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The Perfect Day to Bring on the Bay

The Perfect Day to Bring on the Bay

The sun was shining, the winds were calm, the water was a bit choppy: all par for the course on the mighty Ottawa River! Team Triumph had a great turnout of swimmers and volunteers. Thank you to Martin and Nancy St Germain's husband Paul for supporting the swimmers in their kayaks.

In its 13th year, BOTB is a really well-organized event with sailboats lined up every 100 meters. Great volunteers, food, and fun all around. We had three podium finishes today! 

Congratulations to our new swim coach Mike Olsen who won his age category and posted the fastest Team Triumph time of the day at 53:12! He was also our eldest competitor at 76 and posted a personal best time for this event! He is keen to share his swim coaching skills with Team Triumph so please get in touch!

Joanne Dawes came in 1st in her age group having completed her first 1500m swim with her niece by her side. She debated doing the event but conquered it and won, having taken her wetsuit off halfway!

Monique Beland has taken a break from cycling and running to recover from a back injury and worked hard at her swimming over the past 6 months. She came in 2nd in her age category today! Well done!

Sophie Dagenais came in 4th in her very competitive swimmer's category, just missing the podium. Next up for Sophie: the 12km swim in Lac Tremblant.

Congrats to our top 10 finishers and Everyone Who Triumphed Today!

3KM SWIM
Coach Mike Olsen - 1st in AG
Coach Maggie - 6th in AG
Sophie Dagenais - 4th in AG
Coach Julia - 9th in AG
Stephanie Obaseki-Johnson - 9th in AG
Don Andersen
Janet Whitley
Glen Paradis - 1st 3km OWS
Brad Vlaming - 1st 3km OWS - No Wetsuit!
Laurent Lenert
Harry Briggs - 1st 3km OWS
Drew Dobson
Anne Belanger - 1st 3km OWS
Sue Bennett

1500M SWIM
Monique Beland - 2nd in AG
Lara Winnemore - 6th in AG
Nancy St Germain - 6th in AG
Francis Pomerleau - 9th in AG
Simone Rose-Oliver - 8th in AG - 1st 1.5km OWS
Joanne Dawes - 1st in AG

 



Triathlon Training near Team Triumph

Heather Dunn

You can add me as a client for life. Still so much to learn about biking but am kicking butt on the hills out here - the “wall of pain” climb 2000+ft elevation has nothing on one of your classes!! Thank you!! 
ps - LOVING the Team Triumph biking shorts!!!

Tara McGowan

Team Triumph is a great Club where people from all levels of fitness can train. I was first introduced to Coach Julia when I went to a Training Camp in Utah as a tag along. My husband was training for an Ironman race at the time. I was recovering from an injury, but that didn't stop me trying the different activities at a beginner level. I remember swimming in the pool for Julia's first assessment. I was exhausted after only a few lengths. She gave me a few swim tips and I was eager for more. That was the point where I decided to schedule a one-on-one meeting with Julia and develop my plan to become active for life. In September 2016 I started learning to spin and run for the first time and took swim lessons to improve my technique. With Coach Julia's support and friendship from team members I have not looked back!

Susie Walter

With encouragement from my great friend Heather I joined TT in the fall of 2014. I remember nervously arriving at Canterbury Pool for the initial hour of swimming. Well I gasped at the thought of a 300 M warm up! I asked Julia if we had the whole hour to complete the warm up! Well it wasn’t too long after training and relearning the proper stroke technique the the warm became pretty easy. Now the 500 M time trial was a challenge but I was able to do it! In the spring of 2015 I completed the Perth Triathlon...lots of fun with TT and Julia was an amazingly supportive. A Christmas gift from my husband in 2015 allowed me to go to the Utah Training Camp in April 2016. I was certainly nervous given the experience of the athletes attending. I met some new people and everyone was friendly and supportive. We had a great time participating in the Sand Hollow Sprint Triathlon. More recently I have cut back on the swimming, but I hope to continue next spring. After a hip replacement in 2017 I am back spinning. The group dynamics of the spin classes with Maggie and Julia is fantastic. The music is great, the work out is awesome (I am soaked by the end of the class!) anyone holding back from joining TT for fear of intimidation....no need! Well have all started from different levels of fitness and experience and Julia and her team are there to train, coach, support and “POOOSH” all the way!

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