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
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.
After having raced on four different continents for the beginning of my 2010 season, last weekend was a real change of scenery as I traveled to Des Moines, Iowa to compete in the Hy-Vee Triathlon. Offering the largest prize purse in the sport of triathlon ($200,000 to the winner of both the men's and women's race!), Hy-Vee attracts the absolute best in the world for a shot at the big prize. All active Olympic medalists, a host of world champions, and every big name in the sport showed up in Des Moines on Sunday for a day of fast racing. In addition, NBC was filming a full-length segment about the race so the course was littered with TV cameras, camera-laden motorcycles, and helicopters catching the action as it unfolded--this race was certainly the big stage!
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 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.
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