DTR Sports Management and Zym join together in a partnership that will see DTR athletes sponsored by this great product.

Please find below for some brand information.

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• Magnesium 50mg – Aids function of nerves and muscles, including regulation of normal heart rhythm.
• Vitamin C 100mg – Benefits those under emotional and physical stress. Increases immunity.
• Vitamin B5 5mg – Releases energy from fats. Involved in the production of energy by releasing it from fats. Enhances exercise performance.
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Well I’m back from the worlds and my extended break has come to an end. I really could have stayed up their but couldn’t get a job in time! I must say the resort we stayed in was the best i have ever stayed in. Mantra Sun City on the Gold Coast, its amazing.
We arrived in Queensland on the Wednesday before the Saturday race. I have never got to a race this early before but did enjoy the more relaxed approach to the race when your not trying to do a million things in the one day before the race.
After a couple of days of relaxing and checking out the course i was feeling really good. I had a great injury free lead up to the race and was just ready to let it roll on race day.
My wave was off at about 8.20 but it felt like it was midday with the sun already being up for so long and being warm already.
Being a world champs the fields are big and race starts hectic. My wave had about 110 athletes in it which is by far the biggest i’ve been involved in.
Nerves were ok at race start and when the gun went i was straight off the line and into rythm pretty early. I felt pretty good and all swim and managed to come out of the water in 29th place. Transition was pretty big so i wanted to make good time in there and managed to come out having gained a few places. Onto the bike course i felt i should put as much time in as early as possible before the course would become congested. I was making lots of time up and had got myself into about 10th place by the 8-9k mark.
This would be where my race ended. I could see two packs of ten or so riders up ahead. The group that was furtherest away had some noted drafters in it. I knew they would not be able to get my wheel if i went past much quicker, so i began to really wind up, they would have been doing about 40 and i was doing about 50. Just as i was passing the group closest to me the group further away had a crash and a few went down. This would usually be no problem if you have any sort of bike skills. Unfortunately someone in the bunch i was passing did not have any idea, panicked and moved straight across into me as i was passing.
I hit the turf at fifty on the aerobars and slid to a halt. In the process i lost a lot of skin broke my helmet. Which i think was the reason i could not stand without needing to sit down again. As for my bike, Bent cranks, broken seat and seat post, broken front derailer, bent rear drailer and many scratches.
On the positive side i managed to help one of the other guys finish by lending him my wheel which was the only thing not broken.
The wounds are healing pretty well and i managed to do the Vic Duathlonchamps today (7 days after worlds). I was happy to be out there and able to have a crack after doing nothing after the world champs. I didn’t race as well as i would have liked but considering the circumstances i am happy with the result.
I managed to come into T1 in 3rd place, Rode myself into 1st place (thanks heaps to the Top Gear guys for getting me on a new Specialized transition so quick!) which i was happy with considering Loen Griffen was there! A noted power house on the bike.
My second run was not what i hoped for and i just couldnt run fast at all. Felt good when running slow but couldnt go quick. I think i slipped back to 6th place. Not too bad considering we were all within a minute of each other. Quite a few guys in good form from the world champs.

I’m now very excited to get back into it and hope for a good hit out in Shepparton Half Ironman.

DTR Sports Management’s James Attard races hard at the last French Grand Prix race. Please find below his personal race report:

G’day everyone,
what a week since leaving home! It’s had it all, a ridiculous amount of travel (about two full days spent in planes, trains, cars and buses!), the last of the French Grand Prix duathlon’s for the season and some very nice training in weather that doesn’t require four layers of clothing just to get out the door!
 
Special thanks must go straight to my very nice mum who got me out of a very sticky situation before the weekends race. After leaving my passport at mum’s place, she very kindly spent an extra 3.5 hrs in the car that day to retrieve it for me and send me on my way to Nancy in France for the 5th leg of the French GP series.
 
The race, just 2 weeks out of the World Duathlon Championships in North Carolina, was perfectly timed as a good hit out off the long trip from OZ and a good test of the legs before the Worlds. All the Euro’s where there too, so apart from some of the Americans and other Aussies the race almost resembled a championship race.
 
