Mid Sussex Tri Club

James and Rachel storm the '50'

2008-06-30T16:56:00.002+01:00

9 MSTC members did the SCCU 50 mile TT yesterday, as well as old friends like Doug Fox and Helen Bullimore. James Dear ran away with the men's event as expected - 1h55m and Rachel Baker was the fastest MSTC lady in 2.42. Loz just beat the 2hour mark, whilst of the newcomers to this type of pain, Dave Jones did 2.06, and Dave Lashbrook an exceptional 2.14, with Jon Webster 2.20. Steve Alden beat his PB with 2.18. Rob Hoodless recorded an impressive 2.08. Claire Cresswell put in another consistent performance for a hard earned 2.48. Well done to all.

Men

1. James DEAR 1h 55m 42s 10points
2. Loz WINTERGOLD 1h 59m 45s 9
3. Dave JONES 2h 6m 9s 8 PB
4. Robert HOODLESS 2h 8m 42s 7
5. Dave LASHBROOK 2h 13m 57s 6 PB
6. Steve ALDEN 2h 18m 42s 5 PB
7. Jon WEBSTER 2h 20m 34s 4 PB

Women

1. Rachel BAKER 2h 42m 37s 10 points PB
2. Clare CRESSWELL 2h 48m 50s 9 PB

BAR POINTS AFTER 5 EVENTS

MEN WOMEN

1. James DEAR 49 Rachel BAKER 37
2. Dave JONES 34 Clare CRESSWELL 29
3. Rob HOODLESS 33 Lucy WILLIAMS 27
4. Steve ALDEN 28 Margaret HOLLAMBY 20
5. Loz WINTERGOLD 26 Tamsin D-SMITH 10
6. Stu NISBETT 25 Debbie NISBETT 8
7. Dave LASHBROOK 19 Emma ALDEN 7
8. Jon WEBSTER 17 Julie WILLIAMS 6
9. Andy HEATH 10
10 Mike McLOUGHLIN 9
11 Dave RICKETTS 4
12 Callum MURRAY 2
12 Howard PICKETT 2
14 Chris DURRANT 1
14 Simon KING 1

3 age group victories at Ardingly

2008-06-02T18:39:00.002+01:00

What a result for Mid Sussex Tri Club. Dave Jones finishes 5th and wins his age group. Rob Hoodless and Margaret Hollamby also win theirs. I am sure this is a first for the club. We would have won the team prize if there had been one, with James Dear 7th and Stu Nisbett 15th.

14 members completed the event with some seriously good performances. Dave Lashbrook continues his improvement and finally beat Steve Alden by a narrow margin with Jon Webster and a rapidly improving Andy Heath close behind. Well done to Callum Murray on completing his first ever tri, and also to Simon King with a strong performance.

On the ladies front it was good to see Debs back in action, but it was Rachel Baker and Margaret Hollamby who took the honours. Well done to Clare Cresswell with another gutsy performance and is improving all the time.

RESULTS
Men
1. Dave Jones 5th 10 points 1.09.01 4.56%
2. James Dear 7th 9 1.10.07 6.22
3. Stu Nisbett 15th 8 1.12.58 10.5
4. Rob Hoodless 19th 7 1.13.52 11.9
5. Dave Lashbrook 36th 6 1.17.40 17.7
6. Steve Alden 38th 5 1.17.47 17.8
7. Jon Webster 43rd 4 1.18.30 18.9
8. Andy Heath 46th 3 1.19.09 19.9
9. Callum Murray 144th 2 1.35.01 43.9
10Simon King 164th 1 1.38.24 49.1

Women
1. Margaret Hollamby 83rd 10pts 1.26.05 15.19%
2. Rachel Baker 108th 9 1.29.19 19.51
3. Debbie Nisbett 129th 8 1.33.18 24.84
4. Claire Cresswell 198th 7 1.46.01 41.86

