Our only double distance event for the season saw the very keen triathletes (especially the Queenslanders) hitting the water at 5am DST. This was our largest field ever for this event with 60 participants and a total of 106 for both races. The majority are preparing for the upcoming Noosa Triathlon in 2 weeks. Weather conditions were excellent for all disciplines… only a few complained of frozen feet!! Doug, Di and Jenny were kept busy at registration with another 46 triathletes completing the full event starting at 6am DST. It is exciting there have been 15-20 juniors also competing each week. A special thanks to Tracy Knight and her team for organising the Junior Tri’s.
Wave starts are up for the Noosa Tri 2015
Congratulations for the majority of the field with great working lights on the front and back of your bikes. As we have to comply with our 2015-2016 Twin Town Triathlon and Cycle Club Traffic Management Plan to the Tweed Shire Council and NSW Police it is paramount all triathletes abide by this new rule every week.
Congratulations to Jo Colja reaching the 150 race milestone! This is a significant time spent at the club and Jo is one of our quiet achievers!
Congratulations Jo on 150 races!!!
Sponsor winners
Will Styman – Coast Cyclery
Lisa Warner – South Tweed Supercycles
Trevor Lawes – Cannibal Clothing
Jesse Reid – Kingscliff Cycles
Peter Nelson – Palm Beach Supercycles
Tarnya Sim – Storm Cycles
Alex Gilks – Felt water bottle (most illuminated triathlete on course)
Special thanks to Peter Nelson for his ongoing ‘gratis’ with website administration over several years!
Club pointscore champion is a highly sought after title each year. Early results for season points show a good mix of the elder statesmen mixing it with the young!
1 Simon Bradbery
2 Glenn Lance
3 Will Styman
4 Joe Mollica
5 Danny Khazen
6 Kieran Howard
7 Bomber Hutchinson
8 Jim Collins
9 Peter Serone
10 John Warren
Will Styman was runner up in the 2014-2015 Club Pointscore Championship so he is certainly the one to watch! Jim Collins is keen to keep on improving following his performance last season for the long awaited victory over John Warren so both men should be keeping each other honest throughout the season. If you have pointscore champion aspirations you need to be a weekly participant throughout the season to hotly contest this event!
Reminder to all
*The upper torso must be covered at all times.
* No running on the road parallel to Banora shops- Club Banora- Tri Club.
* Payments must be finalised for the new uniforms this Saturday 24th October.
* Xmas function 6th December $30/person ‘Babalou’ Kingscliff Hotel – submit names up until 28th November if you are interested to attend.
* Thanks to our weekly marshals Peter Harrington and Kev Bannerman.
Marshals for next week 24th October are
- Woodland Round About – Lisa Moore
- Amaroo/Fraser Intersection – Glenn Lance
Breakfast 24th October (following Presentation) – Vice-President Val began the Twinnies Tri Legacy with various appeals and non-government charities being nominated during the season. This will continue again in conjunction with the 5 breakfasts and enables us an opportunity to support both the local and wider community charities. Any gold coin donations from our first breakfast will be forwarded to ‘Friends of the Pound’.
Dr Bike – Talked about using your gears correctly. No cross chaining eg Big at the front & small at the back. Changing down into gears early when climbing hills & at lights to make it easier to ride hills & accelerate away at lights.
Thanks everyone and don’t forget to have FUN! 
This Race report was written by Wendy Wise.