Congratulations to everyone who completed the OC1 time trial last weekend! We had a great turn-out with 33 paddlers taking to Narrabeen lake, including 3 people giving the course a shot for their first time and setting themselves a great benchmark to improve upon (well done to Mandy R, Cath and Tony P – Mouse).
Congratulations to everyone who completed the OC1 time trial last weekend! We had a great turn-out with 33 paddlers taking to Narrabeen lake, including 3 people giving the course a shot for their first time and setting themselves a great benchmark to improve upon (well done to Mandy R, Cath and Tony P – Mouse).
You can check out the full results here: Trials101106-Results.xls.
Out of the 16 girls who had trialled before, 8 achieved a PB. Yeah! Well done Annett, Shell, Charmian, Lisa, Rachel, Nic, Kath and Eloise. It’s also worth noting that Annett has smashed the PD chicks time trial record with her time of 22:47. Go Annett!
The boys also had some great results. Out of the 14 guys who had trialled before, 5 achieved a PB. Congrats Matt, Alasdair, Craig, Kaizer and Peter.
Results like these are exceptional, and really show the payoff from your training over the last few months including gains made through starting a weights program, being smarter with the type of training you’re doing, or adding another session to your week.
Unfortunately with the increasing wind throughout the day not everyone had the opportunity to do a personal best and will need to consider how to approach this with respect to crew selections at the next two races. Additional trials such as a Cockatoo Cup, erg, etc may be required.
Please take a moment to review the technique tips that were given to you during the trial, and keep these in mind during your training over the next month. If you’d like any advice on what you should be doing to improve, please don’t hesitate to ask one of the coaches.
The final time trial for the season will be on the 13 March. Any trials after that will be only for those going to Hamo.
If you didn’t get a chance to trial this time around, mark this date in your diary and get some time out on the OC1s. Please talk to Annett, our single craft coach if you’d like to do an intro course.
For everyone else – let’s see what you can do over the next month to improve further!