Upon entering T2, I only had a few guys in front of me, and I figured I would have no problem running through almost all of them. Despite having pushed so hard on the bike, my first two miles went very well, until suddenly my hamstring started pulling incredibly tight. I knew this would be a possibility (hence killing myself on the bike), so I did my best to keep it together, run carefully, and not have to stop completely. Because of the work I did on the bike and the first two miles of the run, I was able to still hold off the others, and have a fantastic podium finish in 3rd place! This is my highest finish at a 5150 race all season, and a podium I am proud to be standing on. Though I would have liked to have my trademark speedy run at the last race of the season, I am proud of my finish because I held it all together when everything started to fall apart. I was savvy enough to anticipate a problem later in the race--even when running out of the water--adjusted my race plan, and executed a great overall race. Definitely a great way to end the season.
NPN sponsored athlete Chris Foster takes a dominating victory in the elite category at the Nautica Malibu Triathlon.
As happy as I was with my 5th in DC, the field in Philly was far tougher, and included two Olympians, a world champion, former Philly winners, and a few guys who had beaten me the week before in DC! I was able to put together all three disciplines in a way that I haven't yet, and really push myself into a higher level of competition. This result shows me that even under tough conditions (racing the week before), minimal training (coming back from injury), and a great field, I am able to rise when it counts!
This is the first year they've done season-long segment rankings (for fastest swimmers, bikers, and runners), and despite heavy competition with the best in the world and a $10,000 prize purse, Chris was able to hang on to his 2nd place bike ranking through the Grand Final in Budapest this past week...
Joey Dykstra places 13th out of 64 in the Manhattan Open.
"...With a tight in-water start, I was concerned with finding the right spot to have a good, relaxed swim start while everyone else was fighting and struggling with each other. Moments before the gun, I moved to the outside (counter-intuitively) to line up next to Matty Reed and hopefully a smooth, fight-free start. The gun went off and of course it was pure bedlam. Fortunately, I made the right choice as me and a few other ITU guys were in a small pack to the outside while everyone was frantically spazzing in the whitewater to the left of us. I did my best to remain relaxed, even around the crazy 180-degree turn and try to hold my good spot through the first half of the swim. With about 400m to go, I realized that I was actually in the front group, and having a great swim! Upon jumping out of the water, not only had I made the front group, but I had actually come out of the water ahead of Reed--who I had hoped to pace behind for most of the swim. Unfortunately, I stopped right before the swim timing mat to take off my speedsuit, so my time is registered a bit differently than the other guys, but it was still a great feeling knowing I had been right where I wanted to be!...."
Henry Hagenbuch reports on his ITU Pan American Race in Kelowna, Canada, where he finished 7th American with a time of 2:30:19.
Re-cap of the Long Beach Tournament by NPN sponsored volleyball player, Joey Dykstra.
After my early season success and jump in rankings, my coaches and I made the decision to go to Europe for a few weeks this summer and do two ITU World Championship Series races in Hamburg, Germany and London, England. These races are known as the most competitive triathlons in the world, where the best athletes are essentially racing on home turf. A strong majority of the racers either live in Europe, or are based there for the summer, so they are at their fittest and fastest. Going into Europe, I knew the racing would be hard and good results would be even harder, so I was essentially looking to get some good experience for the next few years.
A report from Henry: "I wanted to send you an update of my latest East Coast trip for two Life Time Fitness Series triathlons (Minneapolis and NYC). Thanks again for all the support!"
Congratulations to Chris Foster for his 3rd consecutive win at the San Diego International Triathlon. Read his report.
Joey Dykstra's report on AVP Virginia Beach Open
New Performance Nutrition, the makers of ultra pure pharmaceutical grade vitamins, supplements, 100% natural energy bars, whey and endurance powders is proud to sponsor the Fly V Australia Pro Cycling Team
Ben Day convincingly won today’s Stage 4 Time Trial with 1.01 separating him from second place and in the process taking both the Yellow jersey (overall leader) and White jersey (points classification).