Overall Classification after 4 events

MEN
1. James Dear 39points
2.= Dave Jones 26
2.= Rob Hoodless 26
4. Stu Nisbett 25
5. Steve Alden 23
6. Loz Wintergold 17
7.= Dave Lashbrook 13
7.= Jon Webster 13
9. Andy Heath 10
10. Mike McLoughlin 9
11. Dave Ricketts 4
12. Callum Murray 2
12= Howard Pickett 2
14= Chris Durrant 1
14= Simon King 1

WOMEN
1= Lucy Williams 27
1= Rachel Baker 27
3= Margaret Hollamby 20
3= Claire Cresswell 20
5 Tamsin Douglas-Smith 10
6 Debbie Nisbett 8
7 Emma Alden 7
8 Julie Williams 6

Weekend Roundup

2008-05-27T11:03:00.003+01:00

This weekend we had Steve Mac flexing his Muscles of Steel, Dave Jones on a mission in Austria, James Dear caught speeding on the A3, Stuart battling the elements in Shoreham and some knights of the sore saddle riding through Wessex.

First we kick off with DJ who set off for Austria last Thursday to compete in the Ironman 70.3 (that's half ironman to those who don't know). He had a decent race finishing in 4:48:36. I will try and get an interview with him to find out more.
Full results here.

Steve Mac took part in the Muscles of Steel olympic distance tri at Dorney lake and was well pleased with his time of 2:35:24, so much so that he went out on a celebratory binge and got hammered afterwards! Later this year he will be competing in Livers of Steel and is hot favourite to take the title!

James Dear turned out a respectable 21:11 at the RTTC National 10 Mile Time Trial Championship on Sunday. Unfortunately for him the cream of British time trialling also turned up and put in some awesome rides to leave him in mid table. His teammate Michael Hutchinson won with a stonking time of 18:07!

Monday was wet and windy for Stuart Nisbett's race at the Brighton Mitre 10 in Steyning/Shoreham. He battled the elements to record 23:18, which was good enough for 3rd place on the day. It's not that an impressive time on paper (or computer screen) but it was like riding a carbon bucking bronco out there!

Brad, Ian, Andy Taylor, Kev and Nigel all took part in the Tour of Wessex over the weekend. Sounds as though it was wet and windy, sunny, wet, wet and a bit more wet. Kev was the only one who magaed all three days, not sure what happened to the others. I hear that they are all still alive though and Kev's bottom is making a good recovery :-)

Sussex Triathlon Start List

2008-05-23T09:19:00.002+01:00

The start list for the Sussex Triathlon is now up on the Urbanrace website.

15 members of the club have entered the Sprint race, which is the club's sprint championship. With no Dave Jones on the start list!! James Dear is odds on favourite to take the title.

Good luck to James who is racing in the national 10 this Sunday,to Stuart who is racing in the Brighton Mitre 10 on Monday and to everyone who's doing the Tour of Wessex this weekend. Apparently the wobbler is going to be there on a brand new bike.

Forgot to say well done to Loz for his performance at the Tonbridge Triathlon the other week. He was 15th overall and won his age group! Click here for the results.

Two Seconds to Second

2008-05-19T14:28:00.009+01:00

While most people in East Grinstead were still enjoying a nice lie-in James Dear was blitzing through their streets on his way to a third consecutive MSTC BAR victory. Against a top quality field his time of 01:13:09 was good enough for 10th place overall, but more importantly it was a crucial two seconds faster than teammate Dave Jones. There have been a lot of two second gaps flying about in the last couple of weeks, unfortunately Dave was on the wrong side of this one. It looks like the extra two swim lengths he had to do have cost him dear!
Ghostbusters were put on alert until it transpired that the slime monster coming in in 3rd was actually Loz. He reminded everybody what a legendary athlete he is by clocking a very impressive 01:15:41. When he starts getting some more sleep he is going to be dangerous. Looking at the results these three would have clinched the team prize, if there was one (not sure if there is or not?)
Stu was well pleased with his days work, particularly the run, which helped him maintain the advantage gained from his bike leg.

Rob and Steve had their usual ding dong . This time Rob's all round skills gave him the upper hand as he came in 5th. I don't think Steve was that fussed, he was still buzzing after the previous days visit to Wembley to watch Pompey win the FA Cup. Rob has vowed to be in top form for the Sussex Tri!

