October Newsletter
What’s New @TriOntario
Off-Season Membership 4 Sale
Once again Triathlon Ontario will offer the Special Off Season Membership for $10, ideal for clubs or those that want to take advantage of the 24/7 worldwide Individual Insurance.
The off-season membership will be valid from October 1, 2015 – March 31, 2016, allowing new club members to participate in Fall and Winter workouts.
The paper-based application must be completed in hard copy and submitted to via scan at [email protected] or regular mail to our new address (2-2015 Pan Am Blvd., Milton, ON, L9T 8Y9. Please note we no longer use a fax number.
All fields must be completed. Memberships will be accepted by Triathlon Ontario office from October 1 – November 30, 2015.
Please remind your membership if they wish to register for a 2016 Race (Early Bird Registration) they must register for a 2016 Triathlon Ontario membership. This will be available online in December 2015.
The Membership Forms can be found here.
New Provincial Team Gather for Testing Weekend at Pan Am Centre
The 2015-2016 edition of the Provincial Development Team gathered this past weekend for the first time since being named. The 13-member Team arrived at the Pan Am Centre in Scarborough to take part in various testing, analysis and informational seminars, conducted by the Canadian Sport Institute Ontario.
The Team is comprised of U23 and Junior aged athletes and is beginning its third season.
Returning to the Team from last year is Samantha Klus, Patrick Smith, Garrick Loewen, Elise Bolger, Megan Adams, and Jacob Jamnicky.
New to the Team this year is Aron Mohammadi, Danae Morris, Dylan Pust, Aaron de Jong, Liam Donnelly, Allison Gibb and Erika Rankin.
Next training session for the team will be some indoor track work Nov. 14 at the new Velodrome in Milton.
Long Course Series Champions Crowned
The inaugural Triathlon Ontario Long Course Series concluded a couple of weeks ago and an impressive 422 members earned points during the 5-part Series. It consisted of points awarded for top 20 placings in respective age group results at the five sanctioned long course races in Ontario. Additional points were awarded for the full IRONMAN and Provincial Championships. There was a male and female category for the Age Group Division (18-39) and the Masters Division (40+).
The winners will have their names engraved on the new Long Course Series trophy currently being commissioned and will be recognized at the yearend Awards Ceremony tentatively set for December 4th.
Congratulations to the following winners:
Age Group Female Champion – Brittany Dunbar
Age Group Male Champions – Jonathan McMillan & Kenneth Morris
Masters Female Champion – Lia Kutzscher
Masters Male Champion – Tim Lichy
Triathlon Ontario would like to thank all of the athletes, race directors, officials and volunteers for helping to make the first Long Course Series an overwhelming success.
Final results can be seen here.
Next NCCP Community Level Coaching Course Open for Registration
Come check out the new Velodrome in Milton while taking your NCCP Coaching Course!
The course runs Saturday, Oct. 24 & 25 at the Mattamy National Cycling Centre (location of Triathlon Ontario’s new office)
We’ve reduced the amount of in classroom theory and increased the practical portion of the course so if you have been thinking about it, now is the time to take the course because it just got a lot more fun!
For more details and registration info, please click here.
As always, members get a discount!
The Green Flash Gets Media Love
Not only has Lionel Sanders been making noise on the IRONMAN circuit but he’s been gaining lots of media attention recently too.
The 27 year old Kona bound Windsorite has been the subject of two major feature stories by Toronto Star and the Globe & Mail.
You can also watch the Globe’s story on this video here. Coverage of the Oct. 10th race will be on www.ironman.com starting at 12:30pm EST
Don’t forget, Lionel’s newest sponsor is our official supplier as well, Infinit Nutrition.
Infinit offers all TriOnt members a free 30 minute nutritional consultation to assist in designing their own custom blended formula and by using the promo code TO2015, members will receive a 20% discount on all products.
Inaugural Overdrive Series Kicks Off at the Canadian Tire Motorsport Park in November
If you thought the race season was over you are in for a treat!! A new sanctioned race series is starting up this year with a series of unique events. The race series is called the “Overdrive Relay & Race Series” and it takes place Sunday, November 8th.
Located on the Canadian Tire Motorsport Park track, this one of a kind event offers a number of fun cycling and running events. So don’t put the bike away or start hitting the treadmill just yet. There’s something for everyone whether you are a road or trail runner, time trialist, draft legal or non-drafting cycling!
For more information please see www.overdriveraceandrelayseries.com.
ITU Worlds Report
Chicago played host to this year’s edition of the ITU World Championships for Age Groupers, Juniors, U23, Para triathlon and Elites.
Ontario was well represented in the 520 person Age Group Team that raced for Canada. Congratulations to those that medaled, had PBs or just had a fantastic time pulling on the maple leaf!
On the High Performance side, Ontario had a number of athletes racing. Part of your membership dollars go toward supporting our national athletes either through a portion going to pay for Triathlon Canada affiliation fees, the National Training Centre in Guelph, Quest for Gold Athlete Assistance Program, or the Provincial Development Team.
Those athletes competing on the World’s stage from Ontario supported by your membership dollars included Kyle Jones, Andrew Yorke, and Amelie Kretz on the Elite side. At the U23 level we had Taylor and Austen Forbes, Dominika Jamnicky and Joanna Brown. Rounding out the Junior division was Oliver Blecher.
Our best result came from NTC Guelph and QFG athlete Dominika Jamnicky, finishing 12th in her shortened race. Jamnicky, who will be racing in Mexico in her final World Cup of the year, also had a 15th place finish in Edmonton in her first WTS race competing as an Elite just prior to Chicago.
Graduated Provincial Team member and now NTCer and QFG athlete, Taylor Forbes, had a solid 17th placing at Worlds as our best male result at Worlds.
On the Para side, Ottawa’s Christine Robbins and her guide, former QFG athlete Sasha Bolton, finished 8th in the women’s PT5 class as they continue their quest for Rio 2016 qualification.