Manx Tri Club

The 2016 Microgaming Triathlon Festival Weekend will be held over the weekend of Saturday 23rd & Sunday 24th April at the Ramsey Swimming Pool.

This is a great season opener event over the classic sprint distance of 750m Swim / 20k Cycle & 5k Run, and being a Pool based swim is ideal for the 1st time triathlete.  The Swim is 30 lengths of the Pool, the 20k Cycle course goes out towards Bride, through Andreas and back to Ramsey and then the 5k run is based in and around the picturesque setting of the Mooragh Park. 

Like last year, the Individuals will race on the Saturday and then the Team Challenge day will be on the Sunday.   This gives any Individuals competing on the Saturday the opportunity to also race on the Sunday with their friends, family or colleagues.  Teams of 2 or 3 may enter.

The minimum age is 15 years (based on the age at 31st December 2016). 

Enter on-line

or use the Postal entry forms which can be downloaded below

We need about 25 marshals to run this event and as a small club, we are asking all entrants (who are Island residents) to nominate a marshal.  This can be anyone over the age of 18 yrs.  Obviously not all the nominated marshals will be required, but we will advise those who are as soon as possible and training will be given.  It's only a couple of hours, and is a great event to watch and be involved in.

The criteria for  consideration for selection for the Isle of Man Commonwealth Games Triathlon team to be held at Australia's Gold Coast has now been finalised.

Men's time 1:56:00   and Women  2:08:50

This represent a considerable reduction from Glasgow and has been driven by IOMCGA needing to make team size quotas.

Full details

Don’t miss a fantastic opportunity to attend the 2015 Isle of Man Sport Lecture to be held at the Gaiety Theatre on Wednesday 18^th November starting at 18.00.

Guest speaker will be Jack Maitland, coach to 2012 Olympic Gold and Bronze Triathlon medallists Alistair and Jonathan Brownlee as well as numerous other World Class triathletes. Jack will be telling of how he took schoolboy athletes through to the Olympic podium. It will not be a technical talk about triathlon but about the process involved in developing young athletes into World Class performers and, as such, should be of interest to athletes, coaches and anyone else involved in sport wanting to know what is involved in reaching the top in their sport.

Tickets are free and the only restriction is that a maximum of four may be purchased at any one time. Please go to the Villa Gaiety Box Office to order your tickets.

Well done to Wendy Sandford  who finished her first Ironman in Spain at the weekend finishing in 12:43:04 gaining 35th position in age group.

Also competing was Christine O'Shea who finished in 13:18:20 for 25th place in age group. Christine has done Niece and Bolton previously.

Don't forget its The Ironman World Championship, Hawaii this weekend 10th October starting at 06:25 local time Saturday, 17:25 our time. Live streaming is available on the Ironman website.

It was great to see so many newcomers and first time triathletes to the IoM Triathlon Championships at the Mooragh Park in Ramsey.  Antony Bell-Scott & Karen Shimmin are the new 2015 Standard Distance Triathlon Champions, whilst Will Draper and Lisa Dunwell are the new Sprint Champions.

Antony Bell Scott ran a fabulous race neck and neck with Juan Kinley through the swim and the bike, but Abs was able to pull away on the run to take 1st place in 2:03:51s, with Juan 2nd in 2:07:15 and Ryan Downey in 3rd. 

Although Karen was the only lady, she was strong throughout, having had a great years racing and finishing 8th overall against 29 men, in a time of 2:19:56

15 year old Will Draper, and first time triathlete showed that he is an excellent runner as well as a cyclist and overhauled Russ Collister on the final leg to take 1st place in a time of 1:06:26 in the Sprint, with Russ finishing in 1:06:42.  Tom Isaac, making a return after a year off, finished strongly in 3rd in a time of 1:08:56.

Lisa Dunwell had a great race with Jan Catchpole in the Ladies Sprint, with Lisa pulling ahead of Jan on the run leg.  Lisa won in a time of 1:20:31, with Jan in 2nd in 1:24:23 and Beverly Broderick in 3rd in 1:25:43.

