Try a Tri Program

Lyndal Dew - Head Coach Hi, my name is Lyndal and welcome to the enduranceteam Try a Tri Program.  We run a triathlon program here specifcally aimed at people who have never done a triathlon before, but would love to have a go at one.  It can be a bit daunting if your tackling it for the first time, but in our program we give you all the training and the confidence tools to be able not only complete it, but love every minute of it.  See below for more details.

Nov-Dec 2010 Try a Tri Crew Here's a pic of some of the Nov-Dec 2010 Try a Tri Crew with one of the program coaches - Paul.  We had a couple missing on this night - Kate, Anthony and Emily.  Great people, great program.

Try a Tri Program STARTS on NOVEMBER 7th 2011- EVERYONE WELCOME :)

Try a Tri - Program 2 2010

Ongoing Updates and Reports in the 'news' section of the website

December - End of Try a Tri / Program 1

December 2009 News and Updates

September / October News

June / July Womens News

May / June Womens News

NEW Season Training Start Date!!!!!!!!!

Hi All,

Well there will be no rest for the wicked.  Our coaching team is busy planning and preparing already some of the best x-training and triathlon related activities for you all to complete over the off season in preparation for more great personal bests in season 2009/2010.

Stay tuned and there will be a start date for all new training activities in the first week of May 2009.

May 2009 - Update

Hi All,

Welcome Back - 2 weeks down and many more to go!!!

Last week saw us get through our first full week of training and congratulations to everyone who came along to the sessions and got through it. Especially the wet, cold ride on Saturday which made many of us realise that we need to invest in some good winter and wet weather gear!! 

Welcome and well done to Kellie who is new to the group and was the only one to turn up to training on Friday night to do the 3km TT at Landy field. Well done to all the others who have also gone and done their time trials over the weekend.

The first Saturday saw the introduction of a core strength training session with Bo at Sacred heart. Those who were there enjoyed it very much and got a lot out of it. I hear everyones abs were a little sore the next day. Thanks to Bo for running the session and for his knowledge and input.

Also thanks to Jarrod for his stroke correction input at swimming, I know that those who worked with Jarrod got a lot out of it. 

Keep an eye for more news and updates over the coming weeks.

Happy Training - Sonya

Gatorade and Brooks Race - StKilda (Final Race)

Above are some of the fantastic pics of the girls who particiated in the final race of the Vivctorian Gatorade Series.  Everyone at enduranceteam.net and especially Coach Sonya are very proud of them all.  Its been a great first up season, and i hope everyone has enjoyed it.  Get ready for an amazing off season of training and fun and social activity. 

Stay tuned - Sonya

February / March 2009

WOMENS SQUAD WEEKLY NEWSLETTER MARCH 2nd

Hi Ladies,

Hope you are all well. As most of you are aware, the Triathlon season is nearing an end and boy has it gone quick. I hope that you have all enjoyed the training and gained many skills to help with your future in triathlon. You have all improved so much and it’s great to have such a great bunch of ladies to coach. As you know this is my first season as a coach and I have very much enjoyed it and I thank you all for all the hard work that you all put into training. 

Over April everyone will have a break from training and we will commence training again at the beginning of May. I am in the process of planning for next season so if anyone has any input or idea’s please let me know

The winter months are tough to train through but I can’t stress enough the importance of training right through. Winter is a good time of year to put in all the hard work to get yourself flying for when the triathlon season begins again at the end of the year. There is also a series of Duathlons (run/ride/run) over winter to help keep you motivated.

RESULTS

We had a lot going on this weekend and some fantastic results to go with it

Australian Masters Games

Mary-Ann Seebeck- 6th Female overall and 4th in her age group. Obviously her age group was  the toughest one there but she did awesome. Looked very good out there. I think that Mary has a very big future ahead of her
 
Melissa Mortimer- For those who dont know Melissa, she came and trained with us at Torquay a few weeks ago. Melissa spent the week playing Netball in the masters and then competed in the Triathlon on Sat and finished 2nd in her age group. She then had to rush off to play in  the Netball Gold medal game straight after the tri!! Great work Melissa.
 
Western Suburbs race 5- sprint race
 
Danielle Harmer- Finally gets her first podium- 3rd place
Leanne McPherson- 9th place
 
BRW- Melbourne
Nicki Donnison- Her team finished 99th in the female teams category and Nick had an awesome race. Nick was first off in her team and was the fastest in her team by over 15 min giving them a good head start
 
Tania Yakovlev- Tanias team finished 145th in the females category. Tania was also first off in her team and had a fantastic race.

