Hello All,

 

Hope all of you are fit and training.

 

I would like to start from April 06 onwards BEGINNERS NIGHTS on the first Sunday a month in Nad Al Sheba (please see the map attached)

 

Idea is to introduce people to group riding and to get new people into the sport. First meeting of the beginners will be on Sunday 2.04.06 at 19.30 o clock in Nad Al Sheba. You should have a racing bike, lights and a helmet to join the group ride. Distance approx. 20 to 40 km.

 

Some riders approached me that they would like to train a group on Sunday and Tuesday evenings. 

My suggestion for Sunday and Tuesday evening: we start between 7pm pm up to 8pm with a group ride to warm up the legs and train especially the group riding style with constant rotations (speed should be similar to the speed for the first 35 km on Friday morning approximatley 30-34 km/h) after that we could train in higher intensity for another 30 to 60 minutes.

Again the idea is to introduce new riders to the style and rules of riding in a group.

 

I would like to ask the experienced riders to give a good example of riding attitude during our rides.

 

Please let me know if you have any suggestions or comments

 

Hope to see you there

 

Wolfi and Team         wolfi@...

 

 

 Triathlets from the UAE and Oman did participate in the South African Ironman

Congratulations to all of them. What a great achievement for athletes from the Middle East.

Well done all of you

Faris Al Sultan 8.42 (Number 5 overall)

‘Fabrice Houzelle 9.40 (17 overall)

Kevin West 9.47 (20 overall)

Solveig Gysland 10.38 (first 1 in her age group)

Suleiman Alawi 10.58

Marc Palfreeman 12.15

Martial Marmin 12.29

Karen Betton 12.30

Olivier Berthon 12.45

Khaled Al Qubaisi 13.09

Elsa Nell 13.30

Paul Smith 13.49

http://www.ironmansouthafrica.com/

 

Quote of the week:

 

“I won, I won – I don’t have to go back to school! “

       

said Eddy Merckx after his first race    

 

 

 

NEWS FROM IAN LE PELLY

 

 

Triathlon: Men's results
Saturday 18 March Men's result: 1. Brad Kahlefeldt (Australia) 1 hr 49 mins 16.13 secs 2. Bevan Docherty (New Zealand) 1:49:26.44 3. Peter Robertson (Australia) 1:49:32.36 4. Tim Don (England) 1:49:38.07 5. Kris Gemmell (New Zealand) 1:50:10.10 6. Hamish Carter (New Zealand) 1:50:35.85 7. William Clarke (England) 1:50:42.98 8. Paul Tichelaar (Canada) 1:50:51.89 9. Stuart Hayes (England) 1:50:53.18 10. Hendrik De Villiers (South Africa) 1:50:53.96 14. Marc Jenkins (Wales) 1:53:40.66 15. Gavin Noble (Northern Ireland) 1:54:25.55 17. Brian Campbell (Northern Ireland) 1:59:34.99 18. Ian Le Pelley (Guernsey) 2:03:36.98 19. Timothy Rogers (Jersey) 2:05:25.59 20. Damian Thacker (Guernsey) 2:05:44.90 21. Alan Rowe (Guernsey) 2:05:53.16 22. Scott Pitcher (Jersey) 2:06:34.48 23. Paul Clements (Jersey) 2:06:58.69

 

 

 

 

The Muscat PDORC Duathlon will take place on Thursday April 6^th 2006.

 

The format will most likely be the same as in previous years, i.e. a 5.5 km run around the PDO loop (anticlockwise direction), followed by a 16.5 km bike ride (3 times the PDO loop in clockwise direction) and finally a 4 km run i.e around the PDO cemetary loop in clockwise direction. You will be able to enter as individual or as a team of 2 or 3 people.

 

Entries for the event can be done by email to Steve Hall: Steve_Hall@... or fshall@... by Sunday April 2nd. Please indicate your name (and team name), category and email contact details. Entry fees will be OR 2 for individuals and OR 3 for teams to cover for T-shirts, prizes and breakfast. There will be a registration session with hand out of numbers at the PDORC Funrun on Wednesday 5^th April. Late entries (i.e. @ the funrun or on the day) will have a OR 2 surcharge, so please send in your registration early as this facilitates preparation of lists and ordering of T-shirts, number of people for breakfast etc....

 

As always, we will need marshals to help organising the event, so do contact Jan Saeby or one of the other organisers if you would like to help out.

 

Please also pass on the invitation to people who are interested in participating but not copied on the email list. As previously, the event is also open to non-PDORC members.

 

We look forward to seeing you on April 6^th.

 

Regards

Jan Saeby, Steve Hall, Leanne Male, Chris Sellar, Ragnhild van Beek and Suleiman Al-Alawi

Duathlon organising committee