Dave Lashbrook and Jon Webster continue to improve and were only seconds apart at the end, looks like those two are going to have a few more interesting battles this season as well. They were a couple of minutes ahead of Andy Heath, who is still on the comeback trail. It will be interesting to see how he improves over the next couple of months.

Tamsin was top lady of the day, smashing 4 minutes off her previous best time to record an impressive 01:34:31. On this sort of form she is going to be a real contender for the BAR. Current leader Lucy Williams bagged another 9 points though, just ahead of the ever improving Claire Cresswell who was sporting some rather fetching new tri bars. Sandwiched in between was Howard, who didn't have the best of days, but will be looking to bounce back in the Sussex Tri.

The next event is the BAR and Sprint Championship event the Sussex Triathlon in two weeks time, which promises to be another cracker!

Members results:

10th James Dear (s) 00:09:55 (b) 00:43:34 (r) 00:19:40 (oa) 01:13:09 9.31%
11th David Jones (s) 00:08:53 (b) 00:45:50 (r) 00:18:29 (oa) 01:13:11 9.37%
21st Lawrence Wintergold (s) 00:08:43 (b) 00:46:09 (r) 00:20:49 (oa) 01:15:41 13.1%
24th Stuart Nisbett (s) 00:08:09 (b) 00:46:30 (r) 00:22:42 (oa) 01:17:20 15.6%
40th Robert Hoodless (s) 00:08:36 (b) 00:50:08 (r) 00:21:05 01:19:49 19.3%
54th Steve Alden (s) 00:08:29 (b) 00:51:25 (r) 00:21:39 01:21:33 21.9%
71st David Lashbrook (s) 00:08:38 (b) 00:50:47 (r) 00:22:52 (oa) 01:22:16 22.9%
76th Jon Webster (s) 00:09:44 (b) 00:51:29 (r) 00:21:18 (oa) 01:22:31 23.3%
96th Andrew Heath (s) 00:08:06 (b) 00:53:27 (r) 00:23:14 (oa) 01:24:47 26.7%
195th Tamsin Douglas-Smith (s) 00:09:33 (b) 01:00:48 (r) 00:24:10 (oa) 01:34:31 41.2%
250th Lucy Williams (s) 00:12:22 (b) 01:04:24 (r) 00:25:16 (oa) 01:42:01 52.4%
263rd Howard Pickett (s) 00:09:44 (b) 01:03:59 (r) 00:31:09 (oa) 01:44:52 56.7%
281st Claire Cresswell (s) 00:09:55 (b) 01:07:25 (r) 00:32:30 (oa) 01:49:50 64.1%

Full results available here

Well done to Jess McMorris who completed the Try-a-Tri, which was her first triathlon. She finished 21st overall with a time 50:42.

21st Jessica McMorris (s) 00:06:08 (b) 00:32:21 (r) 00:12:13 (oa) 00:50:42 22.8%

Try-a-Tri results available here

Who is Mike Curnock? Answers on postcard please to Phantom Members, 221b Baker Street, London NW1 6XE

New Forest Olympic

2008-05-07T12:16:00.000+01:00

This race should be on everybody’s calendar.

After rumors of the swim being shortened due to the cold water I was happy to find out that because the water was 14 degrees (yea course it was) they left it at 1100m, got in and tried to acclimatize but just didn’t have enough time only managed to make it to my favored position in the centre of the second line otherwise known as the washing machine.. Off we go a mass start of 350 competitor’s legs and arms flailing everywhere what a buzz took me about 200mts to get into the swing of it so the leaders had escaped me at this time, never mind, out of the water in 18:30 and no dizzy head there’s a first. A 200mtr run to T1 and over the timing mat in 19:15 leaving me in 47th position.

Off with the wet suit then bang I overbalanced and nearly fell on the floor, the dizziness kicked in, strange it took its time, anyway out on the bike in 3:25 long T1 but I’ve been taking tips of James Dear and must have been brushing my long locks.

