simon (Snowy to most) gain a spot to Hawaii in a hot race in South Africa. Tough for some..(Jodie Swallow blown off her bike by a helicopter !) but Snowy handled the conditions very well and was consistent to the very end. Sensational day (only glitch, needing someone to CUT his wetsuit to get it off… Clever!). Awesome job Snowy!

Short Course racing in St Kilda; Strong races by Liz who was 2nd girl across the line and 1st in AG, Taylor Jones in the sprint (3rd across the line and 2nd in his age group) looking the goods for SSV event coming up in 10 days. Vicky a PB in her 2nd Olympic distance event, Neil, MRconsistent takes 3rd again and great to see Greg back racing again.

Finally Virginie loves a challenge raced Mountain bikes on Saturday and backs up for a 4th place in the Olympic distance eace on Sunday.

To Nic, preparation for his Nth Face event in May. With close to 3km of ascending Nic Finished in around 6hrs outstanding effort. Some of those climbs looked about around 25%!!!!

Eibhilin and Chris ran and rode as part of a team in an adventure race in Eildon- no communication with the coach as to how it went and I could not find a results tab on the website.

SO TO ALL fantastic efforts by one and all….

Weekend of 12th/13th March

Well done to Bern and Liz with their 36hr+ adventure race down at Gippsland last weekend.A combination of paddle/trek/run /mtn bike, crawling and orienteering saw the girls really rise to the challenge with their 3 male members. Racing in different teams, Bern’s team came in 2nd with Liz’s team an hour or so behind in 4th place. Biggest challenge I think was staying awake on the way home!

A mtn bike festival saw Simon and Virginie hit the slopes. I could only find the 50km trail ride results. Both coming 2nd in AG and Virginie was 2nd female overall.

Portarlington saw Jenny racing on home territory, coming out with a win in her AG, Declan raced strongly in the swim and on the bike for 6th place and Neil, the ever reliable, for a 3rd place.

Weekend of 19th/20th March

Team ‘ Lord’, also members of TRG, Had a an outstanding day!

Tom Rodgers, after a 6month break due to entering the work force, went in with a mission but knew he had a very tough job with Levi Maxwell heading down there as well. Levi was in great form being undefeated in a number of races. Tom came away with 1st place overall and was able to hold off Levi on the run. He did this by running an outstanding 1hr 15mins run – 2nd only to Levi. Congrats.

Great to to see Rosie back racing as well. 2nd female over the line and 1st in her AG in the Olympic distance event.

Dan Oldham raced well, with the big goal of running strongly. A much quicker run average than Geelong

Jordy had a very consistent race, 6th male over the line and fastest AG in the long course.

Tom Gallagher was able to come away with a 6th place in a very competitive AG.

Michael Begg continues to improve –strong finish overall in the males and 4th in his AG. His run leg once again really sees him jump up the field.

This was Sarah Hughes' last event of the year and to come 3rd over the line was a great result.

Alanam with the 5th fastest female bike time, really did impress. It was her one and only LC race for the season. In a very short time she packed in a lot and came away with 3rd place in her AG.

As we all know, Wendy 1st female overall in the Mt Koscioszko event!! Great job Wendy!

CONGRATS to all TRG people who raced this weekend!

Virginie Bernard backs up in the 50km Mtn bike race for fun and comes 3rd in her age group in 2.59

Brendan king came in 31st in his age group in 3.39!

Chris Dimos had another adventure race in the bush – coming in 2nd overall. Pretty sure he was happy to be behind the master of adventure racing, John Jacoby.

Ironman New Zealand had good conditions with elite female winner smashing the course record and Cam Brown going close.

Congratulations to both Rob Hill (off to Hawaii for the 10th time!) and to Mark Bowring on a strong result.

Rob never sat outside of the top 20 in his age group, working strongly on the bike to make his way into 4th and running very strongly, despite the heat, for a very strong overall finish time. 66th out of 1200+ athletes.

Mark certainly had a very well paced event, going in with a goal of just being consistent and that’s what he did. Finish 20th out of 140+ people in his age group also shows what a strong performance he had

HILL, Rob AUS 1660 1:02:250 5:08:380 3:20:230 9:38:4

BOWRING, Mark AUS 20102 00:52:390 5:18:510 3:43:31 10:02:05

CONGRATS TO OUR NEWLY CROWNED TRG CHAMPIONS

Male

1 - Ian Jones (R); has had a great season, just getting out in the shorter races. He has been able to show some strong form across all 3 disiplines!

2 - Ian Lack, not far behind; a squad newbie and I am sure enjoyed the challenge today

3 - Michael Begg who is Mr Consistency across the disciplines.

Female

1 - Madi Taylor; last 2 short course races she has been on fire. Really BIG improver in her running

2 - Sarah Hughes exudes the never say never attitude, probably went head to head with Madi, but just not with her in the swim today.

3 - Alana Chiodo who oves to just get out there and have a go, as usual peaking in the second half of the season!

Great to see those who managed to win their category in the Series..thanks to Mizuno a pair of runners.

See results for more information

Special Mentions today:

Callum 3rd overall in the series…big imporver, so new in the sport

Amber Thiel after ONLY taking up the sport 12 months ago, 8th in her AG plus out of the water as the 2nd TRG girl!

Lou Derrick in her first race back after about 5 years out of the sport and STRAIGHT back on the podium - great job!

Australian X Tri Championships!

Congrats to All TRG who raced up at Crackenback

Chris Dimos came away with the Aussie title in his age group (2nd over the line beaten by a kiwi)

Well done to the trio of TRG girls - Liz Dornom in 2nd, Bern Dornom in 3rd, and Virginie Bernard in 4th in the 35 - 39 age group.

Gavin Borwn had a strong race despite a spectacular crash on the bike (ouch!)

As well as the tri, Liz and Bern lined up for a 15km run, and despite a small field, did well coming 1st and 3rd respectively.

Congrats to Declan who raced today in a shorter version of the X Tri –750m swim/15km ride/5km run and came 2nd in the Juniors.

Please bare with us, whilst we add our latest news, and images from the 2016 season so far!! In the meantime, please check out of 2014 - 2015 season highlights video, thanks to Tony Escott!