Ballina Triathalon Club

Swim Runs – 23rd & 30th Dec 2011

georgia — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 23:50:22 +0000

Just a quick note that the swim runs being held on the 23rd and 30th of December this year will be unofficial ones – as in no clock and no bbq.

Swim /runs will return to usual on the following Friday – the 6th Jan.

Happy holidays and safe training everyone.

Greyhound Night

georgia — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 23:45:55 +0000

A date to put on the calendar!

Coming up on the 7th Feb 2012 is our annual fundraising night at the Greyhound races in Lismore. As always, this is a good fun night with great raffles, the dog races and of course the athletes against greyhound race! Tickets are free to Ballina Triathlon members prior to the night, otherwise they are $5 at the gate. Tickets will be available at the swim/runs on a Friday night.

This year we have some great sponsors for this night and we would like to thank them and recognise these business and people;

Better Deal Cleaning

Ballina Indoor Sports and Skate Centre

Better Deal Cleaning

Ballina Indoor Sports and Skate Centre

Sunrise cycles

Chris Hackett Tree Lopping Services

McDonalds Ballina

Sweat Success

Ballina Motorcycles

Tintenbar Medical Centre

Dom Howard / Garry Simes / John Baxter Wright / David Lebrocque

Club Kit and Gear

georgia — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:59:04 +0000

Hi all,

Just to let you all know that if anyone wants to order a club kit and or gear, you can do so through Sunrise Cycles in Ballina – see Craig or one of his helpful team. Orders need to be paid at time of ordering with cash – no eftpos facility for kit orders. Next order will be placed at the end of January. Orders take approx 2 – 4 weeks to arrive, so order now to have your summer kit ready for the rest of the summer season. Click here to view our club kit.

Andy Frame Run

georgia — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 22:59:04 +0000

Hi all,

This year we are holding our 12th Annual Andy Frame Memorial 5K Run which is a slight variation in our regular friday evening swim/run format. There will be NO Swim Leg tomorrow night, but feel free to have a dip to cool down afterwards!

Here is the detail for tonight:

WHAT IS IT? Its a 5 K Run!

WHEN IS IT? FRIDAY 11th November 2011

WHERE IS IT? At our regular beautiful Shaws Bay East Ballina Swim/Run location

TIMING FORMAT: You get out there and do your best. We will have spot prizes for those who run closest to our randomly drawn run times! so it doesent matter if you are first or last, just get out there and have fun and the random time draw may find you!

HOW MUCH IS ENTRY: Entry is $5 for Adults and $2 for U/18′s – with a fundraising effort going towards a donation to the Heart Foundation in memory of Andy!

WHAT TIME?: Rego from 5:30, Run starts at 6:00pm sharp!

There will be BBQ & Cold drinks available for purchase afterwards, as well as our random prize draw with an amazing selection of items to give away!

Look forward to seeing you out there on the course and for a chat & drink afterwards!

With a few of our regular hardworking crew away this week, anyone who is able to assist in setting up would be greatly appreciated, setting up will begin at 5:00pm

Results

georgia — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:18:06 +0000

Results are now posted for the Pink Tri please click here to view. Winners for each catagory were:

Junior Female – Mia Dardengo

Male – Alex Hackett

Open Female – Jess Purbrick

Male – Matt Lamont

Masters Female – Janelle Ware

Male – Phil Cook

Veteran Female – Angie Davie

Male – Frank Day

Enticer Female – Julia Margraf

Male – Merrick Giles

Pink Tri update

georgia — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 01:44:04 +0000

Well the first race of the season kicked off to a Pink start last Sunday – supporting the Jane McGrath Foundation. There was great turnout with some very pink and wonderfully costumed competitors and spectators. This coupled with great weather made for good fun racing. A huge thank you must go to the wonderful businesses that donated such great prizes for our random draw, raffle and best dressed competitors – this allowed us to reward many of you on the day. Without this support from the businesses we wouldn’t be able to have such good prizes. Our thanks goes to (and in no particular order), Barbara-Anne Wyatt-Peters, Heart of the Home in Bangalow, Sunrise Cycles, Lennox Head Aquatic Centre, Harvest Cafe @ Newrybar, Riley Burnett, Inner Beauty @ Lennox Head, Red Ginger @ Bangalow, The Deck @ Byron, Fruitos, Alstonville Holistic Fitness, Hackett Tree Services, Blu-2-Blitz Electrical and Sharpe Projects.

Also a big thank you to all the people assisting behind the scenes, from either setting up, packing up, cooking, food prep, organising, being a drink attendant, marshall and/or general go-fore person – it is all very much appreciated and shows what a great community club we have.

You will find some happy snaps from the day on our website, kindly taken by Luisa, who unfortunately couldn’t compete on the day as she hurt herself prior to the start. For anyone wondering Luisa is doing great now compared to Sunday and is hoping to still be able to compete this weekend at Noosa triathlon. We wish her well with a speedy recovery.

Results should be posted soon. Please be paitent with us as we iron out some kinks and learn the ropes of our new system.

Thanks again everybody for making our first race a wonderful success.

Pink Tri

georgia — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:28:58 +0000

Hope you are all set for the ‘Pink Tri’ on Sunday 23/10

This is our first triathlon for the season and it’s also usually the biggest. So drag out all that pink stuff you keep hidden in the back of the cupboard and get into the spirit of things.

There are prizes for best dressed on the day. This is a great event so come along and have some fun.

Money raised will be donated to the McGrath Foundation.

Rego opens at 6am, racing starts at 7am.

Entry fee is $20 adults, $15 juniors, Family $50 (correct money is always appreciated). Entry fee includes bbq breakfast and hot/cold drink.

2 distances - Enticer: consists of 200m swim, 13kn ride and 2.5km run.

- Sprint: consists of 500m swim, 20km ride, 5km run.

Team entires are welcome. So grab some friends and come along and join in the fun.

All participants must be current members of Ballina Triathlon Club – 2011/2012 membership form is available on the membership page.

First swim/run of 2011 – 2012 season

georgia — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:47:45 +0000

Hi everyone, the first swim/run of the 2011 – 2012 season will be Friday 14th October at Shaws Bay. Registration open from 5:15pm for a 6pm start. $4 adults and $2 children. Random draw prizes also.

Hopefully we are blessed with gorgeous summer evening weather. See you all there.

Sign On Day

georgia — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:10:43 +0000

The summer season for 2011 -2012 is just around the corner and our sign on day will be held on Saturday the 8th October 2011 at Shaws Bay from 1 – 3pm.

There will be an informal swim/run at 2pm. Look forward to seeing you all there.

New Website

georgia — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:13:50 +0000

Welcome to the new Ballina Triathlon Club website. Yes it has been a little while in creation but it is now finally here! It is still a work in progress and we welcome your feedback, please contact us with any of your suggestions or comments. You will probably find there is still some updating to do and that there are some new additions to the site. So please take a little look around the site and let us know what you think.