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK

This week  was just a stand out and I cant go past naming Mary-Ann as the athlete of the week. Mary raced in the Australian Masters games which was her main race for the season and had a fantastic day. Mary juggles her training around a hectic lifestyle and always puts in 110% into everything she does. She is a true inspiration to us all. Well done Mary

Cheers

Sonya 

Elwood - Brooks Race 2009

February 2009

Hi Ladies,

MASSIVE NEWSLETTER HERE. This is going to be a big newsletter as I have 3 weeks worth to catch up on!!!! Sorry, as most of you know, I’ve been flat out lately so have not had a chance to put together a newsletter for a little while.

We have certainly had a lot going on over the last few weeks

First I’ll start on congratulating everyone on getting through all the training sessions over the past few weeks. We have seen quite an increase in the volume and intensity of training lately as everyone is improving so much so quickly!!!!!!!!! And this certainly shows with everyone’s race and time trial results!!!

Anyway, I’ll start with the results section:

 RESULTS

BROOKS TRIATHLON RACE 4 PORTARLINGTON

Mary-Ann Seebeck- 13th- 30-39
 Liz moore- 27th- 30-39
 Kristy Anderson- 40th- 30-39
 Leanne McPherson- 10th- 40-49
 Helen Henrikson- 5th- 50+
 Michelle Platje- 3rd- Family and Friends
 Karen Crockford- 15th- 40-49
 Nicki Donnison- 10th- 30-39 
Danni Harmer- they stuffed up her results but we think she did around 48mins!!!

Sonya Scholte- 1st female overall and 1st female 18-29
 
BROOKS TRIATHLON RACE 5 ELWOOD

Alicia Evans- 1st Female overall and 1st female 30-39
Nicki Donnison- 2nd Place- Family and Friends Category
Karen Crockford- 9th place- 40-49
Leanne McPherson- 36th- 40-49 (great run, ride and swim but got lost for 5 mins in transition!!)
Mary-Ann Seebeck- 16th- 30-39

Gatorade-
 
Sonya Scholte- 5th Place- 25-29 (only 18 seconds of 3rd!! bugger!!!)
A special mention here also goes to the McPherson family with our favourite Neil and Scotty both taking out 1st place in their age groups. 

LANDY FIELD 2KM TRACK TIME TRIAL TUESDAY FEB 1OTH

Nicki- 9.28
Mary- 9.19
Dan- 9.19
Leanne- 9.57
Yvonne- 10.43
Carlee- 9.28
Sandra- 10.27
Kristy- 10.05

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK

I am naming 3 athletes of the week for the past 3 weeks. First goes to Michelle for her fantastic effort at the Brooks Portarlington race where she finished a fantastic 3rd place in her category!!! Michelle is the quiet achiever of the group and works hard every single session. Especially one the bike rides. Michelle is the only one on a mountain bike and still manages to keep up with everyone quite easily. Well done Michelle!!!!!

Next goes to Helen!!! Helen finished a fantastic 5th place at the Portarlington Brooks race and very much surprised herself. Helen just goes and goes and is an inspiration to everyone. She has improved out of sight over the last few months. Great stuff Helen

This weeks athlete of the week goes to Karen. Karen is simply just a workhorse. She puts in 110% at every single session that she does. She is a true inspiration and her results on the weekend just showed that. Karen finished 9th her age group on the weekdend at Elwood and she looked very strong and comfortable out there. Keep up the good work Karen

WELCOME

Last week we welcomed 2 new athletes to our training group. Carlee and Sandra. They are great girls and most of you would have met them by now. Please make them feel welcome

OUR SQUADS TRAINING ROUTINE
Please look at your training program for this week as there are a few changes. There will be a few minor changes over the next few weeks also but I will keep you up to date. If you have any questions or suggestions in regards to our training sessions please feel free to have a chat to me

Just one more thing. Jarrod has allocated a page to the womens squad on the endurance team website, this will have weekly updates and photos so please keep an eye on it
Make sure to keep an eye on the website www.enduranceteam.net as it is updated constantly.

Cheers

Sonya

Portarlington - Brooks Race 2009

News - January 2009

WOMENS SQUAD WEEKLY NEWSLETTER JANUARY 26th 

Hi Ladies,

I hope you all had a fantastic long weekend although we spent most of it training. Well done to everyone who made it to training on the weekend. It was quite a tough one with our aquathon on Saturday and our bike time trial on Sunday. Everyone did extremely well with both these sessions and you all exceeded my expectations so well done. The results are as follows-

Aquathon- Saturday- 150swim/3km run

Nicki- 19mins 48secs
Mary- 20mins 33secs
Leanne- 21mins 40 secs
Dan- 22mins 17 secs
Tanya- 23mins 22 secs
Liz- 26mins 50 secs

