Newsletter 16/11/2023 – Twilight Series, Mudgee Interclub and Juniors Weekend
Friday Night Twilight Series – Continues this Friday – Three more weeks – 17/11/2023, 24/11/2023 and 1/12/2023
The first twilight session for 2023/2024 saw a dozen keen members taking on multiple short triathlons at Gosling Creek tonight.
The water was pleasantly warm and all participants challenged themselves with the distance that suited them best. Some very strong efforts and good lessons learnt with going through the legs several times. Great swimming too by a couple of members who tried out the new Zone 3 tow buoys as a safety measure. Well done all. 
We look forward to seeing you all again this Friday at 5:15pm and welcome many more.
This is a training event series – there will be no timing. You can go out hard or take your time developing your skills.
Both members and people new to triathlon/duathlon are welcome as its a great way to try the different legs and build confidence in putting them all together.
This is also a great opportunity to get some fun practice in before the Mudgee Interclub, the Sandy Ostini Ladies Event on saturday 9/12/2023 and other races.
You pick from a short triathlon/duathlon/swim, aquabike or aquathon – each event will start at 6:00pm, 6:25pm and 6:50pm, so pick your times, and do 1, 2 or all 3!
If you knock off work late feel free to join us for the later ones. You can also choose to miss the 2nd event if you need more time to recover in between.
The bike leg is held on the excellent internal track, away from cars. Meet at the shed at 5:15pm to receive or give help on how to rack your bike.
Set up from 5:15pm at Gosling Creek for events at 6:00pm, 6:25pm. 6:50pm
Take your pick from the options here, and choose to do any of them once, twice or thrice:
Open Water Swim – One lap (270m) or two (540m)
Small Loop Triathlon – 140m swim, 4km bike, 1km run (amended for the young Piranhas- 20-50m swim, 1km bike, 500m run)
Aquabike – 270m swim, 4km bike
Duathlon – 400m run, 4km bike, 1km run
Aquathon – 270m swim, 1km run
The idea is that each participant will do the distance (or an individual legs) that allows them to finish and recover in time for the next event start if you choose to do more than 1.
Come out and give it a go.
MUDGEE INTERCLUB – This Sunday 19th November 2023
The first interclub event in our Central West series kicks off this Sunday, 19 Nov in Mudgee.
RACE TIMES – * Please arrive at least 20 minutes before your race start time.
8:00am: Little Devils (kids 3-8years)
8:15am: Big Devils (kids 9-13years)
8:45am: Super Sprint
9:25am: Long Course
8:00am: Little Devils (kids 3-8years)
8:15am: Big Devils (kids 9-13years)
8:45am: Super Sprint
9:25am: Long Course
DISTANCE
– Little Devils: Swim/Wade 15m; Ride 1km (closed road), Run 500m
– Big Devils: Swim 50m; Ride 3km (2 laps closed road); Run 1km
– Super Sprint: Swim 200m, Ride 6km (4 laps closed road) Run 2km
– Little Devils: Swim/Wade 15m; Ride 1km (closed road), Run 500m
– Big Devils: Swim 50m; Ride 3km (2 laps closed road); Run 1km
– Super Sprint: Swim 200m, Ride 6km (4 laps closed road) Run 2km
– Main Race: Long Course – Grand Prix Format: Run 2km > Swim 250m > Ride 18.5km > Swim 250m > Run 2km
ENTRIES: Online Regos Only. –bit.ly/mudgeeinterclub23Entries close on Saturday, 18th Nov at 6pm. No entries are accepted on Race Day.
COST: FREE for members of Central West Tri Clubs.
Non-members: – Little Devils / Big Devils $7 (not timed) – Super Sprint $20 – Long Course $30
Non-members: – Little Devils / Big Devils $7 (not timed) – Super Sprint $20 – Long Course $30
Pay via credit card or cash on the day.
Points are given for both participation and performance. We needs as many Piranhas as we can muster to start off the 2023/2024 Interclub challenge with a bang.
Its a great morning out reconnecting and competing with our Tri friends from the Mudgee, Bathurst, Dubbo and Cowra clubs.
We look forward to seeing you in Mudgee on the 19th for a great event!
“Juniors Weekend’ – Round 3 of the Billigence NSW/ACT Pathway Series
NSW Super Sprint & NSW Mixed Relay Championships – Youth, Junior and Under 23.
This is one of our premier events for the season. It’s a full day on Saturday and a half day on Sunday with roughly 120 Youth, Junior and Under 23s, training and racing at Gosling Creek.
The event also incorporates the NSW Super Sprint Championship/NSW Mixed Relay Championships which showcases the best young athletes in NSW.
A great opportunity for our junior members to race local against many other juniors and for our members to come out and check out some fantastic race action.
We encourage our junior members to either join in for the full weekend or just the non drafting race on sunday morning.
Online Registrations have been extended and now close on this Sunday 19th Nov 2023 at 7:30am – Don’t miss out.
You must be a Triathlon Australia member to race.
Costs – 25-26/11/2023 – Non drafting 12yrs plus – both days including Saturday lunch $82.00
Sunday morning only – Non drafting 12yrs plus $16.50 and Orange Junior Event Non drafting 7-9yrs $16.50 and 10-11yrs $16.50.
Entry link – once you are in your Justgo Triathlon membership portal
As the host club we require lots of volunteers to run this event safely and smoothly.
Please put your hand up to be involved by booking a time slot two using this Try Booking link – https://www.trybooking.com/CNJAG
If you have already indicated your availability to volunteer to OTC or Megan (some for both days – thankyou) we will touch based early next week to confirm.
If you have any queries please email – octc@octc.org.au.
This event also serves as our only fundraiser activity for the club so that we can keep club membership prices low – for one weekend it is a lot of work but more manageable than weekly meat raffles at the pub. Please help out if you can.
See you out at Gosling soon.