posted 29 Apr 2013 03:31 by HK Dragons Triathlon Club
Hi all,
Via its covert network of connections in high places, the Dragons mafia (aka the committee) have been fortunate enough to have again arranged for our Summer BBQ to be held down at the highly exclusive Deep Water Bay Golf club for Saturday night, 31-August. Last year's BBQ at this venue was an absolute blast, and the food was great. There will be a small (ish) ticket fee and the club will pick up the balance. So lock the date down in your diaries and we’ll send you some more details and an online registration/payment link in a little while.
posted 6 Feb 2013 20:49 by HK Dragons Triathlon Club
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updated 6 Feb 2013 20:50
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The Dragons are proud to introduce the 2013 “King of the Mountains”.
Introducing another great new initiative, the Dragons are bringing you a KOTM challenge. This is no specific race, but a series of about 10 climb segments (pre-defined on Strava) which any rider can record their time on (using Garmin or iPhone app) anytime between now and Monday 4, November 2013. Hence this is an open challenge for the year allowing you to constantly improve yourself and challenge others on the leader board right up until the deadline date.
After the 4-Nov cut-off date, we will take your fastest time for each climb segment and these will be accumulated into a single ‘Total Time’ and then time ranked accordingly. The fastest overall Total Time being the winner of the 2013 KOTM. Of course, all climb segments must have a time against them. And if you’re caught driving along with your watch held out the window – sorry, you’ll be DQ’d. And if you feel the need to draft, then by all means, go ahead, Drafting is allowed. There will be custom Dragons winners jerseys for both male and female – and you do have to be a club member to win the jersey – although anyone is welcome to participate in the KOTM Challenge.
The climbs you will need to tackle in the KOTM are:-
1.Adventist-Matilda
2.Adventist to top of Mount Austin
3.Nam Fung
4.Repulse Bay Road
5.Stanley Gap Road
6.Shek-O Hill (to the large car park about 1km over the top)
7.Mount Butler – right to the top where the ARAP building is.
8.Tai Tam Hill
9.Mount Davis Path (from Sandy Bay to the YMCA)
10.The Beast (this is the climb out of Tung Chung, you’ll record a time when you cycle that route to the Buddha)
posted 20 Nov 2012 06:17 by HK Dragons Triathlon Club
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As usual the Dragons are descending on Laguna for fun, drinks and perhaps a few hours of racing. We will have our usual pre race training events, swim, bike and pasta party. In addition the annual Dragons post race lunch with a beverage or two and later in the evening we'll have 5 tables at the Award banquet.
Check out the attachments for the days, times and events for the Dragons in Phuket.
posted 26 Oct 2012 05:42 by HK Dragons Triathlon Club
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SSTR6 Results As the big
boys stayed away due to post ITU recovery and preparation for other bigger
races it gave other club members a chance to shine and brought some new
winners. Alan Torringino stormed out of the water in the first race and never
looked back as he put time into the rest of the field on the bike and finished the
run comfortably ahead of second place. Opting to sit the second race out,
Boomer was first in on the bike but couldn’t hold off a late challenge from Tim
Robinson getting caught in the final stretch home on the run. Alan decided to
do the third race and took honours again. Good racing with coffee and muffins,
what better way to start your weekend. Results below.
Sumer Series League Table The 2012
SSTR League Table Results have now been finalised. We took the fastest 12 heats
from the 6 Race, 18 Heat series to compile our final standings. Only 6
people completed at least 12 Heats over the 6 month long season, despite having
over 70 different people attending the series!!
It was another great Summer Series season and the table revealed that everyone
was making progress which is great to see. But above all, we all had a
tremendous amount of fun. Not only are they a once-a-month hit out for you, to
see if your training is paying off, it’s also great to see everyone again, race
in a competitive but still friendly atmosphere and of course share a coffee and
a muffin afterwards. As always,
a huge thanks to all of you who participate, you are all the life and soul of
the club, without each of you the Dragons would not exist. Another big
thanks goes out to everyone who has supported the Summer Series this year with
helping to time keep, marshal or even bake the cookies – appreciated by one and
all. Amazing
that another year is drawing to a close with only one Dragons Tri race left and
that is the longer pre-Phuket race on 10-November, so keep any eye open
for the registration email. So, our
congratulations go to the below 6 names and we will come up with prizes for the
top 3 - to be announced at our end of year Christmas do on 15-Dec. And well
done again to everyone who raced this season.
