DTR Sports Management’s Reece Emerson Van Beek is training hard please refer below for the progress:

Not long to go I fly off to taipei on 1st of september.

New Brighton is about 20 min drive north of byron bay and 30min drive south from tweed heads.

There various of climb around here but only short of 3-5km.

The first week of training Michael Gallenger and I trained the same program then 2nd and 3rd week I’ve been training time trial efforts and sprints efforts with motorpace. Also 3 long rides this week and last week.

I have improve much more on tt and sprints this week. With last week did strength endurance on climb goals were 8min but I broke to 6 and half mins. And the other climb were 10min. Which I recorded 9min30 sec then 9min15 sec.

My coach Tom now didn’t want me to worry about climbs. He believes I’m good enough on it. So did more tt and sprints efforts.

This sat we are doing an 80km cat 3 climb race. So it will be interesting to see the final climb.

Last week sat I wasn’t happy about me lacing 5th in the race. But I had to move on do more work.

After wanting a new time trial bike. I’ve finally decide to get the Bianchi ally d2 tt.

Looking forward to bring home 2 Gold medal. While I won’t be doing sprints on 6th of september. Tom didn’t want me waste time on sprints which is more important for me put energy on time trial.
That’s all for now.

DTR Sports Management’s Matty White had a start at the South Australian Road Cycling Championships. This was a hit out before he makes his way to the warmer northern parts of Australia for Kona Prep.

Please see below for his own account:

Last weekend I decided to race the SA State Road Champs as a few mates and training partners convinced me to have a crack, and I thought it would be a good hit out before I leave to Cairns on the following Monday. The race was at Williamstown which is about 60 km North of Adelaide in the Barossa Valley, and its a great place to train with vineyards, quite roads and hilly terrain. The bike race was 125km with a brutally steep 1.5km climb in it and it consisted of 10 laps. I decided to ride out to the race a few days before to clock up some extra kms, and in the meantime learned a valuable lesson! I rode through the gorge toward Williamstown which is a hilly 60km ride. I had the new LIGHTWEIGHT gen2s on my bike so I felt awesome going up hill, which caused me to go a little faster than I should have considering I was doing a 125km race, but my main aim in this race was to help my friend Kim Howard and his legacy team by getting in an early break and destroying myself.. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.. I attacked from the gun and managed to get away for about 65km with 3 other strong riders, all was going to plan until about the 80km mark going up the hill when my legs literally snapped in 5 pieces and from what I can gather they are still on the lonely roads of Williamstown! I only just managed to make it back to the finish in order to call my wife to pick me up. Overall it was a good hard day and it was great to race against some quality riders and moreso to stay away for so long in a small break. I hope I held the triathlete reputation up and got some respect from the cycling community! the race was one by Michael Stallard from Savings and Loans who is a great guy and really deserved to win. I am writing this from sunny Cairns at the moment and its fantastic up here. I have some great photos which I will post later this week, but its full lock down for me for 4 weeks in prep for Hawaii. My new MERIDA Warp TT bike is due in anytime this week. It was the main attraction at OZbike the other weekend and MERIDA pulled some massive strings to get it, so I can’t wait to debut it at Port Douglas Half on the 16th Sept. Until next time train safe and to all my Adelaide and Melb mates.. hang in there as the weather looks terrible.

Matty

 Paul Attard defends his title at Hazelwood Triathlon today with a great win in good conditions. Last good hit out before the Worlds in Gold Coast.

Please see below for Paul’s personal account of the day.

This morning I raced my last serious hit out before the world champs. It was an olympic distance race held in Hazelwood. Well not quiet olympic. The swim was short. No complaints here though. The ride was 36k, which we knew before the race and the run was ment to be 8k but according to Garmin GPS it was 9.3k.
The conditions could not have been any better for this time of year with, sunshine and a little bit of warmth.
 
The swim is in a pond next to the power plant which use the water to cool there machines (or something like that). Any way the point is the water is warm all year round, which makes it so much easier to get in!
The gun went and we were off; well I think we went when there was still 5 seconds before start but that’s normal. I went out a little to easy at the start because i missed getting into the lead bunch just by a bit but   close them in. I managed to swim pretty well though and came out of the water leading the second bunch and about a minute down from the rest.
 
Being a non drafting event one minute is not a lot of time to make up especially when your strengths are the ride and run. By the second of three laps i had caught all but one competitor. I knew Jamie Rhodes was up the road and a strong rider. I could not see him all day and thought he must have been putting time into me. Luckily that wasn’t the case and he was only 30 seconds up out of T2 which ment i had put time into him.
Leaving transition we had a fairly long uphill climb on a grass course which felt so tough. I thought that my legs would not get going. The first 3k was very tough and i didnt think I was making much time. However once we hit the stone road and the hills came upon us I managed to catch and drop him in one go up the hill. From this point it was up to me to keep the work rate up and not let him back into the race. I managed to do this and made it to the finish line in first place with a lead of about 2 minutes.
 
Overall i’m pretty happy with the day and i got most of what i needed out of it to put me in good shape for the worlds. Now just counting down the days to world champs. I can’t hardly wait now!

Yappoon half is a race I had always earmarked to do but never got around to racing it as it was either too early in my season or I had some other commitment on, but this year I managed to clear my schedule align the stars and work it in, plus it was a perfect race to see how I would adapt to the heat as I was coming straight off the Adelaide winter. During the last 5 weeks I have been training really well with a great focus and managed to hit some really good long mileage weeks in the pouring rain and cold which gave me some confidence leading into the race.