Out of T1 with a 300mtr run to the mount line, the bike was great, out through the forest and over exposed heath land, the wind was almost non existent, I kept having to refocus though as I took in the scenery from my tuck position. Also having to dodge the odd cow or horse that decided to wander into the road, saw highland cattle with the biggest horns I’ve ever seen so sped past that as quick as possible. Off the bike and a 300mtr run to T3 67 mins dropped to 150th must improve my bike or wear blinkers and stop being a tourist.

Out of T2 in 2:06 not so much hair to brush this time.

The run starts off with a gentle 1-2k then you hit a long hill, I got to the top and the run moved to off road on gravel/mud tracks, I turned the corner, only to see another hill... anyway my run was finished after the first km as I picked up a ankle injury, bit typical for me, but decided I was not going to dnf even if I had to hop, so a stuttering 10k for me at 62 mins.

All in all it was a good race that I would strongly recommend, I was aiming at a sub 2:15 and came in at 2:28:20 and in 203rd so as my old school teacher used to say ‘could do better’, anyway I am off to ride the south downs way this weekend and racing another Olympic distance at Dorney lake on the 25th May and hope to do a sub 2:20 this time.

Don’t know if I’ve done the right thing but in my post race excitement I have now signed up for the middle distance version of this race...gulp.

Best All Rounder Race 2

2008-05-06T10:03:00.002+01:00

Second race in the series was the 25 mile In Gear Quick Vit Time Trial.

James Dear won comfortably as expected but did have trouble when one of the tri bar extensions 'came away in his hands' !! Special mentions go to Lucy and Rachel both completing their first 25 mile TT, doing extremely well.

Winner Michael Hutchinson 50m 40s !!

10 points James Dear 57m23s 13.26%
9 points Loz Wintergold 59m23s 17.2%
8 points Stuart Nisbett 59m54s 18.22%
7 points Dave Jones 62m38s 23.62%
6 points Rob Hoodless 65m47s 29.84%
5 points Steve Alden 69m37s 37.4%

LADIES
10 points Rachel Baker 76m45s 51.48%
9 points Lucy Williams 81m39s 61.15%

G25/93 Time Trial Route

2008-04-25T11:53:00.003+01:00

This is the route for the time trial on 4th May - G25/93

London Marathon - Another PB for JW

2008-04-14T10:59:00.002+01:00

Jon Webster gave us a masterclass in marathon pacing with another impressive performance at this year's London Marathon.

He bettered his Rome time by about a minute to bag another pb with a time of 3:23:16
The stats show that he maintained a steady pace throughout the race going through the halfway point in 1:41:56.

Jon is also helping to raise money for the Parkinson's Disease Society, so if you haven't sponsored him yet and would like to then visit his fund raising page and give him some cash.

Fabulous One Two at Steyning!!

2008-04-07T16:12:00.006+01:00

An excellent 1st and 2nd for James and Mike at this year's Steyning Tri in atrocious conditions.

Report by Mike McLoughlin

"Well what a day at the races, day started well enough, patchy clouds with minimal winds, a few hours later and competitors found themselves in a full on snow storm! 5 members of Mid Sussex Tri Club entered all eager to get their first tri of the year in under there belt, especially James Dear for which this was his first ever tri.

James was off first due to his brick like swimming credentials, James put in a good solid swim and was happy with his pool performance and he even found time to do his hair spending nearly 3 minutes in transition! venturing out onto the snow free bike course it was now time for him to do "proper sport" and promptly tore up the bike course recording the best bike split of the day by over 5 mins! obviously his bike hadn't tired him out and he went on to put in a top 5 time on the run course, great work, first tri and first win, will be great to see how good James will get once he grows gills!

Next off was Tamsin with a slightly later swim start time, she put in a good swim and went out on the bike course and battled against the elements to put in a very respectable time, Tamsin was last seen on the run sporting a rather lovely snow hat and looked strong running with no issue with her recent serious knee injury. She was generally just happy to have completed such a tough race!

