Manitoba National Triathlon Centre: Past couple of weeks and Canada Games Team announced

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Past couple of weeks and Canada Games Team announced

A lot has happened in the last couple weeks since we got back from Montreal. When we returned we got right back into training to get ready for Nationals which is coming up next weekend in Gatineau, Quebec. We returned from Montreal on Monday and some of the highlights of the next week included 6 x 1km around 5km pace, tempo/threshold run workout and swim/bike brick at Bird's Hill, and later on in the week mini tris back at Bird's Hill.

On June 28th Sarah-anne competed at the Hy-Vee ITU Elite Cup in Des Moines, Iowa. She also competed in the Hy-Vee ITU Triathlon Team World Championships, which took place the following day. Both races were very exciting to watch with a incredible sprint finish by Simon Whitfield to take the win, Andrew McCartney from B.C winning the swim prime, Lauren Groves running up from the chase pack to 3rd and the relay team of Lauren Groves, Brent McMahon, Kathy Tremblay, and Simon Whitfield winning the bronze medal. The next week we kept up the training with bike testing including a 16.5 km time trial, 6 x 1km, and mini tris at Bird’s Hill.

So heading into Nationals, Mark is ranked 3rd in the Junior Series, Riley tied for 18th , Trevor and Josh just outside of the top 20. On the girls side Rachael is ranked 6th and Stevie 7th.

Just today Stevie ran a new personal best in the 5km at the Athletics Manitoba Provincial Championships / CSG trials.

The Canada Games selection has finally been made. The games will be held in Summerside Prince Edward Island, with the Individual Sprint Triathlon (750m swim, 20km bike, 5km run) being held on August 18th and the Team Triathlon (300m swim, 7km bike, 2km Run) being held on August 21st. The Manitoba triathlon Roster for the 2009 Canada Games is:
Female
Sarah-anne Brault
Rachael Edwards
Stevie Moore

Male
Joshua Drad
Riley MacCharles
Mark Okany
Alternate - Trevor Penner

Team Manitoba Girls