The Teams all had great races in their own categories with some very close head to heads on each of their individual stages, particularly Robin Garry up against Gianni Epifani and Darren Bell on the Bike leg in the Standard and Ben Corkill, Kevin Loundes & Aaron Livesy on the run. 

See the full results here.    

View Photos from the event here https://www.facebook.com/pages/Microgaming-Triathlon-2015/1650070675204900?sk=photos_stream&ref=page_internal     Photos courtesy of Microgaming & Bill Dale

Thank you to all the marshals who did a fantastic job, and to Steve Shimmin for his very entertaining commentary and Graham & Sue Hughes for all the timekeeping.

 Joseph Ricciardi and Becky Storrie travelled to Leicester for the BTF U20's Triathlon Festival on 6th September at Mallory Park.  This is one of the Elite race series and it was great that both Joseph & Becky were invited to  take part.   Joseph finished in a time of 1:06:26 - 25th in Age Group and 34th overall.  Becky always put's in a huge effort, but this took it's toll & unfortunately she was unwell after the Bike Leg and wasn't able to finish the race.  The competition at this level is fierce, and both of them gained a lot from the experience.

6 Local athletes missed our local Championship event as they were competing at Bala in North Wales - Bala being a qualifier for the European's in 2016.

Sam Brand, Andy Nash, Paul Cubbon, Simon Lowe, Hannah Howitt and Lynsey Elliott enjoyed the perfect racing conditions, along with 650 other competitors.

Sam was first home from the Manx Team in a time of 1:58:04 - a fabulous 10th in Age Group and 18th overall.  Andy Nash wasn't far behind  in 1:58:35 - 5th in AG and 19th overall.  Hannah & Lynsey both had falls during the race, Hannah slipping in T1 and spraining her thumb and Lynsey taking a nasty tumble off the bike at the dismount line.  It didn't slow either of them down too much, with Hannah finishing in a great time of 2:12:37 - 2nd in AG and Lynsey in 2:19:02 - 3rd in AG.  Paul Cubbon finished the season well coming in 2:16:56 - 15th in AG.  Unfortunately Simon wasn't able to start the run and recorded a DNF after the bike leg.

Well done to Chris Tierney and Jonathan McNeill who completed Ironman Mont Tremblant, Québec at the weekend. The course has a very challenging bike leg with over 6,000 ft of climbing on the 2 lap course.

Chris finished in 11:28:28 408th overall and Jonathan in 13:21:57 1,285th overall. This was Chris's first Ironman and Jonathan's second after completing Lanzarote in 2012.

Congratulations to the Manx Tri Club members who took part in the Dublin 70.3 Ironman Race on 9th August. 

Antony Bell-Scott finished a remarkable 25th overall including all the pros in a time of 4hrs 31 minutes. There were approximately 2,000 in the field.

Duncan Mackay finished in 5hrs 7mins and Microgaming's Ben Wood also finished the Individual event in 5hrs 55mins .The Parker 'clan' of Diane, Andrew and Robert took part in the Relay event. 

Results

Becky Storrie's excellent season continued with a 3rd place in the London Junior Elite race at the weekend.  Becky, who is still only 16yrs old finished in a time of 1:10:01 which was just 35 seconds behind the overall winning time. 

Joseph Ricciardi also had a great race, competing in the same event, and finishing 20th in a very competitive field in a time of 1:05:49.  Andrew Nash, the current Island Champion, raced in the Olympic distance event and finished an excellent 8th in category in a time of 2:01:33.  Great experience for all of them to race draft legal with elite competition.

Paul Swindale and Mario Ricciardi were also taking part, Paul in the Olympic distance age group event and Mario in the Sprint distance race.  Thousands of competitors take part in this event, which makes Paul's 2nd in Age Group and 39th overall a fantastic achievement (out of something like 3500).  Still only in his 2nd season of triathlon, Mario will also have been delighted with his 33rd place in Age Group and 360th overall.