Ben Day becomes the second only two time winner if Beauce’s 26 year history.
David Tanner has been in scintillating form in recent weeks and has delivered a strong win in Stage 2 of the Tour de Beauce.
Re-cap of the open by NPN sponsored volleyball player, Joey Dykstra
Commenting on the team’s performance at the end of the week’s racing, Fly V Australia team owner Chris White said, “We have had a successful week, and all of our riders should be proud of their accomplishments at this week’s race. Coming in, we had two objectives – top 10 overall and a stage win. In what has been one of the toughest races in the world this year, we achieved one of these objectives, and narrowly missing the other with Ben Day going desperately close to taking the stage into Bakersfield after animating the race”.
White went on to say, “We have stepped up from where we were last year, and feel that our journey to Pro Tour status is on track. We are encouraged by where we are at, but highly motivated to keep raising the bar and pushing the envelope and moving forward”.
For the Fly V Australia team, today’s Stage 5 of the Amgen Tour of California was all about planning and executing. Covering 195 kilometers over a sinuous route from Visalia to Bakersfield, and taking in two categorized climbs and finishing with 2 laps of a punishing circuit that featured a tough 1.5 kilometer climb to the line, this was always going to be a stage where the cream rose to the top.
Fly V australia’s plan centered on getting Jay Thomson into an early break to help set the stage for Fly V australia’s fast men with good climbing legs. However just 5 kilometers into the stage in a fast tailwind section, a touch of wheels led to a massive crash which would have a big bearing on the race, the stage and the day’s plans. With the crash taking out Jay Thomson – not to mention Lance Armstrong, Stuart O’Grady and Heinrich Haussler – it was time to enact plan B.
Fly V Australia’s Jonathan Cantwell claimed a second top 5 performance at the Amgen Tour of California.
Stage 4 covered 195 kilometers over largely rolling terrain with a tough first up climb of the Category 1 climb of Sierra Road reached after 10 kilometers. The stage featured an early break that stayed way for the majority of the stage, however Fly V Australia’s plan for the day revolved around an expected sprint finish.
Sponsored triathlete Chris Foster speaks out about NPN's Supercharge Karbolyn Nitric Oxide on LA Talk Radio. Host Simon Gowen interviewed Chris live for a 45 minute clip, where Chris stated Supercharge was part of his top 3 components for competitive training and racing. Check out the interview!
Fly V Australia’s Phil Zajicek finished a grueling stage 2 of the Amgen Tour of California safely in the front group of favorites along side pre-race favourites; Levi Leiphiemer, Lance Armstrong, David Zabriskie, Michael Rogers and Peter Sagan.
Fly V Australia has announced the 8 main roster to race the Amgen Tour of California starting in Nevada City on Sunday 16 May. After a successful start to the year, which has netted 35 wins including the first three events of the NRC, with 10 of the fifteen riders contributing to the win tally, choosing 8 riders was a challenge.
Henry Hagenbuch came back strong this past weekend in his triathlon "Escape from Alcatraz." Placing 12th overall with a time of 2:09:29, he was really pleased with his overall effort.
Heather Jackson rode a monster 2:15:17 bike split at last weekend's Ochsner Ironman 70.3 event in New Orleans, shattering the course record held by last years winner Natacha Badmann. Congratulations Ms. Jackson!
Wattie Ink.'s own Joe Gambles of Australia, raced his way to an impressive 2nd place finish against a stacked field at the 28th annual, Avia Wildflower long course triathlon Saturday. Joe's time of 4:01:58 was just 2 minutes and 14 second off Terenzo Bozzone's course record win in 2006. Trek/K-Swiss teammate Micheal Raelert of Germany was the winner with a time of 3:55:57 making it a Team Trek/K-Swiss sweep.
Darren Lill has shown his climbing prowess to attack from the front group to ride to the finish solo and win the Monster stage. On ‘police’ duties Darren rode in the break today in defense of Phil’s GC position, but with 30 kilometers to go sensing that the break would not be caught and his fellow breakaway companions were faltering Darren seized the moment and attacked.
