Caption: Our junior racers await swim marshalls before they enter the water for their start In gloriously mild summer weather, Gosling Creek hosted its first full triathlon morning with five events. Ed Langdon from Newcastle popped into Orange on his way to Dubbo and won the Sprint event. Other new racers we welcomed this morn […]
Caption: Dan Benton keeps an eye out at the 800m / 2km wave start The first round of the Piranha Open Water Swim series was held in still and cloudy conditions at Gosling Creek yesterday afternoon. Water temp was fine. Great to see new faces (Phil and Jackson Wilkin, Mitch Nelson) and returns (Clarissa Lark […]
A bumper weekend of triathlon skills and racing at our Gosling Creek over the last two days in the 2nd Annual Orange Junior Triathlon Weekend, held in conjunction with Triathlon NSW. Orange has not seen so many juniors, with Saturday skills and races capped at 90, and Sunday races with 139 across four different distances. […]
A great morning out in Gosling for the Handicap and Teams Event. While the temperature was high teens, the water was not and so a duathlon of 400m run | 6km internal bike | 1.2km run. Mick Lockyer was our handicapper again and spread the field. Scratch marker Judy kicked off at 9.01am and a […]
A successful duathlon and breaking the ice on Sun 24 Sep signalled the start of season 2017/18. There were good numbers across the board for our four duathlon events on Sunday morning at Gosling Creek and great to see friends from Bathurst come over to join the Piranhas. Thank you volunteers and parents for a […]
A slight morning chill became a glorious day at Lake Canobolas for the Piranhas’ Club Open (formerly known as the Club Champs). Under the watchful eye of two protective geese, 5 x Enticers and 20 x Sprinters took off just after 8am in excellent conditions for swim / bike / run. Well done to Abby […]
Fine weather again greeted 49 swimmers at Gosling Creek for the 3rd and final open water swim of season 16/17. Races were from 6pm last night (Wed 15 Feb) and swimmers chose from 200m, 400m, 800m and 2km distances. Good to see friends from Bathurst who came over for the event, and welcome to Katie, […]
Race report 05 Feb 17 – club race – Lake Canobolas Another fine morning greeted triathletes to Lake Canobolas for the second race of 2017. Great to see 90 participants across our six races. Kinross Wolaroi brought across almost 20 high schoolers, plus families now returned from school holidays. We always welcome interclub friends – […]
Race report 28 Jan 17 – Tri Canberra It was a successful Elite Energy TriCanberra event for several Piranhas who contested a variety of distances at the Canberra Triathlon Festival on Saturday 28th January. As the temperature soared to 36 degrees in the nation’s capital, former Orange Cycle & Triathlon Club member, Laura Wolfson was in red […]
Race report – Sun 22 Jan Orange Piranhas club race – Lake Canobolas Lake Canobolas turned on a beautiful morning for the first club race of 2017. Slight breeze and low 20s air temp greeted the Enticer and Sprint athletes at 0805. Recent hot summer weather meant water temp may have the lake at its […]
