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
I love the accountability and the structure of the Virtual 70.3 Half Ironman training program. I don't think I would have gotten this far without the program. The accountability is huge for me!
Deborah Jackman
My coach Kevin Willis is amazing. His swim practices have been a real game-changer for me. A great communicator regardless of your swim level. The whole club is supportive of everything you do. You don't need to be an Ironman to benefit from their programs. 5 stars all around!!! - Denise Pittuck
I just wanted to thank you and your team (Gabi! Brenda! Maggie! Dawn!) for making last weekend's event so amazing. I had tried to do a try-a-tri on my own last summer, and the experience was night and day.
Even though I didn't make every virtual session, I felt so prepared... I knew where to go for information, and I knew I had a team of people (coaches and our beginner tri group!) who were all there to support me.
It was interesting to watch Eric train on his own (without access to the TrainingPeaks workouts and without the weekly meetings to ask questions and learn more about proper form and race-day stuff). When we left on Sunday, he looked at me and was like "we're DEFINITELY doing the training with Julia if we decide to go for the olympic distance, right?".
So glad to have found this club and looking forward to many more triathlons in the near future!!! Tai Teleso