In keeping with the four previous days the weather created another layer of difficulty on top of the battle with the Gila Monster. Low temperatures combined with high winds and at times snow created a stage that befitted such a show down.
With 2,800 meters of vertical climbing and 170 kilometers in length the stage aptly named the ‘Monster’ will have a big say in who is crowned the worthy winner on the 2010 SRAM Tour of the Gila.
The General Classification of the 2010 race has a similar look and feel as the 2009 race with Levi Leipheimer and his teammate Lance Armstrong leading the charge with Fly V australia’s Phil Zajicek gunning for the podium. In 2010 the field is arguably deeper both in numbers and quality with added protagonists in the form of Garmin’s Zabriskie and Danielson staking their claim for the overall and podium honours.
David Tanner conquered the grueling Tombstone stage of La Vuelta de Bisbee that included the 1,800-metre Mule pass. In a day that team Fly V Australia were focused on supporting and protecting Darren’s overall lead, Tanner played the role of helper and winner with aplomb. Tanner was joined in the break by teammate Charles Dionne whilst they not only ‘policed’ the riders in the break but also positioned themselves to take out the stage win. Darren Lill was well supported by climbing sensations Phil Zajicek and Jai Crawford who were at the GC leaders side throughout the race.
The Speed Week criterium series is a seven race series commencing with the Terrapin Twilight race on 24 April and concluding with the Global BMW Sandy Springs Criterium on 2 May.
In his first major race since sustaining a serious wrist fracture in December last year Darren Lill has soled from the break of 7 to take stage 1 of the Tour de Bisbee.
Team Fly V Australia is racing the Tour de Bisbee to continue honing its stage racing performances ahead of the Amgen Tour of California. Bisbee has the benefits of altitude, is an excellent race and provides a springboard towards the Team’s major season goals.
The precarious sixth-tenths-of-a-second lead that Australian Ben Day took into the final day of the Redlands Bicycle Classic stood up for overall victory Sunday on a frenetic final stage.The Fly V Australia rider’s victory will go into the books as the first National Racing Calendar stage race win for Day and
the first for the second-year continental team that has ambitions to reach even higher levels in years to come. The win was also the squad’s 18th of the season and follows Day’s wire-to-wire overall title at last week’s San Dimas Stage Race.
The NRC is a collection of 26 races across America that encapsulates the multi disciplines of criteriums, time trials, oneday races and tours. Fly V Australia has started the 2010 NRC campaign well by winning the first two events on the 2010 race schedule to lead the individual classification (Ben Day) and be second behind Team Jelly Belly in the teams classification.
Ben Kersten racing alongside teammate Alessandro Bazzana have taken 1st and 3rd respectively at the Sunny King criterium, race 1 of Speed Week. Racing under lights in Anniston Alabama the race got off to a cracking start and by halfway a group of 20 (including both Kersten and Bazzana) had lapped the main bunch.
After 80k of pristine rolling country roads Bazzana broke clear of the peloton and was joined by Cesar Grajales (Bahati Foundation), and Matthew Crane (United Healthcare) with 20 kilometers to race. 5 kilometers later Crane succumbed to the pressure being applied by his breakaway companions and was dropped leaving Bazzana and Grajales to ‘two up’ to the finish.
Every week we will be updating the progress of New Performance Nutrition - sponsored athletes, teams and clients.
With the 2010 racing season just getting started, Nan’s Fly V Australia Pro Cycling Team is off to a great start with over 15 victories, including wins at the Tour of Singapore and the San Dimas Stage Race.
NPN is proud to have helped Fox Sports Radio's Matt "Money" Smith accomplish his goal in finishing his first marathon.
With warm and windy conditions, Mazatlan played host to a stellar field of triathletes this past weekend. Included in this field were former Olympians, Victor Plata, Francisco Serrano and Jarrod Shoemaker, along with 22 other Americans.