Steve Mac put in a good performance in the pool and was out like a shot trying to maximise the gap between him and mike, Steve put in a strong bike and was able to hold off the advances of Mike for some time (not a usual feat) and battle with the white out conditions as the blizzard intensified, however the weather and his knee problems were causing too many issues and unfortunately Steve DNF'ed, hopefully this will be the one and only time this year.

Last off for the club in the long course was Mike, due to starting off last he had the joy of trying to chase down Steve, this must have spurred him on to a better than usual race swim performance, out onto the bike his chosen wardrobe for the bike course was a little questionable to say the least, opting for just a tri suit and optional arm warmers, to his cost half way round the bike course the blizzard hit and the effect was like a ice cube being rammed up his back side. Getting into T2 it took ages to get into shoes and once on the run it was like running with ice blocks, however he was able to finish the race in a very surprising second place! Mike was last seen mumbling like Wallace and Grommit accent in the shallow end of the pool!

Due to the weather getting so bad the organisers cancelled the bike for the sprint tri event and was turned into a 400m/5km aquathlon. Claire Cresswell's time is unknown at the current time of writing as the organisers are still trying to sort out all the times. Claire was disappointed that the cycle was dropped from the event such was her attitude to want to get out there and compete, however she was very happy with her result.

Newbie Chris Durrant also put in a good performance in his first ever triathlon finishing in a perfectly respectable 02:20:21. Not sure if he wore his cage fighting gloves throughout the race, but they will have certainly come in handy during the chilly bike leg?

Results

Long

James Dear 01:47:07 (1st)

Mike McLoughlin 01:51:11 (2nd)

Chris Durrant 02:20:21 (51st)

Tamsin Douglas-smith 02:23:08 (53rd)

Steve Mcmenamin DNF

Sprint

Claire Cresswell (tbc)

Well done to all for competing in such challenging conditions and at least you know that this is the hardest tri that you will have to do this year! Full tri247 race report is here and full results are here."

New Kit Coming Soon...

2008-04-04T09:53:00.007+01:00

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The new kit design has been finalized and the order is about to be placed. If you haven't ordered anything yet then get in touch with James Duddy real quick or you will be doing events in vest and pants!!

Approx prices are:
tri suit £55.00
tri vest £30.00
tri shorts £29.00
cycle shirt SS £35.00
cycle shirt LS £39.00
Cycle Bib-Shorts £30.00
Kit Bag £25.00

ROME MARATHON

2008-03-27T18:11:00.002Z

Many PBs were posted in Rome. This is an awesome marathon, with perfect weather conditions, stunning scenery and history all around.

Approximate times for MSTC members were;

Jon Webster 3h 24m PB
Margaret Hollamby 3h 35m PB
Steve Alden 3h 38m
David Ricketts 3h 45m
Rachel Baker 4h 08m PB
Julie Williams 4h 34m PB
Barbara Ratcliff 4h 34m PB
John Tighe 4h 37m
Emma Alden 4h 50m
Fiona Ricketts 5h 50m PB

I don't have the exact times available but there were some superb efforts on the day.

Tunbridge Wells Half Marathon

2008-02-25T11:26:00.002Z

Howard continued his race/training combo with another solid performance at the Tunbridge Wells Half Marathon. He finished in a time of 01:54:34, click here for full results

In an interview in the changing rooms last Thursday he confessed that he finds running training a bit boring, which is why he prefers to use events, like this, as training.

2008 BAR Competition Standings

2008-02-20T19:14:00.005Z

BRIGHTON HALF MARATHON 17th February 2008

A beautiful sunny day greeted the runners in Brighton. It was a fantastic turnout with 16 MSTC competitors and 4 'groupies'. Awesome performances from James and Mike in their first ½ marathons, and at least one other PB (Stu). Performance of the day for the ladies was Margaret Hollamby, but Lucy and Rachel put in very strong performances. Well done to all.

Here are the standings following Sunday's first event in the series.

