Its been a long time between posts, school holidays are now but a distant memory and school is now halfway through term 1. Long enough to remember the daily routine. The Triathletes are now training strongly in an effort to get ready for the compulsory triathlon for this term. The Triathlon is the final round of the Telstra Triathlon Series run by TriEvents. The race is due to be held at Hillarys, Nodes Beach on Sunday 7th April. The year 9's and 10's are now used to this course having raced several times but for the year 8's it is the beginning of the triathlon years at school. Hopefully the conditions will be nice and allow he students to all enjoy success.
We suffered a few minor setbacks when we started out riding this year, with our first year 8 riding ending in disaster and an early turn around, hopefully we have no more incidents and all the students can become strong riders.
At the end of last year we were fortunate enough to move onto a new bike shop to supply and service our bikes. Bikeforce Balcatta have been a great addition to the team and the Trek bikes suit our needs perfectly.
Two weeks ago was the school swimming carnival, held at Craigie Leisure Centre. The swim meet was a huge success with the Triathlon students claiming victory in the year 8 boys, year 9 boys, year 11 boys, year 12 boys and all but the year 8 girls age groups. The Triathletes came to the fore and dominated in all the races. From the school swim meet a team was picked to represent the school at the State School Sport WA Swimming Championships. Duncraig will have 65 students represent in the B grade carnival on Thursday 14th March at Challenge Stadium.
Finally, congratulations to Jo Robertson, Drew Corrigan, Wes Thomson, Brandon Swift and Kaitlyn Illingworth on qualifying to represent WA at the National Schools Triathlon Championships.
Hopefully, I will be a little more regular with my updates this year.