Clinton Leong Ant Mullineaux Seamus Hanley Wade Wollin Pixie Thornton Chris Lee
STR6
Results As the big
boys stayed away due to post ITU recovery and preparation for other bigger
races this gave other club members a chance to shine and brought some new
winners. Alan Torigno stormed out of the water in the first race and never
looked back as he put time into the rest of the field on the bike and finished the
run comfortably ahead of second place. Opting to sit the second race out,
Boomer was first in on the bike but couldn’t hold off a late challenge from Tim
Robinson caughting caught in the final race. Alan decided to do the third race
and took honours again. Good racing with coffee and muffins, what better way to
start your weekend. Results below.
Dragons 48km
TTT Saturday 27-Oct
Another event which has come around rather quickly is this second instalment of
the Team Time Trial. Please,
please, please – let us know if you are racing so we can plan properly for
this. Usual TTT
format applies: Teams of 4, stopwatch stops when last person is across the line
(so race as a team!!). Meet in
Disney Hotel Car park, race start at 06:40am, with slowest teams going first at
30sec intervals
Phuket
25-Nov
If you haven’t already – please let us know if you are going. We always arrange
some pre race swim/ride/runs/coffee etc – plus post race lunch and the usual
‘Drunken Dragons’ table at the post race banquet. So please drop us a line if
you are going, and if you need Banquet tickets (and how many) which we can get
on your behalf (you can pay us back later).
Mark the
Diary!!
We will be having some sort of Drunken Soiree on Saturday 15-Dec with our
friends the SIR’s.
posted 3 Oct 2012 16:34 by HK Dragons Triathlon Club
The ITT race results from Saturday 29-Sep are on the Results page.
We had a solid turnout of 26 riders for the 2 loop 48km ITT course from Disney – and the weather was cool although the wind was perhaps a tad stronger than estimated.
Clinton Leong retained his yellow jersey status from June’s ITT and new comer Nikki Brian took the Ladies yellow jersey from an absent defending holder Yannkai Oh.
Some solid times out there by all – well done to everyone and hope you enjoyed the gathering.
Our thanks go to Vikki for doing the timekeeping – and for those of you who did not head straight off for an additional loop, the rest of us firstly tucked into Alan’s awesome chocolate brownies (which I swear get better every time) followed by a long and lazy brekkie courtesy of Walt Disney.
Next TT race is the Team TT on 27-October, so please start organising your teams. The attached spreadsheet has the previous ITT & TTT results so you can check for the team you were in last time.
Please email me (or the club info address) as soon as you have your 4 man team organised and also what team name you’ll be racing under.
posted 25 Sep 2012 06:49 by HK Dragons Triathlon Club
Not as far off as you think. As always there are plenty of Dragons going – we usually have about 50 athletes down there and its nice if as a club we can help coordinate things a little.
So if you can help us out on the committee, can you ping us a mail to the club info address, with the Subject Header = ‘Phuket LPT’ – and let us know if you’re racing, and if you have/or need post race banquet tickets and how many etc.
This helps us to plan for pre race swim/ride/run/coffees and socials and post race lunch, evening festivities – and there’s always that little cheeky something extra we try to pull out the bag – just for you!
So until next time,
Good training, be safe and see you all soon.
posted 25 Sep 2012 06:48 by HK Dragons Triathlon Club
The second of the Dragons 48km ITT’s will be Saturday 29-September, with the coveted Dragons Yellow jersey up for grabs for fastest Male/Female club member.
Meet is the usual Disney Hotel Car park, and we aim to start the race at 06:30am sharp, with slowest riders heading out first at 10-15second intervals.
This is a freebie race, so more the merrier – anyone is welcome to give it a go – no registration and no fee – just turn up with your best bike bling.
posted 25 Sep 2012 06:42 by HK Dragons Triathlon Club
No guessing that everyone has races coming up in this latter part of the year, as we had about 44 people turnout for a gloriously cool morning of racing in the SSTR5 at Shek-O.
Amongst the regular faces, it was nice to see so many new faces. So, on behalf of the committee and all club members, welcome to the Dragons and we hope you enjoyed your mornings racing (and post race coffee and brownies) and we’ve sparked your interest to pursue your triathlon career with the mighty Hong Kong Dragons J
With 40+ athletes out on the course there was lots of close racing throughout the whole field, as everyone was trying to close the gap on the person in front of them, or holding off an attack from behind.....you know what I mean!
The SSTR ‘League Table’ is filling up and we only have one more race to go on 20-October. Remember, it is your fastest 12 heats that count towards the final rankings. I think as it stands now, there are 14 people who will make the cut of having completed a minimum of 12 heats in this Summer Series – the Heat is on! Make the next 4 training weeks count.
And on a personal note, it was very nice to hear a rendition of happy birthday on the beach with such varying pitch tones and lyrics J Thanks to everyone, especially my gorgeous wife who I think had a hand in orchestrating some of this. And I'm still eating chocolate cake – clearly a plan to slow me down as you can all see what a threat I'm becoming...haha.
