DTR Sports Management’s Paul Attard breaks through with a great result in one of Melbourne’s largest running events, Run Melbourne.

With a time of 0:32:42 for the 10km race the result places Paul up in the top group of runners in the state.

With a base faze almost completed and speed being added in the coming weeks the signs are looking great for the coming season.

Men’s 10km

1. Mark Tucker (30:15)

2. David Rowell (32:15)

3. Paul Attard (32:42)

DTR Sports Management’s James Attard trains with Raf Baugh after the Casablanca race was cancelled.

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DTR Sports Management’s Matt Docking places third at the 2009 Queensland PGA Trainee Championship.

With a one under par for the Tournament, Matt is showing all the right signs for a strong game.

Would like to take this time to congratulate Matt from all at DTR Sports Management.

1 Brent Mccullough N -11 66 71 68 72 277
2 Leigh Deagan V -7 76 67 68 70 281
3 Matthew Docking V -1 71 74 71 71 287
4 Nathan C King N E 68 74 77 69 288
5 Troy Fuller Q +1 70 72 71 76 289

DTR Sports Management is extreamly excited to be working with Leighton Lyle as he climbs the ranks. Please find below some further information on his great results and goals moving forward.

2005 Victorian Colts Team

2006 Victorian Colts Team

2007 Victorian State Team

Runner up 2007 Port Phillip Amateur

Winner of the 2007 Dunes Medal

2007 Victorian Amateur Champion

Leading Amateur in the 2008 Cascade Portsea Pro Am

Leading Amateur in the 2008 Victorian PGA

Winner of the 2008 Booroondarra Cup

2008 Victorian State Team

Runner up 2008 Victorian Country Championships

Turned Pro in 2008

Top 6 finish in the 2009 Cascade Portsea Pro Am

5th in the Origin Energy Lang Lang Pro Am

Top 7 finish in the Drouin Community Bank Pro Am

Good luck this week in Somoa.

Giveaways – Expo
Special discounts on products for the night

Hear winner of the 2008 Duathlon series Open category and Level One coach,
Ryan Mannix, talk on preparing and racing for duathlons and answering
your questions (starting at 7:00pm).

Where:XOSIZE Active – 282 Centre Rd, Bentleigh
When: 12th June 2009 – 6:00pm-9:00pm

Please find below his personal account of the day.
The second leg of the 2009 ITU Dextro Energy World Championship Series was raced in Madrid, Spain. This is a course that I have raced the past three years and a course that always has me excited to toe the start line. Located in the centre of Spain, Madrid is very similar to my hometown of Canberra, Australia. The weather in May is very similar to the Canberra summer with a dry heat and afternoon winds that have you gasping for breath and finishing training sessions completely exhausted. Mouth parched as.
I love the course in this grand city. Held within the sprawling grounds of the Caso de Campo the race course is hilly, adventurous and very fast in parts. The course will always test the strength of all triathletes in all three disciplines. The winner of this race has proven that he or she is indeed the strongest triathlete on the day.
At 2.10pm we were off andracing. The first buoy in the swim is 300m away but is notorious for being a big fight to get around cleanly and set yourself in a good position for the rest of the swim. I started well on the right handsidewith the hope that if we all got to the buoy together then I would have a cleaner run aroundthe outsidewhile everyone else punched it out inside my line. Unfortunately this was not the case and the usual pulling of legs and fisticuffs left me exiting the first buoy felling like I’d gone eight rounds with Kostya Tszyu. The rest of the swim I just sat on feet and tried to recover as best as possible for the bike. I exited the water in an average position and when collecting my bike in T1 heard over the race microphone that there was a group of 12 already 30 seconds up the road.
Onto the bike and within 500m competitors are greeted by a steep 1km climb that starts off very nasty and slowly releases you from her grip. Up ahead I could see the second group on the road which contained Brad Kahlefeldt so I glued myself to Jan Frodeno’s wheel and road across to this group by the completion of the first lap. Onto the second lap and the news got worse, the lead group was now 50 seconds up and with the likes of strong cyclists such as Ivan Vasiliev, Courtney Atkinson and Alistair Brownlee it was always going to be a difficult ask to pull this group back. Our group contained a few of the big hitters so was reluctant to get organised and work together to pull the break back. I made the decision at this stage to sit back towards the rear of the bunch and let the race unfold on the bike and save the legs for the run. The gap between the lead group and our chase pack yo-yoed between 75 and 90 seconds for the remainder of the bike leg. We finally jumped off the bike 60 seconds down on the lead group of twelve.
Onto the run andI found my running legs early after saving as much energy as possible on the bike. I made the decision to ease into this run rather than run out hard with the early pace in pursuit of the dozen escapees. The run course is four laps basically out and back from transition. On the way out there is a very slight incline, which of course means that on the return journey to transition there is a gentle downhill that you can use to try andgenerate some leg speed. After the first lap of the run I found myself about 10 seconds down on the lead group of chasers who were slowly pulling time out of the weaker runners in the leading group. By this stage eventual race winner, Alastair Brownlee had cleared out from a small group that contained Courtney Atkinson, Javier Gomez and Maik Petzold. On the second andthird laps I started to feel the energy being sapped from my body as the hot conditions began to take their toll on this very demanding course. The fourth lap rolled around and it had now become a matter of trying to maintain my position in the field and finish the race off as best I could. I had Reto Hug trying to chase me down so I had incentive to finish the race off strongly even though I was back in 22nd place.
I finished the race in 22nd and was reasonably happy with my result although I was left wondering what might have been had I swum stronger and found myself in that leading dozen on the bike. However, I now look forward to the next leg of the series which is held in Washington D.C with a desire to improve my standing in this Elite echelon of racing.

DTR Sports Managements Paul Attard shows his versatility as an athlete, please refer to his personal account below.

This was a race i have wanted to do for a while but was never able to make it happen at this time of the year. Luckily for me i had some great help from Top Gear and Avanti plus in hooking me up with an awesome bike and kit to suit!
Now all i had to do was adjust to mountain biking. It definitely wasn’t as easy as i thought it may be.
Firstly, the first run was 6k and headed straight down a single trail track for nearly the first k. It was very hard to stay upright let alone try to stay in tact with the leaders. I managed to get down ok and spend the next 4k in the lead with one other person. Coming into T1 we had to go back up the same hill. we went down at the start. Great for the quads!
Out of T1 in first place and spent the first half swapping the lead; not by choice though. Had a few minor spills on some loose sand and gravel but i did expect that. With about 6k to go two guys passed me and i was not going to be able to hold them through all the technical parts and they put a bit of time into me.
Made it back to T2 in one piece and out of there in third place. The second run was probably the hardest run I’ve done. It was straight up a goat track and i found i was using my hands to help me up the rock work at some points! I wouldn’t have really called it a run considering that we never ran more than 10 steps without going up or down some form of rock work.
Back to the finish line in 3rd place with a lot of respect for adventure racers and happy it was over. I really did enjoy the day and look forward to maybe doing some more if possible.

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