Los Angeles, CA – March 3, 2010 – New Performance Nutrition, the makers of ultra pure pharmaceutical grade vitamins, supplements, 100% natural energy bars, whey and endurance powders is proud to announce the sponsorship of the Fly V Australia Pro Cycling Team.
Los Angeles, CA - February 25, 2010 - New Performance Nutrition, the makers of ultra pure pharmaceutical grade vitamins, supplements, 100% natural energy bars, whey and endurance powders, is proud to announce the signing of professional triathletes: Joe Gambles, Chris Foster, Henry Hagenbuch and Heather Jackson.
Overeating carbs the night before a marathon can contribute to a restless sleep with all that sugar being processed for energy. That certainly will contribute to a slow and sluggish start come race day.
NPN is proud to announce we will be helping transform the transform the lives of jocks from Los Angeles-based radio stations KIIS, KOST, KFI, and KBIG. They will be treated them to the same program anyone can experience through NPN’s One-On-One Program – which includes a VO2 Max Test along with...
Once again, New Performance Nutrition will be a sponsor of the LA Marathon. The 2010 ‘Stadium to the Sea’ route should prove to be exciting and a blast to run. Don’t miss your chance to have to be a part of it: sign-up today and then get started on an ultra-pure nutrition plan from NPN to mak...
That’s right the big day is almost here! So I want to give you some last minute tips for race day.
Saturday(2 days away) make sure you are drinking at least 1/2 ounce of water to 1 ounce, per pound of body weight throughout your day. Spread out your water consumption evenly and often so you aren€..
The facts are so – fat yields our bodies 13.5 times more energy(ATP) than carbohydrates. Then why are we all “carb loading” all the time? We even carb load while we aren’t training and get hooked on the taste of the high calorie energy and recovery drinks. As I have had the pleasure of spe...
To say we’re excited about May 25th around here would be an understatement. On May 25th the LA Marathon will take place and New Performance will be an Official Nutrition and Supplement Sponsor. As such, I thought it would be worthwhile to give some pointers to all those who are ambitious enough to...
One of the things I like most about the Nutritional Supplements industry is that there is always something exciting happening. Besides our new website and the fact that New Performance products will soon be available retail, I wanted to let you in on 4 other really amazing advancements in the catego...
There is so much confusion out there about which supplements to take to improve and maintain health that I’ve decided to write a series of posts on how to read and understand nutrition labels. Today, in part one, I’ll be discussing the advantages of pharmaceutical grade supplements, and what the...
One of the most common questions I get at my fitness center is, “how can I get killer abs?” The answer to that question isn’t as straight forward as you may think, because it involves diet as much as it does exercise. In order to get that long, lean, flat look most people desire, you have to r...
It’s that time of year again; the dreaded cold and flu season. As if I needed more proof of this, three of my clients are home sick as I write this. Health is something we all think about, but never more so than when we are laid out with a bad cold or a debilitating flu ourselves. But take heart b...
Let's face it; we all want to look and feel our best. Aging gracefully has been replaced by our never ending desire to find anything and everything that aids in the anti-aging process. That's probably why "statistics show that 11.7 million surgical and nonsurgical cosmetic procedures were done in th...
I got so much feedback and so many questions regarding digestive health that I decided to write a follow-up to my earlier post titled Bloated and Gassy? How to Improve Your Digestive Health. In fact, "more than 70 million Americans suffer from digestive disorders that interfere with their work and l...
Weight loss plateaus are one of the most frustrating things a person can experience, especially when you've been sticking to your diet and keeping up with your exercise routine. I know how difficult it is, because I see it etched on my clients' faces everyday. You've kept up with your fitness regime...
New Years has come and gone, and with it so have many people's resolutions to implement a new health regime. Starting a new fitness routine is easy, but maintaining it is a different story. Just take a look around the gym, and you'll see a lot more exercise equipment available now than you did the f...
We've all experienced it, whether we want to admit it or not...gas and bloating. It's uncomfortable and sometimes painful, especially when it's accompanied by constipation. But these can also be signs of chronic health conditions such as Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). The good news is that with pro...
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