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 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
Julia is incredible, I once had a coach who told me to get good at biking and running as he couldn't do anything with my swim technique. Then I was introduced to Julia who is so patient and has an amazing ability to translate it all into a way I could understand. I knocked a minute per 100m off my open water swim times after only a handful of sessions with her. The team is also really welcoming, inclusive and most of all FUN!
Triumph is a warm and fun place for every level of triathlete. Whether you’re just getting started and learning all about triathlon or have been at it for decades, like some of us, you will find camaraderie and expertise in this group with Julia Aimers’ support and caring. She keeps up-to-date in so many areas of training, especially for women and including women’s issues whether it be nutrition or menopause. I highly recommend Team Triumph for swimming, biking, running or putting it all together in one package. There is no other place or group, I would rather be training with. So many of my close friends were met in this group.
A huge thank you to my Triathlon coach, Julia Cooper-Aimers. She took the time last week to drop off (from a distance because of COVID19 restrictions) some tri shorts I ordered along with a well-appreciated note to remind me that there will be ups and downs and that things will get better. She has gone above and beyond to support all of her athletes and our Team Triumph club, by providing almost daily strength, yoga, and spinning videos that have been uploaded to Youtube for anyone who needs a little motivation during these challenging times as well as many words of encouragement. I am grateful for her support and encouragement. ❤️
Anita Lacelle Taylor
Training with Team Triumph for 7 months (so far) made me faster and stronger while building nourishing connections with like-minded fitness nuts and shattering the expectations I had of myself. TT is a crew of inspiring people pursuing epic individual goals and encouraging each other along the way. Julia and her team have expert knowledge and provide a thoughtful evidence-based group program that works. I am privileged and thankful to have Team Triumph in my neighborhood and can't wait to get back to the pool!
Alex Bourne
I want to thank you for always putting our well-being at the forefront of your business model. You suspended face-to-face programs in a timely manner, leading the way in a fitness business world that took much too long to respond and put their members’ health and the community at risk. You « triumphed « in quickly acting to flatten the curve.
Your caring nature resulted in a series of innovative and fun virtual sessions and opened them to the community. I am missing the live interaction now that I am working for a few months but I appreciate that I can access the videos according to my schedule. Yin/yang session tonight, just what I needed.
Not to mention the check-ins, the home deliveries, the charitable events. Priceless.
Simone Rose-Oliver
