TIME TRIALS RULES

Yes, they do rule! But there are also rules that help make it rule. Our Time Trial Ruler, Kirsten Smith, has laid out the rules that will help you have a speedy Time Trial season, so that you rule the bike interval at your next race! Last year Ryan Blake ruled the course with a blistering 31:22 in 2012. What time will you rule with?

Time Trial Rules:

1. You are responsible for your own safety. Obey traffic laws. The roads are not closed for the event. You are deemed to be a regular road user.
2. Check in with the timekeeper to receive your departure number position
3. Line up at starting line on the shoulder in departure number order.
4. Generally ride to the right as you would when normally using the road. You are not required to be on the paved shoulder.
5. Respect the rights of other road users. Allow plenty of room when passing pedestrians or other cyclists.
6. When passing another TT participant, abide by traffic laws pertaining to passing another road user. Do not pass to the right. Maintain a speed sufficient to get clear of the other participant.
7. When being passed by another TT participant, you must allow a five bike length gap to be created before you make an attempt to catch and pass that participant unless you were already accelerating (as happens when approaching the finish line).
8. Do not ride with your head down.
9. The decision to turn is yours alone. You must check in both directions well in advance of the turnaround point to determine whether it is safe to turn. If in doubt, err on the side of waiting.
10. Helmet use is mandatory.

Procedural Rules:

1. No drafting is allowed except in team time trials. The five bike length rule applies.
2. Call out your number loud and clear as you approach and cross the finish line. If another rider is crossing the finishing line just ahead of you, allow him or her to call his or her number first so the correct finishing sequence can be recorded.
3. Ride through the finish line and continue riding in the same direction so as not to interfere with riders finishing behind.
4. Make your U-turn at least 100 meters beyond the finish line.

2013 Annual General Meeting

On Friday February 22, 2013, the club will be holding their Annual General Meeting at Allendale Rec Centre. Meet in the lower meeting room at 6:30. All current, former, and potentially new members are welcome!!

Registration for the 2013 season will be available. Registration forms will be available, and the 2013 membership fee is $85 ($40 to the club, and $45 to Triathlon Ontario)

The club is pleased to announce that local Age Group Ironman Winner Claudia Johnston will be this year's keynote speaker! 

Claudia Johnston

Triathlete/ultra marathoner, and mother of 5

Lives in Nottawa ON (Near Collingwood)

2011 – 3rd AG Ironman World Championships: Kona
2011 – 1st AG Ironman UK
2010 – 3rd AG Ironman World Championships: Kona
2011, 2010, 2009 – 1st AG Ironman 70.3 Muskoka
2009 – 6th AG Ironman World Championship: Kona
Fastest Ironman: 9:34 @ Ironman Austria (2011)
Canadian Age Group Triathlete of the Year in 2009 & 2010

If you are new to triathlon and want to meet a group of people that can help you achieve your triathlon goals, this is the place to be!! The Barrie Triathlon Club has a variety of members from first-timers to iron-distance veterans!  Whatever you want to know, whatever you need help with, there is always someone in the club available to help! Don't feel alone in your triathlon goals...let us help you!

You CAN achieve your triathlete dreams, and the Barrie Triathlon Club can help!

PUSH ON, FINISH STRONG!

2013 Barrie Triathlon Club Executive

Building off of the amazing work previous executives have done, the 2013 executive is looking forward to another successful Barrie Triathlon Club season! So who are these people that help make the club run? Well, here they are:

Board of Directors

Club President - Mark Deslaurier

Vice President - Nathan Brooks

Secretary - Matt Doucette

Treasurer - Darcy Low

Website Maintenance - David "Rex" Reckzin

Bike Co-ordinator - Scott McEdwards

Executives

Membership Co-ordinator - Nicole Rodaro

Time Trial Co-ordinator - Kirsten Smith

Apparel/Event Co-ordinator - Marie Low

This year's executive would like to thank past executive members for the hard work and effort that they put into the club to ensure that every season keeps getting better and better!

PUSH ON, FINISH STRONG!

WE MADE DEATH WAIT!