10km Bike Time Trial- Sunday- You Yangs

Dan- 18mins 44 secs
Nicki- 19mins 25secs
Liz- 19mins 31 secs
Leanne- 21mins 37 secs

I CANT EMPHASISE ENOUGH HOW GOOD THESE RESULTS ARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK

This weeks ‘ATHLETE OF THE WEEK’ goes to Leanne McPherson. Mary Ann joined the group about a month ago is one just a great team person to have around. She gives 110% at every single session and just goes and goes. Not only does Mary Ann work hard, she juggles her training around a massive ‘Brady Bunch’ ha ha. Leanne is always encouraging and supporting everyone in the squad. Well done Leanne. Keep up the great work!!!!!!!!!!

OUR SQUADS TRAINING ROUTINE

As from next week I have decided to make a few changes to our training sessions. Due to the fact that everyone can quite comfortably complete at least a 30km ride I have decided to change our ride session to a Saturday as Thursday nights we are a little time restricted and its hard to fit in a longer ride.  We all need to do a bit more work on our swimming so Thursdays will now be a swim squad session at Kardinia Pool for the remainder of the season. We have the pool booked from 5.45pm-6.45pm so please be in the pool and ready to swim at 5.45pm sharp. I’ve made it 15mins later than our usual session as we seem to struggle to get started by 5.30 with our sessions so please try and make it on time. Tuesdays run session will now be held at Landy Field on Tuesdays. We wont necessarily be using the track every week to train on, we will most likely go for a run around the river. Please arrive at 5.30pm for a 5.35 especially if we are running around the river. Saturdays will now go as follows-: Group ride meeting at Torquay front beach, opposite to Growlers restaurant at 9.30am sharp, please arrive at 9.20 to be ready to leave at 9.30. We will follow this ride with an open water swim at Torquay also at 11.30am so please bring plenty of food and drink with you. 

I also have a few more mini duathlons, aquathlons and triathlons planned for training over the next few weeks also. I will give you plenty of notice though. We will just see what we can fit around everyones planned races

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST. GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE FOR SUNDAYS TRIATHLON AT PORTARLINGTON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ALSO, I HAVE BOOKED A TABLE FOR 20 AT THE GROVEDALE PUB SUNDAY NIGHT SO WE CAN GO OUT AND CELEBRATE AND RELAX. PLEASE FEEL FREE TO BRING YOUR FAMILIES ALSO. PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU ARE COMING AND HOW MANY INCASE I NEED TO MAKE CHANGES TO OUR BOOKING. LET ME KNOW BY SATURDAY!!

JUST ONE MORE THING. AS FROM THIS WEEK I WILL BE SENDING OUT EVERYONES TRAINING PROGRAMS VIA EMAIL. IT SEEMS THE EASIEST WAY TO GET IT TO EVERYONE ON TIME SO PLEASE MAKE SURE I HAVE YOUR CURRENT EMAIL ADDRESS

Make sure to keep an eye on the website www.enduranceteam.net as it is updated constantly.

Cheers

Sonya

News - January 2009

WOMENS SQUAD WEEKLY NEWSLETTER

JANUARY 5TH 2009

Hi Ladies,

I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas and hope that Santa bought you lots of pressies!!!! I’m very sorry for my lack of correspondence over the Christmas period. Unfortunately I didn’t have any internet access when I was away and had barely any phone coverage either. Anway I’m back on board and am very excited about starting the new year!!!!!!!!!

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK

This weeks ‘ATHLETE OF THE WEEK’ goes to Mary-Ann. Mary Ann joined the group about a month ago is one of the most hard working and committed people that I’ve ever met. She gives 110% at every single session. Not only does Mary Ann work hard, she juggles her training around a young family and lives in Colac!!! Now that’s dedication to get to all our training sessions. Mary’s dedication has extended to her entering the entire Brooks triathlon series and is also competing in the Masters games triathlon which is being held in Geelong this year in  February. Keep up the fantastic work Mary!!!!!!!!! Another special mention for Mary Ann for her fantastic performance at the 5km Rip to River event on Sunday. Mary Ann ran a very impressive 24min 40 secs and finished 5th in her age group!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

RACE RESULTS

Well what a week. I have many results to report on this week. First I’ll start with Kristy who after a tough running session on Tuesday night went on to compete in the Dawn busters 5.5km fun run on Wednesday morning and ran a very impressive time of 29.30!!!!!!!!! Knocking almost 6 minutes off her time at the Ring road fun run a few weeks back. Great stuff Kristy!!!!