Like many of the GP races this year, the start of the first 5km run was pretty slow, with no one prepared to make any moves, everyone happy watching everyone else. A couple of km’s in though a bunch of 4 had drifted off the front and I felt it was probably time to join them. By the timed we entered transition our group had swelled to around 10 to 12 guys. Onto the bike for 6 laps of a technical 5km circuit, my legs weren’t fantastic and whenever possible I was just happy to follow the wheel and stay out of trouble. After numerous attacks a French and Belgian athlete finally broke clear from the bunch and got themselves an unassailable lead heading into the last 5km run.
 
I was positioned really well coming off the bike but had the worst of transitions with my bike falling off the rack and losing valuable seconds! I was pretty happy with my run home though managing to run down quite a few guys to finish up 12th. A great result for our team, we managed to sneak onto the podium for 3rd place in the last race of the year!
 
So another good hit out under tough conditions after the long trip from OZ and still feeling pretty good for the Worlds. Just a matter of keeping on top of things now and making sure I hit the big day in top shape!
 
Thanks everyone,
 
James

DTR Sports Management’s Reece Emerson Van Beek wins Silver medal for Australia at the Deaf Olympics 2009.

Please find below his personal account of the race:

Jarrod and I decided to start end to ends. then attack from right from the start going side by side then turn together in the middle. Unfortunately the games organiser had a control motorbike 3 of them! for one lap. crap! we gave it a try after the 1st lap. but it didn’t work. then to Plan B which wait after 20min everyone gets tired as it was 37 to 38 degrees! hot and slow/med surface. and newly road surface.
Jarrod did at least 2 dummy attack and i did numerous attack but failed many times. I only got 1 point. Jarrod got 3 points. USA Nick, NZ was on lead. one french rider crashed which a Colombian rider caused bu baring him. i had 3 close shave of being touch by a rider. I thought jeez come on hang in there. i sat at the back saving lots of energy then move to the front tried to let Jarrod to go and control the bunch but never work. Jarrod got really tired around 16 or 18 laps to go. That’s when i got away. I was looking  many times but the further i got away  it appeared no one to tried to catch me. so i got extra 5, 10,15,20,25,30, then 2 or 4 laps to go i could see the bunch in front of me. but i had no communications, i had to calculate myself !! i ask one of the Australian what’s going on score. i had got equal lead 31 points but i realise that i should’ve pushed   harder to catch the bunch and be a lap ahead i get a bonus 20 points then no!!!! i got a 1st quicksilver (2nd) 36 points total, USA 46 points!!!

Great result Reece!!!

DTR Sports Management’s James Attard races strong at Victorian Duathlon Series help at Kew on Sunday. Please find below James personal account of the day.

I’ve had a fantastic couple of months training and am really happy with some of the sessions I’ve put together and how things are coming along for the World Duathlon Championships on the 26th September in North Carolina in the US.
 
My departure was timed quite nicely with the 4th race of the Brooks Duathlon series, held yesterday in Kew. The race was held over the shorter sprint distance of 5km run/ 20km bike/ 3km run. Leon Griffin, 2006 World Duahtlon Champion, had also entered the race, so I had no worries in getting the ‘hard’ hit out I was after before I left!
 
Congratulations must go to the Melbourne Tri club for putting together the toughest duathlon course in Australia! I think even the European’s would have been impressed, there was seriously no flat sections to the course, bike or run!
 
Leon and myself got off to a quick start on the first run, putting some time onto the runnners behind. I knew I had to have a go on the first run if I was go to challenge Leon for the win and despite getting a small gap over him on a couple of occaisons he always managed to peg me back and we entered transition together.
 
Onto the bike and it was the ‘Leon show’! I was unable to go with him. I wasn’t so shocked by this as Leon is a proven performer on the bike and I’ve been specifically preparing for the flatter, drafting format of racing that is the world champs.
 
Onto the last run with second place in the bag, I still ran pretty hard to see what I had in the legs. Overall I was pretty happy with the days effort and look am really looking forward to racing next weekend in France and then onto the Worlds!
 
Thanks everyone,