I knew it was going to be steamy out there on the course as there was a long 1.7km walk to the start of the swim and I could feel the back of my wetsuit heating up nicely. The word on the street was that the temp was going to nudge 30 degrees by the time we hit the run. I managed to have a good swim to come out with the main players like Berkel and Watt with Tim Reed, and a few New Zealanders in tow. This group stayed together for most of the bike, I felt great on the Merida Warp 9 and the lightweight disc wheel was humming perfectly. The road srface is not the smoothest road around and I couldnt believe it when I saw people raicng in Speedo’s on that ball trembling road! doing it OLD SCHOOL deserves some serios respect! At the end of the bike ride NZ athlete Duncan Mnilne had built a solid 3 min lead at the start of the run, and as I lead the small group off the bike I wasnt sure how Milne would run in these conditions after such a big effort on the bike, and this proved to be right as I reeled him in after 6km of running. During this time Timmy Reed pulled up along side me and was running great, I actually though at that point he was going to dust me off. I hung tough and after a few km he started to drop back, and it was at this point I decided to conserve a bit of energy for the last lap as I was ever mindful of the heat factor creeping up. This tactic proved my saving grace as I looked behind me at 19km and saw Tim Berkel charging only 30m behind. Instead of getting to enjoy my last few km of my first win I had to sprint home taking the win by a scant 13 seconds…but it was all worth it in the end and I have the sunburn and blisters to prove it! I am back in Adelaide now and have a week here until I head back up north which I cant wait for….I have some great news in the next week with the new Merida Time Warp prototype hitting our shores, so as soon as it gets in I will post some bike porn for all you gear junkies, and the string tip is that it looks great. I will throw some Yeppoon half photos on the site in the next day or two when they get sent so hang tight and train safe.

check out the results and race report at http://www.capricornhalf.com/default.asp?PageID=183&NewsID=2346

DTR Sports Management’s Daniel Clarke has a strong race at the 2009 Sydney City to Surf.

Please find below Dan’s personal report on the day.

Race started very quick as usual.  Sitting off the back of the first pack with the second main group.  Towards the 5k point of the race I started to feel a bit sluggish and flat.  Made my way up heart break hill holding off the other runners.  Towards the 8k point I had to stop and tie up my shoelace which lost 4 spots which took me 2k to get back.  Worked the last 4k of the race and the last 2.5 downhill section gained a few spots there.  All up I was not disappointed with my run it was 1 minute 25 slower than last years effort but considering I have had a fairly injury plagued season I am not too upset.  The coach said it was a very strong and solid run. 

Overall I came 23rd with a time of 45.10

DTR Sports Management’s Matt White wins CAPRICORN RESORT HALF IRONMAN.

Please refer to press release of the day:

Round 2, Australian Half Ironman Series: CAPRICORN RESORT HALF IRONMAN

16 August 2008

WHITE AND MARANGON FIRE UP FOR 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF CAPRICORN RESORT HALF IRONMAN TRIATHLON

Matty White (SA) and Lisa Marangon (NSW) took the honours at this morning’s tenth anniversary edition of the Capricorn Resort Half Ironman, which was held in Yeppoon, Queensland in picture perfect conditions.

Comprising a 1.9km swim, 90.1km ride and 21.1km run, today’s race also served as Round Two of the Australian Half Ironman Series.  The event sold out several weeks ago, attracting its biggest ever field of some 650 triathletes, including almost 30 in the open men’s and women’s categories.

For 31 year old White, today marked his break-through win in the national Half Ironman Series.  A full-time fire fighter, White demonstrated that he is right on track for his first attempt at the holy grail of Ironman triathlon – the Hawaii Ironman World Championship – later this year.

White qualified for Hawaii when he finished eighth at Ironman Australia (Port Macquarie) in April.  Following the Port Macquarie race, White took a solid five week break from training, which included a sneaky visit to Kona, Hawaii to check out the course of arguably the world’s most gruelling sports event.

“This is my first professional win in the Australian Half Ironman Series and I’m stoked.  Coming from the South Australian winter, it’s great to know that I can race well in the heat,” said an ecstatic White at the finish.  He then gave full credit to NZ’s Duncan Milne, who achieved an early solo breakaway on the 90.1km bike course.  Milne had a lead of some three minutes heading in to the bike, but White’s patience in the hot conditions paid off and he was able to take the lead 7km into the 21km run leg.

Hoping to enjoy every moment of his inaugural victory run down the finish chute, White checked over his shoulder with one kilometre to go, only to see Berkel chasing hard just 50 metres behind.  The two pushed each other all the way to the finish, crossing the line just 13 seconds apart after more than four hours of hard racing.

Next up for White is a four week acclimatisation trip to Port Douglas later this month, where he will have one final race hit-out before heading to Kona in October.

Berkel was also delighted with his performance today.  He has just returned to training following a brief recovery from his recent racing stint in Europe and the US.  He will now be focusing on the Australian Half Ironman Series as he prepares to defend his title at Ironman Western Australia in December.

In the women’s race, NSW’s ultra-consistent Lisa Marangon had another emphatic victory, leading all the way to consolidate her lead

in the national series.  Marangon will certainly be a force to be reckoned with when she lines up to defend her title at Round Three, the Gold Coast Half Ironman, on 4 October.

Every athlete who completed today’s event is now eligible to enter Ironman Australia (Port Macquarie) 2010. There are five remaining Ironman Australia validating races including the Gold Coast Half Ironman, Port Macquarie Half Ironman, Shepparton Half Ironman, Canberra Half Ironman and the final of the series, Ironman 70.3 Geelong.

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Written by Kate Patterson

DTR Sports Management’s Matty White is gaining some serious Media coverage leading up to the first big hit out this weekend at Yapoon Half Ironman 70.3

With a strong feature on page ten of Australian Triathlete, it highlights the professionalism of Matt as an athlete along with the confidence in how is is traveling leading into the season.