On Sunday 15th November, a large contingent of Goulburn Traithlon club members together with a smattering of guests ventured to Canberra to contest the annual Sri Chinmoy Triple Triathlon. The event has long been a target for the Goulburn teams. The historically most successful Goulburn team the “Giant 440 Woodys” has in recent years dedicated it’s successes to one of its founders and most enthusiastic members , the late Peter Oberg, and once again they did his memory honour by dominating and thereby winning the Teams of 9 division.
The event travails 150km of gruelling cross country action including most major Canberra peaks either by foot or by Mountain Bike and also takes in swim legs in the three major lakes. The “Woodys” maintained a strong position throughout with a consisitent showing from all 9 members with Nathan Frazer, Andy Dawes, Andy Oberg and Jaemin Frazer all recording top ten results in their respective legs. Rod Smith, Mick Beard, Lori McWhirter, Rod McWhirter and Stefan Hese were all in the mix with many pushed to the limit by very warm and humid conditions, with Stefan’s fading effort still enough to gain victory, albeit by a mere 45 seconds.
The other Team, the Triathlon Pterodactyls also performed soundly with Kurt Warn, Olivia Stutchbury and Andy Dawes recording top tens for their respective legs. Unfortunately for them whilst on target for a top 20 overall finish, their final runner was brought undone with the finish line in sight. Tom Marsden was storming in the final 13 km run with his effort one of only 6 runners to break the 5 minute km barrier, with a mere 100m to the finish line he succumbed to heat exhaustion and was unable to finish (he has since recovered much to the teams relief).
Meanwhile the Goulburn Power Centre Aquathon series continued on Tuesday night with round three fielding 45 competitors. Once again racing was fierce in particular with the Intermediate distance race where a mere 3 seconds separated first and second places in both the women’s and men’s races. Some strong performances were also put in by newer members to the club with Keegan Mitchell, Danielle Connell, James Charlesworth, Trinity Fox, Karla Calleja and the Field family all claiming top 4 places. The club welcomed back Karla Calleja, Christine Lambert and Elke O’Rourke as well as new member Meleesa Evans to add to the growing list of members. Results are as follows:
Novice Distance 100m/2km
Ladies: Stella McIntyre 1st, Anabel Feld 2nd, Trinity Fox 3rd
Men: Charlie Moss 1st, James Feld 2nd, Riley Feld 3rd. Peter Tapp 4th
Sprint 200m/4km
Ladies: Ava McIntyre 1st, Jane Twohill 2nd and Carole Rose 3rd
Men: Alex Skeffington 1st
Intermediate 400m/4km
Ladies: Shiralee Cummins 1st, Nadine Moroney 2nd, Jane Kennedy 4th Danielle Connell
Men: Tom Skeffington 1st, Mick Beard 2nd, Corey Peterson 3rd, Llew Davies 4th
Long Distance 600m/6km
Ladies: Olivia Stutchbury 1st, Elke O’Rourke 2nd, Nik Christen 3rd, Karla Calleja 4th
Men: Kurt Warn 1st, Mark Stutchbury 2nd, Isaac Hogan 3rd and James Charlesworth 4th.
