Manitoba National Triathlon Centre: Coteau du Lac

Monday, June 22, 2009

Coteau du Lac - Junior Race #2

The second Junior Series race was this weekend in Coteau du Lac just outside of Montreal. After our plane got delayed for 2 hours we finally arrived in Montreal on Wednesday evening. On Thursday we went out to the race site and checked out the course. Friday we went swimming in the river with team Ontario and B.C. in the morning and then went back for the pre-race meeting in the afternoon. The race was on Saturday, and Roseria started off the day with an impressive first place finish in the U15 category. A little later on the junior guys started at 11:30 and the junior girls an hour later, followed by the elite races in the afternoon. The course was flat for both the bike and run and the swim had a dive start from a pontoon. In the guys race a lead pack of 6 or 7 formed shortly out of transition with a few small groups following them. By the end of the bike a very big chase pack had formed and included all of the Manitoba guys and they came into transition about 45 seconds behind the leaders. None the Manitoba guys had great runs but Mark’s was fairly good and he finished 11^th, Riley ended up in 24^th, with Trevor in 27^th and Josh in 30^th. Not quite the results they had been hoping for but they all gave a great effort! Next up was the junior girls race sort of like the guys race a lead pack of 5 formed at the start of the bike and Stevie was in this pack and a bigger chase pack was behind them and Rachael was in that pack. On the last lap the lead pack shrunk to 3 and coming off the bike they had about 30 seconds on the girls who got dropped from there pack and about a minute on the chase pack. Stevie was the first off the bike but didn’t have the run she was looking for at all and finished 10^th and Rachael ran up from the second pack to end up in 8^th. Sarah raced in the Elite women’s category and after just a few weeks back training for triathlon ended up in 11^th

So at the end of the day not everyone got the results they were looking for but they gave great efforts and are looking forward to Junior Nationals in Gatineau, Quebec on July 11^th. Good Luck to Sarah in Des Moines next weekend for the World Cup and World Team Triathlon Relay Championships.

Congratularions to all the other provinces for a great race! The top 3's ended up like this:

Junior Guys