MEN – winning time 1h 11m 17s

1. James DEAR 1h 22m 23s 10points 15.57% PB
2. Mike McLOUGHLIN 1h 22m 50s 9 16.20% PB
3. Steve ALDEN 1h 31m 26s 8 28.27%
4. Rob HOODLESS 1h 31m 51s 7 28.86%
5. Jon WEBSTER 1h 34m 22s 6 32.39%
6. Andy HEATH 1h 38m 14s 5 37.81%
7. David RICKETTS 1h 39m 12s 4 39.17%
8. Dave LASHBROOK 1h 40m 35s 3 41.11%
9. Stuart NISBETT 1h 42m 56s 2 44.40% PB
10. Howard PICKETT 1h 51m 23s 1 56.26%

WOMEN – winning time 1h 18m 33s

1. Margaret HOLLAMBY 1h 35m 54s 10points 22.09%
2. Lucy WILLIAMS 1h 43m 53s 9 32.23%
3. Rachel BAKER 1h 48m 59s 8 38.73%
4. Emma ALDEN 2h 1m 36s 7 54.81%
5. Julie WILLIAMS 2h 16m 8s 6 73.30%
6. Claire CRESSWELL 2h 18m 17s 5 76.03%

Beacon Half Marathon

2008-02-18T11:10:00.002Z

Cool, calm and bright, perfect conditions for running at the Beacon Half Marathon in Brighton yesterday.

17 Mid Sussex Tri Club athletes took part in the event, which has got to be a record turnout? and everyone put in a great performance. James Dear was the first club member home with a splendid time of 1:22:23 closely followed by Mike with a stonking run of 1:22:45, which in my book gets performance of the day! Margaret had a brilliant run with a pb of 1:35:54 and Rachel Baker knocked about 10 mins off her pb with 1:48:59.

Good to see Andy Heath and David Lashbrook back in action and newcomers Lucy Williams and the numberless Chris Durrant both had good races.

Here are the club results:

52 James Dear 1:22:23 52
56 Mike McLoughlin 1:22:45
289 Steve Alden 1:31:26
303 Robert Hoodless 1:31:51
435 Jon Webster 1:34:22
509 Margaret Hollamby 1:35:54
584 Andy Heath 1:38:14
687 David Ricketts 1:39:12
745 David Lashbrook 1:40:35
1020 Stuart Nisbett 1:42:56
1029 Lucy Williams 1:43:53
1537 Rachel Baker 1:48:59
1683 Howard Pickett 1:51:23
2653 Emma Alden 2:01:36
3278 Claire Cresswell 2:18:17
3298 Julie Williams 2:16:08

Full event results are available here.

Henfield 9

2008-02-14T13:51:00.003Z

Mid Sussex Tri Club athletes James Dear and Howard Pickett both took part in the Henfield 9 last weekend.

James finished an impressive 6th in a time of 58:38 and Howard, who is continuing his build up for some tough events was 79th with 1:18:03.

Check out the full results on Sussex Races »

Sussex Beacon 1/2 Marathon

2008-02-13T11:20:00.002Z

Mid Sussex Tri Club members are preparing for the first club event of the year this weekend (17/02/08), the Sussex Beacon Half Marathon 2008.

There should be around a dozen taking part with Steve, Rob and James all looking to take an early lead in the club's new best all rounder competition.

Hopefully the nice weather will stay around until then.

For more information visit the Sussex Beacon website.

Online entry for Mid Sussex Triathlon 2008

2008-02-12T13:06:00.000Z

Online entry or downloadable entry forms are now available for the Mid Sussex Triathlon 2008.

Visit http://www.midsussextriclub.com/mst.aspx for more information.

Mid Sussex Triathlon 2008

2008-02-12T13:04:00.000Z

The Mid Sussex Triathlon 2008 takes place on Sunday 22nd June 2008.

It is at the usual venue, The Triangle Leisure Centre, Burgess Hill and once again we have kept the prices the same - £26 for BTF members and £29 for non-members.

New Mid Sussex Tri Club Blog

2008-02-12T13:01:00.001Z

This is the new Mid Sussex Tri Club blog for all the latest news, event reports and general goings on at the tri club.