Welcome Aboard
I am very excited to announce that long time HPT athlete Jarrod Crump will be joining the HPT Coaching Team.
We are doing this in an innovative way however. “Crumpy” won’t be taking on an athlete roster. He will be joining us to strengthen our Coaching team with the aim of providing value to ALL HPT athletes.
This will initially be in the area of data and performance analysis as we see this as an extremely important and perhaps untapped area of improving performance. It will also expand to other areas such as testing and skills development as we get into things.
Crumpy has a lot of experience in the sport and has some cracking results on his “palmares”. He knows what it takes to get results. Add that to Jess’s experience as a former national level swimmer and we have a great performance team here for you.
As Head Coach, my role remains the same. In fact it will be strengthened with the additional input and support. Driving your programs, giving feedback, running sessions, supporting at races is my gig.
Of course, as HPT athletes your role is also the same. Give your all to the endeavour, be a strong team player, have fun and work hard. The ethos of working in an athlete-led, coach supported training environment is how we work. Athletes helping each other. Athletes leading at sessions occassionally. All these things are what makes our team work so well.
I will do a further update shortly with more details.
From Jarrod : “I’m excited to join Pete and Jess on the HPT coaching staff. I’ve been with HPT as an athlete for 7 years and competing in triathlon for over 20. Developing my coaching philosophy under Pete is a real privilege. My goal is to add to and support the overall program in any way I can. I’m super passionate about the sport, about HPT, and the legends that form the squad. I am looking forward to the journey.”
City to Surf
This iconic run seems to just get bigger every year. HPT had 5 athletes line up this year in great conditions. Douglas Parra, Kelly Linton, Paul Linton, Sammy Taylor and Craig Dortkamp were all healthy, fit and ready to race well.
Sammy came in in 71:04. Kelly did 83:43. In the guys we had Craig finish with a 53:53, Paul went 62:27 and Douglas finished in strong 78:31.
Congrats to all for having great races.
Paris Marathon
yep - you read it right…… Andrew Walker has been in Paris, working as a cameraman for Channel 9 and got a VERY last minute invite to do the Marathon done by the “normal people” . In fact Andy had just finished a 15km run ! But this didnt deter him and he said yes. Amazingly, Andy went 4:05 for a very strong marathon and a 57km day. Huge congrats.