Team Polar Ontario Blog : 2008 : June

Barry's Bay Triathlon

Posted by hdart Jun 30, 2008

Hey Everyone,

I made the trip up north to a smaller race this weekend in Barry's Bay. I had never been up there before and the country is beautiful so it was a nice drive up. I must say this was one of the nicest bike courses i have ever been on. It was a new bike course this year but the pavement was recently paved and smooth with lots of room to ride on the shoulder at times. The course was an out and back course with about 4 steady hills each way and smooth fast downhills. Fantastic! It was a little busy as you arrived into town as none of the roads were closed but it was only one intersection. It was a well organized race with some good competition and it included a BBQ afterwards and excellent merchandise prizes, all for $30!

Anyway, I had a solid race and placed 4th overall in the women...just missed the podium! grrrr I definitely would like to go back next year to this race and I highly recommend it!

Good luck this weekend for those racing in Peterborough!

Heather

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Team Polar at Muskoka Tri

Posted by Simon Smith Jun 18, 2008

Hi Everyone,

Great to see so many Polar outfits in Muskoka this past week-end! That is a tough race. Great job to Heather, James, Jeremy, and Tom. There was also another Polar athlete there from another province.

See you at the races,

Simon

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Muskoka Pics

Posted by hdart Jun 17, 2008

I've posted pictures from the Muskoka Sprint and Long Course on Shutterfly. There are some good pictures of Tom, Jeremy, James and Simon racing.

Heather

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Muskoka Long Course Tri

Posted by Thomas Hall Jun 16, 2008

Hi guys,

It was great to see the other Polar team members on Sunday. Looking forward to seeing Heather's pics. I don't know about everyone else, but I find the bike route to be pretty challenging and this year the road had plenty of frost heaves and bumps. It was a beautiful day for a race. This was my 12th Muskoka Long Course race.

Muskoka 2008 was mostly uneventful, except on Saturday afternoon while doing a bike clean up, a derailler cable snapped. Who has a spare one in their bag? Not me. No panic. On Sunday morning I expected to find either Racer Sportif or Enduro Sport with a cable at their booth and was shocked when nobody had any!!! Fortunately, I found a good Samaratin who cut a cable off a demo bike and put it on mine, about 30 minutes before the race start.

My race had no surprises. The swim time was slow as it has not been a focus area for me this year. The bike split was good/solid and my run was the strongest part of my day. Overall it was a "good" result. I gauge my fitness level on Muskoka and then get to work !! Looks like I need to get over to the pool some time soon .

Hey James, how do you do T1 in 37 seconds?

Tom

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Muskoka

Posted by hdart Jun 16, 2008

Hi Guys,

It was great to see so many Polar athletes out at Muskoka this weekend. I raced on Saturday and had a good race. My body definitely seems to like racing in warmer weather. It felt like a completely different race compared to last weekend in the cold and wet conditions out in Vancouver.

I was watching the long course on Sunday and managed to take some pictures of our team racing. I will post some and send them to you. Great race guys!

Heather

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Muskoka Long Course

Posted by Thomas Hall Jun 12, 2008

Hey Team Polar

Are any of you planning to race this weekend in Muskoka? I will be there and hope to see a few other Team Polar outfits in transition or on the course. See you on Sunday am,

Tom

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