The Chico Tri Club had a great weekend of triathlon.
Boise 70.3
We saw some great performances from CTC athletes Boise 70.3. Sean Molina 4:44 (3rd AG), Michael Daily 4:43 (5th AG), Jason Berry 5:21(top 20% AG) and Jacqueline Sasaki 5:30 (5th AG). I can't wait to see some race reports from these grand efforts!
If you are interested and want to see what the finish line of an Ironman 70.3 event looks like you can see a video of the finish here - http://www.ironman.com/triathlon/coverage/detail.aspx?race=boise70.3&y=2014#axzz349pCUbrP
You can see videos of the CTC athletes finishing on the middle video clip with the following times:
Sean Molina - clock time of 4:54:50 and video clip time of ~19:00
Michael Daily finished at 5:25:17 clock time or 49:58 clip time.
Jacqueline Sasaki crossed at 5:44:51 clock time and ~1:09:00 clip time (Jacqueline is on the left)
And, Jason Berry finished at 5:47 clock time and ~1:11:45 clip time
Screen Shots can be found here - Boise 70.3 Finisher Pics
Way to go CTC Boise 70.3 Athletes!!
USAP Events Folsom Triathlon
Our first "official" club race of the year was June 8th at Nimbus Flats State Park in Folsom, CA and we saw CTC members out in force.
Austin King represented our club at the Long Course Distance on a very hot day. Austin finished his FIRST Long course triathlon with a great effort.
The rest of us avoided the hottest parts of the day by taking on shorter distance races.
International/Olympic athletes were Josh Rowe (3rd AG), Jim Peplow (3rd AG), Daren Otten and myself.
Sprint distance athletes were - Alison Diaz (1st AG), Manny Mejia, Becky Hutchinson (1st AG), Josh Hutchinson (3rd AG),Carrie Naylor, Caitlin McCandless, Laura Van Dervoort, Dan Spencer, Mike Marvier and Mimi Brown.
If I missed anyone, please let me know!
Congratulations to everyone that ventured down to Folsom and competed! And special congratulations go out to several of our athletes completing their first triathlon ever! We hope to see you out there on the race courses again soon!
Of all the athletic adventures, one of the most competitive events of the day was the dance competition during the award ceremony. For the well being of all involved, I have chosen not to include pictures of that particular event. Just know that CTC was well represented in this contest. :)
Mark your Calendars:
The CTC Summer Party is also right around the corner.
When: Saturday, June 21st at 3:00pm
Where: Sean and Forough Molina's home
715 Parkwood Drive
Chico, CA 95928
This is one of the best opportunities we have as a club to just hang out and get to know each other. No, intervals or pace-lining allowed (ha ha). This should be a no-drop kind of party with family fun for all.
Granite Bay Countdown
We have 75 days until the Granite Bay Club Championship.
The race is going to be held on August 23rd at the Granite Bay course.
If you haven't already registered, let me know and I can give you the club discount code. You can register here - http://www.totalbodyfitness.com/race/events/Triathlon/the-granite-bay-triathlon-tri-club-and-individual-sprint-championship-race
*We currently have space in our race reimbursement program for several more athletes to reimbursed for race fees at this race. http://www.chicotriathlonclub.com/documents/2014_granite_bay_reimbursement.pdf
This is going to be a great event with a lot of representation by CTC. If you haven't marked your calendar already, please consider doing so. This is going to be a lot of fun.
The Week Ahead
This should be a pretty standard training week ahead:
Wednesday night 50's meeting at Rosedale elementary at 5:30p (Fun and Fit) and 6:00p (Fast) Thursday night track at PV High at 5:45p Friday morning swim at One Mile at 6:30a Saturday morning LSD Run at 5 mile starting at 8:00a and Sunday morning decide and ride leaving from one mile at 9:00a.
As daylight is available earlier, I have heard several comments about starting workouts at different times. if you are interested in starting workouts at different times, let it be known to the group and we can try to adjust accordingly or perhaps have a couple different start times.
And as always, if you are doing your own thing, but are open to company, let it be known on the Yahoo group and/or the Facebook page. The more the merrier!
Until next time...Swim, Ride, Run and have some fun!!
Justin