A terrific Junior skills afternoon was run at Gosling Creek this afternoon. Run by Mel Ashton-Garard, she had the group of 50 juniors split up into smaller groups and Jessie, Abby, Charlotte, Tom, Ben, Ethan and Mel took them through run and bike skills before a short, non-competitive duathlon at the end. Next junior skills […]
Hi Piranhas, A volunteer update – Dave and Megan will be at rego desk this Sun (15/10) to seek volunteers to help out for some of the events below coming up in Oct and Nov: 14 Oct: Junior Gala Afternoon Truck in: we have volunteers in place to truck equipment from Lake Canobolas to Gosling […]
Hi Piranhas, Lots on in October: go to our events calendar on the octc.org.au website to see details. In summary: Sat: 14 Oct 2:15-4:30pm Junior Gala Afternoon 1 @ Gosling Creek Sun: 15 Oct 8:30 – 11am Annual Handicap and Teams Relays @ Gosling Creek Sun: 22 Oct: BikeFest 9am – 12pm @ Moulder Park […]
Dear OCTC members, Welcome to Daylight Savings. This time of year always brings two things, magpies and more riders on the road! We can’t do much about the magpies, but as we do each year, the following provides some information about the Club sanctioned rides and a reminder of some bunch riding etiquette. For everyone’s […]
Hello Piranhas and welcome to season 2017/18! It is now Spring…hooray. Great to know our first event for the season will be later this month with our traditional season-opening duathlon on Sun 24 Sep. It will be followed by ‘Breaking the Ice’ which is a dunk in Gosling Creek to celebrate the start of […]
Triathlon NSW announced last week their athletes for the NSW Development Program for season 2017/18 and lots of Junior Piranhas are in there. Congratulations to these super six: Talent Identification Program: Abby and Jessie Dean, Charlotte Simmons and Rory Thornhill Emerging Talent Squad: Lauren Kerwick and Connor Whitley Apart from receiving development opportunities through metropolitan & […]
Hi Piranhas, The bulk of the race calendar for season 17/18 is locked in and we want to share the dates with you: Interclub: 1. Mudgee Sun 19 Nov 2. Cowra Sun 03 Dec 3. Bathurst Fri 26 Jan 4. Orange Sun 11 Feb 5. Dubbo Sun 11 Mar There will be more info as […]
Hi Piranhas, The club held its annual general meeting last night and this is an update. An overarching entity, the Orange Cycle and Triathlon Club (OCTC) was formalised. An explanation was distributed earlier in the month and can be found here: https://octc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/revised-club-structure-v2.pdf This puts us in line with our articles of association. This group will […]
Thank you to the five people who have responded in relation to uniform orders. Your responses and requests / suggestions have been passed on to the committee. If you would like a new uniform for the 2017 / 2018 season, you need to express interest by the end of July to enable us to plan the […]
Do you need a shiny new tri suit for the 2017 / 2018 season? We will shortly be opening up an online shop through Scody. There is a significant lag time between placing an order and fulfilment so we need to get on to this now to enable people to receive their kit for the […]
