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2012 MIDLANDS ULTRA TRIATHLON SERIES
Sunday 7th October 2012 – Midmar Dam
Entries for the 2nd Midlands UTRA Triathlon have been launched with the exciting new addition of a canoe ½ ironman distance race. The second event of the prestigious Midlands ULTRA Tri – Series takes place on the 7th of October 2012. This exciting ½ iron man and sprint distance event is staged at the beautiful setting of Midmar Dam deep in the heart of the KZN Midlands and attracts over 800 competitors to each event annually.
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Great Britain’s Helen Jenkins continued her brilliant start to 2012 with a dominating run to crush the field in San Diego, in a race that had a huge impact on London Olympic qualification. After an eight-women bike breakaway put 2 minutes and 30 seconds on the first chase group coming out of T2, Jenkins and Australia’s Erin Densham went to the lead into the first lap of the 10km run.
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Flora Duffy (BER), Simon De Cuyper (BEL) beat the heat to claim first career ITU Triathlon World Cup wins in Huatulco
Huatulco, Mexico (6 May 2012) – Bermuda’s Flora Duffy (BER) and Belgium’s Simon De Cuyper (BEL) earned their first ITU World Cup victories in hot and humid conditions in Huatulco on Sunday. In the women’s race, Duffy used a brilliant first run lap to set up her win over silver medallist Pamela Oliveira (BRA) and bronze medallist Claudia Rivas (MEX). In the men’s race, an incredible third-lap run surge led De Cuyper to the win ahead of Ryan Sissons (NZL) and Danylo Sapunov (UKR).
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Rasmus Henning’s book “PRO Chasing the Dream” is now available in English as an E-book on Amazon through http://www.prochasingthedream.com/ .
It is a tale of victory and defeat, living the life of a pro athlete, conquering the world of triathlon as well as the serious doubts and concerns of big setbacks. The book is Rasmus Henning’s journal from Ironman Hawaii 2010 to Ironman Hawaii 2011.
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David Hauss (FRA), Kathy Tremblay (CAN) claim debut ITU World Cup wins in Ishigaki Ishigaki, Japan (22 April 2012) – Canada’s Kathy Tremblay and France’s David Hauss both claimed breakthrough ITU World Cup wins in Japan on Sunday.
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TRIATHLON SWIMMING FROM SCRATCH
By Glen Gore
It’s official. The swim is the most daunting of all the 3 disciplines in the sport of triathlon. YOU are not alone. You have been thinking of taking up the sport of tri but are not too sure about the swim part of it. Anybody can learn to ride a bike and go for a run but the thought of having to swim in the open water puts the fear into you, right?
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Swim Technique Drills to improve your swim and shave minutes off your time
Ironman PB Best Swim of 45 minutes. Previous Swim Record Holder at Ironman Malaysia and Ironman South Africa…Ex National Elite Swimmer : 16 minute 1500m Personal Best time.
If a survey were to be taken amongst a vast majority of triathletes (both long distance and short distance) asking what discipline they battled with most and which one they wished a dramatic improvement upon, I would be bold enough to say it would be the swim.
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Erin Densham (AUS) and Steffen Justus (GER) run away to first ITU World Triathlon Series wins in Sydney
Sydney, Australia (14 April 2012) – Australia’s Erin Densham proved her incredible World Cup win in Mooloolaba wasn’t just a one-off performance in Sydney, when she blitzed the field in the run again to claim her first ITU World Triathlon Series win and further stake her claim for Olympic selection.
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Coming from a professional triathlon background with a good degree of coaching experience amongst the age group ranks, I would think that I able to give a clear indication of what the major differences are between the very top guys and yourself, the common athlete or so-called “fish and chips” as some would call them.
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