It was fairly quiet at Twinnies Tri this morning with many of our regulars resting before the Kingy Tri which is on tomorrow morning. We had around 45 competitors out enjoying a Saturday morning hit out. 

Sitting in the timing chair this morning under the guiding eye of Caitie, I noticed a number of athletes undoing and removing helmets before racking their bikes. A reminder that your bike must be racked before touching your helmet.

Next week Intermediate competitors will begin at 6.15am instead of 6.45am. This decision was made because the roads have become a lot busier so hopefully with the earlier start it will be quieter.

Good luck to all Twinnies members who are competing in the Kingy Tri tomorrow. Hope the smoke clears, the wind drops and the weather is cool!

Uniform Reminder

We have 8 Twinnies Cycle Kit orders and we need to get 10 as a minimum for the order to go through. The kit looks fantastic and is a great price. Orders MUST be in by Monday 25th November and they will be ready before Christmas. This will be your last chance to order. Go onto Cannibal Online Orders – Twin Towns Tri Club and enter the access code TT19 to place your order

60 Seconds with Craig Broadhurst

Craig is a local boy who has been competing in triathlons for 15 years. Craig has covered all distances from Sprint to Ironman and competed at the ITU World Championships on the Gold Coast in 2009. Craig absolutely hates Vikram Yoga and was a champion surfer in his younger years when he was a member of Kirra Boardriders.

Marshalls

Thank you to our course Marshalls today; Cheyne Hampson, Jo Colja, Sue Hawkins and Craig Telling 

Next week marshalls are; John King on Fraser, Jamie Stoddart at Woodlands Drive, Viv Wright at Lochlomond RAB and Wendy Wise at the Tooloona RAB.

Random Draw Winners

Congratulations to the following random draw winners and thank you to our sponsors; Tweed Coast Chiropractic , Coast Cyclery, Twisted Fig Cafe, South Tweed Super Cycles, Cannibal and Oasis Pools who have provided vouchers;

Sharon Klein, Viv Wright, Ian Curnow, Jamie Stoddard, Terry Simpson, Sebastian Thompson, Chris Watt and our Twinnies T-Shirt special draw winner was Matt Stanley.

Christmas Party Reminder

Please accept on Facebook or see Jenny Scaysbrook or Ginny Freeman to put your name/s down.

The 15th December is set for our Christmas Party. It will be on the balcony at Terranora Tavern from 2pm. Hope you can make it!!

It was pretty good conditions this morning for racing, although a little warm during the run and still a little smokey from the fires. We had our biggest numbers for the season with over 80 Twinnies members out enjoying early morning exercise. 

Welcome to our new members this morning; Shaun Oldbury and Adrian Rota – hope you enjoyed the experience and we see you back next week!

Andrew has asked anyone who wears strapping tape to please put it in the garbage bins and not leave it by the pool or in the change rooms. Thank you.

Remember that our Christmas Party is on Sunday 15th December at Terranora Tavern from 2pm. Hopefully you can make it!!

Random Draw Winners

Congratulations to the following random draw winners and thank you to our sponsors; Tweed Coast Chiropractic , Coast Cyclery, Twisted Fig Cafe, and Oasis Pools who have provided vouchers;

Jeff Stella, Mark Collins, Wendy Saunders, Guy Daveron, Lucas Nixon-Hind and Tim Taylor.

Dave Emery won the special draw for wearing a Twinnies Shirt.

60 Seconds with Scott Wilden

Scott is a professional Lifeguard at Coolangatta/Greenmount Beach who has been competing in triathlons for 5. His favourite band is Navarna and the best decision he made was marrying his wife. Such a nice guy!!

Des spoke today about the Kingy Tri which is on next Sunday (24th). He said the Sprint waves will start on a full tide and will have little or no assistance but the Olympic later starters will enjoy some assistance as the tide starts to run out.

Des also talked about the increased number of traffic on the road this morning and the danger on roundabouts. Always get eye contact with drivers approaching a roundabout and don’t just assume they will give your right of way.

Danny Khazen has recently competed in the Bali International Triathlon and won his age group. Great effort Danny!!

Thank you Catie for doing a great job as Timekeeper this morning! Dave seems pretty happy with the job you did!

Rob Gillies was our light Marshall today making sure everyone had working lights. Thanks Rob!

Marshalls

Thank you to our Marshalls today; Richard Mourant, Michelle Jones, Sue Baxter and Kevin Bannerman

Next week marshalls are; Cheyne Hampson on Fraser, Jo Colja at Woodlands Drive, Sue Hawkins at Lochlomond RAB and Craig Telling at the Tooloona RAB.

Noosa Triathlon

We had a large number of Twinnies members compete at the Noosa Triathlon 2 weeks ago. Congratulations to Jim Collins who was awarded a ‘gold plated’ Noosa Tri Suit for completing 25 Noosa Triathlons! Other milestones were Dave De Closey and Guy Davron who were awarded running singlets for completing 15 events. Well done!! Congratulations to everyone who competed and especially John King who missed out on getting a podium position on the day because of an incorrectly recorded swim time! An awesome effort John!