Last May a collection of Baydogs got together to take on The Barrie Cycling Club in a Big Bike for Heart and Stroke face off to see who were the superior athletes in the Barrie area. The Baydogs (obviously) came out on top! The following is a recap of that amazing day from the Heart & Stroke Foundation:

Simcoe County & Muskoka is MAKING DEATH WAIT- we raised over $245,000

We wanted to share with you a few of the many successes we have had in Simcoe County and Muskoka during the 2012 Big Bike Season and THANK the hundreds of Big Bike Captains and Riders for all of their OUTSTANDING efforts and commitment to the Heart & Stroke Foundation!  On behalf of all of us at the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada , survivors, staff, students and 100’s of volunteers, we THANK YOU with all of our Hearts!

For the first time we had BIGBIKE at the races- that’s right timed laps around the (Georgian Downs) track.  The competition was friendly yet fierce as sister companies

as well as competitors raced against each other and the clock.  In the end the Barrie T.C. Baydogs won the day with a time of 2:44.1, 2^nd place went to The Barrie Cycling Club with a time of 2:48.1.  We can’t wait to bring this event back in 2013 – even bigger and better!

Great Job Baydogs! Way to show that although we take our racing and socials seriously, we also put in a great team effort to give back to the community!!

REV3 Maine half iron distance

Baydog destination racer Jamie Neilsen travelled to Maine in August to compete in the Rev3 half iron distance race.  He is the first Baydog to complete a rev3 event. The following is a recap taken from his blog (http://trikinggator.blogspot.ca/)

After doing many 70.3 Ironman Events, I wanted to experience a Revolution 3 Event. I wasn't disappointed. Now the third season for Rev3 and its inaugural event for Old Orchard Beach, Maine I will be back to do more. There are so many little aspects that are different from Ironman. For starters a picture of you is taken during race kit pickup and then shown on a Jumbro Tron as you cross the finish line. You're given your own tattoo numbers to apply to your body. Swag is awesome included were Blue Seventy swim goggles. The medals are sweet too. Triathletes with families, Old Orchard Beach is a clean & entertaining vacation spot. Old Orchard Beach was a combination Olympic & HalfIron distances for a total of about 1100 racers. I'm sure the field size will grow as Revolution gets more exposure. The Swim in the Atlantic ocean was a thrill. At times the gentle swales of the ocean you couldn't seen the buoys. The run to T1 was about 500m (estimate it was long). The race started at 6:20am (which I loved)in order to get all the waves out the water, into T1 & out on their bikes before the first Amtrack train would go by on the other side of transition. My wave was the third wave leaving at 6:28 am. A real treat. Usually because of my age category 45-49 ; I'm generally the 18th of 23 waves which typically comes close to 8:30 am before I start. I remember coming out the water and hearing the starting gun commencing with the Olympic Age groupers. Swim time was 41 minutes. Happy with that as my strategy was to go easy, swim straight and in the words of Conrad Stoltz have fun. The bike course was a racers dream. Flat and pavement surface ideal. Hence a rocket time of 2 hrs & 34 minutes for me average 34.7 kph. The run took me much longer than I expected. My desire time was 1 hr 40 minutes and I was just slower than I would have liked clocking in at 1 hr 50 minutes. Overall a PB for me at 5 hours 13 minutes ++ seconds.

Muskoka 70.3

On what was a cool, but thankfully dry, Sunday September 9th, many Baydogs travelled to the Muskoka area for the local Ironman 70.3 event to cap off their race season.

Congratulations to the following Baydogs on their great accomplishment:

Geoff Faulkner, who completed the race in 5:48:30
David Asselin, who completed the race in 6:29:49
Mark Deslaurier, who never gave up when it would have been easy to, and battled severe leg issues to a 7:00:56
and finally Kelly McNabb, who in April couldn't even clip into her pedals and fell over every time she tried, and then battled multiple mechanical (chain) issues on the bike, completed the race in 8:27:32

Great job Baydogs! Not only did you show the athleticism that all Baydogs exhibit, but for some of you, you showed the 'never quit' attitude that makes this club amazing.

Baydogs Storm the Nation's Capital

On Labour Day weekend, 3 Baydogs "stormed the castle" by taking on the nation's capital.

David "Rex" Reckzin had an amazing iron-distance redemption race by completing the race in 11:46:12, finishing 3rd overall and 1st in his age group!

Dr. Frank Astri completed his first half-iron distance race, finishing with a great first long distance time of 5:53:59

Young Buck Taylor Pieprzak, who stayed in the Ottawa area this summer and competed in many Olympic distance races, completed the Olympic distance race in 2:33:56 and finished 3rd in his Age Group and 11th overall!!

Way to go Baydogs! Awesome showing in Ottawa!