Race 3 of the Northside Runners 5km Time Trial series for 2009/2010 season was held at Allan Border Oval, Mosman, with a record turnout of 67! As with race 2 Dean Degan and Lisa Bowman took the 1st placings.

Arriving in Goondiwindi (“Gundy” to us locals) at 2:00pm on the Saturday afternoon, I hopped out of the cool comfort of my car’s air conditioning and was immediately hit with the intense heat of the place. The atmosphere at the registration area was electric as people queued up to get their race numbers and tickets to the carbo load dinner in the park that night.

Caroline Steffen rode a very fast 2:20 to put herself in a position to win the 2010 Ironman 70.3 at Geelong. She managed to hold off a charging Lisa Marangon who ran over three minutes faster but could not catch both Steffen and Carrie Lester.

Craig Alexander has won the Geelong Ironman 70.3 for the second year running. Leon Griffin was second with Tim Berkel finishing third. Balmoral's own Peter Schokman missed out on taking third place by 15 seconds.

Energy Link will be running a series of fortnightly beginner Triathlon Clinics covering all aspects of triathlon and the Nissan/BRW corporate triathlon event. These clinics will be held on Sat 27th Feb, 13th March and 3rd April 2010.

The Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team offers an 8-race series at popular Sydney running venues in 2010 for your enjoyment, fitness and self-transcendence. Each event includes races over 3 distances. All events start at 8 am with Registration opening at 6.45 am, and closing at 7.55 am. See below for full event details.

Balmoral Triathlon Club members had some great results at Canberra on January 24, 2010 in the Olympic distance and Sprint distance races. With temperatures soaring to around 40 degrees on the Saturday before the race most competitors where praying for a change and an earlier start.

Information on Balmoral members competing at the 2010 Ironman Australia held at port Macquarie. This info includes some training notes so that you can join other members in the hard slog that is ironman training and keep each other motivated.

Full list of the Balmoral Triathlon Club members results. Some great placings by Balmoral triathletes.

A new event to the Balmoral Triathlon Club is the 1.1km ocean swim time trial held at Balmoral Beach.

Triathlon Australia has dissolved the existing Challenge Series format in favour of established races. The decision comes on the back of last month’s Annual General Meeting that saw the election of a new President and Board determined to adopt a unified and cooperative approach for the betterment of the sport.

BALMORAL Triathlon Club members pulled off some stunning performances at the ITU Triathlon World Championships on the Gold Coast in September.

Last weekend saw the running of IRONMAN WA, in sunny Busselton, Western Australia. In addition to the Elites 1,309 individuals lined up for the sixth edition of IRONMAN WA. Michael Shortall talks about his experience and the emotions of completing this amazing triathlon.

I’m sure many people set personal records on the day, but for me I achieved making it to Penrith in 40 minutes, car park to registration in 5mins, through transition in 2 minutes, sprint to swim start in 3 minutes and dived into swim start with the whistle drawing very close to the starters lips just in time for race start.

Last weekend saw the Tri Shave Sydney Triathlon series get underway with round one at Kurnell. As usual, Balmoral Triathlon Club was well-represented both in numbers, success, and high-drama.

Late last year Justin Betar decided to enter some events in the World Masters Games here in Sydney. He thought that his age might just get him in. As it turns out, the youngest competitor in the Games was 25 years and the oldest being 101 years, placing him closer in age to the 25 year old. The Games has a cracking motto “Fit, Fun, Forever Young”.

The Balmoral Triathlon Club's 2009/2010 triathlon season kicked off today in perfect conditions. The race times were fast and we must have had a record number of first timers turn out. The concern over the speed humps turned out to be a non issue.

Results of the 2009/2010 Balmoral Triathlon Club triathlon series.

Race 2 of the Northside Runners 5km Time Trial series for 2009/2010 season was held last night at Allan Border Oval, Mosman. Yet again the weather was not kind but there were some good time with Dean Degan and Lisa Bowman taking the 1st placings.

To be or not to be? The water temperature was teetering around the 23 degree mark when we arrived at Noosa. Fortunately for the non-swimmers amongst us, the mercury peaked at 23.7 the night before race day making wetsuits an option.