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Current Training Schedule 

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Recommended Srs. Trainer Ride (30-45 mins on Trainer on own)   Swim 4:30 (Jimmy Thomson)	Run 6:30-7:30 (Dundanna school)	Swim 5:15 (Pinky Lewis)	Run 6:30-730 (HAAA Track, Ryerson school)	Swim 4:30-6 (Jimmy Thomson)	Cycle/Run 8:15 -10 Canadian Tire Dundas (Bring Running Shoes)   Swim   11 - 12:30 (Pinky Lewis)	Day Off (All Athletes

 

 

Swim Clinic for Triathletes

When: Sunday May 6^th 2012. 9 to noon.

Where: 350 Brant St., Brantford. W.R. MacDonald School  pool.

How: Contact hamiltonhammerheadsac@gmail.com to reserve a spot with deposit

Goal:  To give the committed triathlete a better technical understanding of how to swim more efficiently leading to an improvement in their swim time.

The Swim Clinic will be led by Mike Finch, WRMS head coach who had four members attending the 2012 Olympic swim trials.  The clinic will cover breathing/breath control, free style stroke technique, kicking, drills, open water techniques, how to train, and instruction other aspects of efficient swimming for multisport events.  Included will be a video of your training.  Coaching ratio with assistants 4:1.  Limit: 20.  Requirement:  Age 16 up and experience swimming in open water; Triathlon Ontario 2012 membership.  Cost $90.

More information by Email.  Sanctioned by Triathlon Ontario to the Hamilton Hammerheads.

The first race of the year for the Hamilton Hammerheads Triathlon Club was the C3/Kinetico Kids of Steel Triathlon held in Caledon on May 29, 2011.  This was the 11th annual KOS for C3, which shares Coach Barrie Shepley, originator of the KOS program and a former Olympic coach, with the Hammerheads.

In all, 10 Hammerheads, as well as siblings and friends, competed in this year’s race.  Hammerhead sibling Isaac Shenker participated in a new national record: the most kids under 7 to do a triathlon.  In the timed age group races, Liam Yoell came first in the 8-9 year-old boys’ race, with a strong all-round performance despite kicking off both shoes during the run.  Adam Shenker came ninth with a fast, smooth swim.  In the 10-11 year-olds, Shanze Yoell came fourth, with a top finish among girls on the bike.  Avery Webber’s bike time was a close second, but she was hampered by a cramp during the run and finished a respectable 10th.  Sydney Flageole-Bray performed well in all the legs of the race, and placed 12th among the 10-11 year-old boys.  In the 12-13 age group, Josh Shenker placed second among the boys, and Rachel Webber placed fifth among the girls, both with particularly strong performances in the run.  In the draft-legal race with pre-swim, Rui Xu placed first among boys in the 16-19 age group, with strong performances in both the bike and the run; and Yinze Xu placed third, with bike trouble and a cramp, among the 14-15 year-old girls.  Finally, Coach Dave Harrison finished a strong second in the adults’ triathlon.

Hammerhead athletes and parents, Grant and Scotia Brailsford, Autumn Crockett, Sean Crockett, Peter Summers, and Elizabeth Weretilnyk volunteered throughout the day, contributing to the success of this well-run and well-attended event.  The day was capped with a celebratory barbecue in Dundas, courtesy of the Shenker family.

Scotia Brailsford and Garnet Delsey both competed in the Ancaster High School triathlon on May 27.  Scotia had very strong performances for the swim and bike, but struggled through cramps in the run to finish a courageous seventh in her category.  Garnet was 3rd in his age group with a super-fast run.

Hamilton Elementary:
Ben Sabourin raced to a 5th and 6th place finishes, respectively in the Bantam 400 m and 1500 m races last week.
Fin Adams shattered a 24-year old city record by finishing the 1500 m Bantam race in 5:15.
In Division 3 Autumn Crockett took second place as she picked off the fast starters one by one in the Senior 1500 m race.

CISSA Elementary:
Josh Shenker was first in the 400 m, 800m, and the1500 m in CISSA record-breaking times of 1:07, 2:40 and 5:16 min respectively.  Avery Webber was 16th in the 150 m dash and 8th in the 800 m in a time of 3:02.  Rachel Webber was 13th in the 800 m and 8th in the 1500 m in a time of 6:32.  But be careful Avery also competed in the javelin.

High School South Regionals:
Five Hamilton Hammerheads qualified at the SOSSA track meet to represent their schools at the South Regional meet in St. Catharines last week.  Rui Xu was 8th in the Senior 1500 m and in a very exciting 3000 m he placed 5th in a time of 9:02 min. In the Midget 1500 m Natalie Stacey was 14th and Julia Stacey help power the Westdale 4×400 m team to second.  In the Junior 1500 m Heather Summers was 5th and Paige Tate was 4th.  Heather placed 4th in the 800 m and in the 3000 m Heather was 4th and Paige was 3rd in personal best times well under 11 min.  The 3000 m Junior race was another exciting race with Heather and Paige racing past two other racers in the last 300 m.  Heather, Paige and Julia are off to Sudbury for OFSSA finals this Thursday to Saturday.

Hamilton Hammerheads are adding a little fire on the track with the addition of track coach Phil Steel. Phil will work with Tri coach Dave Harrison and lend his years of coaching experience to the team.

News just in from Tuscon.  C3 elite athletes Taylor Reid and John Erik Rasmussen have agreed to join the Hammerhead coaching staff.  Coach Barrie and all the Hammerheads are excited about having such stand-up athletes assist with the training and be great role models and training partners for all the Hammerhead athletes.

 

 

2011  7:00 – 9:00 PM

Hamilton Hammerheads

 

“New Directions”

 

 

Friday February 25, 

 

McMaster University Life Sciences Building (next to the hospital)

Room 213 – Lounge

(Enter through the main doors opposite the Engineering Building)

Join us for refreshments

Meet the Coaches

Review the New Schedule

“All Athletes and Families Welcome”

On February 26th swim practices began with coach Dan MacAulay.  Dan was amazing and everyone is looking forward to a season of great swimming, great coaching and great swim results.  And we’re going to get them all!

Breaking News from Hamilton’s only youth triathlon club

The Hamilton Hammerhead Board had a very productive meeting with Barrie Shepley on Monday, February 14, 2011.

Barrie Shepley, president and cofounder of Personal Best, founder of C3, and founder of KOS, was Canada’s National Triathlon Team coach in 1991. Since then he has coached over 500 people to national championships, Pan American Games medals, World Championship medals, and completion of the Hawaii Ironman and the Boston Marathon. Barrie was selected to go to the 2000 Sydney Olympics where Triathlon made its debut as a full medal sport where Simon Whitfield won the gold medal in a performance no one will ever forget. Barrie has a number of elite triathletes currently studying and competing at McMaster.

Our discussion dealt with short term planning to put into place coaching and training for all Hammerhead athletes beginning March 1st and a longer term vision of what the Hammerheads can become. As a result of this meeting, the board is pleased to welcome Barrie as our Director of Coaching.

Barrie’s role will be one of oversight, direction, planning and coordination. He is committed to securing coaching and arranging training schedules for our athletes. We will announce these as they come to fruition over the next few days.

We look forward to a long and fruitful relationship with Barrie.

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The Hamilton Hammerheads returned a new board which will lead the club into new coaching and training programs.  More details will follow over the next two weeks.

 October 22, 2010 is the night of this years banquet for all current and former team members.  We need photos for the power-point presentation.