Now I’ll get to the Rip to River Fun run…

We had myself, Liz, Mary Ann, Leanne and Kristy head down to Ocean Grove to tackle the 5km Rip to River Fun run while down the other end of the beach Karen decided to take on the 10km Fun run.

What a perfect day for a fun run. Barely any wind, not to warm and plenty of spectators for support. We had some really fantastic results. Everyone should be so proud of themselves for the efforts today. As a coach ti feels great for me to see you all out there having a go and it feels great just to see how much everyone has improved. Here are the results-

Mary Ann- 5th place, 30-39, 24.40
Kristy- 9th place, 30-39, 27.23
Liz- 10th place, 30-39, 29.07
Leanne- 11th place, 40-49, 28.34
Karen (10km), 32nd place, 59.53
Myself- 1st, 18-29, 20.12

Training Schedule for next week:

PLEASE LOOK AT YOUR INDIVIDUAL TRAINING PROGRAMS AS THERE ARE A FEW CHANGES TO OUR TRAINING SESSIONS FOR THE WEEKEND.

Make sure to keep an eye on the website www.enduranceteam.net as it is updated constantly.

Cheers

Sonya

News - December 2008

WOMENS SQUAD WEEKLY NEWSLETTER

DECEMBER 8TH 2008

First of all, I would like to welcome you all and congratulate you on becoming part of Geelongs first Womens Triathlon group!!!!!  We are almost into our 4th week of training together now and I must say that everyone has been doing very well and have made major improvements. I hope you are all enjoying the training and are learning new things each week. 

I have decided to put together a newsletter each week now that we have our group and numbers established. This newsletter will include training articles and tips, training updates, race reports, race updates and many more things along the way. If you would like to put anything in yourself then get it to me by Saturday each week. I will also be nominating an ‘Athlete of the Week’!!!!! This person will receive a free massage with our new sponsor Bengt Carlson. Bengt is a very well known and sought after massage therapist. He has worked with many elite athletes including Lee Troop. Bengt will also be providing us with expert advice along our way and has kindly offered us his services.

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK

This week I have 2 athletes of the week to announce. One is for last week and one for this week.

Last weeks ‘ATHLETE OF THE WEEK’ goes to Kristy Anderson. Kristy joined the squad from the word go and has been to every training session. Kristy is a workhorse and has fully committed herself to training and always puts in 110% at every session. Since starting with the womens triathlon group Kristy has improved heaps and has decided to take on the 5km event in the ‘Ring Road Fun Run’ on Sunday. Keep up the great work Kristy and good luck on Sunday

This weeks ‘ATHLETE OF THE WEEK’ goes to Yvonne Hill. Most of you would have met Yvonne by now. Yvonne is another workhorse who just goes and goes. Yvonne competed in her very first fun run on Sunday at the ‘Sussan Womens Fun Run’ in Melbourne. She competed in the 5km in a time of which was a massive 5 minutes faster than she expected. Great work Yvonne!!!!!

I would also like to welcome Mary- Anne Seeback to the squad. Mary-Anne started training with us last week and is a real goer!!!! Mary-Anne is off to compete in her first Brooks Triathlon on Sunday in Melbourne. Good luck Mary....

On another note, the Ring Road Fun Run is on this Sunday. It would be good if you could get down there and have a go. A few ladies have entered but it’s up to you...

Also, please put this date in your diaries... Sunday 4th of January..... This is the date of the annual ‘Rip to River Fun run’ which is a beach run starting at Point Lonsdale and finishes at Ocean Grove main beach. It is usually a 10k run event but this is the first year that they have added in a 5km event. This would be a great local race for everyone and I have decided to make this compulsory for our group as a training day!!!!!!!!! I’ll get the entry forms to you all shortly.  


Training Schedule for next week

(Please note that we have an extra session in on Saturday before swimming)

Tuesday- Running- Eastern Gardens BBQ area 5.30pm sharp

Thursday- Bike- Eastern Gardens BBQ area 5.30pm sharp

Saturday- 12noon- Transition Training Session- This session is going to be run at the Kardinia Park Netball courts. Please bring everything that you would expect to be using in a race including sneakers, helmet, a towel etc etc. This will not be a hard session. We will then move onto Kardinia pool at 1pm for our swim session.

Make sure to keep an eye on the website www.enduranceteam.net as it is updated constantly.

Also, I would like you all to have a serious think about what races you are going to do this season so I can start to plan your training and the group training sessions around this... If you could all write a list of what you plan to do and get it to me by the end of next week that would be great.

Anyway thats about it from my end. Please keep up with the training feedback. I expect a weekly report from you all whether it is verbal or an email so I can keep an eye on how you are going and if you are fitting everything in. 

Happy Training.

Cheers

Sonya